Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-16

Love speaks In acts" she replied.
You could have made your mouth say
what you wished II TO say, but lust now
when you came and took me in your arms
your heart spoke to mine in the language
that a woman's heart understands. What
a silly man you are, David"
! Then you haven't hated me at all,
| DlanH' I asked.
II have loved you always" she
| whispered, from the first moment that
saw you, though did not know IL until
that time you struck down Hooja the SLY
One, and then spurned me-"
But I didn't spurn you, dear I" I cried.
Il didn't know your ways-I doubt II
l do now 1t seems incredible that YOU
could have reviled me so, and yet have
cared for me all the time"
You might have known" she said.
when 1 did not run away from you that
IL was not hate which chained me to YOU.
While you were battling with Jubal 1
could have run to the edge OF the forest.
and when 1 had learned the outcome of
the combat It would have been a simple
thing to have eluded you and returned
to my own people,"
But Jubars brothers-and cousins" l
reminded her, how about them7"
She smiled and hid her face on my
shoulder.
II had to tell you something David"
she whispered IL must needs have some
excuse for remaining near you"
You little sInnerl" I exclaimed. And
you have caused me all this anguish for
nothing -
II have suffered even more" she an
swered simply, "for 1 thought that you
did not love me- and I was helpless |
couldn't come TO you and demand that my
love be returned as you have just come
to me.
Just now when you went away hope
went with you. I was wretched, terrified
miserable, and my heart was breaking
l wept, and 1 have not done that before
since my mother died"
There was the moisture of tears about
her eyes 1t was near to making me
cry myself when I thought OF all that poor
child had been through. Motherless and
unprotected; hunted across n savage,
primeval world by that hideous brute of
man; exposed to the attacks of the count
less fearsome denzens of its mountains,
its plains, and It's jungles--it was n mira
Gle that sho had survived at all.
10 me 1t was revelation OF the things
my early forebears must have endured
that the human race of the outer crust
might survive. 1t made me very proud to
think that l had won the love of such a
woman.
OF course she couldn't read or write
there was nothing cultured or refined
about her as you Judge culture and refine.
ment; but she was the essence of all that
Is best in woman, for she was good and
brave and noble and virtuous. And she
was all these things in spite of the fact
that their observance entailed suffering
and danger and possible death.
How much easier 1t would have been
to have gone to Jubal In the first place
She would have been his lawful mate She
would have been queen in her own land
and 1t meant Just as much to the cave
woman to be queen in the stone age as it
does to the woman of today to be a queen
now.
1t is all comparative glory any way
you look at II. If there were only half
naked savages on the outer crust today,
you'd find that It would be considerable
glory to be the wife of Dahomey chief
l couldn't help but compare Dian's ac.
tion with that of a splendid young woman
l had Known in New York; mean splen-
did to look at and to talk to. She had
been head over heels in love with n chum
of mine-a clean, manly chap; but she
had married broken.down, dlsreputable