The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-05-06

not keep back the tears. IneTe Is no
ne,--nothing--to help me bear 1t. II IS
more than pathetic when one is ~, III
all Young, new feelings, and sees moth
ing anywherc-except long, dark,
lonely years behind her and before her.
No one that loves me and long, long
years"
Why" asked the devil are you in
love with me"
aYou know 80 much--so much, i
answered Il think it must be that.
And so, then, You must under
stand M. And II you married
me would make yon happier than
you are
Il am not happy mt IAN said the
man devil. Il am merely contcnted.'
"Coutcntmcnt," | said, lin place or
happiness is a horrid feeling. Not
one Of YOU. countless advocates loves
YOU They all serve Nou faithfully
and we'll but with it all they hate you.
Always people hate their tyrant lou
are my iyrant, but ! love you absorb
insl,, madlN. Happiness for me would
be to live With you and see YOU made
happv bv the overwhelming flood Of
my love
III were to marry you how long
would you BE- happy
For three days"
lyon are wise ne said. "fon are
wonderfully wise in some things.
though you 'It Sti'' WY S'"'7'
Your logic is good Logic said the
NV logie--oh, don't care anything
about logic" ! said, with sudden COM
plete WEAKNESS. | felt buried and
wrapped round and round with weari-
ness. Everything lost its color. E,F
erything turned cold.
AT this moment" said the Devil,
you feel as If you cared for nothing
at all. But if | chose | could brin
about u transfigurat alton. could kiss
your soul into Paradise
answered Yes. without emotion.
An hour said the Devil, lis not
very long. But We know it is long
enough to suffer in, aud 90 mad in
and live in, and be happy in. And
the world contains a great many hours
Now | am leaving you. 1T is likely
that / may never come again, and it is
likely that | may come again
1t all vanished. l sat by the window
in the gloom. 1t is dreary.' ! said.
Whether that squares with your the
ology or not YOU Will have to admit
there is life in that scene. Now leal
over II years and find tn" same Mary
MacLane writing q letter to God 'lT
care OF the whistiing winds"
Dear God know you won't answer
this letter. I'm not sure YOU VIII ge
it. But ! have the feeling TO write yol
a letter, though it should only blow
down the Whistling winds.
/ haven't q thing to ask Of you, NJ
prayer to make. | am not Suppilan
nor humble nor t6ntri'e. Nor would
justify myself rs person in You
eyes. ! scon to try to Justify myself
What am | am. If am "a bad acto
.,1,, "a - of |, ,,tly Ia nj
! comment on ii why not sine
cats may look at kings and each per
son inhcrits four-Itnd-twenty hours
day iUt | am bcWildered and dis
traught and sad.
The best you do FOR me, God, whe
| think of you~-you personalities
make me bcwildercd and distraugt
and sad.
But ~" imagined could put mysc'
to yuu as a proposition TO take or I
leave as yon like, on my terms sine"
do not know yours.
There are some VersoS-the Ruhaiya
in which you are upDraided rs II 20
might be the dealer in some gamblin
game who had the long end Of all tn
wag"rs and sull so protected his wag
.rS that he could not lose however tn
cards turned. From his helpless cr"a
1ur" he repaid pure gold for whA
hc lent him drosS-alleged than VIII
didSt with pitfall and with gin bos,
the road was to wander in
But to me that seems Il cheap attrl
butte toward YOU, God. | admit 20
are fair. Ii | thought you weren't III
mind would not NcN itself with Nou I
all. | cannot make you out a crook"
dealer nor one who lends out bad mon
cy and demands good money in +,
payment.
But YOU are rcticcnt and cold, ten
Igr,i and mimi crest ed SO il