The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-04-11

about so many other things. Well,
I'm going to try to carr It,"
us that-ail you wan.f" she asked,
and then, hearing the little gasp he
gave, she swdng around quickly and
looked at him. 1t was pretty dark In
the room, but his face In the dusk
seemed to have whitened.
as friendship all you want Of me.
| Roddy p she asked again. She stood
there waiting. n full minute, in silence.
Then she said: "You don't have to
tell me that. Because l know. Oh
oh, my dear. how well I know"
He didn't come to her; just stood
there, gripping the corner Of her book
case and staring Mt her silhouette,
which was about all he could see OF
her against the window. At last he
said, in n strained. dry voice she'd
hardly have known for his:
III you know that-if I've let you see
thnt-then I've done just about the last
d%espicable thing there was left for me
TO do. I've come down here and
made you feel sorry for me. So that
with thnt-divine kindness of yours,
you're willing to give me-every-
thing"
He Strengthened up and anne n step
nearer. "well. ! won't have II. ] tell
you. I don't know how you guessed.
II I'd dreamed ! was betrnying Tint to
YOU . . ! Don't I know--it's
burnt into me 80 that I'll never forget
what the memory of my love must
be to you? The memory OF the hide
Gus things it's done to you? And now
after all that-after you've won your
fight-nlone-and stand where you
stand now-for me to come begging
And take a gift like that! I tell you
Il Is pity. II can't be anything else
There was another minute OF silence,
and then he heard her make n little
noise In her throat, n noise that would
: have been n sob had there not been
something like n laugh In 1t. The next
> moment she said, 'Come over here,
! Roddy," and as he hesltated, rs II he
! hadn't understood. she added II want
: you to look mt me. Over here, where
. there's light enough to see me by"
He came, wondcrlngly, very slowly
. but at last with her outstretched hand
she reached him and drew him around
! between her and the window.
: Look into my face" she commanded
= Look into my eyes-as far in as yor
j can. oh, my dearest" the sob oi
: pure Joy came agnin-'is II pity tina
you see7 Don't you understands"
y lie did understand It with his mind
{ but he was n little dazed, like one wh'
u has stood toe near where the light
: ming struck. The hope he had KEEP
: buried alive so long-burled alive he
cause II wouldn't die-could not b,
y brought out into n binding glory llk'
{ this without pain-exquisite, terrify
o ing pain.
7, The knowledge she had acquired b,
= her own suffering stood her in goo,
II stead now. She did not mistake, n
the Rose he had married might hav
~ done, the weakness Of his response 70
D Observation-Disclosures. She led hir
y over TO her one big chair and mad
him sit down In II, settled hersel
v upon the arm OF II. and contente
: herself with one Of his hands. Pre-.
emily he took one OF hers, bent hi
" face down over II, and brushed tn
"a back OF 1t with his lips.
=, The timidity Of that caress, with a
q, It revealed TO her, wns too much 70
., her. She swallowed n sob, and al
l. other. but the next one got away frol
:" her and she broke out In n passionate {
Of weeping. That reused him from h
la1a IN 1ItsIn md lao yntlnA hnr hnxp
10 IN his arms-held her tight-comfor
"a ed her. When she got herself In han
again, she got up, wen away to was
her face. and, coming back In the roo
again. lighted n reading lamp al
drew down the blinds.
'Rose," he said presently, "what n
II. we going TO dol"
shall we make II a real honeymoo
40 Roddy-make It as complete as v
Id cam Forget everything and let q
-, the world be . :"
he He supplied the word for her, "Ros
oolor7"
I'D She accepted II with a little lsul
MT . . ."for a while7"
n That's what I was fumbling fol
ne bulu, "Dut i cant tnink We
re straigh, tonight. I've got 1t no
do though. That cottage we had-befo
the twins were born-down on (
he Cape. There won't be a soul the
this time Of year. We'd have I
an. world to ourselves"
he YES" she said. "for a little viii
err we'd want II like that. But after
on while-after n day or two, could
have the babiesf Could the nu
4, bring them on to me and then
Ing straight back, 30 that I could hu
them. and you, all togetherf"
the He said, "You darling" But
couldn't manage more than that.
mt. At the entrance and just out
hat range OF the elevator man, he kiss
my her good night"
In But will you telephone to me
my o o as you wake up In the morning,
that I'll know it's truer'
hat She nodded. Then her eyes "
out wide and she chung TO him. us
true, Roddyf Is II possible for n IN