Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-19
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CHE held herself very still as he
~ spoke. There was, however, strang"
lonely look in her eyes. The man ly
ing asleep in the darkness Of body and
mind yonder was not really her lover,
for he had said no word direct of love
to her, ard she knew him so little, how
could she love him? Yet there was
something between them which had its
authority over their lives, overcoming
even that maiden modesty which was
in contrast to the bold physical thing
she had done in running the Carlton
Rapids those centuries ago when she
was young and glad-wistfully glad.
So much had come since that day, she
had Travelled 50 far on the highway
of Fate, that she looked back from peak
to peak of happening to an almost in
visible horizon. So much had occurred
and she felt so old this morning; and
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hncd feeling that she must Keep h'r
radiant spring of life for the blind
Gorgio if he needed tiff he needed
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She shuddcrcd as she thought of what
it meant to him. If a man is to work,
he must have eyes to sec. Yet what
had she 70 do with IT, after oIy She
had no right 70 go to him even as she
was going. Yet had she not the riynt
of common humanity? This Gorgio
was her friend. Did not the world
know that he had saved her life?
As they came to the Lebanon end of
the bridge. Flcda turned to .Iowett and,
commenting on his dcscrintion of thc
scene ot Barbozon's. said "IIc is n
great man hnt he trusts too much and
risks foo mnch That was no nIace
for him ;,
pic mon 1iko him thinI, thov con
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iiiuIs ni'ion' ."e neiSe,i "',S'l oiI". ,iI
eng n'I"' put Sno "'"'N i'o' anu"
"'io,nei " w So :,
lt Is NOT 'he truth' She r'Jo'heu
shar arPiS' le uoeS lIoI Ll'dHNrt MN
sell against the world SO, lie Is IKE
like cnllu' she auueu'
1T seems to me all big men are
like that" Jowett rejoinoG; "and he's
the biggest man the West has seen.
He knows about every mans business
as though it was his own. | can get
margin off most any man in the
West on a horse trade, but I'd look
shy about doing trade with him.
You cant dope a horse so he won't
know. He's on to it. sees it-sees it
like as if it was in glass. Sees any
thing and everything, and
He stoned short. The Master
Gorgio could no longer see and his
henchman flushed like n girl at his
'break"; though, as horse dealer. he
had in his time listened without shame
to wilder. angrier reprOaches than most
men living.
She glanced Mt him. saw his confu e.
sion. forpave and understood HIM
'It was not the horseshoe. it was
not the gypsv." she returned "Tbov
did not set it going. 1t would not have
happened but for one man."
'Yes. it's Marchand, right enough. -
answered Jowett. but we'll get him
vet. Well get him with the branding
iron hot"
.'That will not nut things right if
she paused. then with a great effort she
added. Does the doctor think he will
get it back and that"
She stopped suddenly in an agitation
he did not care to see and he turned
away his head.
doctor doesn't know. ." he answered
'"There's got to be an eypcrt It'U
take time before he gets here, but" he
could not helm but saw il. seeing how
great her distress was-"but it's going
to come back. I've seen casps-I saw
one down on the border"-how easily
he lied !-''iust like his. 1t was blast
ing that done 1.-THE shock. But the
sight come back all right. and quick,
too-like as I've seen a paralizite get
up all at once and walk as though he'd
never been locoed Why. God Almighty
don't let men like Ingolby be done like
that by reptiles same's Marchand."
"You believe in God Almighty?" she
said halt- wOnuerlngly, yet with gratl