The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-06-04

| 6AOu1A VA JEWELS DiOtdueS, lduhy anu
satin slippers of balls and minuets;
Of wide-reaching plantations and
slaves. The Major has been one of
those who has heroically fought in
the Revolution, and to whom the
Southern beauty out of patriotic
gratitude has given her hand, brave
ly following him into the Kentucky
wilderness. Unfortunately. although
neither of the pair confess 1t, the mar
riage has been an uncongenial one
Both, however, are too noble minded
10 do otherwise than be true to the
union that holds them together. Yet
there is scar Of disappointment be-
meath the surface, and in the woman's
heart a WEAKNESS and longing that
nothing satisfies. During John Gray's
visits to her niece Mrs. Falconer has
become deeply interested in the young
schoolmaster who is about her own
age and whose tastes she shares. Be
tween them companionship has
sprung up which each honestly mis-
takes for friendship.
Amy's attraction for the man has
been an untutored impulse of the
senses; but Jessica Falconers power
over him is one of deep spiritual in
spiration.
| When he awakens to the discovery
that In reality 1t is Mrs. Falconer
whom he loves his reverence for her,
her purity, and her loyalty to her hus-
band all bind him to silence. She also
loves him but is in honor bound to
give him no sign, and hence with their
love unspoken he goes East ostensibly
to recover the legacy he expects to
Inherit but determined never to return.
The lawsuit for his property goes
against him and he is cast into Jail for
debt from which ignominy the eff
forts of friends release him. He is a
proud man and wishing to pay this
debt of gratitude he proposes to marry
the daughter of the family that has
befriended him. Before the marriage,
however, he tells his future bride quite
frankly that he loves someone else who
is not free, 6nd 1t Is with this knowl-
edge that she accepts him. While the
wedding Is in preparation a letter
comes to him from Mrs. Falconer an
nouncing the death of her husband
, and in the silent hope that his fiancee
will give him his liberty he acqualnts
her with the change In his prospects.
I We gather from the text that the girl
is unwilling to give him up, and as he
is too honorable to demand his free
, dom he carries out his pledge.
[ All ignorant of this turn of events
' Mrs. Falconer In the meantime is so
, sure Of his love that she erects in
distant Kentucky stately mansion
3 modelled after the home of her early
: youth She is still In the thirties and
: beautiful, and deluded into the belief
[ that at last her dreams are to be full
I filed she makes ready for her mar
2 rlage. A paper telling of Johns union
! with someone else rudely destroys her
Z paradise. Twice she has missed the
prize Of happiness. The intense joys
a of womanhood she is never to know.
81 shall go softly all my days." she
. murmurs.
! Time sweeps on but her beauty does
). not fade. She becomes the great lady
. of the Southern settlement and at her
! home Aaron Burr and many another
famous American is entertained. More
o than one man lays his fortune at her
: feet and goes away disappointed.
There are women who never expert
A ence the heights and the depths OF
life. "Gazing deep into their eyes we
are reminded Of the light of dim
hurches-They are the women who
, have missed happiness and who know
: 1t; but having failed Of affection give
: themselves to duty. 1t was into the
, company Of these quleter pilgrims that
she had passed" Z
One day long afterward when she
= is alone in her garden she sees COMING
!. toward her a magnificent young fellow
:, at the brink of manhood.
al lie llIIS MS nat Nltn SOuEtiy scotuiS
81 am John Gray, the son of your
/, old friend. and my father sends me
to you to stay IL you will let me. And
he desires me to deliver this letter."
: "John Gray!" she cried. "You John
= Gray! You. Take off your hat"
: For q moment she looked at his
q forehead and his hair; her eyes be
4 came blinded with tears. She threw
her arms around his neck with sol
!" and covered his face with kisses.
h Alone in0be solitude of her bedroom
9 she reads the letter.
= John tells her that he loves her, thai
o he has always loved her; and that Il
!. is the FIRE of this love that through
the years has kept his ideals aglow.
= aMany a time this candle has gone
: out; but as quickly as / could snatch
i any torch-with your sacred name OF
! my lips-it has been relighted."
|, aIf." he adds, 81 have kept unbroker
. faith with any Of mine, thank you
= And thank GodT
!. Thus ends the novel.
II Copyright. 1919. by the Post Publishing Co
CThe Boston Postl Condensed from
e ssThe Choir Invisible" by James Lan'
IS Allen. Copyright, 1897. by The Macmii
y Ian Company. Used by permission o.
' author and publisher.