The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-06-05

Of wide-reaching plantations ano
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
" following him into the Kentucky
wilderness. Unfortunately, although
neither of the pair confess 1t, the mar
rage has been an uncOngenial one |
Both. however, are too noble minded |
to do otherwise than be true to the |
union that holds them together. Yet |
there is a scar of disappointment be- |
meath the surface, and in the woman's
heart a WEAKNESS and longing that
nothing satisfies. During John Grays
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 a 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 FalcOner's power
over him is one Of deep spiritual IN
SEPARATION.
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-
! hand all bind him to silence. She also
: loves him but is in honor bound to
D give him no sign. and hence with their
love unspoken he goes East ostenslDly
d TO recover the legacy he expects to
inherit, but determined never to return.
! The lawsuit for his property goes
n against him and he is cast into jail for
e debt from which ignominy the eff
I forts of friends release him. He is
Z proud man and wishing to pay this
}. debt of gratitude he proposes to marry
d the daughter of the family that has
d hefriended him. Before the marriage,
! however. he tells his future bride quite
IS frankly that he loves someone else VINO
!e Is not free, and ii Is with this knowl-
= edge that she accepts him. While the
= wedding Is in preparation a letter
d comes TO him from Mrs. Falconer an
Is nouncing the death of her husband
:. and in the silent hope that his fiancee
Ell will give him his liberty he acquaints
z. her with the change in his prospects
le We gather from the text that the CIR
is unwilling to give him up, and as M
IS too honorable to demand his free
:, dom he carries out his pledge.
NJ All ignorant of this turn of event
~ Mrs. Falconer in the meantime is s
q sure of his love that she erects Il
distant Kentucky a stately mansion
no modelled after the home of her earl
% youth. She is still in the thirties an
q. beautiful, and deluded into the belle
,s+ that at last her dreams are to be fu
of filed she makes ready for her maj
no rage. A paper telling of Johns unto
a.. with someone else rudely destroys ne
of paradise. Twice she has missed tn
prize of happiness. The intense JOY
of womanhood she is never to knoN
&c 81 shall go softly all my days" 81
NJ murmurs.
~ Time sweeps on but her beauty do
n not fade. She becomes the great lac
=, of the Southern settlement and at n
20 home Aaron Burr anG many anoth
"a famous American is entertained. Mo
- than one man lays his fortune at
- feet and goes away disappointed.
There are women who never expe
ence the. heights and the depths
life. Scaling deep into their eyes
are reminded of the light OF o.
'ce' churches-They are the women W
ru have missed happiness and who knC
inu r.. but having failed of affection q
M themselves to duty. 1t was into I
~ ~ company of these quieter pilgrims u
'0A' she had passed"
One day long afterward when S
nus is alone in her garden she sees conn
OF toward her a magnificent young fell
., U.s. at the brink of manhood.
lole He lifts his hat with courtly gestu
ave "I am John Gray. the son of yC
s"s old friend. and my father sends
rs TO YOU to stay If you will let me. A
= IS he desires me to deliver this letter
10y "John Gray!" she cried. 'You j.
80. Crawl You! Take off your hat"
For a moment she looked at
- forehead and his hair; her eyes
,,-ad came blinded with tears. She I'M
-. her arms around his neck with
lsn y and covered his face with kisses
..,th Alone in the solitude of her oedro
,,,ss she reads the letter.
49, John tells her that he loves her I
go he has always loved her; and tina
,r,n IS the fire of this love that thro'
the years has kept his ideals agloV
, - "Many a time this candle has g
- out; but as quickly as could sna
80 any FORTHWITH your sacred name
~ ~ nv lips--it has been relighted.
-a III sIf," he adds, 81 have kept unoro
p'a :. faith with any of mine. thank
- And thank God y
,.oU. Thus ends the novel.
faI1 Copyright. 1919, by the Post PUBLISHING
Aa CThe Boston POST. Condensed !
ne ''The Choir Invisible" by James
'.was Allen. Copyright, 1897. by The Mac
a.,is- Ian Company. Used by permission
49, author and publisher.
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