The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-08-05

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will bctray you o or later"
Eyes =. yes"
"Do YOU wish to go on with it?"
"No Yes. cannot"
Cant l help you out Of it, some
how?'
After a pause, she said: "You are
very strong"
He forhore. because it was a great
effort for her to speak. He no longer
wondered that she had been content
to remain in Tau Kuan. for the true
IN was asleep, enchanted within
some inner chamber of the soul, and
ready at last for the dawn. He was
near enough to hear her soft breath.
ing. yet the tent-fold was between
them.
Cons own nerves were in a precari-
Gus state. Just here some psychic cur
rent caught him away, and the NOON
light sent him backward into the ages,
Il vivid, irrational experience, and it
seemed that he had been outside her
tent, somewhere. terribly long ago,
perhaps when the Gughal had been Il
decp-singing river, and the monster
Cobb a crystal ocea Here beside the
water they had camped, he and his
captive queen. their hearts the same.
Now Cons turhan cast Il shadow up
on the tent. and he knew that it was
himself, then as now. That ancient
madness still possessed his veins in
III" thrall of her presence. Cumels
smiling in the blue shadows, Il faded
WAtcll-fire. the silence of wooded hills
around. and the immensely Of heaven.
The illusion held Il moment-or Il cen
neutrality-suspicious. Il hand was upon
his shoulder. Lexington was chilled
to the quick. This was Flu All, dcsir-
Ing speech in private.
She must Sleep said the Chinese
r%everenrly.
Yes. Don't give her any more than
She needs. Help her to break off.
Not so often"
"Dreams?'
There was an injured quality in the
voice.
eyes. The dreams have got to CO."
NO"
"Yes."
She die" said Flu All, with seeming
conplacence.
Not at all. We are to help her
shake off this dreaming. Less and
less, until she is free"
The idea OF freedom did not dwell
between the narrow temples of the
old servant.
1--WE camp here?'
NO. answered Lexington.
NO koresh, no go on
Il don't expect her to ride. In the
morning We will make Il hammock and
carry her between us. There are three
of us. and we can relieve one another
at the pole"
Flu All was much depressed by the
interview.
Lexington did not try to sleep that
night. There was no more at1empt
at haste. He was at liberty to think
everything yer in q more intimate.
less practical light, and he wondered
how he had neglected so MANY
thoughts until now Tau Kuan had
grown to be less than a dream, and
the screaming dwarfish hordes had
run out of his days altogether. Rut
more and more he missed Andrew
March. lie would have asked March
what to think about his strange mo-
mentary reach of vision into the post
the stolen queen and himself.
Still they met no one, bu, ever and
again a herd of elk would START and
slip beyond the brow of Il hin.
There were wine and food for Helen
put con watched day and night that
no drug reached her. Evergrcens dot
ted the slopes. The pass was narrow.
ing. HE princess chose to walk some
tllIes, and laughed at her lack of
strength. AT one camp, she held CONS
arm and talking happily, they moved
away from the line of camels,
How is it possible that we are ont
Of the desert:'
only possible by your courage"
said Con. Have you never been ont
OF the Cobb be%fore?"
"Only in dreams" and she was smil-
ing.
There Is something hcrc,"-she
placed her hand upon her breast
that cries out for dreams and pence,
Perhaps Il man does moi know. NV
mother knew, and l have it. the cry
thai cannOt come out. Oh. there is :.
bitterness in beautiful things, and Il
great terror whore there is no hrautv,
1t is the awful lonlincss-so there
was one dark dream following another.
months, and mOnths--thc yellow faces.
| have been o much alone. oh. re-
main with ne, my friend. because !
am i'll. My world is gone. Your Amer
lea is only Il ame You are every
thing
lIer arms were about his neck. and
her breathing seemed painful. All the
light went from her face. Tightly
she clung, whispering. fearing, all life,
until the dark closed over. Lexington
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