Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-19

an ~un1ealous man OF course" she
added thoughtfully, " despise 3eal.
ousy-everybody knows it's 80 horr1d
but that doesn't keep up from
adoring 1t in Just man"
Trevor was silent for a long Tune
swerable argument. The sun arose
and set to work at c to overhead
the world, Andrea grew warm =
then drowsy. She began to nod n
her body to incline. II it had drooped
in a direction directly opposite to that
in hich it actually did, she would
have fallen into Their liver; as 1T hap
pened, she fell against Trevor's shoul-
der. He first assured himself that
she was really asleep and then slippea
his arm around her and held G
close.
He forgot his burns and bruises. his
fatigue and hunger: he loked back
with exultant pride upon the nael-
strom Of emotions that he had rid
den to reach this haven of his souls
peace. The feverish haste with which
he had dug out the aeroplane IN
patched it up, the white rage IN
which he had hurled himself with It
into the air, the absolute and mar
velous determination Of the steady,
answering flight hat had carried
4 y u " N10\SAOo\SA
became emblems to him Of the power
of that which is within US to rise
e%ternally to superhuman heights on
the wings of a little love- +
And the landing! Would he ever
forget that moment when his air
craft, veteran of many flights, became
q veritable bird Of prey and dropped,
tail down. to q vicious stroke. a
sinking of clutching talons and a
voracious devouring by fire Of its
p~onderously swaying victim? 1t be-
came t~henceforth to his mind no ma
chine bu an epic bird, a Phoenix done
to ashes but that would arise again
and often. conjured to life in the I'M
dying fires of grateful memory.
He glanced downward at the fair
head pressed go close to his shoulder
that the wide brim Of his helmet
shaded it as we'll as his W and let
his eyes follow along the curled-up
length Of Andrea's figure. She seem
ed very small. very young. infinitely
potent. For the first time in their
ed who she was and all his bravado in
the face Of false values. all his logi-
cal indifference to established forms,
fell from him. He trembled for the
things he had done to, the murder he
had coolly committed on, the person
of the Honorable Andrea Pellor!
Never had he deceived himself
with the thought that he could re-
turn that person intact to the world
from which she had come. He had
recognized his initial and instantane-
ous decision at their first meeting as
something final and ~irrevocable, but
in that moment, back there on the
beach, when his mind was taken up
with nerving his body for flight and
to an effort he had no right to call
upon it to face. all the demands Of
the old order Of conventions had lain
stale and bitter on his tongue. What
on earth does it matter what HAPPENS
to herr" he had said to himself and
grimly gloried in the prospect of
proving to her that her fatew as one
Of the least important items in a full
world.
But now, all that was changed;
everything that touched her, from
whatever point Of the social compass,
mattered more than the salvation of
the earth and all its peoples. for she
world that he could encircle with his
arms but whose untraveled and H.
Iimitable paths beckoned his heart
away and away into regions feternally
beyond the ken Of any lonely explor-
er.
She. had said that she Knew herself
safe with him forever and forever
and while he recognized the gentle
mood that had 20 overburdened her
tongue, he felt now an aching with
in him to guard, not the Honorable
Andrea Pellor. but this much dearer
creature OF his own making, from the
harming touch OF tongues as well as
hands.
Continued in tomorrow
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