Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-02-27
ended in States prison. I don't sup.

pose h would ever have cleared
him II she hadn't fallen in love with
one of those Southerners she has
been visiting, and blurted put the
day. He put her in a buggy. drove
over to the nearest clergyman, and
married her then and there; then
gave her paper and pen and made
her write the whole story to me. He
is q gentleman; he'd stand with her
o whatever she had done, but he
would not stand for her leaving
Corrie to bear her blame. I'll make
it up to him, yeti"
docs F1avia know !" Gerard ask
st gave her Isabel's letter on the
way sAcroassft0 you.I s4R4
..F1avia was sitting in the car with
her wet handkerchief clasped in her
folded hands,. her wells drawn across
the hushed beauty of her face. As
Gerard came up, she ben to him.
'Corrie," she breathed. "Corrie,
to do this! I am proud and glad and
humbled. How could he, how could
her"
"He has more courage than T..
could not have done it. A superb
folly. unjust to himself and us. He
might safely have confided in his ia
Their or me and have trusted Isabel
to our care"
ALLAN, she had his promise TO tell
no n and she held him to 1t. She
was i'll and h%ysterical with terrified
shame; Isabel could endure to
be found at fault even in little things.
She was not bad or wicked, but just
q coward"
'she found strength enough to
watch Corrie under torture week aft
or week." he retorted, his golden
brown eyea hardening to. agate. IF
I bad been killed under my car.
would have brought your brother
face to face with the electric chair?
And Corrie would have shut his lips
and endured It all. Don't ask me 70
pity Isabel. Rose-Tve lived this year
with her VICTIM
Trembling under the control fore
ed on fherself, Flavia slipped her
hand into his.
II know, Allan, I know. Yet she
did suffer to. lei his suffering. In her
letter. she says that Corrie came to
her at dawn the last morning We
we're all at home. and called her out
into the empty hall to beseecht he.
for permission to tell You. He had
= AOS 0O0A ~ ~ AAo ~ 0E' ~ -
She never afterward forgot his des.
perate, worn face and that memof3
finally drove her to confession. But
she refused him. He did break
j down then. and flashed out at hel
that he must and would tell you thu
truth. when he left her. OF courss
he did NOD: do . 3. Allan. she declared
that he then told you, that sht
knows II because you wrote to hel
IkAA AvAnkAn u .hNS~k LE ~vs e = AAfHA~a
and sid you would take 4 : 0,
Corrie whatever happened"
&sI!. sS ~ yai
Your letter to me. She had beer
insane with dread all day, believing
ICorrio would fulnl hts threat to tel
you his innocence. and when Ruper
came she saw only that idea con
hrmed. She knew Of no relations be
tween Q ana me. She thought on
Ilys Of herDelf.S .
Gerard LOOKED II her, having n
words: presently he sat down on tn
.ledge Of the oar at her fest. and the.
Ross had found Q camp-chair In tn
shadow Of wall. and rat watchinl
1.-The rAce IN grim q~uisecence.
when the fast hour OF the contss
Twas reached Il wAs noted that TIL
Mercury eIshad suddenly slackenel
III pace. Tho Aihorence ~ speas
was not great thescar vas Funninl
1aultlsasay. but keeping = slower gait
The men n the Mercury camp clus
tsrsA togsthsr. waitinx ana, discuss
ling.
nroysd. Rsps ssn1 va n.i assr', x.s 3,
ing bshlnd nor buGGsd with HI usua
III antinn.8hnk - NrAck n in8a6afv ri