Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-31
CHAPTER NNXI
n\No Have No Rirhttr

CHAPTER NXXI
1--WE Have No Right"
They met at the door of the little
schoolhouse. The last of her handful
of pupils had sCampcred down the knoll.
Out In the country road they were
making great clouds Of dust into which
they raced in barefootCd mcrrimCnt.
Ends back was to him as he waited !;
she was locking the door. lie could hear
her humming an Old song. Then she
turned, still unconscious of his near
ness, her wide straw hat in one hand,
her lunch basket in the other. lie had
never seen her quite so pretty.
She stopped and grew very still when
She saw him. For a little she did not
move, only the deep swelling of her
breast. little QuiCkCning of her musing
eyes. n faint deepening of color in her
cheeks bcspcaking the emotion which his
unexpected coming had aroused within
her. Then she smiled quickly. the old.
glad smile. though even then it seemed
10 his acute senses not quite its own
spontaneous self, and came forward to
meet him, her hand held out to him.
ENID ~ he said.
II am glad, Robert" she answered,
her self -pOsScssion far greater than his.
so glad TO see YOU again
She let him retain her hand, kept the
smile upon her lips as he crushed her
fingers in his.
Slowly their hands fell apart. To.
gcther, in silence, they turned ant
walked down the knoll and out into tho
yoad
lie wanted her in his arms rs lie hnC
wanted her all these empty weeks
Just what it was that held him power
less TO draw her into his embrace he die
| not know. Certainly not the fact thai
the srurrying urchns might see him
hC had forgotten that they existed. Al
| ready Il peculiar restraint had ariscl
between them. With 50 much to say
they said nothing. The silence con
tinucd as the dust puffcd UP under hcn
feet, not the ContCnted silence of Other
| days. but stiffness which was
strangely disquiCting.
Again and again he lifted his eyes tC
her face and she, feeling the look
| turned to meet it squarcly. lie cAm'
| at last to feel that she was waiting toI
Lin to speak.
"Enid," he asked her, his eye,
troubled and anxious. edo YOU love m"
dear? You haven't stopped loving me
tsI I'"' Ala ill.,, .,ooliI,
Id o.e you, Snc to'u i',..i ',u,Uti'S n,,ttiHS,
n1n' at H,',r simply aS tIouSm p",o,;' ob,;
,"'o @ T""'rcSS4Fy "piuS lno W. 'L,' i'','
Ing you. You know that
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thing was going to be all right with yor
uu me- HHI WE "erc bo4nS W ''"N'
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me msn nii't Oh uheaHli''"" showing III i'
.WF' :.
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~" .v \ no. ION ! Sou' ''N'"
lrN, | do know it, Robert.
II'h what Is II lie u'in"'''.I i"
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