Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-10-15

Tar apart as noon and midnight. The
law has said the only thing that can
be said upon It,"
She sank down again upon the
wooden bench. "Oh. how mad YOU
were, not to tell the whole truth long
agoi You would not have been CON
demned, and then"
She paused. overcome, and his self
control almost deserted him. With
strong feeling he burst out: And
then we might have come together?
No your mother-your friends, myself
could not have let that be. See. Sheila,
l will tell you the whole truth now
aye, the whole absolute truth. have
loved you since the first day l saw
you On the hills. Not n day has
passed since then, when you were not
more to me than any other woman in
all the world"
n new light came into her face. the
shadows left her eyes and the pallor
fed from her lips. You loved me?"
she said in a voice grown soft-husky
still, but soft as the light in sum
mer heaven. You loved me-and
have always loved me since we first
metz"
Il have always loved you, Sheila,
and shall do so while | have breath
and life. l have always given you the
best that is in me, tried to do what
was good for us both. since my mis-.
fortune-crime. Lord Manow calls IT.
as does the world. Never sunrise
that does not find you in the forefront
OF all the lighted world never a flower
have | seen that does not seem sweeter
1t brings thoughts of YOU; never a
crime that does not deepen its shame
because you are In the world. In pris-
ON, when | used to mop my floor and
clean down the walls; when | swept
the dust from the corners; when /
folded up my convict-clothes when
| ate the prison food and sang the
prison-hymns; when | placed myself
beside the bench I'm the workshop to
make things that would bring cash to
my fellowprisoners In their need ::
when | saw a minister of religion or
heard the Litany; when l counted up
the days, first that l had spent in jail
and then the days | had still to spend
in Jail; when l read the books from
the prison library of the land where
you had gone, and Of the struggle
there; when | saw you, In my minds
eye, in the cotton fields or ON the We
randa of your house In Virginia, /
had but one thought. and that was the
look in your face at Playmore and
Limerick, the sound of your voice as
you came singing up the hill just be-
fore l first met you, the Joyous beauty
of your body"
'And at sea?" she whispered with
gesture at once beautiful and pathetic.
for 1t had the motion of helplessness
and hopelessness.
AT sea" he answered with his eyes
full of intense feeling-"at sea. WIS
free at last, doomed as | thought, an
guished in spirit, and yet with Wild
hope that out of II would come deliy-
and l lived each day as though it
would be my last. | was chief rogue
in a shipful Of rogues, chief sinner
in hell of sinners, and yet / had no
remorse and no regret ! had done
all with an honest purpose, with the
good of the sailors in my mind; aud
so | lived in daily touch with death,
honor and diShon0r. Yet | never saw
a sailor In the Shrouds, or heard the
night watch call 'All's wellp in the
midst Of the night and mutlny, that I
did not long for a word from you that
.Would take away the sting of death.
Those days at sea for ten long weeks
were never free from anxiety, not
anxiety for myself only for the men
who had put me where / was, had
given me captains rank, had
Suddenly he stopped, and took from
his pocket the letter he was writing on
the very day she landed in jamaica.
lie opened it and studied it for mo-
ment with a dark look in his face.
This wrote even as you were land
ing in Jamaica and ! knew nal-sht Of
your coming. 1t was am outbreak of
my soul was the truth written 10
you and for you. and yet with the
feeling that you would never see 1t. /
was still writing 10 when Michael
Clones came up the drive to tell me
you and your mother were here Here
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