Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-11
INsTALLMENT XIV.
Home.
.ot--not so tight, jerry"

90, Nancy! I thought you were dead:',
Foolish of me to faint. But such a noise!
Z 1 knew you would come"
For a little while that was all; except that
she put her arms around his neck, because
otherwise they would have been perfectly
useless. And so they rested, in the beauti.
full dark that erstwhile had been so full Of
menace.
do you care a little?" he asked. trcmb.
ling. Her arms she might have put around
his neck out of fear.
More than l ever thought I could for
any man. But I didn't know for sure until
they came to me with the lie that you
were hurt. 1 thought you had been set upon
again. Poor boy; you're going to have your
hands full of me"
1t flashed into his head, %sprightly, that it
was well enough for the present to have his
arms full of her; but he did not utter the
jest; such words would be sacrilege. So an
other spell Of silence ensued.
Was it as dark as this when you kissed
jenny"
Something in her voice told him that she
was smiling. He Numbered against her ear.
her cheek, her nose-sweet plumbers, how.
ever-before he found her lips. Then he
leaned back, happy and >bewildered! She
heard her laugh softly and contentedly; and
he was never to know why.
All at once she pushed him aside and
struggled to her feet. THAT madman!tWhat
has become of him? Where is he? Can we
;eave?" y
HE is waiting outside for us, Nancy. He
is no longer mad, but a subject for all the
pity YOU have in your heart. 1t is a long
story. I may as we'll tell you now. Do you
mind the dark?" p" ''s
mo smiling again. Mind the dark!
t"I don't mind anything, not even the future.
But, Jerry, you'll have to go to work."
It was his turn to smile. I'm have a job
tomorrow. Didn't I tell you last night that
I had one? This story began many years
ago."
Where is your hand, Jerry?' ~
Here
Nancy was full of pity and tenderness; she
would always be so for the unfortunate. To
her, as to Bancroft there was nothing repel.
liant in the fact that Kennedy. had killed a
man and had spent years in prison for the
deed. TorturedJby the sthp~endousness of the
calamity which had befallen him, he was not
to be held strictly accountable for his imme-
date acts.
I'VE ought not to leave him alone tonight,
jerry. He might &
" am taking him home with u.s."
1.-THE house we live in, that was once his;
how dreadful!'
Will you marry me, Nancy?'
" I rather expect to. after having put nv
arms around your neck and invited you to
kiss me-"
Find the woman who does not, even in the
great moment, rise superior over the man;
who does not first recover poise and wit!
With mar it is a stunning incident in life:
he is astounded at his temerity, astonished
at his success. With a woman it is an in
evitable sequence, bound to happen sooner
or later; SO she's more or less prepared. But
for all that, it seemed to Nancy that her
! heart was filled with little singing birds. She
was going to belong.
But We'll have to wait a little while,
. Jerry. Mr.. Mannheim has been very kind
to me, and I can't leave him until May,
when my contract expires. And SO I'm going
to follow the footsteps Of the Follies girls
marry a millionaire"
II didn't want any false friends, Nancy.
I'll wait. You shall go to Italy, and study
all you want to-"
mo, Jerry. Never any more of that non
sense. I want a home-that old house of
yours In the village, the room with all those
beautiful books and vases your father saved
for his friend. I want to read that splendid
letter. May II"
3a'H The moment we return"
Have him in my room first. I'll get some
tea for him. I'll play and sing from the
opera; anything to keep his mind off himself.
T h poor unhappy man, through no fault OF
Il his " But bear with me, Jerry, in the
days to come I'm often moody and crotch
ETY.. I am a foundnng;f don't know who
my people are; and never will; n that
makes me want to weep for this man who
"A has lost everything on earth. I have brooded
over my own story too much. Remember
Thanksgiving? That night I told Mr.. Craig
I'd marry him; and then / backed out. 1 told
him that ALL wanted was his money. I
hurt him, who had been kind to, me. That's
the kind Of a grill am. I'm not half as good
Jenny: When did you learn that you
,4aiUvgd hfne??,, For sooner or later this ques-
sAion has to be asked. .
3 In the daylight he would have had to lie.
35atnyent; hut IN the dark. how easy it was to
zen the truth. { II v 1 sound ldiotic; maybe
AZ 81; but r loved you the night Kissed,
4 We'll, n ali -
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