The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-07-13

yes, ! Loved him.
when he was in prison-oh, what is
prison, wh&t is guilt even to a girl
when she loves. Yes, | loved him.
There it was. He was ever on my
mind, and | came here to Jamaica
he was here-for what else? Salem
could have been restored by Darius
Boland or others, or | could have sold
it. | came to Jamaica to find him
here-unWOmanly perhaps, you will
say"
Unusual only, with a genius--like
YOU"
Then you do not speak wh&r is in
your mind, your honor. You say what
you feel is the right thing to say
the slave Of circumstances. | will be
wholly frank with you. | came here to
see Dyck Calhoun, for | knew he
would not come to see me. Yes. there
it was, a real thing in his heart. If
he had been a lesser man than lie is,
he would have come to America when
he IA freed from prison. But he
did not, would not, come. He knew
he had been found guilty of killing my
father, and that for him and me there
could be no marriage-indeed, be
never asked me to marry him. Yet
! know he would have done so If he
could. When | came to know what
he was jailed for doing, l felt there
was no place for him and me together
in the world. Yet my heart kept cry
ing out to him, and | felt there was
but one thing left for me to do, and
that was to make it impossible for
me to think Of him even, or for him
to think of me. Then you came and
offered me your hand. 1t was a hand
most women might have been glad to
accept from the standpoint of material
things. And you were Irish like my
self, and like the boy l loved. / was
sick of the robberies of life and time,
and l wanted to be out Of it all in
some ecure place. What place so
secure from the sorrow that was eat
ing at my heart as marriage! 1t said
no to every stir Of feeling that was
vexing me, to every show Of love or
remembrance. SO l listened to you.
It was not because you were a gov
ernor or a peer-no, not that! For
ever in Virginia l had offers from
n higher than yourself-and young
er, and a peer also. No, it was not
material things hat Influenced me,
but your own intellectual eminence;
for you have more brains than most
men, as you know so WELL"
The governor interrupted her with
a gesture and q burst of emotion.
"No, no, l am not so vain as you
think. II l were I should have seen
al Salem that you meant to say yes"
"Yet you know we'll you have gifts,
though you have made sad mistakes
here. Do not think 1t was your per-
sonality, your looks that induced me
to think of you, to listen to you.
When Mr.. Calhoun told me the truth,
and gave me a letter he had written
to me-"
"a letter-to your"
There was surprise in the COVER.
nor's voice-surprise and chagrin, for
the thing had moved him powerfully
"Yes, q letter to me which he never
meant me to have. 1t was a kind OF
diary Of his heart, and 1t was written
even while I was landing on the island
on Christmas day. He gave 1t to me
to read, and when l read it / saw
there was no place for me in the
world except a convent or marriage,
The convent could not be, for l was
no Catholic, and marriage seemed the
only thing possible. That day you
came l saw only n thing to do-one
mad. hopeless thing to do"
"Mad and hopeless! !" burst out LORD
Mallow. "How so? Your very rea'
son shows that 1t was sane, well
founded In the philosophy Of the
heart"
Sheila smiled painfully. "Yes, mad
and hopeless, for be sure Of this: We
cannot kill in n day the growth OF
years. I could not cure myself Of Low.
ing him by marrying you. There had
to be some other cure for that.
never knew and never loved my ia,
ther. But he was my father, and Il
MI. Calhoun killed him l could not
marry him. But at last I came to
know that your love and affection
could not make me forget him-no
never. i realize that now. He and
I can come together. but I owe
him 50 much-I owe himsmy life, 70,
he saved 1t; he must ever have q place
In my heart. be to me more than AM
one else q be. I want you to d.
something Tor him."
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