Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-11

1.-The celebrated Nancy lBowman!' he said.
Nonsense! 1 am like Koko in The
Mikado.'
Waited by q favoring gale, !"
As sometimes one Ia in frances,
To a height that few can scale ~
..&EA Save by long and weary dances.
There again, I am queer. I'should be mad
with joy; and I hate the whole business.
fun-talking in the dark like this"'
He began to wonder. and to worry a little,
too. All this in the dark. What would be
their sensations when they faced each other
in the light? Wouldn't she become critical?.
Wouldn't she observe flaws in him she could
not now discern? u
"What Is the matter?" she asked, as
though his hand had translated his thought.
Nothing" a. %
Tell me-; what is it,"
"You won't change your mind in tho
light?"
Poor boy! OF course. not. = I love you;
Jerry; and l didn't love Mr.. Craig. I wanted
10 get away from dreary' BACK yards and
clothes lines and the theater. Ill go in to
Jenny, and Mr.. Kennedy may have my room.
Yours is rather forlorn. That doorplate! And
you must have believed your father a hypo.
critic! But I must read that letter. He didn't
have anything to do with those, scoundrels
in the alley. lie told me so. What a dear, \
lovable boy you are! Would you like to kiss
me again? It's still quite dark" 4
1t was not two flights of stairs that he led
her down. He stepped from mountain peak
to mountain peak, with all the clear winds
Of earth and sea blowing into his face. Nancy
loved him! Az, nib
The taxicab was at the curb, Kennedy
waiting patiently inside.
3. I'll have to put out the lights and lock
up" he said. Its a house bought re.
Gently.
Give me the key" said Bancroft, who
was still a little doubtful. "1ll take care Of
everything" - f"@*' !"
"Very well" Kennedy agreed. Alone with
Nancy. he said: I'm sorry for my rough.
ness to you. Will you forgive mc?"
ITO be sure I will. Jerry told me every.
thing" -,
He will always tell you everything" said
Kennedy; " for he is the one human being
I have ever known who has nothing to con.
ceal. Never permit any blemish to fall upon
the mirror of his heart. You love him?"
Yes" It was strange; but the question
did not embarrass, her. ,'
II am glad. For some time I have known
that he loved you. A little while gone I
thought Of dying. but no, The boy wants
me. he says. I am bewildered. For years
there has been in my heart nothing but
venom; and now it is empty, of everything.
I, can't hate, and I can't love. I, have
emerged from my madness; but I am nothing.
Perhaps you and tn! boy"
w will try with all our hearts,"
He told you that I have been in prison,
that I have killed a MANI"
Eyes. But you did not mean to-, You
were mao with grief; you weren't account.
able for what you did. You wouldn't have
gone to prison at all if you had told every.
thing. Why did you keep silent?'
II was mad, quite mad, and did not know
it. I had only one idea; to get my hands
around Silas Bancroft's throat. I suddenly
became possessed Of a profound patience.
an internal cunning. Nobody knew me-. I
wore a beard. I was going to play a trick
on Mary, my wife. The. court had to ap.
point a lawyer to defend me, which he could
not do because II offered him no help. MY
sullen attitude impressed the jury unfavor-
ably. I expected the sentence in the. sec,
ond degree; but they found. me guilty in
the first, I had struck the victim in anger.
I was Supplied for a few days. Fourteen
years among the dregs! And all the while
I was quite mad. Well. perhaps God will let
> me be now" XII.
The quiet despair of the tone wrung
Nancy's heart. "Please! You mustn't brood.
There will be tomorrow"
"Ay, for you two; but for me there never
will be anything but yesterday I am old
and empty. But, no more; here comes the
boy = ~. ss
They heard Bancroft give directions to
1.-The taxi driver. serq4;
ITO sleep under the old roof again., L
wonder" unused Kennedy" Ghosts every.
where; ghosts of faces, Of music, and
laughter. Perhaps they viii. be kindly
= ghosts" a
Bancroft got in, making Nancy sit be-.
tween. He was transcendentally hlppy, and
he had to express aloud this happiness to
keep his body from flying up through the
roof Of the taxi and vanishing intotthe ether.
! He said SO. But underneath his bubbling
= nonsense was a serious purpose. For d long
time to come Kennedy would brood over the
death of silas Bancroft. He would be teter.
rally seeing silas reach out toward him and
die. himself a passive murderer. He had
shocked silas Bancroft to death: but any one
81 a thousand surprises would have shocked,
silas Bancroft to death. The point was to
make Kennedy accept this fact. kennedy
had brooded himself into one madness; II
might easily brood HIMSELF into another
suicidal Besides. he would now be drawing
comparisons---Bancroft' loyalty as against
his own, and finding his IL dabby thing IN.