Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-05

over what I've said. Honor can't
have any degree. Mona, any more
than truth can have any degree:
whatever else the world can bubble
to bits it can't partition those: truth
is just truth and honor is just honor.
And a marriage vow is a pledge OF
honor. and il one breaks it one
breaks ones honor. eve mind what
the excuse IL. There's no conceiva,
able way Of arguing out Of that.
That's what I shall ask you to do on
Tuesday and I'm just warning YOU.
so you shall have time to think be-
forehand.'
He took his pen, and steadied his
hand, and wrote:
And your reply, when l ask you,
whichever it is. shall bring me light
into darkness, unutterable. darkness
He could hear the homeward
about the office. 1t was
time to go. He wheeled his bicycle
to the letter box at the corner of The
Precincts. AS he dropped in his let
ter, the evening edition came bawlinr
around the corner.
AUSTRIA,
DECLARES WAR
ON sERvIA
He shook his head at the paper
the boy held out to him and rode
awaX.s What had that kind df thing
to do with him.
Unutterable darkness! He lived
<Withtn it during the days that fol-
lowed while he awaited the day APP
pointed to write to Mona again. What
nVnr che qa}A 1n,hnn In oSl.ol Sr,hioI.,
ever way she answered him, he would
be brought relief from his intolerable
stress. If she maintained honor
above love, his weakness, he knew,
would be welded into strength. as the
presence Of another brings enormous
support to. timidity; III she declared
for love-his mind surged Within him
at the Imagination of bursting away
once forever the squeamish principles
conduct on this side and on that, had
profited nothing those on whose be-
half they had beef erected and his
own life had desolated into barren
ness. :
He was little disposed to divert at
tention to the International disturb
ances which now were rumblins
across the newspapers in portentous
and enormous headlines. Ireland
"do .PACS0Cu AWAY. IL was al europe
now-tfrones, chancelleries. councils.
armies.
The cauldron whose seething and
bubblipg had entertained some, fid-
-geted some. some nothing at all con-
cerned, suddenly boiled v and
poured in boiling fat upon the flames,
and poured in flames upon the hearth
of every mans concerns.
On Friday the Stock Exchange
~1oenA H.s-a TA,t X On I, ,,,l :, {, Is = -
war on Russia. In Sundays
papers Sabre read OF the panic run
on the banks, people fighting to con.
vert their notes into gold. One Lon
don bank had suspended payment.
Many had shut out failure only by
minutes when midday permitted
them to close. their doors. People
were ~besiesing the provision shops
to lay in stores Of food.
And poured. in flames upon the
hearth OF every mans concerns 49,.
All his concerns, the crisis with
Mona. with his honor and his love.
that awaited determination, were
disputed their, place in his mind BY
the incredible and enormous events
that each new hour discharged upon
the world. 5
h news Of Tuesday. morning
caused him ct six o'clock An the
evening to have been standing two
hours in the great ,throng that .ftlled
Market Square gazing towards the
offices Of the County Mmes. Our
mobilization, our resolve % stand BY
France if the German fleet came
into the Channel: lastly, most awful.
" prsEnant Of all. our, obligations to
IBsls1Hm--thAt had been the morn.
[dngss news. That afternoon the prime
mini6ter was to make q statement.
ereat nhurI1ur swelled up from,
the waiting crowd, great move
ment pressed II forward towards the
County Times offices. On the first
floor balcony men appeared dragginSi
Z sreatS board faced with pAper, On
board wAsi pulied out endways. The,