The Glenwood post., 1924-01-17

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"That was our sin. oh. Calvin.
why did you not writer"
II wrote. My messenger died on the
way"
"That was our punishment" said
the woman-voice fearfully. "You must
go. Calvin"
$50? Leave you? You are my wife,
not his, in the sight Of Heaven"
mo" the woman-voice denied, wear.
lily and inflexibly. "I am bound In bon-
or and In duty and in law. He is
good man."
Eleanor" cried the man-voice.
There was a sound of sobbing, hushed
sharply, cry of the agony Of parting
in the woman-voice, and the man-voice
once again, fading:
|, II will go. But hold you through
time and eternity. Ours is the true
marriage. I will return to claim you,
though it were a thousand years. /
bind you to wait for me-"
The sun shot through between
massed clouds, drawing back to the
world of the living the two still figures
in the church portico. The girls eyes
were heavy with tears and passion and
wonder as she turned them upon her
| companion.
Ibid you kiss me7" she murmured
''Or was It"
mo" He shook his head. "It was
In the dream"
1.-THE dream The voices You heard
them, too?"
"Everything"
"What does it mean?"
"What could 1t mean, except that We
have come back to each other?"
"Don't!" she rebelled. "You frighten
me-"
He smiled at her. and her breath
quickened in her throat. "Why should
| you be afraid, beloved3'
The blare of motor horn brought
Eleanor Jermyn to a sense of realities.
She jumped to her feet. "Whew |" she
whistled briskly We're lucky to be
alive after that close call. Look"
A bough, riven by the thunderbolt
from the great elm, covered Calvin
Sennett's mound as with a massive
wreath.
"There's the car, come back for me-"
she added.
You're not going. nowr' he said. in
credulously.
"Of course" she laughed. But there
| was a tremor in her voice.
"Eleanor" He held out his arms.
She swayed to him, pressed to him,
set her lips to his in a swift. soft
caress.
THAT'S for good-by," she said,
breathlessly Its all nonsense, you
know. And we must forget"
He wrote her once, q long, passionate.
yearning letter, ending. II bind you to
wait for me-" Then the land Of vast
lowed him up.
And Eleanor Jermyn told herself
that it was only strange and sweet
and finished episode.
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sand now," said Calvin Sennett
'when may see her?"
BY all the proprieties l should have
consulted the Jermyn family. But
what use? Those two would have
been drawn together as inevitably as
magnet and steel.
Tomorrow morning. At my apart
ment' replied.
mot tonightY he asked, gently
"You can talk with her." partly
yielded, "if anything so modern as 6
phone will serve your purpose"
called Norrie and relinquished tht
can only surmise. Probably 1t coult
have been as effectually communicates
by telepathy.
He was at my apartment, writing
when Norrie came. I was there also
might as well have been in Patagonia
for all that they reckoned when they
saw each other. He called her name
and there came from her lips broker
breath like the sigh Of respite from
long g-borne pain Of yearning and depri
walton, as she ran to his arms. fount
the street scenery sufficiently engross
ing until Norrie's voice notified mt
that they were aware Of my existence
again.
"Were going away" she announced
"You must tell the family, viz. dear"
'Must II When are you goinS3"
1t was he who answered, Tonight
"Indeedl WhereT
"Does 1t matter7 said she.
perceived that 1t did not; tha
nothing In the universe mattered tt
those two but their rejoined selves Tt
me, however. as representing thu
world Of hard actualities, there was {
phase that did matter. "Without cere
mony7" inquired.
They started, brusquely recalled
from their exclusive absorption In eacl
other.
eve do have to be married, dom
we?' said he In bemused voice.
ut seems absurd" said the girl
but suppose we do"