San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-29
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Colonel HOLES, soldier and adven
turer, returns TO England. his native
| land. when war with Holland is de
clared. His grace of buckingham hire,
HOLES to abduct the actress, Sylvia
| Farquharson. 1t is dark when the
| colonel carries her to the house Buck.
ingham has rented.
| Upon their arrival HOLES is horri-
| fled to see that Sylvia is an old sweet
heart.
The servants of the duke render the
| colonel unconscious. When Bucking.
ham attempts to embrace Sylvia, her
dress falls from her throat. revealing
purple blotch, token Of the plague.
The duke and his servants flee.
HOLES nurses Sylvia and saves hes
life. HOLES is ashamed and fees from
Sylvia in the night. Sylvia engages to
nurse the plague victims. When HOLES
is brought to the hospital she nurses
him back to life. Now go on with the
story.
Within less than week he was
afoot, regaining strength. and pro-
nounced clear of the infection. Yet,
before they would suffer him to depart
into the world again, he must under
go the period of sequestration that the
law prescribed, so as to ensure against
his conveying the infection TO Others.
For this he was to be removed froln
the pest house to a neighboring abode
of rest and convalescence.
When the hour of departure came.
he went to take his leave of Nancy.
She waited him on the lawn under
the tall old cedars of Lebanon that
graced the garden of this farm which
had been converted to the purposes
of hospital.
There was stone seat near at
hand there in the shade. and she sank
Imply down upon this whilst he stood
beside her awaiting her dismissal. He
was very plainly clad. in garments
which she had secretly caused to be
procured for him, but which he sup
posed to be the parting gift of the
charitable pest house authorities.
She controlled herself to ask him
steadily:
What are you going to do? Where
shall you go when when the
month is past?''
He smiled and shrugged little. IL
have not yet considered fully" he
answered her in actual words, whilst
his tone conveyed that he had neither
thought nor care Of what might fol-
low.
She lowered her glance, and for n
long moment there was silence. Then
she spoke again. calmly. almost for
mally. marshaling the pints of an
argument that she had well considered.
you remember that day when we
talked. YOU and /. in that, house in
Knight Ryder street. Just after my
recovery? When | would have
thanked you for my life. you rejected
it, persuaded that | was moved only
by gratitude for the life you had
saved; that I sought by that forgive
ness to discharge the debt in which
you had placed me-"
: 1T was So" he said. "and it is so.
1t cannot be otherwise"
Can it not? Are you very sure
One upward appealing glance she
flashed him as she asked the question.
AS i am sure that out of your
sweet charity you deceive yourself. =
he answered.
do /? Let us say that / did. But
If you say that | still do. then you
are overlooking something. l am no
longer in your debt | have paid IT
in another and n fuller way. As you
saved my life, so have l since saved
yours. We are quits now. Randall.
no longer owe you anything. i have
repaid you; therefore / am no longer
under any necessity to be grateful.
You cannot deny that"
Il would not il | could"
Then. don't you see? Without in.
debtedness between us. no longer un.
der any obligation to you. / have
given you my forgiveness freely.
frankly. and fully. Your offensj
after all. was not really against
me. y"
1T was. it was" he interrupted
fiercely. 1T was against you mas
much rs it was against my own honor. |
1t made me unworthy
Even so. you had my complete for
giveness from the moment that came
TO know how cruelty you had been
driven"
A little flush came to stain the pal