The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-05-07

had a vision as from olympic helgnrs
which was being blinded in This rou-
tine OF middle-ciass horrorsF
Brena's face, upon Which the last
light fell. was white and frightened as
if she had seen a ghost. II WAS enough
TO tell him that she knew that he
spoke truly.
81 do not ask you to give anything
TO me except your help 10 make me
new again" he said. 81 do not ask
Young love. | have none to give. |
cannot take you away or keep you
near me without marriage, 1t would
blast us both. But if you marry me
Won shall be made free whenever the
day IN that you wish to go. ask
no promises"
Brena got up and stood looking u
tbe window. The tall Office building
overlooked not only the old center of
he city and the red angular prisms OF
brick and the square roofs laid out
like fields upon level farmland, but
also the distant stretches OF rolling
prairies. There was an impulse TO go
over that distant horizon: the same
strong impulse of youth, adventure,
ambition that IN like a current in
the blood of animals and men. To be
free! To grow! To range! TO know !
To be e~mancipated from the sordid
round of days!
do not answer now" said Parma
lee. 81 have said all I can. 1t has
taken me several weeks to plan how |
should say this. I have said 1t all in a
cold, fair statement. No n could
saw | had made love to you, Brena."
She took his hand; it was as cold as
ice.
write me-" said he b%rusquely.
A week later he got her letter: 1t
was on his desk apart from the bust
ness envelopes. He tore it open.
Nothing you said to me can be de-
MED" she wrote. You have inquired
about me | have no hesitation in tell
ing you that 1 have inquired about you.
I do not feel that l have gained any
thing by my inquiry, for it is true that
there comes to me at strange moments
a clear vision and an insight. l think
you are, above all, honorable"
Parmalee must have uttered an ex-
clamation of triumph he alone knew
that she was wrong.
81 want to make my life of greater
service than it can be here. / am i'm
patient for a richer soil in which to
grow. l am willing to help you, too, II
| can. 1t seems a little vague to me
how l can do this and yet, though |
am very young, | can live in you-l
can feel all that you feel and 1 can
see the better part of you"
He probably thrust a glance at the
letter and looked up with that satanic
chin and u%pslanting eyes turned to-
ward the ceiling. He read on.
therefore | assent to your plan as
you stated it. Always yours, Brena
Selcoss."
Parmalee, no doubt, said to himself
that this was no ordinary letter from
the hand Of a girl not older than
eighteen, the brevity and the calm OF
ii were %symbolized somewhat by the
direct and graceful handwriting which,
with breadth of line and easy flow,
none the less stood INTELLECTUALLY up.
on the page.
They were married one evening al
eight o'clock in the same room in
which he had first seen her. Mrs
Wilkie was glad to have her home
as she called it the center of an un.
scheduled social event which would
start all the tongues when it was in
the News the next morning. This was
the nearest she could come to the ad.
venture of : duchess and she was
willing to have the furry in her life
1t would be she who would give Out
the interviews and explain grandly
over the telephone. They-the two
would be en- their way to that fairy
world of money and travel and airs
and graces which had opened its arms
to this fated young beauty. The CIR
would leave all her old life and its