Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-07-23
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Temptations
SALLIE SEES SALLIE FROM
A NEW VIEWPOINT

Yes, in spite of your sarcaao.'
that's itw his emotion soDered me
again.
81 love you," he continued fierce
l., "ord don't want to touch you
| again. said you were everything l
nod drained of, but you're nothing
- that You're fiuff-there's nothing
real about you. Nothing but surface
in your makeup"
7 closed m yeyes. For the first time
IN NV life. was having my soui
stripped bare and, strange tnough
the experience was, l was tnriiieo "
nv innermost being
"Go on, | want to hear everything
Won have to say" My voice was caiin'
Ibeld nv chin high. There was no
desire to escape, rather an eagerness
r. see from new perspective Ihe
real Sallie, girl WHOM 1t mao 'aNen
Curtiss Wright to reveal
"You,re a toy balloon. Yes, by
Cod that's it, and why?" he hurried
on "because you've let the Great
God Pleasure kiss your lips and you
have breathed into him all the hne-
ness, all the readiness that is foo'
A beautiful jewel box WITH ne hesi-
tated, as if he would halt the words
that fell, with the most precious
Jewels gone"
"stopw I cried. "You can't say
that, you don't know what you've
;nsinuated. I've sat quietly, heard
YOU through and about a great many
things you've been right-but not
that-not +hat!
The stiffness of tomb enveloped
the late afternoon.
Still he spoke no word
"Do you really think" my voice
sank to a whisper, that Pm-Im
bad?"
Don't ask me that, don't Sallie.
| have no right to Judge"
"But you know, you know that no
matter how frivolous ! am-that-"
"But what am to think when you
hold your kisses and caresses SO
lightly. When you ADMIT that you
allowed Ted Billings to kiss you.
But, let's not bubble. It's the prin-
eiple, Sallie. Don't you see that you
can't hold out this way long. Even
if you haven't crossed the narrow
line?"
remained still. Too still. 1t was
a relief when he spoke again.
"And loved you like I love to-
morrow's sunrise. I can't help that,
1 can only love you and be chained
away from you, chained by the
knowledge of what you've thrown
away" he continued, ana the SID
dest part of it is that you can get
it all back"
My heart beat high.
"But you never WILL" he straight
ened his shoulders with the sentence
he pronounced. $50 we're through
with each other, Sallie. Well have
to be after this. I'll take your beauty
for my comfort. Your loveliness that
is flown will be my dream. That's all
I'll have to cherish of the girl I've
adored. Forgive me, if you can for
saying the things that l have had to
say. There's only one word for what
I've been. A cad"
He clamored from the car, heed
less of the pain he had caused. His
words had left me emotionless, with
out smiles, without tears.
He took step in the direction of
the wood ahead. Then turned, only
to stop, hesitate, then murmur pite-
ously, "And I love you more than
life itself and oh, I want yon So"
He walked like man to his death
and 1 followed silently behind.
When the path widened for few
rods, l came to his side without a
word, and when put my hand in his,
he let it stay. Suddenly, 1 saw him
start and draw back. He looked
,,uickly down Fl chad ielt the bur y
ing moisture of single tear on the
back of his hand-the only one l
had shed.