The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-04-29

surprise or IL. 1t WAS all SO slmpl
so Incredibly dear and true
You. woman OF nina WITHOUT
name, who have come to me out
nowhere because I wanted you'll Ho'
e long have you known"
I've known almost since the begir
ming that II you cared as much as
3 do, Lee. you must love me more thai
| thought ii possible to love-"
> He looked at her incredulously, ant
between them the pale wrath OF Es
telle ffoated for just a moment He
mad trusted her. He had vowed never
10 trust again In any woman.
Then 1t was dlsslpated In the sun
SHINE Of their love- do you care
enough to trust yourself to me and
take the chance Of what the future
may bring to usY
Il love you enough to trust you alto
gether, Lee" she answered.
But there was just the shadow Of
little fear In her eyes. "Oh, my
GEAR, | am afraid, awfully afraid Of
the time when-when I remember. Do
you know that since I knew l loved
you. and thought you cared for me,
| have sometimes prayed that 7 may
never remember? 1 have been afraid
OF what may be lying in wait for us,
waiting to overwhelm US, as II 1t |
grudged our happiness"
You must not let yourself grow
morbid" But Lee, too, felt the wings
OF that shadow Of fear beat past him.
Ihere Is nobody else? he asked.
we shall not find that we have been
-rlcked like that? 1t would be unbear-
able"
mo, mol I'm sure of that, Lee;
urer than that I stand here, that 1
nave never loved anybody else.
now that so well. Lee; for If there
ad been, l should have felt 1t by :
instinct, however deep down within .
re the memory Of him lay buried. No, h
we isn't like that; II doesn't lose It.
PHI like that. There Is nobody but
ou-never anybody but you. q,
But what I'm afraid of is that n,
else, something terrible may If
me between us" ~,
There's nothing else that could
parate u.s."
III you were engaged?" Lee would in
sooner have deliberately stolen an 70
ner mans sweetheart than his wife.
MIN love was a thing of eternity. an
was either very young mans view wi
very idealistic ones; yet there ha
men of mature minds who hold di,
1t doctrine; that was why the af- as
OF Estelle had broken his life.
suppose | had become engaged to we
income 1 didn't love, Lee?" inc
You couldn't. You don't think"- fal
felt thrilled by the CONSERVATION ouI
MS vofce-"that you-you have moi
rest?" n.
No, I'm sure I haven't. Rut" A."
persisted. II just felt curious to tod
w what we would do. in case" ing
Oh, then-why, suppose we'd have "W
% to him and tell him that we loved an6
D other, and then, Of course. he wol
ia release you," answered Lee me
ing troubled. "StilI, we don't have now
hink Of that possibility, dear, do wor
get
II course not, Lee" she answered two
lt again he saw that she knit her T.
Us IN perplexfty, and he knew that pusl
was thinking, thinking, trying TO best
lite those ravelled strands of NOM tho
jour
GU don't live in the range, Lee. do M
asked the girl presently. were
o. 1 live at Manistree. That's q as L
distance away. I've just come his
on business" band
ont you tell me what vour bus, elimi
Isl" breal
hesitated. well, it's secret IN WI
ny. though Pm NOT undor o meal
e." His instincts wera 20 81, credi
nd yet the training of eight wears no TT
I'd to seal his lips against ber TIL;
see, I'm acting for others, miles
by, then Of course T wonldn,+ .,- When
tell me, Lee" she answered dc
nave a curious sort Of feeling certai
your business may be bound up before
me In some way, that nerhans to me
ms your going into danger" it in &
LUZ tHihh lnere much danger TUCK
ed to it," strean
she caught that much" with time
"A little danger, Lee? You round'
couldn't bear you being ex- AM
to danger But-wbat ia thor ever Il
the range? You see. pva boor asked.
TO you about the range ever mo,
first heard you speak of II ond though
lont really know where We orc haps 1
rious. too, because for the fret sion yo
fter my Illness, didn't seem 70 there '
Is there city beyond tbo I've go
in som,
thank God. all the cities 10 peg, pc
US. Nothing but forest" sion VIC
are you going to see someone
'meone?"
'es Moravian mission three -"