Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-06-24
FINAL INSTALMENT

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had done this before too, only tina,
time it had been tea-tea which len.
ny had brought Upstairs. This time
it was horrid stuff. Perhaps the ket.
lie hadn't boiled properly. Nothing
annoyed the Creature more than to Be
given tea when the water hadn't boil.
ed properly.
The nice Creature! Diana hoped the
sea wasn't always rough in Brittany
like it had been on the picture post
card she sent.
Diana"
1t was wonderful how real voice.
sometimes sounded in a dream; she
found herself listening with strained
attention to hear it once more, bu,
everything was silent, and a sigh OF
bitter disappointment escaped her.
The other half of her senses wa.
waking up now: the half that told her
that she was only dreaming, and Diana
knew only too we'll what that meant.
1t meant that presently she would
hear Anna drawing the curtains, their
rings always made such a nasty little
rattle, and she would have to yawn
elaborately and pretend she had slept
we'll before she opened her eyes to the
world of emptiness.
Diana"
She turned again to where in her
dream Rathbone had sat beside her.
He was still there, leaning a little to-
wards her, his dark eye on her face.
Diana kept very still. Perhaps she
might manage to fall asleep again and
60 on dreaming if she was very care
full.
She wished he would hold her hand,
but YOU couldn't do that in dreams.
1t would be like the dream you had
sometimes that you were falling down
a great hill. A dream in which you
knew that any moment you might
reach the bottom and be killed, only
you never did,
She began to whimper family:
LET me go. let me go.
Diana"
She knew that she was sinking away,
but she did not mind. There was no
bed under her any more, but just
clouds-soft, fleecy clouds that were
letting her down with infinite gentle
ness into oblivion.
But a voice called her. She forced
her heavy eyes to open and to look in
to eyes that were bent above her, COM
pelling, almost praying to her, it
seemed.
Diana -. listen listen to me.
-. Oh, my beloved, try to under
stand, 80. will never leave you again.
-. Can you hear me? will new
er leave you again. -. Diana!"
1t was Donald's voice, though she
had never before heard it with that
note of agony; something must be
the natter: he was in trouble-un-
happy, and that was not like him; he
was always SO ready to bear other peo-
pies troubles and forget his own. =
But she could not help him now
she was too tired to try any more to
make him smile. If he would just let
her alone-she was quite happy. =.
Never leave you again =. never
leave you again 80"
She turned her face fretfully from
him; she didn't believe him, it was
just another use -. to keep her
from going to sleep: the sleep she
had longed for so YEARLY and tried
so hard to capture-he might leave
her alone nov she had so nearly won
through at last.
Diana ..."
It was as if he were fighting her
for every step of the ground over
which she was slowly slipping away,
and at first she knew contentedly that
he was losing, that in spite of her
weakness and his strength he would
not be able to hold her back.
Funny, hat seemed-for a great big
man to be conquered by a little girl
She began to be family interested, tc
wonder why it should be. Life was
full of things impossible to explain
She only knew that she was utterly
weary and that she wanted to sleep.
She said SO presently, half crying
feebly, but he, was relentless, he would
not let her go.
For a she fought him with
the last ma of her strength:
then suddenly she gave in, with a lit
tie sigh and a half smile. "You'vt
got your own way, then -"
She had said that to him once be-
fore-long ago-and he had answer
ed, II generally do in the long rum"
She waited now to hear him say it
again. he dream wasn't coming right,