The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-25


 break into song. . t. My dear, il you felt for Lodely what you are capable of feeling for the mar you love, I'd bow myself out and wish you well-I'd do more. I'd 1 ransack Europe for doctor who would make Mark walk. I'd get This cleverness acknowledged, mar keted. I'd never let him or you lwant-"
 4 "Oh, could you do all those heavenly things for Mark?"
 Damn Mark" he shouted. "Yes of course I could-what's the good of wealth if it doesn't stretch to things like that? But for the moment I'm telling you that you are deluding yourself. Your pity
 is for Mark-all right, I dont deny that. But your love is fol me"
 She put her hands up to hel temples as though they throbbed
 Am mad, or did you and ] meet this evening for the first time, when you helped me with Mark?"
 He sat down again on the wood en chair and faced her across the mean little fire.
 The point is that I have found you and you are not yet married to anyone else. You may think have played a trick upon you by taking Mark away next Thurs day, but you'll admit it was my only means of gaining short time; /; short chance to make you see that if you would allow yourself, you could love ne"
 T don't know what to say to you'
 l, There's no need to say any thing. In a way, the definite things were said when we were born"
 You must please let me speak, I meant, of course, that I don't know what to say because I should terribly hate to snub you. But"
 Its quite useless for you to turn me down. Or rather, I've allowed for the probability of your turn | ing me down again and again"
 Tn that one respect then" she said very crisply. T shall not disappoint you"
 She dragged herself out of her chair and turned away He con- sidered that she looked lovlier in her anger than in any other mood, | her face stung to the pale rose color and her eyes dark and bright and cold. He watched her l go, without a glance at the por- trait on the floor, to where she had laid aside her coat. You'll take me back now, please?" she requested, shaking out the furs.
 ''Oh, yes, I'll take you back ? Arrnitage sighed sharply. "Ill let fyou drive if you want to. My gen. lerosity of spirit is an aspect of | me that I particularly want you Ito study"
 He could not see her face as she bent over the furs but he sensed tthat again her mood was veer- ling.
 We will resume our discussion, !" he said, carefully flippant. And we shall yet go to Bogey Cove by moonlight and either be de- voured or permitted to drown" Have you told Mark why you insisted on Thursday?" 'No. You'll do that" She still kept her face averted but she put aside the coat. She stood there for few min |utes by the door, and gazed back at the fire she had left; she gave the curious suggestion that it was telling her something - forbidding her to leave it again until-or unless? Then she walked back Ito it very slowly and as though magnetized. She dropped again into the deck chair and sat lean- ing forward, her hands clasped and dropping, her mind utterly withdrawn from him. He, too, had returned to the fire. He stood with an elbow on the narrow ledge above it and waited. She was now so many fathoms deep in herself that he knew the humiliation of non-existence; and yet he was afraid to make any noise that would shatter the deli cate world into which she had gone.
 All his life he was to remember these slow minutes-these fascin- ating, inexplicable, maddening mo- ments-in which he waited mo- tionless for her to come back.
 The quality of their silence had nearly mesmerized him also when suddenly she spoke. Only her voice. he thought. could float ont