The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-06
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he DenI toward ner after she spoke,
and lifted her chin with his hand
until their faces were level. Her
eyes wavered. but did not fall. +
Il was always little clever with,
a pen." she said. 81 could draw, and
always could initiate writing. sup
pose that helped me to do It and
one day-when your mother was
very I'LL thought What shall do
when there's no one? And it did not
seem as IL I could go on If there
weren't.
II was sitting by her desk-Pd
been writing notes for her-there
was list in her writing for me to
copy. and | wrote that note you
thought she wrote. Then | slipped It
in the box, when she showed me
the things that very afternoon.
II suppose you won't understand.
But | kept thinking of being with
you, and suppose was little .un-
balanced. 1t didn't seem to matter
much how got with you then"
Her mixed narrative dropped to
nothing; she looked at him appeal
ingly. That's ALL" she said. land I
suppose-the end" And she tried to
smile.
"No." he said, so seriously that he
seemed stern, ut is the beginning"
But she did not understand.
What made you tell me?" he
questioned. ;
II care too much to lie," she an
swered simply. when l failed to
destroy 1t, and you found it. l
thought I'd let it go. But | couldn't.
And trying made me sick, and that's
ALI"
moi" he answered unsteadily.
He stood up. leaned over. and gath.
cred her up in his arms. and then,
with the tangled covers trailing
after them, he carried her across
the room, to settle with her in a
deep chair.
How long," he asked, when he
could manage whisper, have let
you feel this way?"
ooh, Bob!"
He felt her cropping hands on his
face. his hair; felt her sob suddenly
and deeply.
"You are-you al going to let me
go back with you?" she questioned.
He could not speak. he had no
voice; he could only press his face
10 hers and tighten his arms.
YOU" she murmured against his
cheek. you do forgive me?"
Don't" he begged. unsteadily,
its the other way. My darling!"
YOU'RE really here" she stated
| after an interval. He had to
bend his head to catch her words.
| Dearest. yes!" he answered She
= drew a deep breath. and closed her
eyes.
/ "A person becomes rather fool
ishly uncertain" she explained.
You see have thought so much of
this: have dreamed dreams,
awake. that were quite as real.
! know that it is not entirely sane,
/ but I'm not sane about YOU"
And he had once tried to make
himself believe it was well, that one
OF them was balanced! He MUIR
INJURED incoherently, as he felt his
cheeks grow wet.
, You know" he heard, "how you
used to tell me things-things about
! us, you ana me, and about being to.
} gether? And you remember how !
. stopped you? 1t was because was
. conscious of cheating. | am Sc
/ starved to hear those things, Bob!
Please, please say you care"
J But he couldn't.
Her hands found his cheek wet
and the reason for his silence. "I'll
D make this up!" she promised stri
r IDENTIFY. You'll see, my dearest, how
] love you! How love you!"
. Then, with a gasp, he bent his
' face to hers.
r "And that sudden" said Bartholo
new but few days later, "she was
I well and quite herself as-one. might
b say"
q The policeman who had dropped
i in for his cup Of coffee, nodded, say
I ing, And she was close to decline
r Ella, she tells me-"
r Unto one" said Hannah.
!. zone Of them miracles, as one
might say" Bartholomew added.
I "They happen" said the man o
g the law who knew that laws anC
rules do not cover every happening
shes playing" said Hannah in
r whisper. From the front of the house
r came the sound of the piano. Sud
J. denly it ceaced, that tune, ceased
a abruptly, because yet another mai
had become too acutely aware o
/, one of the miracles. and must will
}, touch know it to be real.
(cOtyyisht. 1884. b. x. iiaSd-TSylOT)