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jlj.WAS net my boy who Iny there,
1 bit Junt k wpndc.rful enrved image e(
Jb like Mm, cruelly Ilka htm, ana
it 10 different. . .
iT. ...1. Ammtti that- fin1 mmi an
,-tftlT hid net difiured hi fnce; I
lit hour (ter hour, my hands cluaprd
hi my lap. atarlni ' at him, waiting for
ilaTte eDn hit cye.
At flrtt Elaa'a frlef was very violent ;
tW locked herself In her room and re
find te eat, and juit lay en the bed
ud erW nd cried. ,
One I went In te see her, and tried
JilMieartrilly. 1 nm nfrnld, te com cem
brt her, but (.he only pushed away from
ir and walled afreiu.
"I was no looking forward te going
te Cambridge te see him and IiIh friends,
tad new I shall never go! Oh, It Is n
ihsffle; n cruel BJimne!"
"Aren't .ou going te get semethings
fortreurcclf, mother?" she asked me
tapatlently one day. "Yen can't go
Mt till you get some decent mourning.
I did net want te go outs I mil;
noted te be left ntene. What did It
MtUr what clethea I were, or hew I
leeitd, when Richard would net be
tkentesee?
"Earth te eartn, ausi 10 uuav
'.Tin words fell mechanically en my
in; I looked at Elsa, who clung te
itrratherls arm and sobbed. She madu
i picturesque enough figure; afterward
I turd several people say that she
Mtmed te feel her brother's less mere
tBan any of us. I think' I smiled when
I htard It : what was her less compared
with mine? What was her grief compar
ed with the despair that had'turned my
lurt te Btoner
Frinfls looked deathly whlte. and it
I hid had any power of feeling. I sup-
Mat I should nave icit sorry ter nun.
fai at the servants In the background
u miffing audibly and blowing his
lOft'l there were tears en the wrinkled
fact of the vicar.
Ht wiped his eyes as he finished read
ing, and closed tne Bible. There was a
Ettii patue; then two men enme for fer
nrd and lifted the ropes that bound my
bey'i ceffln.
I suppose they were ns gentle eh they
eeuld be, but they seemed horribly
nuth te me : the ceffln swayed and tllred
crookedly as It was lowered Inte the
I think It wan at that moment that
the, binds of ireu that bound my heart
Mmcd te snan.
I rushed forward with an anguished
erf, my hnnds eutstretcneu,
''Oh, deen't hurt him; don't hurt
llml" l waned.
Berne one caught and held my arm ;
nmt one else said, "Oh, peer soul,
nor soul!" uut for tne moment i wus
illnd and deaf te evervthlnc but the
fict that this was my eternal farewell
te the boy I had worshiped. 1 believe
i laeamed; i Knew mat l struggled
against the kindly hands that held me,
ud tried te beat them off.
"Richard Richard Richard I"
I was a soul In torment : I was mad
with misery; I would have thrown my
hK Inte the grave with him but for
thou restraining hands; then something
Mtmed te snap. in my bruin, and the
world went blavk befere my. ejes.
But I couldn't be ill ; wheu I opened
my eyes acuta I was in m.v own bed.
ud the doctor sat bettlde me. I asked
Mm, 11 he thought I were going te die;
Iwinted te die. I waited witli n throb
bing; heart for his reply, but he only
ptuea my nanil gently and tout mu i
heuld be better seen,
I could linve lain there se llwmk
Wly and Just let my llfu ebb out, but
Itftas net te be. Perhaps It is Inte that
rrttt does net kill, for I was up nud
mat again in a few dnjv.
Jfrgncls tried te be nice te me, but I
iulsed him ; I cauld net licur him near
), Elsa said the heuse get en her
Jtms; she declared that the smell of
tairil flowers would never leave It, se
it picked her new block clothes und
liftoff te stay with some school friend.
I wis left virtually alone.
I fait IIH it VOHftt linil IlllHROfl HltlPP
that Christmas Eve; I was net nlir-
pnieu te leek in the glass und bee new
iny my hair hud grown.
CHAPTER XXXIII
Tna vlini. iua i'a.u l(ml In. rntm
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JW'n te bui! me. H talked n let ubeut
Wte, and the life te come, and prom prem
JJW me that soma duy I should sie my
W iln, und I listened and tried te
Kjejeit, but I never iiad been u very
tntleus woman, und eternity seemed
"wr away.
. fwsnted Richard new; I wonted te
Ml aim In my arms nnd kiss his dour,
wneurued face, nnd hear his merrj
lh. I felt thut I could net leek
'wWird te a shadowy future.
.A1"? Always I thought of him as he
JJMd when he lay in IiIh ceffln; his
?' nose-folded lips; Ills, closed ejei
""!,"". ""' ome V"1"" snowing en tne
WWs skin ; ever and ever again I lived
- neuiH of unguis i
i q "S'lt of his clethdH about the
"'e broke my heart afresh every time
i '. ilcm i "n '' cigarette case which
M bought second-hand when lie Hist
Jljn e smoke, lying en the shelf In the
. that had once been the nursery
iw.ie 'yWfl"! the playrebm, was like
knife In my heart. ,
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i urw" n "10 empty, lonely room
wondered hew 1 could ever go en
iAt ,lke " beuse of the dead. I
gwlMt my boy; I had lest Elsa, tpa.
Ui!? i!i '0w ccUh ; she hud no pa-
't ""' "l"1 perhaps I hud less
kliV.i , because shu was se like
''fillier, whom 1 had never loed.
id,! J'l'ty nuiftcry was peopled with
teIm. 0,,L,'V fces and echoes of baby
dtiV.i T ''''' "K0 ' old weinaii who
hi. in" l'y tllu "reside and dicams
h. i glrl l001' "I'd womiinheod that
letti n.8ln!:0 viinlahed into the for
tri nutt"' 1'erliepn her grendchlhlreii
WdS.T!1? "PataUs; nerhups her sops
Vm.'i.tlTH Jir nildJle-nsed men tuid
Want- lr ' for m l "", "'y u
Wiita C iw" 'Vli " nicre mailer or
aPwirsn l ,am ust "tt'y alone ns if
Cthi ... HBBWi isiuiiu in tnu middle
mil drt'8,,nel of the day when my
cfaJfi U.la .bril, fc,,", Klrl te me,
I W h J?.0 tn ty. i,cr because he did.
SnWed of the day when ncrlmns
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will navtr hare any if aha geta mar
ried. Peer little modern, progressive feel I
HIiQ would net bellera it if I were te
tell her what heaven It la tn hnM m.
own baby in your arms.
i stayed en at the house till late tn
May, and then suddenly, hint- In hri
one morning, I thought te myself If I
?IW. nBre " 'eni'r snau go mad I
The trees were near) in ftiltlaa k.
blrda ware singing in the branches, there
were flowers in the garden.
rrancn wan away i jsisa had been
home for a few days from her visit, and
gene away again te stay with some one
else, Neither of them wanted met
neither of them cared what I did, or
where I went.
I locked up Rlchard'a things in a
great chest, put the house in order, and
went away.
I went down te a little .Tillage en
the ppvenshlre const, where seagulls
wheel In the sunshine and little watei
lap the shore, and where there is peace
in the winding lanes,
I stayed in a small cottage kept by
a young newly married woman ; ihe
nnd a baby three months old, a dear,
chubby, geed-tempered thing, and aeme.
times she let me nurse it when she waa
busy.
Often I sat in the sunshine, at t...
cottage deer, while the fat baby slept
hnpplly en my lap, and closed my eyes
and triad te pretend I was back in
nu iriea te pretena i was back In
e years that wera gene, with my
wn baby en my knee.
I bad net made enough of these golden
me
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days. I had let them slip carelessly
through my fingers, without a thought
ui mu uny wnen i eneuiu nurse eacn
moment te my heart, nnd jearn and
jenrn te hare them again.
"Rlchnrd sent his love te you."
Night nnd day these words haunted me,
O.ten in the darkness I still wake with
the tearH en my face, and stretch empty
nrnm te draw him close.
"Mether sends nil her love, my boy
my darling." I whisper te him through
the spuce that. divides us. And I listen
and pretend that he will answer.
Dert't laugh at me, you who have
no children of your own, for you can't
understand. Only these women who
nave had a dear beloved eon and lest
him could ever knew thq wreck it made
of my whele life.
But I was .happier thern iu Devon Deven Devon
Ji'jre than I had been anywhere slnce
I lest him. The sea was se beautiful,
the country se fair, It was Impossible
net te feel contentment und peace.
Elsa sent me ene or two postcards,
tier friends had taken her le Purls;
they were gny people, and net at all
mu wn ei companions a should have
chosen for her. Rut it would have been
useless te remonstrate; she went her
own way entirely.
She wrote snatchy bits of news te me.
She said that Paris was "gorgeous,"
and that she was having the time of
her life. She said that the Farleys
her frlends knew "tens" of men, and
that she get any amount of attention.
She added that she hud gene into half
mourning, las black waa se het and
depressing, ,
Aa an after-thought, she added that
she hoped I waa having a geed time.
I was, in my own way, but it waa a
way which she would never have un
derstood or tolerated.
I used te spend long hours en the
curt wiin tne sea erceze blowing through
my hair, thinking and dreaming. Some
times I went te sleen en the. anft vrnaa
with the whispering sound of the wind
for my lullaby, and the heng of a tiny
inrK nign up in tne ujtie sky.
One day when I 'had fallen nsleen.
I wan awakened by a hand en my
sheulder. I stnrtcd up in dismay, my
heart beating fast. The bright sun
shine hnd c'euded ever, and large drops
or rain were railing; away in tne dls dls
Unce came the growl of thunder.
A man was standing, hat in hand,
looking apologetically at me.
"I was nfrald you would get wet
through ; we ere In 'or a storm," he
snid. Then: "Uned heavens! la it
really you?" he added, In sort of
shocked voice.
I laughed mirthlessly.
"Yes, it Is," I told him. "Have I
altered se much? Xou haven't; I
should have known you anywhere."
C!IIAPTKRXXXIV
It was Richard Tempest.
lla steed staring at me as if I were
n sheit.
"Have I altered w much?" I asked
him. "Why de you stare at me se?"
He nut up his hand and touched my
hair. I were no lint.
"Whnt have they done te you?"
"I wonder I um net dend," I told
him. "Oh, Richurd, I have lest my boy;
I have lest my boy!"
I began te sob helplessly.
He did net answer for n moment,
then he put his hand through my arm
in the old kindly protecting manner
which I could still remember.
"Yeu will get wet through," he said
gravely. "Can you run? There is a shed
In the field."
I obeyed him, the tears blinding me.
big sobs choking my threat.
He steed beside me. htnrins out iutebh
'the sea. Presently:
"its useless-te say I'm sorry," he
said. "I what can I say te you, Mar Mar
jerle?" I sobbed out the whole story te him.
I tried net te blame my husband, but
I'm afraid he must have read for him
self all that I did net niv; for I saw
his face dtirken, and his big brew meet
in a frown.
. "I don't knew what te sny te you,"
he sulci again, "Hew can any words of
mine comfort you?"
Rut he hnd comforted me; for the
Hi .si time I hud been able te unburden
mjself t'e soma one who really under
stood and sjmputhlscd. I dried my eyes
resolutely.
Rlchnrd pushed the deer te. Omc
wheu the thunder crashed overhead it
felt as if the whele Hhul must fall about
our ears; the lightning penetrnted the
i-rai'ks in the rough bearding like slit
of burning lite. Richard looked ut me
We were no longer young, my hair
was gray, but iu my heart I was still
ml v the girl "ie had loved him.
TIib storm nled uway, and n wet,
flimlotfctlc-lenklnir sun stele out from
behind the bluck clouds, und smiled at
the earth ns If asking forgiveness for
having been frightened uway.
Richard rese te his feet, drawing me
up with him. , , ,, ,
"Hew fresh everything smells," 1
sold. "And hew glad the earth must
be-" . . ,
He opened the deer, and we steed
'euklng out at the sea und sky.
"I thiiil: we might venture new," I
said, I gathered my skirt round me,
and looked at the wet grass, and then
nt Richard.
"I'm afraid there h no ether way
back," he said, answering the nua.
tlen In my ejes. "You'll have te change
when you get In." He pushed the hnlf hnlf
deseI deer wider, but II swung back
and Veuld have r-lruek my shoulder had
lie net pulled me dustily awuy. 'In rle
se, he put his arm leund me, und he
did nut tuke it awn.
Was It very wicked of me I wondered
afterward, te give myself up te the
happiness of that liftle moment? All my
llfu I hud starved for love; all my life
iverv hope and dream I had cherished
had 'been snatched from ma,
Vm. n moment I closed my eyes and
steed motienless: I could feel his breath
en uy cheek, then he let 'mi IQ and
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