PAGE SIX
THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 191a.
Both Sides
OF
The Shi
By Major
ARCHIBALD W. BUTT,
One of the Heroes of the Ti
tanic and President Tnft's
Military Aid.
Copyright 1905, by
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J. B.
All
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rights SYNOPSIS
Palmer, a Hoston newspaper rann, Is
nt to Georfila to report social and Indus
trial conditions In a series of letters to his
paper. Colonel Turpln, a pouthernor.
thinks Palmer is a lawyer nnd has como
to foreclose tho Turpln plantation's mort-
Palmer undeceives him, and tho colonel,
thinking that Palmer Is a kinsman, in
vites him to be his truest at tho Pines.
Palmer meets Ellen and Bud Turpln and
la hospitably received.
Ho becomes Interested in Ellen nnd
leams that tho Turpln home is in Bravo
peril through lack ot funds. Ho wants to ;
confess that ho is not really n kinsman,
but falls to
Squire Hawkins, an elderly man,
Is courting Ellen. A party is plan
ned in honor of Palmer, who writes
his Impressions of the place for his
paper.
Ellen wears an old brocade gown
at the party, and Palmer falls In
love with her. Ellen and her
friends take take him to the wish
ing stone.
Cajoling myself Into this belief,
I hesitated no longer. My mind once
made up, I wns seized with n fever to
write such as I had not known since
the first days of my career in journal
Ism. Taking out my writing pad nnd
throwing myself across the bed, I
wrote with an enthusiasm I had sel
dom experienced. If one has not felt
this feverish desire to write he or she
cannot appreciate the feelings which
prompted me to hold up every detail
ns I saw.it and to lend it color where
color might bo lacking. Loving Miss
Ellen with a passion that absorbed mo
then, I described her ns n holy priest
might paint the Mndonna whom he
worshiped and with the accuracy
with which the artist might put upon
tho canvas the features of his wife and
children.
My blood ran more rapidly through
my veins as I sketched Miss Ellen in
bold relief and as faithfully described
her honest father nnd manly brother.
The nnmes nnd the locality were con
cealed, but not more effectually than
the artist might hide the name of the
mother model who Bat for the Mn
donnn. One who hud known the art
ist nnd his model would see In the
wrap of the Madonn a shawl the wife
had worn for a score of yvnrs in the
humble neighborhood and in the in
fant Christ tho Idealized features of
the model's child. When describing
Miss Ellen nnd her family I felt in
spired nnd uplifted and left nothing
out which I thought would enhnnee the
letter as n picture. When I had finished
it I read It over carefully, altering not
n line, even adding here and there n
sentence which would lend one more
bit of color to the whole.
With this letter I sent a note to the
editor telling him that I would re
main in tho vicinity of Oglethorpe nn-
other fortnight unless be wrote mo
to the contrary. I said there wns
much more material ubout Oglethorpe
which I thought could be used to ad
vantage. So highly did I think of
what I hnd written that I felt reason
ably certain he would make no objec
tlons to my plans, and In nnother two
weeks I hoped to have secured Miss
Ellen's consent to become my wife.
She seemed to know by intuition
what was In my heart nnd what I had
a mind to do, for she avoided being
alone with me, and whenever we
would wnlk after that she would nsk
Bud to go with us. There was n gen
tie dignity about her during these last
few days which kept mo nt a distance,
and if I paid her u compliment she
would show annoyance, and when our
conversation would become iersonal
in Its nnturo she would remember
that she hnd left something uimttend
ed to or would find some excuse to
leave me with n half finished sentence
on my Hps.
I soon saw too plainly that she did
not want me to speak to her of love,
though she could not prevent my tell
ing her of It with my eyes nnd by the
silent way I would watch her when
sho would work. Squlro Hawkins
came ngain one evening, but sho did
not -walk with him, and once when
Bud got up to leave I saw her lay her
hand ever so gently on his sleeve
which wns sulllclont to hnvo kept hlra
In his seat nil night long had sho wish
ed it.
One morning she received n letter nt
tho breakfast table, nnd after opening
it nnd glancing nt tho signature sho
slipped It in her bolt, and when break
fast was over sho went quietly out of
tho roomt and I did not see her again
that day. For several days, in fact.
sho nvoided mo altogether, and I bc-
enmo wretched In tho thought that
had been mistaken after all; that she
cured nothing moro for mo than sho
diafor any ono else, oven Squire- Ilaw
uins.
ed
In fact, I was not so very sure about
tho squire. 1 heard that he wns the
richest plnnter In the county and hud
the proud distinction of ownlnc the
only plantation which was not encuin
lered with n mortcace. lie was an
old friend of the family, and Hud liked
hint, nnd Miss Kllen herself did not
seem to hnvo anything npnlnst him. I
might bo n pauper for all she Unew,
nnd so I told myself, but on thinking
It over In my room at night 1 lecnnie
:onvlnced that Miss Kllen would never
marry save where she loved, and that
the did not love the sipilro I could
save swort'.
' CHAPTER VI.
Tho Scorn of Ellen.
aS the days slipied by she be
came more like her former
self, nnd one nfteruoon when
It was raining she consented
to play a game of billiards with me.
Suddenly she stopped, nnd as I watch
ed her I thought her face perceptibly
paled. A moment later there wns the
sound of horse's hoofs on the gravel,
and wo heard some one alight
"Como, Mr. Palmer; I nm beating
you," sho said, with an attempt at
gayety which was but poorly assumed.
"It is your shot, and you stand there
Areamlng."
Just then Pickaninny Sam came In
to tell Miss Ellen that the squire was
In tho parlor. Sho seemed irresolute
for n moment, nnd then her face le
camo hard ns I had never peon it be
fore. Sho laid down her cue and start
ed to leave tho room without a word.
Tho blood flew to my face and hot
words to my tongue; but, restraining
myself as best I could, I cried:
"Miss Ellen, if tbnt man has dared
to force his attentions on you or to an
noy you"
Sho bade me hush. "Squire Haw
kins is all that is kind and good," she
said. 'Hs only wish Is to servo me
nnd my family. Tou must say noth
ing against him in my presence, Mr.
Palmer."
"That man wants to force you into
marrying him, Miss Ellen. 'Tis out
"Miss Ellen, if that, man has dared to
annoy you"
ragoous!" I cried, beside myself with
anger. "Ho is old enough to bo your
father."
Sho smiled sadly and said, "Almost
old enough to bo my grandfather."
"Surely any fate Is better than that.
Such a sacrifice would be shameful
If you must sncrlflco yourself nt nil
let mo"
8bo put a stop to my passionate
words, and before tho mute nppeal In
her eyes I stood silent.
"I nm going, Mr. Palmer, and I must
nsk yon not to sjieak what may bo in
your mind. I have a question to solve
which no one in tho world enn help me
to answer, and if I could not solve it
without assistance I would be unwor
thy of tho regurd or friendship of any
man. No," she added, for I had open
ed my Hps to eiwak again tho words
of lovo that rose to them. "If you val
no my good opinion, be silent"
"Miss Ellen," I half whispered, "do
you know how it will end'"
"I do not, Mr. Palmer," nnd sho left
me n prey to doubts that seemed to
tear my soul nsunder. When a womnn
hesltntes I thought It nlways means
yes, nnd had sho not told mo herself
that Bho did not know how it would
end? I spent tho remainder of the nft
ernoon in my room in any agony of de
spair, and In tho loneliness of that
great, half emptied chamber I cried to
God to prevent such a sacrilege. The
next day and even tho next ono ufter
that I never saw her alone for a mo
ment Once I asked her to let mo
spenk to her, if only for n minute.
"Not vet" sho said. "I am not
worthy of your kindly thoughts. 1
wish you could forgot mo."
Every day now I wns expecting n
letter from my pajer ordering mo to
leave Oglethorpe. Each morning
rodo to the postofflco ns if to meet my
fate halfway. I was in an agony of
suspense. I resolved that if my orders
enmo before I had reached somo un
deretandlng with Miss Ellen to reslgu
my post nnd remain In tho vicinity of
tho Pines uutll I hnd cither won her
for my wlfo or clso forced her to de
clare licreelf engaged to Squire Haw
kins. I never believed that Bho sen
ously considered such a step until sho
had told mo to forget lier. Even then
I would not despair, but I was re
solved that if she thought mo poor sho
should continuo to think, ma wjch l.uitjl
nc nan become my niuancwi nricie. t ,
fully believed her capable of marrying .
the squire for the sake of lifting the I
mortgage nnd freeing Bud from the
drudgery that wns telling on his health
tnri, what was worse, breaking Ills
.plrlt. For herself she did not think.
It wns for the others. It had always
been for the others. I had reason to
think that In the matter of worklly
goods I was the equal of the squlro.
but hnd I told her of this I verily be
lieve that it would have militated
nfilnst mo, for she would not sell hcr-
elf to tho man she loved, while she
light sacrifice herself to one whom
she regarded nhnost as an aged rela
tive. I resolved to stand my ground
nnd fight every inch of it with Squire
Hawkins, and 1 was equally detcrmln
ed to tell my love at the earliest mo
ment, .o that there cimhl be no mis
take as to my Intentions.
The opportunity came sootier than I
thought, for, the lhjxt day being damp
and chilly, we remained Indoors, Itud
nlone being forced to face the rain.
Mrs. Turpln had gone into the kitchen
to get warm, she said, for the sitting
room wns damp and bad for rheuma
tism. I was only waiting for the colo-
uel to go for his afternoon nap to
speak what wns in my mind to Miss
Ellen. Presently she looked up from n
book she wns reading nnd snld:
"Father, there was another of those
letters copied In tho Augusta papers
yesterday."
As I heard her words my heart seem
ed to cease pulsation. I hnd never
known thnt they had seen these let
ters, for they had not spoken of them
before, probably because they did not
want me to see them. My face grow
scarlet and I was thankful that the
room was gloomy and dnrk.
"Yes, Ellens" he said, "even some of
our own people laugh at us when they
get rich, so we can't expect our ene
mies to do less. Have you got tho pa
per my dear? I had to laugh over that
last description of what we had come
to. It was very, very funny."
"Funny! Oh, fntber, to think thnt
you can see anything funny In such
misery as he depicted! The writer
does not pee with the eyes of a gontlo
man or else he te blinded by prejudice
or prosperity. How I should loathe to
bo such a man! I did not want you to
see this last letter, fntlier, so I burnt
the paper. It was too true, too true!"
she cried, nnd I saw her eyes fill with
tears.
Sho laid her book aside and went to
tho window to mend a rent in the lace
curtain, but I thought more to hide
her feelings from us. "The writer
docs not see with tho eyes of n gen
tleman." With that one sentence she
had shattered to pieces every argu
ment I had used to myself that day
In tho room. She had not made use
of any choice rhetoric, such ns I hnd
used to describe her, nor did she study
the effect of her phrasing, but with
one natural sentence, spoken from the
heart, she seemed to paint mo as 1
was or as she would always think of
mc after this. I realized how far my
ambition had carried mo and how low
my literary Instincts, na I hnd thought
them then, had sunk me. In the re
action I saw myself as others would
see me, nnd In my remorse I believed
that I had sacrificed her for somo tem
porary advantage In my profession.
And I had fancied thnt sho would un
derstand, forgetting that her scale of
honor nnd truth was as fnr above mine
as heaven Is above earth. In the si
lenco that followed I Buffered a life
tlmo of ordinary humiUatlon. To be
unknown and yet denounced was like
being alone with truth. My identity
should be hid no longer, and I resolved
to tell her that It was-1 sho had de
nounced. As low ns I socmod at that
moment, I was not so low as to take
her hand until I hnd confessed all
The past month rose before mo, nnd
I asked myself if I was Indeed a gen
tleman measured from their stand
point At any rnte, I could not remain
one nnd be silent.
Tho colonel crossed the room nnd
passed out into the hall. I got up and
stood leaning on the back of tho chair
In which I hnd leen sitting,
"MIs3 Ellen," I said, "I have some
thing important to say to you. It is
not what you think," for n pained ex
pression came into her face. "It is 11
confession I have to make."
"Yes, Mr. Palmer," she said and
turned from tho window to face me.
Tho sun had como from behind a bnnk
of clouds and crimsoned the checkered
pauos of glass, nnd her hair, catching
tho rays that filtered through them
framed her in n halo nnd to mc gave
her the apienrance of a saint. Her face
was pale, and her long eyelashes were
fringed with tears
"Miss Ellen," I said softly, "it was 1
who wrote those letters."
For a moment she did not speak, and
when she did her voice seemed passion
less
"Then It ' was you, after nil," was
what sho said. "I had refused to en
tertaln the thought even until you
yourself confessed It. Even now it
seems too horrlblo to lwlieve. And 1
stopped speaking to my best friend
merely because sho half playfully sug
gested that it might bo you." Sho said
this moro to herself than to mc.
"Why did you not tell this to mo be
fore," I said, "and I would have ex
plained?"
"Why did I not tell your' she asked
her voice breaking with nnguish. "Be
causo I thought you wero a gentleman
nnd you wero our guest It would hnvo
been au Insult to havo mentioned it
Such a suggestion would havo been a
reflection on him you ridiculed and on
me, whom you would have mndo be-
lievo you loved had you dared to speak
tho Ho upon your Hps."
"Lovo you!" I cried. "I would dlo for
your'
"It is the only way you could ,over
provoJi,n,w," shQald. '.'Oh'bo coj)
..., ..rf V(m nnn onlv loveio.i vonr
r,,cuIo nt mc alone! But father, poor
ol(1 fnlor, 1 nm R,nd ,lc wlJ1 not eo
that last letter. He would hardly think
that oue funny."
She looked nt me, nnd her eyes sud
denly seemed to blaze with wcorn nnd
contempt
"Yes, I see It all now, nnd the won
der Is I did not see It before. It wns
he whom you described ns a broken
down aristocrat who descanted on
politics nnd wrote pieces to the paper
telling the president how to run the
government. It wns mother who dress
ed In wornout velvet gowns nnd snt In
state nt tho dinner her daughter had
cooked, nnd It was I who cooked the
dinners and played sonntnr and uoc
tunics for tho nmusemont of out
guests. God, why did I not see you
as you were? Yes, and these nro the
hands," she cried In nnguish nnd scorn,
holding them toward mc thnt I might
see them, "that have cooked your
meals for the past four weeks, and
these are the same hands that played
for you while you smoked your pipe
nnd heard fnthcr descnut on politics!
How poor nnd miserable we must have
seemed to you! All that I could have
forgiven, but you dared to soil my skin
with your kisses. They will burn
deep here," she said, pointing to her
fingers, "long nfter your ingratitude
has leeu forgotten."
"Ellen, for God's sake have pity!" I
cried. "I have laughed nt your pover
ty as if it were my own. I am rich I
never told this to you before and I
felt tliat the only use of my wealth in
the future would be to relieve the bur
dens of those you love. This night
nay, tills very afternoon I wns going
to ask you to be my wife, from which
moment your father, mother and broth
er would hnvo been mine nlso. It wns
this very poverty and the fortitude
with which you bore It thnt have made
me love you. After you spoke tills aft
ernoon I could not tell you of my love
until I had confessed first that I wns
the nuthor of the letters which wound
ed you so deeply."
"I nm glad you spared mc that last
humiliation. I can never forgive my
self for being happy In your company
or for spurning the hand stretched out
to lift us from this degradation."
"Squlro Hnwkins," I said in bitter
ness.
"Yes, Squlro nnwklns, whom you
would have Insulted as you have us.
And to think that just becnuse I had
listened to him I believed myself un
worthy of your love! You must ex
cuse mo now," she added in cutting
tones, "for I must go to prepare your
dinner. I suppose there will be one
less to provide for tomorrow!"
Sho started to leave the room, but I
stood In front of her.
"No, I will not go. You do not nn-
derstnnd. It was with love welling in
my heart that I wrote thnt last .letter.
I hnd been ordered home, nnd I wrote
thnt letter that I might stny another
fortnight After you had promised to
be my wife I would have told you all,
nnd together wo would havo read It,
nnd In the richness of the future we
would have laughed over it together.
No, I will not go. I will stay and
toll Bud and tho colonel. They will
understand nnd plead for me. And
If you love me"
"If I ever did you killed It tho mo
ment you confessed to have written so
about ono you professed to lovo, one
whom yon should have protected nnd
have helped to hide from tho world
thnt which she feels so degrades her,
Instead of which you hold It up to
publicity and to tho scorn of tho world.
You cannot stay hero longer. Don't
force me to toll father or my brother
That would be more than I could benr."
Sho put her hand toward a chnlr ns
If to keep her from falling. I cnnie
a step nearer, but Bho drew back In
voluntarily, steadying herself and look
ing mo hi tho fnco, and with a voice
vibrating with emotion Raid:
"Don't touch mol I never want to
see you nor t hear of you ngnlar
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