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The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday, December 13, 1929
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rier between them turn away. This
was Carta’s thought, and her arms
drew closer about PauL He belonged
to her now, for there was no other
world than this—a pit of glooq with
death for Its walls, an abysmal grave,
where love, for a space, would build
\ f o r them “the great wofld’s altar
aWirs that slope through darkness
* up>q God.”
She almost- spoke th e words.
stead she w h isp ered :
In
“It was rlghlfbr me to come, Paul?
You are—^lad?’’
know—now- -th a t I expected
you, said Paul.
CHAPTER IX
’ A fter a tim e tliey w ere stan d in g in
th e blackness.
More distinctly th e hollow, rum-
bling sound about them began to Im-
.
Upou th e ir ea rs as Paul
» *
d C arla ag aln st bls breast.
listened, as If for a voice, ids
pressil)g «gainst her hair, w here
* P |iad
,ong w unted to rest,
tb
heQr(J wa8 unllke an y th ln g
p worM
out Jn
in |h
the
world of
of gun
sun ftnd
and sky
sky. Tb
The
know that blindness could be so beaiF
tiful '
“Nor IT he answered.
CHAPTER X
I
OREGON NEWS ITEMS
OF SPECIAL INTEREST
surely In a God. He had found him
self fond p i Jelling her how he loved
her hair more than any other physical
thing about her, and she had said:
“I am going to spread It out so you
may put your face in It when we lie
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down to sleep." Thia was the way she
Brief
Resume
of
Happenings
of
spoke of what was to come—as sleep.
To drift off like this, hls arms about
the Week Collected for
her, seemed to Paul the fruition of a
great privilege and Joyi and not a
Our Readers.
triumph of fleshly dissolution. He had
told her little stories about hls moth
A blaze which swept the dry timber .
er and of the time they had spent land on the Siskiyou3, nine miles
sun-filled hours In the Indian burial
place at Brantford, where the proud south of Ashland, destroyed the his
est of her forest ancestors were buried. toric Dollarhide Tollgate property.
The third annual potato, cbm and
“ I could not u n d ersta n d h er theh,
when she told me how gladly she ' onion show sponsored by the Slier-
w ould give h er life, w ere it not fo r wood chamber of commerce was held
me, to live for a single y ear th e glori- ' rocently, with a large showing of com
ous freedom of Molly B ran t,” said mercial and seed potato exhibits.
During the night following Paul’s
accident and Carta’s leap, men were
active below the gorge. Derwentjost
no time In racing back to the Mistas
sini, nnd the presence of a hundred
men below the chasm before midnight
was the /«suit Every device of en
glneering science and unlimited re
source which might be employed came
with them. The big pool at the foot
of the gorge was a glare of Illumina
tion, and. men went down the river
with their flaming torches, afoot along
Its banks and in canoes between them,
questing for a shred of something
which a few hours before might have
Paul. “B ut I do-^now. In tliut one
been a part of Paul oi Carla.
y ear she knew shA wquld find some j
DR C L POLEY
P h y s ic ia n
G rass
nnd
V a lle y ,
S u rg e o n
O re g o n
People can reach me. from Moro
at night from the long distance
booth at Hotel Moro by ringing
The Dalles.
Dr W . N . Morse
P h y sic ia n an d Surgeon
P lans w hich it is hoped will bring
' th e U nited S tate s dop artm en t of ag ri
cu lture w alnut experim ent station to
I Y amhill county w ere form ulated a t a
m eeting of county nut grow ers. \ \
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Lucy-Belle, shocked into sickness, thing which would more th a n m ake up
brain was keenly alive, again, and lie
THE DALLES, OREGON
w as tak en to her home. B ut C laire
knew th at team s of oxen could have
for all th e o th er years she m ight live,
rem
ained.
Men
who
saw
her
in
tlie
C H A PTER I — In trod u cin g " ¿ X r h *
pulled but futilely ag ain st th e -u n d e r-
Just us every hour here w ith you is
Office at Mid-Columbia Hospital
th e people o f the p retty lit ’-
w eird glow of tlie lights will never
m ore to me th an ten thousand back
C anadian v illa g e o f Periboi» a. p a r tic cu rren ts, which, one a fte r an o th er.
be
able
to
forget
the
im
age
of
her
were
tran
sp
o
rtin
g
them
Irresistibly
u la r ly th e Crippled Lady. •• ’ n , ’ n
Phone No. Hospital 841
C lackam as county’s budget for 1930
sim p le In hab itan ts, and hei .1
”r an and yet w ithout great h aste through
face as It w as iiliotographed upon th eir there."
ep ic d estin ed to liv e lo n g u< ti •• v il
As
said
these
things,
and
believed
memories.
H er blue eyes w ere so
show s a d ecrease of $16,199 from the
w atery space. T hought of physical
lag e an n aia.
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wide open and staring, so filled with and felt them , th e re w as In him a 1928 budget. The 1920 budget calls
salvation scarcely filtered in a ray of ro arin g and w ailing w ere gone, und In
C H A PTER II —H ow th e rom ance ’
an unw avering sappjilre flame th at at will to live which would not u tterly for a to tal expenditure of SS88, 005(48.
pe through his mind, nnd hls senses th e ir place w as a phantom -like cadence
M olly Brant. Bister o f th e g r ea t in
It w as scarcely
tim es D erw ent thought of her as a extinguish Itself.
dian ch ief. Josep h Brant and Slr w i l were unterrlfled by th e suffocating
that moved and stirre d ubout them , spirit-goddess Instead .of a woman. m ore Hian a spark, a sm oldering em as com pared w ith $301,204/20 in 1229.
liam Joh n son , in P"e -R e v 0 ,‘;it ’2 n?iZ
presence of death. In C arla w ere hls hut which seem ed to come mostly from
d ays, com es dow n to tod ay w ith
The sta te land d ep a rtm en t turned
Could Paul kave seen her he would ber th a t w as bound to dle^ for his
birth o f a son, P aul, to M olly K irke
stren g th nnd courage, H e locked ids a vast dome over their heads It was
When in The Dalles
eyes, hls brain, and every faculty of over 4o the stato tre a su re r during
w ife o f a p ow erfu l New ^ork
have
known
th
a
t
a
t
last
she
had
con
arm s about h er closely.
He could like som ething trying to escape, throb
and her death w h en ^ P a u l Is th irteen
reason
which
lie
possessed
told
him
N
ovem
ber
a
to
tal
of
$154,442.47,
a
o
quered h e r - f e a r and repugnance of
y ea rs old.
M olly K lrk e w a s a d e
feel h er clinging to him witli th e bing until it seem ed to be heating
HAVE YOUR -
scen d a n t o f M olly B rant, and her boy
the w ilderness. She had come w ith th e re w as uo hope of finding a way cording to a rep o rt ifrepared by G.
sam e desire to rem ain Inseparable w ith little clubs nt th e drum s of Iheir
has m any o f the Indian ch a r a cte ristic *
beyond th e w alls which sh u t th em G. Brown, clerk of the sta te land
th
e
first
men
before
u
trail
was
eut.
At th ir ty -tw o P aul m arries Clair*
Lunch or Dinner
when the end came. S trange. A king e a rs when it w as n earest, then leav
Durand, d a u g h te r of his f a t h e r s b u si
H er dress and shoes w ere torn, her in. A few m inutes before, when Qarla board.
dom of Micondcon—a land of Al- ing. them to intone and hum like a
n ess partner. He Is In ch a rg e of
soft skin bruised nnd bleeding. W here hud sat a t^ ils knees, w ith hls fingers
im m en se e n g in e e r in g w ork on the n asch a r— a place of fuiries—a world huge tu ning fork through th e shut-in
T hree persons w ere seriously In
feeling tlie w arm th and sw eetness of
M istassin i river, near P erib on k a, w h ich
the w uter crushed and thundered loud
of
dream
s—
They
w
ere
going
to
it
h l^ .m illio n a ir e fa th er h as un d ertak en
Bea of gloom. T h ere was no break In
her hair, th is sp ark had leaped into jured, one of them probably fatally,
est
out
from
betw
een
tlie
chasm
w
alls
all. Between the w alls w here no man th e sonorous sam eness of It
but hts Indian blood d ep lores the de-
It was
It still rem ained as Carlu a t Bend, when dynam ite being tied
strucTion o f the w ild e rn ess, and his
she stood u nafraid, until D erw ent flame.
had ever looked. H eath! A m agnifi etern ity of sound w ithout change. .In
th o u g h ts are m ore o f C arla H a *dan
yielded a t la st to hls dem and, nnd into bundles p rep arato ry to blasting
twice
drew
her
back
from
the
n
e
a
r
cent udventure, w ith C arla In ids a little while It could drive u living
not then the Crippled L ad y— than or
ness and danger of It. She resented guve h erself to tlie bed he had m ad? operations exploded in a w orker s
his w ork.
arm s! A ro arin g filled ids ears. They tiling mad.
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Ids appeal to leave th e search to for her, w ith his coat fo r her pillow
hands.
Hls
C H A PTER I I I — P a u l s w ife Is In w ere trav elin g sw iftly now.
"I nm not afraid ," Carla said. “Are others, and D erw ent made it only
“ It seem s alm ost a sin to sleep,"
Europe, sh e h a v in g no in c lin a tio n
senses
grew
less
distinct,
like
colors
liv e In "th ose h orrib le w ood s.
It*
yon?”
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TH E MARKETS
once. A w hite face, w atching for its sh e s a id ; and If slum ber w ere near,
com es to see In Carla, d a u g h te r o f a merging one into an o th er in a su n set
H er voice was no different than If
or even tlie necessity fo r it, he could
P ortland
d
ea
d
—th
a
t
was
w
hat
men
would
re
cen tra l E uropean Im m igrant, w ith her
The Dalles, Oregon
sky. Queer, why It should end like tlie sun had been shining, and th ere
d evotion to her Invalid m other ano
member.
Eyes tlamlngly t blue, hun find no shadow of It In h er face. She
W h eat—Big Bend bluestem , $1.40%;
her w ork o f e d u c a tin g the v illa g e c h il tlds, a fte r years of life—lie— and C arla w as som ething In it for Idm which
m
ight
have
risen
from
her
bed
an
grily searching tlie black stream as
dren. h is Ideal of w om anhood.
soft w hite, w estern white, $1.27; hard
We also serve, at usual prices,
—to g eth er—as It m ust have been In had never been th e re before. A kind
It cam e from the m ountain. A fragile hour ngn„ so freshly clear and lovely
Lunch and Dinner combinations
w inter, n orthern spying, w estern red.
A glori of ex ultation cam e with it. a gladness
C H A PTER I V — P aul w r ite s to h is tended from tiie beginning.
that
are said by our patrons to
form tin g seemed tiielesa, ns steel. w ere her eyes, so deep th e ir lustrous
w ife, u r g in g her to Join him . th ou gh
ous graclousness of I’nte, an im m ortal w hich trenm led in tho darkness, nnd
content and happiness when she $1.25%.
equal
Home Cooking.
Carla Is the In sp iration o f the *e *, T
A
woman,
und
yet
more
th
an
wom
an—
H ay—A lfalfa, $23023.50 per ton;
L ater th at e v en in g , p a s sin g the H a l symphony of fulfilm ent—to pnss on w hich sent sham e and trium ph sweep
an unforgettable sp irit, a vision th a t looked nt him. Yet, a fte r a little, her
dan hom e, he h ears C arla cry in g . He
like tld s w ith Carla, no m a tte r how ing over hlrnCIn a subm erging emo
lash es drooped as if to veil tlie love valley tim othy, $20.50021; eastern
e n ters th e c o tta g e . Mrs. H aldan. long
was like trag ic music, alw ays to he re
a h o p ele ss Invalid, Is dead. P aul s e f many hundred cen tu ries had gone be tion.
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behind them , and lay in velvet d a rk Oregon tim othy, $22022.50; clover,
membered.
fo r ts to com fort Carla, he feels., bring
fore! And some one— ids wife— had
“
A
fraid?
Good
G—d,
n
o
!”
$20; oat hay, $19; oats and vetch,
them c lo ser to g eth er.
She did not give up with tlie first ness ag ain st the w h iten ess of her
said —tliat seconds m eant more th an
She drew* h erself out of hls arm s
h o u rs of evening, hut continued to cheeks. For a while P aul sat close $20020.50. y
C H A PTER V.—C laire an n ou n ces her y ea rs—w hen—like tld s —
and stood beside him, w ith her hand
In ten tion o f Joining P aul on the M is
B u tte rfa t—47c.
w atch through tlie n ig h t She did not and w atched her, and w ith each breath
The ro arin g w as nn enorm ity of In Ids. T heir voices had broken down
ta ssin i In a short tim e.
She also
move from the foot of tlie gorge and
E ggs— R an ch , 30 0 4 4 c .
w r ites to C arla, of w hom ahe has sound. Its w ailing w as like th e wind
th
e
flame
In
him
grew
stronger,
the
“ QUIET SERVICE’’
it tenseness about them , and life drew
heatd from P aul, a le tte r o f k in d ly
the pool, as If she were su re Hint
C
a ttle—S teers, good, $10.25011.
dem
und
th
a
t
som
ething
happen,
in
the
eave
of
Aeolus,
Its
th
u
n
d
e
r
like
sy m p a th y , on the death of her m other.
closer, more nure. lie w unted to see
w hatever came to her would he found
H ogs—Good to choice, $8.75010.23.
th ro u g h foree of God or man, to break
S ten to r’s b lasts rum bling through the |ier, and fumbled In his sodden pocket
C H A P T E R V I — P aul g o e s to Q ue
there. D erw ent wns frequently w ith
down
tlie
w
alls
of
d
eath
which
en
L am bs—Good to choice, $10 50011.
em
pty
bowels
of
the
earth
.
They
fo r Ids m etal box of matches.
bec ’o m eet C laire, and b rin g s her to
her, and tried to talk, but her lips
▼Ironed her.
his tem p orary hom e. T h ou gh sh e Is numbed nnd anesthetized, yet left 1dm
S e a ttle
"I'm going to strik e n light. Carla.
fram ed few words.
Not until day
ap p a ren tly glad to he w ith him . and
CRANDALL
Alone, w ith C u ria’s unconscipus
with a »bred of living, th in k in g cells 1 w ant lo look at y o u !”
.W h ea t—Soft white, w estern white,
e v in ce s w arm fr ie n d sh ip fo r Carla and
cam
e
again
did
som
ething
give
way
in
form
lending
faith
and
Inspiration
to
P a u l's o th er frien d s, he fe e ls sh e la which told idm they w ere te arin g
A tlaie of yellow (lame made n hole
Undertaking Company
her, and hopelessness ta k e Its place. his th ought, he fixed his atten tio n , as $1 .27; hard w inter, w estern red, n o rth
on ly th ere becau se sh e fe e ls It her
Until it died out
ern spring, $1.26; bluestem , $1.40.
duty.
She Is n o t r e a lly happy.
He through the gullet of th e gorge, and In the h 'ackness.
Then
lie
took
her
home
to
Lucy
B
elie
a dozen tim es before, on the sm oke
becom es «w are of a g u lf b etw een him
which, a t th e sam e time, held Ids arm s th eir eyes devoured each other. Carla
THE D A LLES. OREGON
E ggs—Itanch, 32045c.*-
“ 1 w aited too long,” she said to him, w hich rose from the b u rn in g wood.
and his w ife.
unyielding ns bands of steel about w as like an angel. Love, tra n sfo rm
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B
u
tte
rfa
t—47c.
—
-
nnd
afterw
ard
,
back
w
ith
the
search
C H A P T E R V II.— P aul. C laire. Carla
C arla’s body.
Where did It go?
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ing death into a happy Incident, was
lng men, he w ondered w hat she had
and tw o ir ie n d s m ake a lu n ch eon Par’ y
C a ttle—Choice steers, $9.50010,2^
H ours ago he bad asked him self tills
A lthough close to th e edge of nn mi uncovered glory in her eyes at
to v is it th e "B ig G orge" o f th e M is
m eant.
. j
H ogs—P rim e light. $10.40010.50.
ta ssin i, sn a p p a llin g ly a w ift *urre._
question, and until he had discovered
abyss of u tte r darkness, consciousness lust, clearly revealed to r him to see.
T hese searchers, could they have
w h ich d isa p p e a rs In a m ou n tain «‘de.
L am bs—Choice,*$10.50 0 1 1 .
a
thin
fog
of
sm
oke
settlin
g
over
tiie
did
not
q
u
ite
leave
him.
Vaguely
he
He knew th a t only tlie positiveness
Current
b e lie f
la
th a t
a n y th in g
S po k an e
dropped Into It la n ev er seen a gain , in
looked through th e rock, would have w ater, and driftin g aw ay w ith th e
experienced th e th rill of being tra n s of their fate could m ake her look nt
sport th ey ca st Into th e stream p ieces
Ca«.t!o—S
teers,
good, $9.25010.25.
seen
a
fire,
it
w
as
th
e
second
night
ported
out
of
n
hell
of
tum
ultuous
rush
of
it,
liis
blood
had
run
sw
iftly
him
like
tlds.
w
ith
C
laire
living
and
o f wood, and oth er ob je c ts, w a tc h in g
fo r Paul and C arla in a place w here w ith a th rill of hope. And now, in
th -m disap pear. F in a lly th ey carry a »ound into a soft and gently d riftin g w aiting In an o th er world outside.
H ogs—Good and choice, $10.
la rg e lo g to th e ed g e o f the ruahlng
night and day ivere th e same. Paul sp ite of th e fact th a t he knew w here
sea which w as w ithout noise or vio Cluire geftned Infinitely removed from
L am b s—Medium to good, $8.3009.
w ater. As th ev to ss It over It upends,
had found d rifts of wood along tlie It w ent, th e question rem ained, as if
str ik in g P aul and th r o w in g him Into
lence. F o r an intervnh he fancied Ida him. a century aw ay, a glqw of mem
T h e D a lle » ' N e w e s t a n d B e s t
th e strea m
The tw o w om en w l'h
edge of the sand, mixed w ith pitchy a voice Inside hls head had been
arm s Wqfe wings and th a t he *was tr y ory—like sta r dust, yet he thought of
‘
H o s t e lr y
w hom P au l a life la e n tw in e d se e him
NOTICE
FOR
PULICATION—De
pine, and a little sp o t in th e ir world train ed to ask it, parrot-like, and
g o to w h at th e y are su re la certa in
ing to fly, m aking ra th e r a bad mess her us the m atch went out. His wife
partment
of
the
Interior,
U.
S.
Land
death. One a sk s th e o th e r If "he Is of, it because one side of Idm refused would go on living.
w as illumined by lig h t
He nnd Carla
could not be m ade to stop.
Centrally Located
g o in g w ith him . R e c e iv in g no an sw er
Office at The Dalles, Oregon, Oct.
In th e fire glow sat C arla, combing
T lds w ere about to die. He had seen u n
sh e an n o u n ces. "T hen—I am .
and to c o o rd in a te w ith the other.
lie and C arla had collected a pile 22, 1929.
sp r in g s Into the w ater.
S h e rm a n C o u n ty H e a d q u a r te r s
her long, silky h air w ith her fingers. of pitchwood. As they had found
was tiie.arm , only one arm now, which d erstan d in g and su ren ess in the sh in
Notice is hereby given that Peter
Paul w atched her as sh e sm oothed each stick tliey had acclaim ed It a Dohm of The Dalles, Oregon, who,
held Carla. W ith the other, a fte r a ing depths of C arla's eyes when tlie
EDW. BALL, MANAGER
and braided th e tresses, em ploying as tre a su re discovered, u ntil tlie th rill of on Sept. 24, 1924 made H. E. 023268
little, lie fol.nd him self claw ing nnd tiny flame had illum ined th e ir fnees.
CHAPTER VIII
g reat care as though she w ere in her a gam e had become p a rt of th e ir en and also H. E. 023339, both under Act
digging Into som ething. A man may Bhe had let him know, w ithout words,
THE DALLES, OREGON
bedroom at home. Tills w as th e th ird deavor.
He epose a stick heavily Dec. 29, 1916, for Lot 1, Sec.12, T.
Pnul saw the sw ift, delib erate plunge live a hundred years, hut when he is th » t ea rth bonds w ere strick en from
tim e she hud given It such atten tio n w eighted w ith pitch and lighted the 1 S., R. 16 E., NE%SW %, Sec. 5,
through space of the slim body, which. ready to die and looks hack over the her, because th e re w as no longer an
In th e uncertain ty ot his vision, an patli lie Jias trav eled ,, it seem s very ea rth for e ith e r of them. For a few in th eir thirty-six hours of entom b end of it In the fire. T hen he w alked SE% NE% , Sec. 6, N% NE%, NE%
m e n t At other tim es he had held a off into th e gloom w here he and C arla NW%, Lots 1, 2, Section 7, Town
Instinctive anil positive im pulse told short, and th e hundred y ears no more j hours tliey w ere to he in a w orld all
light for her a t tlie edge of the w ater had gefifie many tim es before. It was ship 1-South, Range 16-East, Will
him w as C laire’s. A w om an's pierc than a few hours. I’nul had reflected th e ir own. T hen—th e ir couch of
w h llejsh e bathed her face and hands, like follow ing th e Inside of a g rea t amette Meridian, has filed notice of
ing cry cam e from th e cliff, hut no upon th e Illusory nnd baseless fabric ; everlasting sleep— together.
He felt
intention to make final three year
of
time,
its
inadequacy
and
the
hoi
responsive echo of h o rro r escaped Ids
| n sp iritu al reaction from tlie o ppres and once she had said to him : “ It rock drum which w as flat on one side proof, to establish claim to the land
own lips, no sound, but an articu la te lowness of its hum an m easurem ent. sion of h o rro r and fear which laid is wonderful w ater, alm ost as soft as —flat w here the w uter thundered and above described, before Register,
THE
DALLES
raced through th e m ountain.
United States Land Office, at The
pnsp as the figure si ruck the w ater “One who is happy lias but a fleeting come upon idm. To feel su re th a t
W hen his torch burned sh o rt he re Dalles, Oregon, on the 14th day of
and disappeared. An appalling and vis'on of life," C arla had said to idm Carla knew, and that she had given
tu rn ed for another. C arla had not December, 1929.
d evastating w eakness seized upon him, once. "To live long nnd terribly, one herself to him because of her know l
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moved in her sleep, nnd he burled
a-deadly- sickness of shock, a thlrfc" m ust he u n h ap p y —hi prison.” it was edge—th at she was not afraid , hut was
mes
A. Claussen of Dufur, Oregon.
odd
why
lie
should
he
thinking
of
this
him
self
In
blackness
again,
following
happy In tlie freedom which an np-
th a t loosened the grip of ids fingers
tlie rock so closely th a t his body Glenn O. Allen of The Dalles Oregon,
from th e clinging belt of w eeds and as lie continued to claw and dig. But p ro ad d n g term ination of life made
Elliott P. Roberts of The Dalles, Ore
touched It, trying a t every step to
m ade him limply Impotent against the tim e bad fastened Itself upon him like possible for them , filled him witli an
gon, George Petroff of The Dalles,
a
leech,
and
if
each
second
of
ids
pierce
w
ith
ills
vision
a
little
fa
rth
e
r
emotion which took from th eir brief
dragging force of th e undertow , For
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into the stygian pit over his head. It
an In stan t Ids brain reeled in d ark w ide-aw ake life had been ns long ns fu tu re Its sta rk and ugly grlm nes»
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these
few
seconds
he
would
have
lived
wns
into
tills
p
it
th
a
t
the
smoke
and
gave
to
it
an
alm
ost
Joyous
as
ness. 11^ began to go down, easily
w ent, m ounting in d riftin g spiral», like
and slowly, as if th e cruel and m ur a tho u san d years. D uring lid s cycle peet.
sm oke in an Indian tepee. Up there,
derous hands below w ere fearful of of his existence he slow ly and tedi- | As If she had been a p artn e r In tlie
he thought, it w as taken by a slowly
> arousing the in ertness to which lie ously progressed, until, w ith nir filling few seconds of his thoughts, Carla
dragging cu rren t of a ir m ade by th e
had m om entarily succum bed. ¿Then ids lungs again, and tlie sm othering spoke softly, giving Idm tier hand
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suction of th e streum , nnd descended
w uter struck Into Ills face and sta rtled folds of near-insensibility breaking again In the night which shut them in.
to exit from tlie m ountain w ith i t
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1dm. H eart and brain leaped in re aw ay from 1dm, lie knew th a t he w as
"I w ant to hear you say It, P a u l!
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"
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T h ere w as only one break in tlie cir
sponse to its w arning, and lie th ru st no longer in w ater, th a t Ids fingers 1 have dream ed, and even prayed in
Funeral
Directors
were
clutching
at
soft
sand,
and
tljat
cu
lar
wall
of
gruesom
ely
black
and
up wildly and caught th e weeds again.
my w ickedness, nnd have fancied your
w ater-w orn rock, ag a in st which, in
They hung closely to the rock, allow the burden w hich be had dragged witli voice telling me tlie story. For that
and Embalmers
ages past, a su b terru n ean flood had
ing Idin to drag Ids body up until his him w as C arla.
I have many tim es asked God to for
w ashed and roared. T his was w here
T h ere w as scarcely a b reath be give me. But now It is right and Just.
shoulders w ere out of w ater once
a sm all section of it had given way
more. He heard .Derw ent shout, ns tw een th is know ledge and tlie full and 1 want to hear you say —you love m e ’’
from overhead nnd had piled up a
if from a mile aw ay, but lie paid no poignant possession of ¿very faculty
"I do,” said Paul. “I know —now—
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m ass of broken stone which he
atten tio n to the cry, nor did he look w ith w h k h ids brain w as capable of that I have loved you from the be
bad ' climbed, w ith C arla w atching
tow ard the cliff. T he thought in his being inspired. But darkness, mys
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ginning of time, before I came to tlie
from below. H ere th e smoke from
mind was ClMt C laire would be w ith tery, th e defeat of death, and tlie fact M istassini, before I was born in tlds
z
hls torch did not go upw ard but set
him In an o th er m om ent or two. She of Ids own physical sulvulion w ere life—a thousand or u million years 1
tled about his head and disappeared
would come to the su rface n ear the subm erged all a t once in an agonized have w orshiped tlie soul that is you.
tow ard tlie vent in th e m ountain
rock, and lie m ust he ready to seize appeal to th e limp, dead form which Sometime, It may have been ages ago.
through which th e riv er rushed w ith
and hold her w ith him until the weeds he clasped in Ids arm s. Tlie sp irits I know th at you belonged to me.”
g rea t foree. He w ent to th is outlet.
of th e sable blackness about him Ils
gave w ay—or a n d r a d e hapi>ened.
*•1 have alw ays belonged to you,”
tened
to
ids
voice
calling
C
arla
s
nam
e
F ive or six feet from him, w here the
said C arla. "Y ours is th e love 1 In th e F ire Glow S a t C a rla , C om bing It w as a hole which his eyes w ere
unable to m easure, clicked to w ithin
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w ater w as like n pool of oil th a t had as lie stru g g led to bring life back Into thought w as hopelessly gone from me
H er Long, Silky H a ir W ith Her a foot of Its upper Jaw by a seething
her
body.
Once
he
had
w
orked
over
no motion, a little d istu rb an ce su d
—up there. But to die witli you is my
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Finger«.
flood of w uter, and out b f w hich—
denly flecked Its su rfa c e —a change of a little girl who had been tak en from right. Can th e re be such a thing ns
though
tlie
space
for
sound
wns
sm
all
Our usual pre-war transient
light, a d riftin g up of som ething In th e w ater, and now memory cam e to doubt for us now ?”
th at which comes with rain .” She
—cam e such a sullen rum bling th a t
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tangible and shadow y, a nebulous him vividly of tlie first gentle beating
“ I nm su re th ere cannot." he said.
spoke as if they m ight have been
his blood was chilled as he listened to
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blotch w hich changed under ids eyes of th e h e a rt again, th e slow retu rn in g
“ You would like to live?”
cam ping on one of th e stream s tliey
It.
Alone, lie would have plunged
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to substance, a floating m ass of hair. of th e soul Into tlie ten d er body, until
“ W ithout you, n .’
loved, with the sky above and flowers
into
this. To die fighting, p itting his
th
e
child
lived
and
b
reath
ed
once
“And th e re Is no chance—no hope of about them. It w as her u tte r accep t
The sun w as shining, th e w ater w as
sm all stren g th against all tlie forces
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alm ost black, hut th e re was no glint more. B ut C arla's soft b reast gave no saving ourselves?”
ance of their fate as a th in g of h ap
which
might
oppose
him,
was
th
e
urge
response.
H
er
lips
w
ere
cold
nnd
life
I “ I can conceive of none. No force
of gold in w hat lie saw. T he h air
piness which tran sfo rm ed w hat would
which w as refusing to subdue Itself
w as d i.k . <
. .- o - c - h p - a p art less, and, a t last, believing her surely could contend w ith the m aelstrom s In have been a hell for him Into a heaven.
w ithin him. He flung out his flaming
dm
l.
he
held
her
face
close
to
him,
the
th
ro
a
t
of
tlie
chasm.
At
the
oth
er
of it in n moment. It seemed in l.-:u
She had sat In th e so ft sand nt Ids
torch and saw it sw allowed in nn In
and
kissed
her
mouth
and
eyes,
as
Hie
end all physical m atter 1» ground to
th a t the m onsters who lived about the
feet, a few m om ents before, w ith her
sta n t. Like th at lie would have gone
rock held her up Tor 1dm, w ith a sm ile fa th e r of th e little girl had kissed Ids pulp as tlie w ater comes out through
head pillowed ag a in st his knees, nnd
If C arla had not been th ere to go
on her lips and in her eyes, her face child w hen she w as retu rn in g to Idm. the gorge. ' We are caught between
th ere she had- un b rald ed h e r h air for
w
ith him.
tow ard him and her arm s reaching W hen tlie firtd w hisper of b rea th cam e tlie two." ->
him to caress, as »lie w atched nnd
,
r -» i -
He tu rn ed back to tlie fire nnd put
out- H e wTii~hnif^ In a daze, and from C a rla ’s lips lie w as holding her
pointed
out
for
him
th
e
unusual
and
He calmly and frankly spoke tlie
on
a fresh stick of resinous wood be
like
this,
sta
rin
g
into
th
e
-blackness.
might have fancied some of the things
benuttful p ictu res th a t built them
tru tli to her. She made no reply in
fore he sa t in tlie sand n ear enough
he how . But C arla w as then*. She, H er h eart, beating fain tly , responded words, hut l»e could feel her response selves in the changing coals nnd crum
to C arla to toucli her w ith hls hand,
not his wife, had come to join him in to th e call of life close ag a in st Ids creeping through her finger tips to bling embers of th e fire.
Now she wns a little distan ce from lie w ondered if fear had begun to
death. T he quiet, t< rrlble dram a of own- H er lips grew w arm . H er eyes him, could feel th e trem ble nnd thrill
It held him from calling her nam e as opened. P aul kissed her again In tlie of It In h er body. He had not frig h t him, and no sen se of d read or fe a r seize upon him ns he looked at her un
conscious form, foreseeing tlie to r
oppressed him ns be followed th e
he wuited for her to come w ithin liis blackness th a t sh u t them in nnd ened her, but had dispelled from her
rhythm ic movem^iTn^trf h er »11m w hite m ent of impending hours when mad
reach. B u t-th e undertow brought her found th a t »lie wus alive.
the beginning of a fear. She did not
ness would be for him alone. Unless
no nearer. For a second, two of them, j H e did not cry out or si»eak, hut w ant to live. T he tru th seized upon
fingers braiding her h a ir ag*in.
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UNDER THE
they died together, he must outlive
'th re e or four, it held her aw ay from
If It were m adness which possessed
A brushed h er thick, wet h air back and nnd helped him w ith a kind of shock.
P E R S O N A L M A N A G E M E N T Oh
C
a
rla—to
save
her
fio
m
a
realization
Can
only
be corrected under the
him, and each of th ese seconds w as pressed h ls‘ face close to hers, and Yet It wits n sim ple thing, one he him It wns a b eau tifu l m adness, a
proper conditions and by the use
of Hint which he. in his
In her first ''consciousness should have known w ithout Intuition
1 a lifetim e In passing. Then he saw w aited.
sense of Joyous living w here th ere
of the very best of equipment.
th e dislahee between th em widening, C arla's arm s crept about hls neck. or discovery. For C arla w as—not only should have b een despair. At first s ir r-»h. should bear.
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: and as it widened the tilings below be H er lips breathed Ids name. W ords n woman, hut a soul. Back there, in
the fighting p a rt of him had in stin c
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gan to drag Carla down. She m ade w ere fu tile for a little while. Only In C laire’s world, she wculd be lost to tively struggled ag ain st It, but now he
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no struggle, did not cry out to him. »lienee could they claim each o ther, a him —no m a tte r w hat he m ight do in accepted It fully, until, seeing C arla
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but only raised her hands so th a t he alienee of voice, w here o th er sound the way oth er men had solved such
as she was, d eath teem ed vague and how to typewrite knws how to make
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m ight si e they w ere w aiting fo r him. w as m oaning and throbbing about problem s. ° n ly here. In a beginning
fa r away and th e gh'ry of life very a typewriter typewrite type right. ■
and w anting him, ns klie went to her them.
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Both knew what It Hnennt ns nnd an end all th eir own, could ahe nenr. They had m ade no effort to
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Let us show you our
fear that it will take more than
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a beautiful Wiing, a little Journey,
• H e sw ung him self out, th ru stin g th e gorge, and were caught In u sub-
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Jg Rtranp<, but j w ant to sing U l which they w ere m aking gladly to
ag ain st the rock, and when the ogres te rran e an hole of tlie ea rth . C h a n c e - -
m iracle. God. T h at they m ight
darkness,” she said. “1 diyJnoe gether. Never had Paul belleved ao straight. ,
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