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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 20, 1878, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mizpah. Twine of the Island of Jersey and the i Fly adv set. A Wash of pure Carmine in Western sky a film of whitish Haze in Rassy Bottom of a Long Valley s. F Between the Steep wooded Hills Niit of the Haze n sort of natural pin lament like a Bridge dividing Tho Valley Par atm maitre la Gay s Hall somebody s else. Hanging perilously Over oho Edge of the it Ellen trunk and resting upon it a n Young beam eyed and Beautiful Buri ocl in a turf of daisies gleaming run stars it Basket of ferns on her i White round hands clasped Over the errant Burden. A Bird Chi Ruping in the i tree now and then Tho bark of a dog f m some Distant farm. Over both the see of the cattle girl singing in Tho sum r Twilight. So scraps of the refrain float a upon the soft summer air while Feuille sits waiting on the old tree. Brand Bye Thoro is a sound of footsteps trampling Over Tho Hill path. Out of Iho Shadow comos Tho figure of a Man a Man before whom Mizpah letting Basket and ferns fall unheeded to her feet a Man to catches her hands in his and holds her with a passionate smothered quiz Orine cry As of one who has waited Long for this meeting and hungered for it nightly. It is some some seconds before to hours what Mizpah is saying Somo seconds to fore any words Are intelligible Between the girl s heavy panting breathing that sounds like sobs. Lot to go let me go Sho says twice and at last to understands though More from the hands striving almost desperately to free herself than from her Ashen lips. Loosing her to puts one hand under her Little Chin turning it towards him and says half very Loving let you Why my Darling i have Only just got you is that your greeting Mizpah alter three years waiting for this one he is going to kiss her Asho Speaks. J us Unwe Hue eyes and handsome face bearded and browned under suns More burning than these Are very near her own and she is Only a Little Bird in his hold. In the desperation of Tho moment she thrusts his hand away with All her strength and gasps out Gerald heaven s Sake am then to lets her her As though 8hot to the heart by an unseen Bullet and All the glad blood Dies out of his face Leav ing it ghastly in the More ghastly than the White Daisy face which a moment before was hidden against his heart. There is no word spoken for a moment. Only the Brook bubbles among the rushes and far away the cattle girl s song rings above the shadows. With a sound like a Long gasping sob wit the voice of a dying Man to asks at length Mizpah what Are you saying the Sho answers forcing her voice to Back Tho tears burning in her eyes the agony striving for utterance in her heart. I am married do you hear Gerald months ago. I dared not write to you but it is her voice sounds harsh almost cruel. Looking at her the pain brings a tinge of Dull red to his face. To says slowly. Can not to True and your Promise to mov she answers almost fiercely but her limbs Are shaking like an Aspen Leaf. Gerald i have told you. For Hea Ven s Sake go away now and forget me. 1 am not Worth Worth grieving for or sighing Over lie does not believe it. Looking into that fair Young face and Blue innocent eyes it would be difficult. Almost piteously he tells her so bogging Somo excuse Somo explanations. She has never bid him moot her Thoro to Tell him after three years waiting that she is utterly Falbe and More. 11 what is the Good of More Sho asks her voice dead now with a sort of weary despair. To have been false is enough. Would excuses make it better i would not have met you at All if 1 had been braver More selfish. I ought to have written and tried could _ i do not wonder at to Breaks in harshly. You were not cold blooded enough for that it it would have been she answers flinching under his tone. It would have spared you pain and since i could not receive to u in my husband s House j doubt if should have met you here.1 11 and Why 7" he might to angry who has Tho better right to Liea Agry he or i Ili Spah do you love this Man or Are you afraid of him by heaven i believe you Are and that you Tok forced into this by treachery him Ould have caught her hand but Sho Dravus Back whiter than Ever. 11 to one forced Rno. I am not afraid of him. To is most kind and lovable. A Jerald Asho interrupts by an for heaven s Sake for pity s Sake go what talking can undo the wrong that has been done you i Only ask you to forget to nothing More not even forgiveness unless when you Are Happy with some one More worthy of you you May never to Breaks in crushing her faltering voice with Tho of scorn in his Liones Teyes. Not if i were dying would i forgive who have deceived me for so Long and brought Moback across the wide Atlantic to find you married to another to me 1 forgive you to but i forgive your husband the Crimson has faded out of Tho sky. To Gold is dead on Tho Long Rey shadows float up from the Valley. A whitish Mist is building an impalpable Wall Between these two onco so near now wide apart. Even the Birds arc gone to Roost and the Guy refrain of ,1 Oan not and Jeanneton Lias ceased to Echo among the Hills. Then Gerald Dacres goes too. Without another word without a last glance at girl who has wronged him he turns Trees. Her and strides away the Only one Little Star peeping through the Dusky Blue above bees agony of As with face hidden in her hands. Returns to her husband s alone in a sick a room whore the p firelight leaps up in weird flashing re inst the Wall where the heavy pm gains Are drawn closely across windows As it to shut out All sound n of the rain Bowling wildly against the without. Iii pah Are you to is very near the end now you feel weaker l but i come closer to wife. 1 to talk to you is seated Between Tho bed end Tho a woman still Young and strangely in but with Tho patient Gravity of Middle age settled like a Waxen mask Over her fair Pale face. Her movements too Are softer and quieter than usual at her age As she rises and going to the bed Stoops Down above the Toce wrinkled and worn deeply lined and fringed with thin Gray hairs which lies there upon the Pillow. You have been he says his keen anxious eyes peering curiously into her face his nervous withered hand tight ening on hers. She says simply. Its so hard to sen you Suiter. My dear the bodily suffering is nothing to the torture i have Felt for seven years. Torture i wonder that i have lived in Dor who makes no answer. He often utters these ambiguous allusions but is not an inquisitive woman. Perhaps she has had secrets of her own. He says suddenly do you re member Why you married to Why talk of that now Sho asks Flushing timidly. Because now is Tho Only time i have. You wore Only Nineteen and you married because your parents death had thrown you on my cure because the world said ill natured things of your living with a Gim Dian of forty eight because you wanted to keep a delicate Little sister with you and could not afford to do it unmarried reason of Man you were engaged to Tho Man you loved and who was away in Canada had proved false to you because you saw his marriage in an american paper after your letters for six Long months had been unanswered. For All these reasons you married and because you were Tho Best and truest Friend 1 had in the whole she broke in with quivering lips because min Nie loved you and i liked and honoured you with All my heart. John i told you this the a. Have i disappointed you that you go Back upon it now i you have Boon an Angol of Light to to answers hoarsely. Us child if you Only knew what you Are to to if you Only guessed How madly passionately old enough to to your loved you from the first moment i saw you till now try to think of it. Try to Bear it in mind when you would turn from my memory with hatred and John could that would to heaven it could to avoided. I meant to leave it till i was gone so As to keep Tho Sweet look on your lace till i died but 1 cannot John say no Sho broke in trem bling. If you have done to wrong j do not wish to know it. I forgive it be it what it May. If it writ ten i will Burn the paper not read it. Trust lie smiles a sad hopeless smile. No child you cannot forgive it so. Lis in while i yet can speak. Did you meet Gerald macros the Day before your Ong illness six years yes she answers her heart boat ing wildly. And to told you he had never mar he wrote and wrote and received no t lie spoke of his letters but not onco of Xis marriage since it was not True he May never have heard of and did Yon not speak of it to to i what explanation did you give of our marriage i gave she replies in a tone faint with remembered agony. I Don t understand. What did you say to him i told him i was married and bade him go away and forget me and was to satisfied did to ask no explanations to John to was not satisfied. But do not talk of do i will Only ask one thing More Ili Pih know that you will answer it with perfect truth. Why did you do this because i was a married woman and my husband trusted me. John forgive loved Gerald so dearly he loved to so Long that i dare not give any excuse for my apparent falsehood i knew his perfect Trust i knew my own innocence and yet i could i dared to either while we loved Ach other. Please do not think ill of me. Knew that i loved Gerald More than my ,110, and because i loved him 1 sent him she is on her Knees now weeping bitterly with her face hidden on Tho wrinkled hand in which hers is clasped. The firelight lickers on the the Bent Golden Lead. July the Shadow of the curtain Falls on the dying face. Yon have made a orc Nession Liton now to mine. It was i kept Back your lovers letters who stopped yours. I ibid Tho marriage notice put in the paper. I invented All the gossip that wounded your sensitive heart. I did it because i loved you and risked All rather than lose you. I did not week to injure you. I thought my wealth and my love would win your love away from his memory and give you wholly to me. Heaven Only knows How i have been punished every moment of these years that i Avo seen you mine and yet riot mine. For a few months i did ii Ope but after you your fever you told Hope died. Since then your patient obedience your uncomplaining gentleness your sad face aged so Young has been my constant hush Sho interrupts. She has sprung to her i get Long before shrinking Back and with hands clenched on her bosom and her face White and horror stricken. Hush for pity s Sake i begged you not to Tell to. Oli did you do it now when it is All Over past recall Mizpah to begins feebly. Xot now John not now 1" she cries bursting into tears. I will be Good in a moment but Don t say any More just this minute. I can t think.1 Jfe makes no answer. The Shadow is Darker on his face and Slio Lias turned to the door when some womanly impulse brings nor Back to Tho bed Side. Think me Sho says. I do forgive shall soon when i have thought of All your love and kindness. John do you Hep v me John but there is no answer still. The firelight had died Down in Tho grate. The rain beats and wails against the window. Outside the wind the branches creak like the cries of a tortured spirit but within All is silent Rel still for earthly love is gone called on to meet love unselfish love pre sanctified is left alone. Be Teulle May i introduce my Hus band s Cousin or. Dae res. He is quite alone with us Only just returned from two years travels in Distant Hinds looks up. She is sitting Light and Graceful in her widow s dress one of a fashionable crowd in a fashionable drawing room. Two red spots leap to her Cheeks her eyes Linht up As Sho puts out her hand saying macros and i Are old to docs not act like an old Friend. He does net even Boom to see her hand but own with grave formality and after n word or two of common place civility he moves quietly away and leaves the room so they so they part. The locket which bears her name with its quaint sacred meaning the lore watch Between me and thee when we Are absent one from still hangs on his watch Chain but he has not forgiven her to never will. Twilight again. The sky a Pale Apple Green fading into Blue in the East. One Long bar of liquid Gold Low Down on Tho Hori Zon. Above it a Bank of greyish Violos clout fringed with fire. Far away behind thai dark clump of Trees a Jingle of Bells ringing merrily for evening service. Indoors a woot fire sparkling open window draped in lace curtains which Rustle softly in the Sweet Flower Laden Breeze and beside the window Mizpah seated on a Low chair the Broad tulle streamers of her White Cap float ing around her slight rounded figure an open letter in her Lap and a flush like a Rosebud on either Cheek. Steps in Tho passage make the flush still deeper. The bolls ring on but Mizpah s heart beats drown them. The door opens Sho rises unconsciously her eyes gleaming through a Mist of clasped hands outstretched her whole form heaving with silent gladness. Against the Gold Green Back ground of the Sunset sky Gerald sees her standing. The next moment she is in his Down upon his heart As though he could never let her go again. It is Long before any sensible word is spoken. The Bells have finished their glad peals unheeded and the Moon hangs in the sky above them. My Gerald says do you know 1 could scarcely believe it when i got your letter this morning. I never deserved such an answer scarcely dared Hope for one at love does not go by Mizpah an swered and you see i could not help Loving you Gerald. It grew with me. Besides i Felt it would come right some Day. But of How glad i am it was not delayed much Long thank heaven for my meeting your Sis Tor Minnie last says Gerald stroking the Bright head fondly. 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