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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1939-11-15, Page 6rw---. e.es,.:areepee .mow VINO MINN! THE BRUSSELS POST «.. .. - .� ENTITLEDPf\•.Ar4 ."'N.WMRrM ,.aeA Yt,I!�..IMY The Vindlinq Pat 1,7 :Anthony earlyle "I am' sorry," he said, tonaless1y,. "but I cannot agree to ,this silence!„ The 'blinding truth bit her like a knife•+thrue.It and she went whiter than over, Hex eyes widened un- til they were deep pools of terror. Once site tried to speak but 1.ier,lipe formed no words, and she stood awaYiug to and fro, her ,hands' heating together, Yet the man was adamant, He shook his head as, she pleaded still, though silently. "'No," he us'aid, "I am very sorry butt I do nro,t 'believe you, Mavis. I never did and I cannot do so now!'" At last she smoke, her tone shrill and high and thin.' k"Yon mean you are going to tell hien?" she said, and the strange- alessl of her tone startled him, ' It twos' Sb changed .end harsh. "I mean I am going to tell Jack the truth." Against the iron -like finality of his manner, she seemed to shrink RANN FURNITURE FUNERAL - AMBULANCE SERVICE Licensed Funeral Diraiot-r and Embalmer Phone 36, Brussels mweimetemeaseeemeeimenrcesam and grow smaller, All her tight big spirit net, and she turned, lean- ing her head suddenly in' her hands:. Itt 'was all no good,. Nothing ma'ttere'd any' more now. She was beaten, ',God knows, Mavis, 1 don't want to be hard on you," Trevenna, said, an uostentdy note in his voice; nI Sidi' with all mp heart and soul it was not necessary! Bat you see it has to be done, I must tell Jack the truth, That is," he added, "un - hes you tell hien!" "1? Mavis raised her agonized face from her hands, ,*taring at him. Then she broke into a laugh, a low, hard, 'tonelests laugh that sounded terrible, in the stillness. "Olt, no, no Not that!" she cried 01 couldn't bear—,that- I'd rasher 1170 through the agony of this eight a thousand titres than see his face when he know0—oh, dear God —when he knows!' The last words died in a soh as she, remembered words of Jack Denier's which he bad spoken to her only a Brills while ago. "I would rather see you lying deed at my Peet than have my be- lief in you shattered." Somethtlng came to her then that elle felt was a way out, she seized the idea with tremilbling hands and in the gloom her eyes shone again with pitiful eagerness, "Derin:g, listen to me," she whis- pered, huskily. 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Surely you will not refuse me that— it is ear his sake es well as minol It will make it easierto bear and it will but him less He laves me! He loves me and trusts me, Let hist keep 'that trust, Let him still think of me as he has . thought of me always. Don't let hiin suffer, ae he will suffer If he knows!" Ste stoplsed et a startled, exclama- tion from Trevenna. He was star• lug over her shoulder, and from the shadows, near the terrace steps theme came a sound that brought the girl Sharply round. Then— "It is too late," said a voice out of the darkneres,. a very strained and tearsir voice that cut the man and the listening girl 'with very differ - est on dyet closely aped pain, "be- cause J know already!" CHAPTER IV, Broken By The Storm. "Jack!" The name left Mavias lips in an almost soundless Cry as the speaker moved (forward (slowly into the Chale of light, Then she stood motionless, blank despair beginning to creep over her face Again there had fallen one o1 those 'tense, almost 'unendurable silences', Praha a little behind the girl Tye - venue was watching, croft clots of a Ipa0tsdonate resentment and rebel- Mon against the Fate which had brought this about. Conscious too, of something grotesque and hoitrthle in the whsle situation. Seek Deaner had stopped, and was standing staring et the white, tense figure upon which, the light lingered so tenderly, His shoulders were bent, his face void of any expression, and his eye wore the look of o man partial, 1y stunned scarcely aware of any- thing that was going on about him, There was something terrible in the.extreme stillness of his 1lgure and mationlese facer, a stillness that frigbtened Trevenna. He broke the tension moving 1or- yard a few stew's so that he stood bgba'een the two, "Tack,,, he began, an unusual softness In his voice, "Jack, old man--" Trevenna's voice had roused' the younger man, but be scarcely glanc- ed in his dh'ectioni IlIs eyes, were fixed' 0n Movie's. slender figure, her opelests, pale face, Ibutt the stunned lock had left them now They were urning, alive with eager appeal nd a desperate dread 'It isn't true?' he asked hoarselp, Oh, 1 have beard everything, but it ' n"t be true, 10 can't?'' Again there was, that desperate ole of appeal in his voice, and ramie's pale lips Moved', but no rds came, Speech at that nioment was physically impossible; she could 013' stand' quivering from head to 0t, daub and utterly hopeless, 'S1a0k1" 1t wad Trevenna'}s voice again, ut Darner made a Silencing gesturedr strode forward' until he sitoed leering above Movie's shrinking rm, "Is it 'true?" he demanded in a 11* made 1sarsh by the reg0l+aint Was putting upon himself, a voice at the girl scarcely recognised 1 it tree you are the woman Tre- mere married. true that you are not WO Arundel, but Maalse Treves1" h 17 a Cel a A wtl 0 f0 it an 00 1b 'Vd he Ah a,, v hfnv TIavis had been standing With her head beat low over the ,hands that Pruett 'heavily agaltrit her breaet. Now she iifted It, revealing a tluiVering lace with darkened hops, leek (wes, "held" she• tried' In a choked whieeer, that low as It Was, 'held an appeal as *eget in :the man's voice. "Ab, ,rnok, I +, 'Sire paltsotl again as Damtr made at sharp movement with hie hand "Don't" he, cried, Iris valet( break- 1ne harshly across the supplicating tones. "1 only want to koonv If this isI trtte--if roti are the Woman," 'Yes,," ,Ivo said, 'very wearily, "Yes, it's oris trued I ala that meet nnitapp'y Save for a quick harsh breath Dairies made no sign, but before the look in hist eyes Mavis shrank with a sanothered cry, covering hen• ow'ii eyes with trembling Angel's, After a glance at the Ottrleken lace of bis' friend, Trevenna moved a11- ently aytty into the ahadaws, loan• int the two alone. We pant was done, the rest lay between themselves, But et the memory of what he had seen in D1mer'0 face be was eon - scions of .a U.ot 'throb of . pi'tyin compassion for the girt who ha brought it there She had sinned, he told himeell, sinned deeply, but she was suffering now, bearing a twofold punishment, and, it hurt frim to know it, As he went quietly to the other end of the dark terrace, out of ear- shot, he -felt very weary, strangely old and curiously remorseful. He you'd have spared her this had he been able, would have spared them berth, had the power been his. But rate had. willed otherwise ,titter all elle had, bee'ir dear to him in the past, only his own heart knew Just how dear. He too, liad Suffered the torment that was to be Jack's now, and he knew how bitter- ly hard that torment 'was to bear, Re, too, had loved her! Some- how the words+ would ring persisten- tly through his mind, and he stirred restlessly. Why was the old pain, the old. longing in. his heart to- night? It seemed as he ,stood there, that he could) feel the olining touch of 'Mavisls pleading fingers upon his arm site, and again drawing a long breatth, he stood staring out sonnbre- ly across. the peaceful gardens, 'Once more his. thoughts, wandered back to the past—,tire past Mavis said was dead: for all time --•the past which had; been so sweet for a little whille and then so infinitely bitter! Ail, why had. Fate brought their Iives together again? Why had 1t been destined they should' meet once more when he had known so /sure he: had forgotten and, had sub- dued the pain whiob• had raged within him for so long? Why? • He asked, himself the ques- tion with a sensation of fierce re beilion, then lade a 'hopeless' ges- ture. For in thht moment it was given to Dosing Trevevne to knew that oven as he rad loved this woman in the long ago, se he loved her stili, despite the svffer•ing she had brought him! Despite her weakness, her un- worthiness, he would continue to lave her for all .time! TO BE 'CONTINUED, g d ITCHING EARS A teacher asked a little boy, "Now Robert, what is a niche in a church?' He respired, "It's jests the same as an itch anywbere else, only you can't scratch it as well," C. P. R. Promotion The promotion of 11, 11. 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