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She tried to lie awake to nurse her joy, but her eyes were so heavy that she fell asleep in the midst of her prayer. Dic saddled his horse and started home. The sharp, crisp air was delicious. The starlit sky was a canopy of never ceasing beauty, and the song in his heart was the ever sweet song of hope.
If you knew that you had led her astray, your duty, I believe, would be clear; but there is the 'if' that gives us serious pause and makes cowards of us both. Write to her, Dic. You are too great a coward to face her, and I'm not brave enough even to advise it." Dic wrote to Sukey, and avoided the pain of facing her, but not the pain of knowing that she suffered.
"You you marry Sukey Yates!" she cried, breathing heavily and leaning toward Dic, one hand resting on the arm of his chair, "you marry her?" The question was almost a wail. "But if you no longer care there can be no reason why I should not," said Dic, hardly knowing in the whirl of his surprise what he was saying.
Williams began to reload his gun, but Dic interrupted the proceeding. "Don't load now. We will soon reach the clearing." Williams continued reloading, and was driving the patch down upon the powder. Dic cocked his rifle, and raising it halfway to his shoulder, said: "Don't put the bullet in unless you wish me to see a squirrel. I'll not miss. Throw me your bullet pouch."
And Billy first tried to sing his grief away, then sought relief from his beloved piano. Deep in the forest on the home path, Dic looked at the ring, and quite forgot Billy Little, while he anticipated the pleasure he would take in giving the golden token to Rita. He did not intend to be selfish, but selfishness was a part of his condition. A great love is, and should be, narrowing.
I'll have nothing of the sort going on, for a while at any rate; give him back the ring." Rita slipped the ring from her finger and placed it in Dic's hand. "Now tell me," Mrs. Bays demanded, "how this came about? How came Rita to faint?" Rita hung her head and began to weep convulsively. "Rita and I," answered Dic, "were walking home down the river path. We had been sitting near the step-off.
A tender, gentle strength, love for all who were near her, fidelity to truth, and purity without the blemish of even an impure thought, had gone to make up the sum of her existence. As a reward for all these virtues she was now called upon to bear the burden of an unspeakable anguish. What keener joy could she know than that which had come to her through her love for Dic?
"We'll get the truth out of this fellow on cross-examination," whispered Mr. Switzer to his client. "Be careful not to get too much truth out of him," returned Dic. Patsy began his story. "Well, me and D-Doug was a-g-a-goin' up the west b-bank of B-Blue when we seed " State's Attorney. "Never mind what you saw at that time. Answer my question.
She may have imagined the truth; but Sukey, though small in herself, had a large, comprehensive heart wherein several admirers might be accommodated without overtaxing its capacity, and soon she was comforting herself with Bob Kaster. There was little rest for Dic that night.
"He broke into her room and insulted my sick daughter when she was unconscious." Dic remained upon his knees by the bedside, and did not fully grasp the meaning of his accuser's words. Billy stepped to Rita's side, and taking her unresisting hand hastily sought her pulse. Then he spoke gruffly to Mrs. Bays, who had wrought herself into a spasm of injured virtue. "She has fainted," cried Billy.
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