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Truedale recognized it at once. "Just to say 'how-de'! You certainly do look scroogy." At this Truedale laughed. Nella-Rose's capacity for bringing forth his happier, merrier nature was one of her endearing charms. "You didn't come just for that, Nella-Rose!" This with stern disapproval. "Take off the scroogy face then I'll tell you why I came." "Very well!" Truedale smiled weakly. "Why?"
"What do you want of him, Nella-Rose? of him or any other man? But if you must have a sweetheart, pick and choose and let me have my day." The rough appeal struck almost brutally on Nella-Rose's ears. She was as un-moral, perhaps, as Marg, but she was more discriminating. "I'm mighty tired of cleaning and cooking for for father and you!" Marg tossed her head toward Lone Dome.
"It is because they do not know," he thought. "After to-morrow it will be all right." Then he reflected that the three thousand dollars Lynda had mentioned would clear every obstacle from his path and Nella-Rose's. He no longer need struggle he could give his time and care to her and his work. He did not consider the rest of his uncle's estate, it did not matter.
I took the letter to Lone Dome as you set down for me to do meaning to give it to Nella-Rose like what you said, but she wasn't there. Pete was there and Marg she's Nella-Rose's sister, and getting ready to marry that torn-down scamp Jed Martin which to my way of thinking is about the best punishment what could be dealt out to him.
The heat was broken by soft showers; the flowers bloomed riotously, and in July the world-old miracle occurred in Lois Ann's cabin Nella-Rose's child was born! With its coming the past seemed blotted out; hate gave place to reverent awe and tenderness. In the young mother the woman rose supreme and she would not permit her mind to hold a harmful thought.
Lois Ann had torn the cawl from Nella-Rose's baby face had felt, in her superstitious heart, that the child was mysteriously destined to see wide and far; and now, with agony that she struggled to conceal, she knew that to her was given the task of drawing the veil from the soul of the girl at her feet in order that she might indeed see far and wide into the kingdom of suffering women.
Since you had never dishonoured her in your thought, she would not have you know her as she then was! But there remained little Ann! Oh! Con, I never knew, until Billy came, what Nella-Rose's sacrifice meant! I thought I did but afterward, I knew! One has to go down into the Valley to find the meaning of motherhood.
There had been one fascinating woman, a great-aunt of Nella-Rose's, who had imperilled the family honour by taking her heritage of worship with a high hand.
After Nella-Rose's disturbing but thrilling advent, Truedale rebounded sharply and, alone in his cabin, brought himself to terms. By a rigid arraignment he relegated, or thought he had relegated, the whole matter to the realm of things he should not have permitted, but which had done no real harm. He brought out the heavy book on philosophy and endeavoured to study.
Truedale bent across the table that separated them and took her clasped hands in his. He had burned all his social bridges, but poor Nella-Rose's progress through life had not been made over anything so substantial as bridges. She had proceeded by scrambling down and up primitive obstacles; she felt that at last she had come to her Land of Promise. "You are going to send me away? Where?"
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