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Updated: May 26, 2025
Again and again, and from many different angles, the argument repeated itself. He lay wakeful in bed, his mind a confused jumble of diversified thoughts, in which his mother, then Tess, and again the Waldstrickers demanded his attention and sought to influence him. Worn out, at length he fell into a troubled sleep. He was late in rising the next morning.
Confused and angry with himself and Madelene, Frederick crossed the room slowly. What an awful mess! Married to Tessibel and engaged to marry Madelene! His mother sick and head over heels in debt to the Waldstrickers! The situation was becoming more complicated by the hour. He sat down by the open window to think.
Some one had to suffer, but the sacrifice must not touch his mother nor estrange the Waldstrickers. That Madelene would be wronged by his action gave him little concern. But at that moment to hurt the girl at his side; oh, how he hated the bitter necessity! Conscious of the despicable part he was playing, but having really decided, he drew himself from the girl's arms.
"That air nice, Tessie," he returned admiringly. "Ye be a pert brat, you be!" Tess paused a moment or two. "'Satisfied," she hesitated, going back mentally to her former unspoken query, "do ye know the Waldstrickers?" Longman nodded. "I knowed the old man who was murdered young Eb's father. Made some stir in town when he got shot!" "Eb's been home quite a while now," observed Tess thoughtfully.
"I am here alone in the writing room," Tess read on, wiping her eyes. "Oh, Tessibel, when I think of you there without me, I go almost mad! What I've done seems the very worst thing in the world, and it grows worse as the hours go by. Forgive me, my darling. I dared not come back after that night; I was afraid some one would see me and tell my mother or some of the Waldstrickers.
Yet to acknowledge his relation to the squatter girl meant a certain and final break with the Waldstrickers, the financial ruin of himself and his mother. Even at that cost, he must do it. Tessibel was his wife, his dear little wife. He had promised to make a home for her. But how? Could they get along at all, and what would he do with her impossible father?
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