Page:War; or, What happens when one loves one's enemy, John Luther Long, 1913.djvu/339

TO THE FRONT "The beauty of truth! How much to be desired. This is our Evelyn!"

"I want you—I ask you—to stay with me—at home! I need—I must have some one—And then—and then—Dave will come back. He will always come where you are," says Evelyn". "But he will never again come where I am—unless you are there, too. And then—oh, and then—I'll keep you both! Please stay! I'm so lonely!"

Jon pushed the hair out of her eyes and looked long into her face.

"It is too late for that, sister, dear." And he points to his men. "Perhaps, God knows, that is His punishment upon both of us—that I must say and you must hear—that it is too late! Too late! For, in the great light which bursts upon me now, I see that we haven't played fair with Dave. He should have known all concerning himself that we knew. We are not his keepers. He is. And we should have left him to judge. Yes, this is God's own 323