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“Margaret,” he said, “Margaret, do you hear me? My little wife! My
little wife!” As he spoke her eyes opened.
The room was unlighted save for the night-lamp burning on the
table, and peering at her in the gloom with those sunken sightless
eyes of his, was her husband.
She remembered all. “Franz! Franz!” she cried, in a voice so faint
as scarcely to be audible. “It was not a dream? I meant you should
have so much,—say you forgive me!”
“You must not grieve, dear,” he said tenderly. “You must not think
of me now.”
“It was all so beautiful until he came,” she said dreamily; “I have
been so happy with you, dear, so happy.”
There was infinite regret and infinite tenderness in her all but
inarticulate speech.
They were silent for a while, then Margaret said: “It is good-by we
are saying, Franz. Who would imagine there would be so little to
say?”
Franz bent over her, desolation in his soul.
“What was that?” she asked, her voice fainter than before.
“I thought it very quiet, dear,” he answered. “Perhaps it is the
wind.”
“How many days ago was it?” she questioned.
“You mean when you were taken ill, dear? It was four days ago.”
“So many days ago as that? Where are the others?”
“They are here. My mother, Mrs. Perkins, Ballard and Philip. Would
you like to see them, dear?”
“Only you, Franz. Take my love to them.”
Her voice had become the gentlest of murmurs, but the small
white hand continued to stroke his face, though with a faltering
movement. Then the soft caress stopped; a sigh escaped her; she
appeared to slip from his grasp—to shrink within his arms.
“Margaret!” he said. “Margaret!” and his lips were ashen and
tremulous.
He allowed her to fall limply to the pillow.
He waited a moment, then springing to his feet he started for the
door. And as he groped his way, there burst from his quivering lips a
great cry. “Margaret! Margaret!”

XIV

I
t was the second evening after Margaret's death, and the night
of Barbara's marriage to Shelden.
To Philip the day had come, as all days must, where one
exists for them alone, with no other interest in their passing than
that they go swiftly. What was in store for him he wondered. Even
supposing he eventually succeeded, it would be the bitter satire of
success. What could fame or money give him!—he was robbed of
every inspiration. At least he could turn to his work for forgetfulness.
That was something, even if it yielded him no further recompense.
He looked at his watch. “It must soon be over with. They must soon
be married,” he thought, and slipping into his hat and coat started
down-stairs. His mother heard him and came into the hall.
“Are you going out, Philip?” she asked.
“Yes, dear. I want to see Franz. I haven't been there to-day. I'll not
be out late.”
“It's very cold.”
“I shall not care.”
She put up her lips to kiss him, then pressed her cheek to his. “I'm
so sorry, Philip!” she whispered. It was the only expression of pity
she had ventured.
“Don't, mother. I can't endure it. Not now—not yet.”
With a hasty good-by he hurried off.
Ten minutes later and he stood with Perkins before the door
leading into the room where Margaret lay.
“Where is Franz?” Philip asked.
Perkins nodded toward the door. “We can't induce him to leave
her,” he said.
“Why should you seek to? Poor fellow!”
They were silent, gazing at each other, a depth of sorrow in their
glance. Finally Perkins said, with a show of control:
“Have you seen her, Philip?”
“No.”
“Why?”
“I had decided to keep the memory I have of her unchanged. It is
as I saw her when they were married. She was so happy, poor little
thing!”
“There is more than happiness in her face now,” Perkins observed
thoughtfully. “Do you believe in a hereafter?”
“What odds can it be? It's in the present our lot is cast.”
“Don't you like to think you are destined to meet those you love
again?”
Philip placed his hand irresolutely upon the knob.
“I shall go in. Perhaps I shall be able to determine what I do
believe.”
As he entered the room, a rush of cold air met him, for the
windows were partially raised—the outer shutters only being closed.
The dim light filled the apartment with shadowy indistinctness.
Slowly and overpoweringly objects became plain in the
somberness of his surroundings.
Margaret lay upon a couch in the center of the room. She might
have been asleep.
At her side sat Franz, regardless of the stinging gusts of wind that
came in between the shutters.
Philip stepped to the couch and looked down upon the beautiful
face, then he moved back quietly, and would have quitted the room,
but Franz detained him by saying: “Is it you, Perkins?”
“It is I,” Philip answered.
Franz arose instantly, putting out his hand, and Philip clasped it
eagerly.
Without the wind sighed drearily. The sound was depressing.
The naked branches of a tree growing in a corner of the yard
lashed the house incessantly. The single lamp burned with a
flickering flame.
“What is it?” Franz questioned, for twice Philip had essayed to
speak.
“I am so sorry, Franz. So sorry,” he cried in broken tones.
“I know you are,” Franz answered simply.
“There is this that I want to tell you, Franz, if I may,” Philip
continued.
“Yes?”
“Barbara is to be married to-night.” He came to an abrupt stop. “I
have determined to go East,” he went on presently. “It will mean
greater opportunity. A garbled version of that affair of Anson's has
got abroad and my mother is equally anxious to break up here.
What I wished to ask you is, won't you join me, dear old fellow?”
“And allow my blindness to be your affliction?”
“You are more to me than I can express. First my mother—then
you, and after you—Perkins.”
Franz swept his hand across his forehead.
“Wait! How can I think of the future? My very world is ended!
Wait.”
Philip stole out of the room and from the house. It was snowing
heavily. The ground was already covered. It had been bare at
supper-time. He kept on up the street until he was opposite the
Gerards.
The house was brilliantly lighted, but the wedding party was still
absent at the church. He must see her once more!
So he waited in the cold, half hidden by the falling snow that
clung to him and that drifted about the quiet and empty streets.
Yes, Franz should live with him and his mother. Comfort was
possible with favoring circumstances where happiness was not.
Presently, disturbing his reverie, the dull rumble of wheels was
audible, muffled and deadened by the fall of snow.
The carriages rolled into view.
He saw the many figures moving about, as the guests streamed
into the house, and straining his eyes he saw Barbara. She stood in
the open door, and as she turned to answer some one who had
spoken on the walk—her voice reached him, gay and bright.
The guests had disappeared, yet he waited. He would wait until
she entered her carriage to be driven to the station. It could not be
very long, and then he, too, would forget.
Suddenly the doors swung back. He saw her, attended by her
friends, clinging to her husband's arm, and then—she was whirled
away and it was over.
Turning he went directly home and to his room, and took from the
drawer the bundle of letters. One by one he burned them—and as
the last letter left his hand, far off in the distance pealed the shrill
shriek of the whistle that announced the approach of the train.
The sound drew him to the window. He opened it and leaned
upon the ledge.
He heard the shrill whistle once again, the creaking of the wheels
upon the frosted rails, the ringing of a bell—and she was gone!
gone!
A desperate sense of wrong and injury—of pain and grief swept
over him.
He turned from the white night and threw himself upon the bed,—
abject, lonely, miserable! If he could only die—if he only could! but it
was the sickness not of death, but of life, that was on him.
For a time he was unable to think or to throw off the stupor
possessing him.
His mother came into the room, but he did not look up.
She closed the window, saying: “Philip, if you intend to lie there,
you must be wrapped up, or you will take cold.”
He did not speak, and she added: “It's late. It's almost midnight.
Won't you go to bed?”
He shook his head.
“My poor boy! my poor boy!—I am so sorry!”
“The worst is over with,” he said.
“Can't I help you? It hurts me to see you so. I wish——”
“Please go. You can't help me—nothing can. Please go!” His voice
was full of entreaty.
“How could she treat you so, Philip!”
“It wasn't her fault. It was mine. I didn't trust myself. I didn't trust
her. I was a coward! She would have taken any risk had I asked it of
her, but I was afraid, and this is my punishment.”
“Won't you let me spread a blanket over you?”
“No, no. I'll get up in a few moments.” He lifted his white drawn
face to hers: “Please go, mother. Please go. I—I—can't talk about it.”
Reluctantly his mother left him to his solitude. For a while he rested
motionless on the bed, then he came to his feet and went to the
table, taking his seat beside it, his elbows propped upon its blotted
and discolored top. He pictured his altered life. There remained to
him one solace if he willed it. He could cheat time by work, and so,
perhaps, win fame to fill the place of love, and for the rest—the
world could go hang!
So he pictured his future, a future vastly less successful than the
reality was destined to be, and when he had built his new ideal—
buttressed it with hope and courage—he picked up his pen, cleared
it of the black rust that had gathered on its point, and commenced
to write—to finish the work he had abandoned when the blow fell.
All through the night and into the dawn, to and fro across the long
pages, with a cheerful little murmur of approval, the pen scratched
and labored.
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