The Gavelyte, February 1910

•) - \ftl'l .\le· 'pil and HPth lt>tllrnPrl tn tlw cit, l{oy wa~.IPfl to him Plf, .'l'ol t, nhi lwinir VPn' hu sy. ,\s vl'l ht> harl not nwntio,wd hi~ hn. inrsH, but hP snnn tnld <:PrtrmlP and .- hp nc·1·1111,pa11iNI h1111 on ma11v of hiR Lrip . Th• Pvt•ntnir 11, tlw nn•k had llP\'t•r ht>Pn nwnt1ont>d but. lh1· ·onvn. n inn oft •n drift Pd Pntn dang11rnut- irroun.! hnt CertrudP wonlrl alwnyR ~f'e thh~ nnd ug– g Rt a rac•p nr a.ik about ::mnlP plan or tret' Orn, 111111·, clny and h wa-i going o IP~WP. HP had giv1•11 up all ltopp of 1;t>rtrndt> going wiLh him. He had gone with ,'c·ott that morning h11t ]pav– ing him :iftpr 1linn r, started back to Falling Water b_v him,wlf. Rny had llPVPr b pn at th fall so h tied his hor e to a trPe and was Roon standing above the fall::,i . Th . "trPam flows down a gorge; th€' gurgf' at thi~ plac+-– deepens making a fall of about sixty feet. gxcept for the roar of the fallR. the wind playing in the pines and the •inging of the bird::., evnything was quiE:'t. Being in no hurry he sat down upon a mos!'.y knoll. Hf' must havP. fallen a leep for he awoke with the feeling that someone was calling him. He rai ,ed up and looker! around but saw no one. It :-1eemed the call was · that of the woods. He was o certain he had been called that Ile got up and looked down over the edge of the gorge. He soon aw Gertrude stanr!– ing on a ledge of rock about half way down. 'Ihe path by which ~hP had reached it was from below but this fact did not stop Roy. ailing to her that he wa coming, he started down the descent dropping from bush to bu ' h. About half the dietance had been covered when a root to which he was holding broke and he went tumbling and f'l}iding down the hillside Gertrude had watched him with bPating heart and wheu he slipped she had given a little cry but before she could move he was lying at her feet a rnotionle s form. .'he tooped uver him and _felt for his pol l'. Not find– ing it , he thought he was dead. She commenced , obbing and telling how , he had always loved him and how rµuch she wanted him and now he w0uld never know. "Oh! if I had only told him that night by the creek it would have been diffPrent." Roy was not unconstiou .. . He could hear e,·ery w 1 >rd she said but thf' shock had made him powerless to move. F'inally with a mighty effort he opened hi. eyPs and sat up but one arm was usele s. t\.ltho his arm pained him severelv, he wa never so happy ;.ind he asked her to go East with him and be his wife . His answer was to go to the place where he had fir, t told hPr he loved her that evening and he would get his answer.

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