Still Jim

by Morrow, Honore

  "It would never be the same, with dad gone," said Jim.

  "Even if your father were alive, Jimmy, it couldn't be the same," answered Pen. "It's just that the thought of the old house will always renew your old instincts, Still. You can't return Exham's old sweet days to it. But Exham has done its work, I believe, out here on this Project."

  Pen's smile was very sweet in the starlight. Jim put both his hands on her shoulders.

  "Do you love me, dear?" he asked.

  Pen looked up into his eyes long and earnestly.

  "I always have, Still Jim," she said.

  "Do you want to know how I love you? Oh, sweetheart, I have so little to offer you!" he went on, brokenly, without waiting for Pen's answer, "except abiding love and passionate love and adoring love! And you are so very beautiful, Penelope. I've hungered for you for a long, long time, dear. Bitter, bitter nights and days up on the Makon and hopeless nights and days here on the Cabillo." His hands tightened on her shoulders. "Did you come back to me, sweetheart?"

  "Still," whispered Pen, "I missed you so! I had to come back."

  Then Jim drew Pen to him and folded her close in his strong arms and laid his lips to hers in a long kiss.

  And the flag fluttered lightly behind them and the desert wind whispered above their heads:

  "O yahee! O yahai!

  Sweet as arrow weed in spring!"

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  Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error by the publisher is noted here. Corrections appear in brackets.

  page 189: space added within word: "clumps, through draws and oversand[over sand] drifts.

  page 190: typo corrected: with you, Bill, for a month. I fell[feel] well rested."

  page 324: typo corrected: The stearing[steering] gear broke."

  page 351: probable typo fixed for sense: There isn't anything he would[n't] sacrifice to its welfare.

  In the advertisement: accents and typo fixed:

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