over a year, but I've tended to stay out of it.
It looks like that's something I'm not going to be able to do; not now!"
106 North took her hand. "Come on!" he laughed, "I've got to get you
home. I have to tape a message to my wife, and I'm not exactly sure
what I'm going to say. I'll probably just tell her everything and ask
if she approves."
107 "And if she doesn't?" asked Sweet Cloud.
108 "Then that that is between us will have to end," answered North.
109 Sweet Cloud nodded. "The more you talk," she said, "the more I
love you. I pray she says yes."
110 North returned to his hotel, got the tape ready telling his wife
all that had happened, then sent it out, after putting it in their
personal code. A couple of days later he received a reply.
111 "My dearest husband," it began, "my thanks to the young lady you
have mentioned for saving your precious life! She is one to be admired
and, for the service that she shall do me I am also grateful. You are a
good man, my husband, but sometimes when you have been absent from me
for a long time, you forget to be gentle. I have never complained, for
I understand the nature of your manhood. But to have some of your fire
quieted will not disturb me, and I am sure I will be very fond of this
beautiful Haven woman, that we will be wonderful friends, and I hope,
some day, be like sisters. I do hope that you can make some
arrangement so she can live with us. I don't want her off in a lonely
place somewhere waiting for the few brief times you can visit. I will
admit, I AM a little jealous, but with the news I have for you, this
will pass from my heart. Do play this tape for your lovely lady, and assure her I have for her no bitterness."