quietly the rate of wages we are paying the free rents we are giving the shorter hours we are running are all with a unless it be a very small one you and i and the may consent to sacrifice our the other do not so consent and yet we have taken away the income of their property in one sphere of life this is what is known as a business transaction in another it is called robbery the color came and went in s cheek and her bosom heaved rapidly you would not have the he continued tells me you said you would give even him up to the police if you knew he was concerned in that affair but you are as effectually destroying the property of the people whose money is in these mills as if you had personally applied the electric current to the mill no i lying yonder in ruins is just as profitable to its owners to day as any of the other six i have helped you to bring about this condition of affairs because i love you � not because i can persuade myself that it is right she stared about the room they robbed us for years she said in a low ton more as if addressing herself than him they gave ii low wages and long hours and kept for themselves sums out of the product of our toil now that we have the opportunity may we not in justice take back our own in the twenty two years that and my r worked for them they received the cost of two � three times over for the love of heaven how much do we owe them now but he answered those who own the great central shares to day are largely men and women who have bought them in recent years some who paid and a share could not sell now for they are not to blame for the injustice of which you speak and yet we make them suffer for it to some of them the loss will mean great hardship to others utter misery you and i have done it let us not seek to our responsibility she spoke with set gaze like a why did they buy the stock she i will tell you they hoped to gain an easy living for themselves through the low labor of the in these mills they knew or could have known by what outrageous oppression the twelve per cent on the watered stock were produced they took a in the as their ancestors did in ships and if the were caught and swung from the yard arm � if the rose and cut the throats of their � who spent their sympathy on the these of stock played at a game of hazard and they have lost i for one shall waste no tears on them he did not answer and after a little time she went on the capital of the is all that was ever invested here is knows he has looked it up they built the first three mills and part of the houses out of that million and the rest have grown from the the has had a famous time he has drawn enormous profits the workman has merely been allowed to exist speaking of his wife and children have been compelled to labor bi his side he and they have produced this immense property the have taken their share it is time he had part of his he waited again but she seemed to have for the present i have a number of he said presently under which i hold shares in these mills for various wards other than the took an oath in every case to protect the interests of my i have asked the courts to relieve me of these when i give up my i wish to hand to my in cash the market value of the shares on the day i was first elected agent i find that my own property if converted into money will suffice for that before we are married i wish this load lifted from my conscience looked at him strangely i see she said you wish to put all the on my shoulders so far as you are personally concerned you mean to clear yourself what you have done in my name you will leave for me to bear it shall be so i will buy all the stock you wish to sell and you shall fix the price i should like if you please to the business at once her tone and manner had become so coldly distant that he took alarm he you are not speaking as my promised wife should speak i � she stopped him with a motion of her hand the i want the stock you wish to sell f i am waiting he bit his lip the are at the agency two strange i ro there of them spoke till they reached the agency and then io more was said than was necessary to complete the transfer when it was finished she said i would like you to do another thing i made you a promise � i said i would marry you i wish a release the clock in the room so loudly that he wondered what it he had half expected the demand so coldly stated but that did not lessen the pain of it his eyes grew you are released he i will tell you why you need not then good good bye he repeated are you going to leave he could feel in fibre of his being under what a strain she was laboring as she stood there hesitating at the threshold i give you my reasons she said i owe it both to you and myself i could not marry a man who turned women and children out of doors in october who cared 