they certainly wouldn t be slow to use them if they had any reason for so doing of course they don t know anything yet about this confession unless you ve told them and i don t propose that they shall so long as i don t have to use it as for me i have to think of mv wife and kid and i want to do anything them if ey il this would break her all up and i don t want to do she s been too square and we ve gone through too much together i ve thought it all over and convinced that what i m going to do is for the best we have to separate and i came here to day to tell you that i can t see you any more it can t be can t you see that not even for a little while not even for a day it just can t be i m fond of you and you ve been a brick to pull me out of this but don t you see that it can t be don t you really see how it is she looked at him then at the table for a moment and then out over the buildings of the great city oh ed she reflected sadly i ve been such a fool i don t mean about the confession � i m glad i did that � but just in regard to everything i ve done but you re right ed i ve felt all along that it would have to end this way even the morning i agreed to make the confession but i ve been making myself will you walk into my parlor hope against hope just because from the very first day i saw you out there i thought i wouldn t be able to hold out against you and now you see i haven t ell all right ed let s say good bye love s a sad old thing isn t it and she began to put on her things he helped her wondering over the strange l of circumstances had brought them together and was now them apart i wish i could do something more for you i really do he said i wish i could say something that would make it a little easier for you � for us both � but what would be the use it wouldn t really now would it no she replied he took her to the and down to the and there they stopped for a moment well he began and paused it s not just the way i d like it to be but � well � � he extended his hand � � here s luck and good by then he turned to go she looked up at him ed she said wait aren t don t you want to she put up her lips her eyes seemingly misty with emotion he came back and putting his arm about her drew her lips to his as he did so she clung to him seeming to vent a world of feeling in this their first and last kiss and then turned and left him never stopping to look back and being quickly lost in the immense mass which was by as he turned to go though he observed two separate men with taking the scene from will you walk into my j angles he could scarcely believe his senses as he gazed they stopped their work clapped their together and made for a waiting car before he could really collect his thoughts they were gone � and then as i live he exclaimed she did do this to mc after all or did she and after all my feeling for her � and all her the little and now they have that picture of me kissing her stung by george and by the same girl or by them and after all the other things avoided that s intended to make that confession worthless she did that because she s changed her mind about me or she never did care for me grim thought did she � could she � know do a thing like that he wondered is it she and or just alone who has been following me all this time he turned solemnly and helplessly away now after all his career was in danger his wife had returned and all was seemingly well but if he proceeded with his as he must then what this picture would be produced he would be disgraced or nearly so then what he might charge fraud a picture produce the confession but could he her arms had been about his neck he had put his about her two different men had taken them from different angles could he explain that could he find again was it wise would she testify in his behalf if so what good would it do ould any one in politics at least believe a morally man he doubted it the the contempt no one except his wife and she could not help him here will you walk into my parlor k at heart a nd de he on now clearly convinced that because of this one silly act of kindness all his work of months undone and that r � ever h � e nt e r t h e pr land of his better future � not here at least � that future to which he had forward with so much hope � neither he nor his wife nor child fool fool he exclaimed to himself heavily and then � fool fool why had he been so sympathetic and why so interested but finding no answer and no clear way of escape save in denial and counter charges he made his way slowly on toward that now dreary office where so long he 