Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-18


leave that woman alone there in that I'M
freuuented foot-path with the tempera-
ture such as it was, she would certainly
freeze to death and he would be morally
rs bad MS her murderer.
If, on the contrary, he should do what
in common humanity he felt bound to do
take her upon his shoulders. and bear
her away to a place of warmth and shell
ter-if he should do this, in the meantime
the fatal cold would surely, all too surely,
force an entrance into his studio, and eff
feet the irretrevable ruin of his Lilith.
The destruction of Lilith would mean to
Strahan not merely year lost from his
life it would mean the extinction of the
beauty that he had lovingly and laborious-
ly wrought out of nothngness; 1t would
mean the blight of his sweetest hopes,
the overthrow of his prOudest castles in
the air ii would mean-GOd knows there
is no telling all that it would mean. An
artists work is dearer to him than his
dearest friend. II is breath of his nOstrils,
bone of his bone. 70 Strahau the de
struction of Iilith would mean ii pound of
flesh cut nearest to his heart
This was the dilemma that stared him
mercilessly in the face, and woke a fierce,
despairing pain in his breast. He be
grudged even the time that was needed
for its consideration. Every second was
priceless to him now And yet, he had to
chuose-choose between his darling Lilith
and this unknown old woman.
en- NJ uIlousut iJ i' '' 10y "P "'S
liliu' ne Noii'ai ~ oiiV ~,
the world--her death could not much
matter-anyhow, her mshap WAS not his
tault-whercfore should he treat ii aS his
concern ,9 ',.'' ~ ~ @
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ne nailus ol lne sra,a9n i iouee v iIor
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elh WIN, une olliCei III ~ SU
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nance anu Iheil anime e'tiln,S W." a.
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. into the grocer shop, IKE hlaulllaiii
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! terlhS INe-uoIIar plll-ahu agalI! ne wa
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y luI OF coal ana klllullhe wood ~.
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a anu hesIl"'eui lopS anu couIdEe Su'
~ DENY lors0ok MN ne W{t7 airulu 'S,' 81
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, Versed themselves IN ms HlInu. Hr'
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