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taken the others place, sentence OF
death and all, could he hear but once
before he died the ringing accents OF
such a sublime confession and for him.
self. His love for the woman Of his
choice was of the most exalted charac.
ter and might we'll, were merit or fit.
ness alone to be considered in such O
case, have claimed her own deepest
feelings In return.
When Elizabeth had appealed to him
to intervene, with a magnanimity as
rare rs it vas noble, he had subordinate
ed his happiness to her own and had
cndeavOrcd to procure n mitigation of
the punishment imposed upon his rival,
though he knew his success would
throw his promised wife into the arms
Of O'Neill. He had not done this with
out n terrible struggle-it was q gray
faced, broken man who looked upon
the world Of today In place of tho smil-
ing youth of the night beforc-but he
had done it. He felt that the sacrifice
would cost him his life, and for that he
was truly glad; yet he bad offered it
freely, generously and nobly. He had
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happiness of Elizabeth Howard was
the paramount passion.
IL she did not love him he could at
least show her what love truly meant
In its highest sense, give her a lesson
In love like to The lesson III honor that
other man had exhibited last night.
For her he stood ready to give up cv-
crything; his own future he did not
allow to weigh q moment in the bal
ance beside hers.
There was something grandly sub
lime in this utter abncgation of self, SO
simply done for anothcr's happiness.
Coventry had been q Christian after n
rather better fashion perhaps than
most young men of his time; his asso-
Citations with the sweet, pure girl lie
loved had kept him so. All his people
for generations had been churchmcn;
this seemed to him TO be the right
thing to do, the thing demanded of Il
gcntlcman; the greatest Gentleman of
them all, who had shown his breeding
on a cross, had set the example of self
sacrifice. a sentence quoted by the
chaplain in the service q few days be-
fore which had struck his fancy ran
in his head. He had & good memory.
II Will very gladly spend and be
spent for you, though the moro album
dainty I love you the less l be loved"
Yes, that was it.
At the first moment when he found
last night That his plcadings were Of
no avail and that O'Ncill was doomed
to die his heart had lcaped in his
breast ut the thought that his rival
would be removed, but he had crushed
the thought rs unworthy a gentleman
of his high ideals, and there had como
to him III addition q consciousness that
to a love like Elizabeth Towards the
death Of n beloved would make no
change. Such passions como but once
In q lifetime, and when they arrive
they are as eternal rs the stars. He
had given her up, and she belonged in
life or death to another. 4 glance at
his own anguished heart enabled him
to feel for her. Time would not soften
a blow to a nature like to hers.
In the execution Of O'Ncill Coventry
saw the death warrant of Elizabeth.
He had passed the day racking his
brain and thinking of some way to de-
lay the execution, but without avail.
He would have stopped at nothing to
save them both. In despair he had
come to consult with his rival.