Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-10

1 nnlSned he LOOK Q step IofwdrQ. but l that's not all" he added. 'Fraide
 wants the great move set in motion by
 a great speech, and he has asked me l to make it."
 For a moment Eve waited. She look. | ed at him in silence, and in that silence
 he read ill her eyes the reflection of
 his own expression.
 And you?" she asked in a suppress,
 ed voice What answer did you
 give?n
 He watched her for an instant, talk
 ing strange pleasure in her flushed
 face and brilliantly eager eyes: then
 the joy of conscious strength, the sense
 of opportunity regained. swept all oth-
 CT considerations out of sight. 1 Il accepted" he said quickly. Could
 any man who was merely human have
 done otherwise:"
 That was Loder's attitude and action
 on the night of his jeopardy and his
 success, and the following day found
 his mood unchanged He was one of
 those rare individuals who never give a
 promise overnight and regret it in the
 morning He was slow to move, but when he did the movement brushed all
 obstacles aside. In the first days of his
 usurpation he had gone cautiously, half
 fascinated. half distrustful Then the
 reality. the extraordinary tangihlity of
 the position had gripped him when,
 matching himself for the first time with
 men of his own caliber. he had learned
 his real weight on the day of his pro
 test against the Easter adjournment. With that knowledge had been born the dominant factor in his whole scheme the overwhelming, insistent desire to manifest his power; that desire that is the salvation or the ruin of every strong man who has once realized his strength. Supremacy was the note to which his ambition reached. To tram pie out Chilcote's footmarks with his own hand had been his tacit instinct from the first Now 1t rose paramount. It was the whole theory of creation the survival of the fittest-the deep, egotistical certainty that he was the better man.
 And it was with this conviction that he entered on the vital period of his dual career The imminent crisis and his own share In it absorbed him ab- solutely. In the weeks that followed his answer to Fraide's proposal he gave himself ungrudgingly to his work. He wrote, read and planned with tireless energy. He frequently forgot to eat and slept only through sheer exhaus- ton. In the fullest sense of the word he lived for the eliminating hour that was to bring him failure or success.
 He seldom left Grosvenor square in the days that followed except to confer with his party. All his interest. all his relaxation even, lay In his work and what pertained to 1t. His strength was like solid wall. his intelligence was sharp and keen as steel. The moment was his. and by sheer mastery of will he put other considerations out of sight. He forgot Chlcote and forgot Lillian, not because they escaped his memory. but because he chose to shut them from 1t.
 Of Eve he saw but little in this time of high pressure. When man touches tho core of his capacities. puts his best into the work that in his eyes stands there is little place for and no need of woman. She comes before and after. She inspires. compensates or completes: but the achievement, the crea tion. is mans alone. And all true women understand and yield to this precept.
 Eve watched the progress of his la Dor. and in the depth of her own heart the watching came nearer to actual living than any activity she had known. She was an onlooker-but an onlooker who stood. as it were. on the steps of the arena. who. by single forward could feel the sand under her feet. tho breath of the battle on her face. and in this knowledge she rested satisfied.
 There were hours when Loder seem- | cd scarcely conscious of her existence. hut on those occasions she smiled in her serene way-and went on waiting 1 She knew that each day before the aft ! ernoon had passed he would come Into ] his sitting room. his face thoughtful, 1 his hands full of books or papers. and, dropping into one of the comfortable. studious chairs. would ask laconically for tea. This was her moment of tri- ] Imph and recompense-for the very i inconsistencies of his coming doubled l ts value He would sit for half an 1 1our with preoccupied glance or with ! keen. alert eyes fixed on the fire. while | his ideas serted themselves and fell 1 Into line. Sometimes he was silent for l the whole half hour. sometimes he con- ! nented to himself as he scanned his | notes. but on other and rarer occa. ] lions he talked. speaking his thoughts | md his theories aloud. with the en. 1 Ioyment of a man who knows himself I -uIly in his depth. whiIs Eve slipped her 1, -ea or stitched peacefully nr a strip O! 
 On these occasions she made q per l rect listener. Here and there she sn 1, outraged him with an intelligent re l mark. but she never interrupted She zneu when to he silent and when ;s I peak. when to merge her own indiTid- l saIify and when to make il felt In 1 hese days of stress and preparation he 1 anne 10 her uneonscioIssy for rest: he rpar-d her "a he might have treated a l