The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-27
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too i'll to leave her bed. She had
been i'll before-many times when she
wouldn't confess il. several times
when she was forced TO admit 1t. but
never before so i'll that she could not
dress and come down stairs. Il shall
be up tomorrow" she assured me.
and I almost believed her. She drew
letter from under her pillow. This
came while you We're away" she went
on. II kept IL here, because look
of shame fitted across her face, and
then her eyes wTe steady and proud
again-.'why should I be ashamed of
it, I bad the impulse 10 destroy the
letter. and I'm not sure but that I'm
failing in my duty"
I took it-yes. It was from Boston,
from Betty. I opened 1t and forum
ately had nerved myself against show
ing myself to my mother. There was
neither beginning nor end. Just a
single sentence:
From the bottom of my broken
heart 1 am thankful tina. I have been
spared the horror OF discovering
had bound myself for life to coward"
The shot went straight 10 the cen
ter of the target But There lay
my mother-did she not have the right
TO determine my destiny-she who
had given me my life and her own
I tore up Betty's letter, and I looked
ut mother and said: There's nothing
In that to make me waver-or regret.
II was the only lie l ever told her. /
told ii we'll. thank God. for she was
convinced and the look in her face
repaid me a thousandfold. 1t repays
me once more as / write.
Carfotta and l were married at her
bedside. and she lived only uotil the
next day but one. When the doctor
told me OF the long concealed mortal
disease that was the cause OF her go
Ing. he ended with: And. Mr.. Sayler.
It passes belief that she managed to
keep alive for FIVE years. ! can't un-
derstand IT." But 1 understood She
simply refused to go until she felt that
her mission was accomplished.
We must never forget her" said
Cariotta, trying to console me by
Erisving with me.
did not answer-how could I ex-
plain. Never forget her. On the
contrary. I knew that I must forget.
and that I must work and grow and
so heal the wound and cover its scar.
lost not day In beginning.
To those few succeeding months l
owe the power l have had all these
years to concentrate my mind upon
whatever I will to think about; for
In those months fought the fight I
dared not lose-fought 1t and won.
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Of remembering the dead.
I turned away from her grave with
the resolve that my first act of power
would be to stamp out Dominick. But
for him she would not have gone for
many a year. 1t was his prosecutions
that involved us in the miseries which
wasted her and made her fall victim
to the mortal disease. 1t was his
malignity that poisoned her last years,
which, but for him, would have been
happy.
As my plans for ousting Dunkirk
took shape. / saw clearly that, IL he
were to be overthrown at once. / must
use part of the existing control Of the
m achine of the party-it would take
several years, at least three. to build
up an entirely new control. To work
quickly, must use Croffut. Dunkirk's
colleague in the senate. Aud Croffut
was the creature of Dominick.
Early in September Woodruff came
to me, at Fredonia. his manner jubi-
liant II can get Dominick," he ex-
claimed He is furious against Dun
kirk because he's just discovered that
Of
on that perpetual street railway fran
chise, last winter"
But we don't want Dominica"
said I.
NV face must have reflected my
mind, for Woodruff merely replied:
"Oh, very we'll or course that alters
the case"
We must get Crorut without him."
| went on.
Woodruff shook his head. Cant
get him." he said. "Dominick controls
He frances his own machine from
what he collects from vice and crime
in those cities. He gives that branch
of the plum tree to the boys. He
keeps the bigger one, the corporations.
for himself
He can be destroyed said I, wav-
ing aside these significant reminders.
Yes, In five years or SO OF hard
work Meanwhile, Dunkirk will run
things at the capital to suit himself.
Anyhow. you're taking on a good deal
more than's necessary-starting with
two big fights, one of 'em against a
man you ought to use TO do up the
other It's like breaking your own
sword at the beginning of the duel"
Go back to the capital" said I,
after q moments thought; '1ll teIe-
graph you UP there what to do
1t was my first test-my nrst chance
to show whether I had learned at the
savage school at which | had been
a pupil. Scores, hundreds of men, can
plan, and plan wisely-at almost any
crossroads general store you hear in
the conversation round the stove as
good plans as ever moved the wrold TO
But execution-there'
the rub, And the first essential OF an
executive Is freedom from partialities,
and hatreds-not 90 say. do like
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