The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-04-04

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a gait at which conversation was i'm
possible.
When we resumed, the subject was
the details of our wedding.
At home again, found my mother
] too III to leave her bed. She had
been i'll before-many times when she
wouldn't confess it, 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
a letter from under her pillow. This
came while you were away" she went
on. Il kept it here, because" a look
of shame fitted across her face, and
then her eyes were steady and proud
again-"why should 1 be ashamed of
it? had the impulse to destroy the
letter. and I'm not sure but that I'm
failing in my duty"
took it-syes, it was from Boston,
from Betty. | opened it 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 l am thankful that / have been
spared the horror of discovering
had bound myself for life to a coward"
The shot went straight to 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 =?
l tore up Betty's letter, and l looked
at mother and said: There's nothing
in that to make me waver-or regret"
1t was the only lie I ever told her.
| told it we'll, thank God, for she was
convinced, and the look in her face
| repaid me a thousandfold. It repayS
me once more as write.
Carlotta and l were married at her
bedside, and she lived only until the
next day but one. When the doctor
told me OF the long concealed mortal
disease that was the cause of her 60
Ing, he ended with: "And, Mr.. Sayler,
it passes belief that she managed to
keep alive for five years. can't I'M
derstand it." But 1 understood. She
simply refused to go until she felt that
her mission was accomplished.
I'VE must never forget her." said
Carlotta, trying to console me by
grieving with me.
l did not answer-how could / ex-
plain? Never forget heri On the
contrary, knew that 1 must forget,
and that I must work and grow and
so heal the wound and cover it's scar
l lost not day in beginning.
To those few succeeding months l
owe the power I have had all these
years to concentrate my mind upon
whatever I will to think about; for
in those months I fought the fight l
dared not lose-fought it and won.
Let those who have never loved talk
of remembering the dead
I turned away from her grave with
the resolve that my first act of power
for him she would not have gone for
many 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 DunkirlI
took shape. l saw clearly that, If he
were to be overthrown at once, I must
use part of the existing control of the
machine OF the party-it would take
several years, at least three, to build
up an entirely new control. To work
quickly l must use Croffut. Dunkirk's
colleague in the senate. And 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 thai
Dunkirk cheated him out of $100,0
on that perpetual street railway fran
chise, fast winter"
But we don't want Dominlck,
faid l.
My face must have reflected ny
mind, for Woodruff merely replied
''Oh. very we'll OF course that alter:
the case"
"We must get Croffut without him,
, I went on.
Woodruff shook his head. Can
get him." he said. "Dominick controls
the two southern ranges of counties
He frances his own machine from
, what he collects from vice and GRIM
! in those cities. He gives that brancl
Of the plum tree to the boys H
keeps the bigger one, the corporations
, for himself"
r "He can be destroyed" said I, way
ing aside these significant reminders
! Yes, in five years or so Of har
work Meanwhile. Dunkirk will rul
l things at the capital to suit himseli
: Anyhow. you're taking on a good dea
more than's cessary-starting wit
1 two big fights, one of EN- against
man you ought to use to do up tn
other. It's like breaking your ow
sword at the beginning of the duel"