Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

IL.
Father Sebastian brought me here" he said
Did he know this afternoon that-but he
didn't
That was here? No When he returned to the
monastery l went to see him and told him every
thing"
Il had told him already"
of heat went Cradles body. He felt
as if his whole body turned red He clenched his
hands on the table by which he standing and
said You despise me. lou looked up to me, and
now you look down.
What else can | do?"
And yet have come here to claim my right to
live with YOU still to be your husband want YOU
to try to understand something" he said. You
think you are here, shut up in this room, with
coward Don't your Don't your"
What else can l Think"
There is coward here. If was that coward
do you think l could have come into this room?
Do you think could have spoken to you again
l have spoken?" He sat down on chair by the
table. II want you to come here and face me-"
he said with sort of desperation.
She quietly to the table and sat down
deeps of shame in his eyes, but they met hers
steadily.
live with me-
You think you command me after that"
Il mean to make you respect me, even after
that
Respect you? But I shall never be able to
understand you. l could never understand man
who did the thing. you have done"
yet you loved the man who going to do
that thing
Yes, she said, if in sudden deep astonish-
ment. How that?
Because there were two men in me, and you
knew only the second-then.
The man who tried to come back?"
Yes"
But he lives with the other man He will always
live with the other man.
No The other man is dead. He died that night
in Naples
She shook her head.
You want proof of that!" he said. A wild look
came into his eyes.
What proof could you give me7" she asked
hopelessly.
back to me?'
Moral courage" she said family
Her faint voice seemed to Stir him to action
the sound of trumpet stirs the soldier. He got
up. And that is nothing knew it when he
when Father Sebastian" he broke off. After
moment he went on:
was possessed 1t was madness. When the
possession left me 1 knew 1 had been mad I had
been afraid at that moment suppose that
it-afraid of a horrible death. And directly that
moment over l was far afraid of horrible
life I'm far more afraid of a horrible life now. Am
l douby coward, then? Tell me that! Moral
courage you said No, have not that. haven't
the moral courage to face your disbelief in me.
| must convert you to the belief you once had.
Father Sebastian spoke OF the brave spirit that
faces thing after the wretched bod y-its cursed.
cursed body!-has boted. But who believes in it
who would believe in it-after that? Violet,
you think IN coward the sort of coward who is
afraid of bodily pain of Disagreement, of death.
| not. If l once was, am not now"
Suddenly he went to the window and opened it.
The room was on the third floor and looked out on
paved court, lit now by one lamp which showed
the glistening of the rain water on the stones
You think l wouldn't dare to throw myself
from that window to regain your respect know
l know now can regain it only in some such way;
that prove to you only in such way
mad as it seems-that the coward of Naples is dead
Well Violet, l must have your respect again. l
must have it,