Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-03-16

OUTSIDE MeSneu. 1ne trduerS remOn-
strated. but the Russians made sum-
mary use OF their advantage. Two
Englishmen were wounded and one of
them has since died. Fraide has only
now received the news, which cannot
be overrated. 1t gives the precise lever
necessary for the big move at the re
4 assembling" He spoke with great ear
1 nestness and unusual haste. AS he
finished he took a step forward. but
that's not allr' he added ''Fraide
wants the great move set in motion by
| a great speech. aud he has asked me
to make it."
For moment Eve waited. She look
ed at him in silence. and in that silence
he read in her eyes the reflection OF
his own expression.
And your" she asked in a suppress
ed voice. what answer did you
giveT'
He watched her for an instant tax
ing a strange pleasure in her flushed
face and brilliantly eager eyes: then
! the joy OF conscious strength. the sense
Of opportunity regained. swept all 9TH
er considerations out of sight.
Il accepted" he said quickly. Gould
any man who was merely human have
done otherwiseT
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 II 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 tangibility 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. inslstent 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 Chllcote's fOotmarks with his
own hand had been his tocit instinct
from the first. Now It rose paramount.
IL was the whole theory Of creation
the survival OF the fttest-thc deep.
| egotlstcal certainty that he was the
better man.
And IL 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 alb
sOlutely. In the weeks that followed
his answer 10 Fraide's proposal he gave
himself ungrudglngly 10 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 90 bring him failure or SUCCESS.
He seldom left GrosvenOr square In
the days that followed except 70 confer
with his party. All his interest. all his
relaxation even. lay In his work and
what pertained 10 It, His strength was
like solid wall. his Intelligent 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 ChilcOte and forgot Lillian,
not because they escaped his memory,
but because he chose TO shut them from
It.
or Eve he saw but little I'm this time
OF high pressure. When man touches
the core OF his capacities. puts his best
into the work that IN his eyes stands
paramount. there is little place for and
, no need OF woman. She comes before
and after. She inspires. compensates
or completes; but the achievement. the
creation. is mans alone. And all true
women understand and yield TO this
unspoken precept
Eve watched the progress OF his la
Dor. and I'm 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
movement could feel the sand under
her feet, the breath OF the battle on
her face, and In this knowledge she
rested satisfied
There were hours when IOder SEEM
ed scarcely conscious Of her existence,
but on those occasions she smiled in
her serene wsy-and went on waiting.
She knew that each day before the aft
u@HSoA hAu DooScu AS NOulu cOAlt INTO
his sitting room. his face thoughtful,
his hands fun OF books or papers, and,
dropping into one of the comfortable.
studious chairs, would ask laconically
for tea. This was her moment of tri-
umph and recOmpense-for the very
Inconsistencies of his coming doubled
its value. He would sit for half an
hour with preoccupied glance or with
keen, alert eyes fixed on the fire, while
his ideas sorted themselves and fell
into line. Sometimes he was mt for
the whole half hour, sometimes he COM
mented TO himself as he scanned his
notes. but on other and rarer occa-
sions he talked, speaking his thoughts
and his theories aloud with the en-
jOyment Of n man who knows himself
fully i'm his depth, while Eve slipped her
tea or stitched peacefully at strip OF
embroidery.
On these occasions she made per
feet listener Here and there she en-