The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1908-02-01
CHAPTER XXI.

In all the years she had known him
Aileen had never liked him so much as
now.
but indeed she protested, finding her
voice at length, Il felt greatly honored,
and ! hesitated because of my own I'M
worthiness to join my life, my labors,
with those of one 20 clever and far-famed
as your
Yes, that was it-that was the fault.
You looked upon me simply as an intel
lectual partner, and you tried TO close
your eyes TO my utter u~nsuitabillty in
other ways Not content with deceiving
myself, l tried to deceive you. / am only
thankful that my eyes were not opened
too late. My child"-and he spoke in
the quiet, protecting voice he would have
used towards a child-"never be per-
suaded to believe that life can be lived
happily in selfish isolation as mine has
been. One may set a goal before ones
ayes, 1t may be lawful, 1t may be right,
but so long as thoughts Of self alone ami
mate one that goal can never be well
reached. We are social animals, depend
emit each on the other, and true lives are
those that bring out tie best in our
selves and the best in others. Shut up
In my W rooms, absorbed in my own In
~terests, / have lost my life, l nave passed
by opportunities that might have made
me what l shall never be now. / thought
the pride of intellect, the lust of fame,
the desire Of ambition made a mans life.
I have grasped at the shadow and l have
lost the substance. And / would warn
you against such a mistake. If 1t is bad
for a man, 1t is still worse for a woman.
Satisfied fame, great renown, do not make
life as 1t was intended to be lived. We
must not remain on the hill-tops. we must
20 down to the plains. The great mo-
tive power Of life Is love--love OF our
Creator, love for humanity, love of indi-
viduality. 1t Is as men and women, not
intellectual machines, We do our work in
the world"
'But surely you. of all men, do not de-
vpise intellect"
Indeed I do not, and I do not swerve
sne iota from my original ideas on that
point" He grew very earnest, almost
solemn, In his eagerness to disabuse her
mind of the mistake. II am a. strong
and as uncompromising a supporter Of
the woman's cause as ever, because l
would have every power sharpened, every
snergy Quickened into its best and highest
power. The more highly developed a mar
or ID, the better use will he or she
make Of opportunities. 1t Is individual
ism that I would oppose-not individu-
Atty. Let each man and develop
those special powers and abilities that
belong to each, and so we shall arrive at
perfection, but each power must be equal
IL developed, rot one specialized until the
others have become atrophied- And that
Is the mistake / was going to make and
to consent to your making also. ] hope
that you will forgive me, that you will
believe in the sincerity Of my respect and
admiration for you, and that we may
remain as good-no, better friends than
we have ever been"
81 would have married you," Aileen
said with a rueful smile some time later
when the sight of the approaching steam
or made them remember the time was
growing short. Now that they had spokef
frankly and unreserveily to each other
she was beginning to see the splendid
character, the high principles that were
hidden under a shell of nervous manner-
lama and bookish learning.