The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-16

COliQitlOllS, VI HELL. 4 nOuR0 lndI u
man-that you could accomplish
anything you really wanted to do.
But you were right. There are impos-
sibillties. 1 understand now-now that
It's too late. l have had my lesson.
Only a few months ago you were hon
est. and now YOU are corrupt and I
alone am responsible!"
BY the time she had finished speaking
Murgatroyd had become as impertur-
bable as he had been at the trial, and
there was only a hint of tenderness in
the ~reassuring words that he now ut
tered.
You must not blame yourself" he
vas neither admitting nor denying the
impeachment-''for anything l may
ave DONE"
And you must blame me. l always
thought Adam was a coward to cast
the blame on Eve. But now my SYM
pathies are with him-the woman was
to blame then-I am to blame now. 1
gave YOU of the apple, and you-Oh,
there would have been no apple-noth-
ing but Eden If l had only listened to
you and you had closed your ears to
me-"
Eden he said, wistfully. Yes, but
hardly the Eden YOU cared for
Abruptly her mood changed. She
lost al! semblance of calm, and her
voice rang with a scorn that, before
she ceased. seemed to include him az
well as herself.
What do l care for success or fail
ure. | could cut my tongue out for
telling you that my father was a fall
ure. A %failure! Why, l know that no,
only was he not a failure, but that he
was really great! A man in the high
est sense of the woodland that's all 1
want YOU to be. l don't rare an iota
that you should be a senator-I don't
want you to be a senator. / have sent
for you tonight to tell you soto stop
for good and all the thing l set In mo-
tion." She was silent for an Instant;
and then. suddenly, with a quick re-
turn to gentleness, and with appeal in
her eyes she murmured: II want you
to come backbone back
In turn he murmured words that
sounded to her like ito YOU"
Shirley shook her head as though that
were a thing out of the question.
mo, to your honest SELF she said
earnestly but kindly. ITO the Billy
Murgatroyd that was"
For a moment they looked steadily
into each others eyes. From the time
of Miriam's exposure of him in the
court room there had never been any
admission, any concession on Murga-
troyd's part. Nor was there any now:
but, unknown to himself, there was an
air of appeal, not wholly free from anx-
iety even, for her face Was again
showing signs of hardness as he spoke:
Il can hardly do that. / mi stop.
And If l should-where is the induce
ment? You have nc apple to offer me;
you are beyond my reach"
And, as If to disprove his own words.
an impulse of alteration, too powerful
to be checked, seized him. and he
caught her hand and pressed 1t.
A brief only Shirley allowed
1t to rest in his. then slowly withdrew
1t; and her action told him palmer than
words that there was to be nothing
further between them-she vas
through with him--she must despise
him. As an evangelist, as the good
friend she had sent for him, but as
lovers-no, that was all over. And yet,
had she faltered once, had h but
opened her arms to him. If only for the
last time. Murgatroyd could not tell
what he would have done. In all prob
ability he would have suffered sxils-