Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-06-24

Nho hSNeueT, BSnuy.
"Of his wife-that fellows that is
dead. Is he really dead? Then sbe
will come back ut once. suppose
they have cabled to her. She went
to India three years ago. am glad
she won't see mo. have one more
day, perhaps. It win be an old story
by when she gets home. 1 want Won
to promise that yovIl find her. when
she comes back, and tell her some
thing from me. It'll be easy enough
Moreland will let you know her AID.
oress; l can't give the message to
him From you it'll come naturally
when you've explained"
The nurse promised to do his hid
ding. But minute or two passed he.
fore he again broke silence. His fea-
lures reflected the working of bis
mind, q tumult OF thoughts and mas.
sion.
You're not unlike her." he re-
sumed, abruptly. The same type of
woman, 1 mean. I've known the other
kind mostly. You have a faith of
some kind, haven't you? l mean a
real working faith-something Won
live by?"
Something I try to live BY"
Yes. know the look. I've watched
you when you thought l didn't Don't
tell her about the bad time I've had:
not word OF that, mind. Make her
believe 1t was short and effectual. And
then just say this: Say 1 came round
to her way of thinking-that she was
right, and 1 knew 1t at last You un-
derstand?"
He struggled so hard to raise him
self, in the desire to emphasize what
he was saying. that the nurse helped
him into another position. She tried
by assurances that his message should
be faithfully delivered to soothe the
agitation which grew upon him.
She was right" he repeated. after
a few inarticulate murmurs. But
wasn't wrong. 1 meant 1t with all the
life that was in mel meant 1t!
Her name. yes-I remember. 1 had
something more to tell you. Is 1t
night? suppose I shall go before
daybreak, as men often do. Now |
have 1t again, the thought that l want
20 keep in my mind il 1 can. It's
all over, and I see things In a new
way-as she saw them. 1 wanted to
tell her how glad am she held her
own against me. am glad, gladl
Not that / think was wrong; it's no
death-bed twaddle; think as always
did. But she had her belief, and she
held to 1t through as hard a struggle
as ever woman endured. I'm gladl
Remember to tell her that II l had
won she would have lived against her
conscience. She told me, once and for
all, she believed in social laws and
duty and all the rest of it-believed
that with all her soul. God bless her.
my noble darling! We might have
gone to the other side of the earth.
where no one would have known any
thing; but she recognized a law and
obeyed 1t. don't think 1t was a bet
ter law than mine, but she believed in
1t, and in mine she didn't l should
have led her to unhappiness. say and
do what l might And now it's all
over; now that the days done and
the night is coming, l glory in her
honesty and her strength. l called her
hypocrite; now / would throw myself
at her feet and beg her forgiveness,
and worship her strong, pure mind.
You don't know her. Don't think of
the woman who is afraid of what
people say. Not she. the woman /
love! All that was nothing; If she
had thought it right. she would have
come to me in the face of the world.
And how glad l am that she held her
own against mel"
She shall know; I promise to find
her and tell her"
You will: trust you; you have the
same look in your eyes when you speak
earnestly. You're not her sister. are
you? No, no; l remember. It's good
to end with that thought. She can
never be sorry when she knows how 1t
helped me at the last If l had had
my way, couldn't have gone into the
darkness with a mind so easy.
should have left her with her self
reproach, her broken conscience. Let
women act as they believe, and be
strong. No pretending. out of fear of
the world, If they didn't hold the worlds
faith. Brave rebellion, or brave 10y