The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-29

ours, Winfield, you IND that the same
elemental passions exist, no matter
What be our race or our country.
Shakespeare knew it when he con-
ceived the character of Shylock, and
when he wrote Othello What do you
think Radford Leicester would want
to live for?"
You love her still
Love her? AS much as Shylock
loved Antonio, my friend; as much
as any other man loves one who has
lifted him into heaven only to hurl
bin into hell"
Then you do not love herr"
why should Radford Leicester
love her, my friend? Tell me that"
Perhaps because he cannot help
it."
NO, he hates her because he can
not help it."
Hate her"
IF there is one thing the East
teaches a man, it is how TO ha-e
well. lie has learned his lesson. Grea,
God, he has learned 1t we'll"
And why have you come back
"Why should Radford Leicester
come back, Winfield? Tell me that.
Think out the whole case quietly.
Why should he come back? That
Bible of yours is full of human ma
ture. Those old Jews realized the ee-
mental passions of life-an eye for
an eye, a tooth for a tooth That
appeals to man as just"
"But-'but, | say"
Yes, tell me-"
Think of what it means. 1t is
not right
Ricordo laughed quietly
Right, wrong. They are a part Of
the stock in trade of your moralists.
Let a man go through what Leicester
has gone, my friend. and even if
he had little respect for it before,
1t would all be crushed out of him.
Why. man, Radford Leicester has
lived the life of slave in Morocco,
and away out in the great desert he
has herded with wild beasts in the
shape of men. He has seen the re-
ligion of the Christian and the Mo
hammedan and the Hindoo tested; he
knows what it means. Do you think,
after going through what he has
gone that you tawdry ragtags of mo-
rality will have any weight with him?
No. no; to hate is as natural as to
love: and if love is right, so is
hate"
But, | say, old man"
yes, 90 on"
ITO put it in plain words, what
you mean is this. When you real
lied that-that she-4had cast you
off-your love turned to hatred; that
you played a grim joke on the world
by making every one believe you
were dead; that for six years you
have brooded over what you believe
to be your wrongs, nursing revenge
ali the time, and that you have come
back TOTO have, well, your revenge
on the woman you once loved. Is
that it?"
1T sounds melodramatic, Ell? Just
like a bit taken out of the old Adel |
phi melodramas We used to laugh at /
them didn't we. when me heard the |
pit and the gallery Kissing the vii /
lain and cheering the hero. But even
in those days l sympathized with |.
the villain
But you don't mean that
why not?"
1t would not be right"
Right. And even according to your
snug morality. is it right for her .
70 thrust man where she thrust .
Leicester, to make him suffer the
which he has suffered, and .
hen allow her to go unpunished?"
Perhaps she has suffered"
Suffered? Watch her even as |
nave watched her. Look at her
fair face. There's not a line
y care and suffering upon it. Hear
Ter speak as | have heard her. Her
very word tells you she is with
)ut a care. Hear her laugh as |
rave heard her and you would know
hat she thinks no more about hav-
ne driven a man to his doom than
heartless gambler cares for the
-ictim he has ruined"
And you have risen from the
lead for"
Just that, my friend, just that"
What revenge"
'One that shall be sufficient. Sig
Or Winfield