The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-16
 THE MAN 5
 WHO ROSE AGAIN@ ......by...... JOSEPH ROCKING Copyright. 1909, by George IL Doran s
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 "Yes, I did love you," he went on, but I was not worthy of you. My seeming reformation was only a mockery. I thought it was real at the time, but it was not. If you had married me. I should have fallen again, and perhaps I should have cursed you. I know it now and you will see presently why what I say is true. But was mad with anger, and I gave way to my old vice. You had helped me to conquer it for time. but all the time I was at heart bad man,, all the time I was drunkard. If you had saved me really. should not have given way again; should not have flown to 1t the moment you cast me off. Yes, I lovad you, all I was capable of low ing; but it was a love of self in the main.
 You know what took place at Taviton--the drunkenness. the degraT dation, the disgrace. I was hooted out of the town, and laid the blame to your doors I went away on the moofs and tried to think of what l should do, vowing vengeance on you all the time. yet never seeing how my vengeance was to be wrecked. returned to London, and stayed there some time in hiding. No one knew where was, save an old lawyer who had managed my money affairs. One night I saw at Blackfriars Bridge the body of dead man. It had been washed on the steps, and left strand ed there. It was beyond recogni- ton; evidently it had been in the water some time. I put letter of mine in the pocket of the dead mans clothes, and then waited. Every thing turned out as I expected. No one had any doubts. I had com- mitted suicide, and this was my body. I will not dwell any longer on that; there is no need. went away to the East I did so of set pur- pose. went away so that the world might forget me, and on the whole it did forget me. But I did not for get. One purpose filled my mind and heart; I will tell you what it was presently. I was a bad man when first saw you; bad with the veneer of responsibility and pride. After wards I became bad without veneer. Think your worst about me. you will not think too badly, save in one thing-I would conquer my craving for drink. Nothing was possible if I did not 50 that. And I have done that Never cince left England, mere thsn slx years ago. has alcohol ever passed my lips. I need not describe the hell in which lived, seye to say that all the time I brood ed over my dream of vengeance on you. I determined that, as far as you ard-Sprague were concerned, there xhould be an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. told you years ago. that my faith in God was but little. During those years l lived in the East, learned to be- lfeve in God; but it was a God of terror, God that seemed to consent to my dream of revenge:
 Sometimes I have thought l. was mad. Perhaps I was, but it was a madness which no one suspected, and it was a madness with a purpose After I had been away two years, was able to render service to the head of the great Tripoli Company. I need not describe how, but by 8 piece of good fortune I saved, not only his life, but his honor. He also said that I saved the fortunes of the great company. Be that as it may, those who were his enemies never dreamed that I should be able to help him. I was only an ignorant mule teer, who did not know their lan- guage, and who could not fathom their designs. But I did both, and I saved this great man. It seems like some far-fetched melodrama doesn't it? But the thing is true 1t leaked out little by little, I sup pose, that I was man of some edu- cation and ability, and by-and-by became bound up in the fortunes o1 this great trading concern.
 Tt all fell in with my plans. had learnt to hate you more ant more. and I determined that nothing should balk me in my purpose Only once did I fear that I should fail in that which I had sworn to do I was stricken with plague com mon to that part of the world, ant was given up for dead. Even il my prosperity my great desire to liv' was that I might express my hatred for you. But got better, and
 felt as though the God in whom
 had learnt to believe would deliver you into my hands; for there was ont thing that illness did for me, my ap pearance was altered very materiall! so much so that when I came bacl here no one suspected who was.
 T shall soon come to the end now As soon as I was able came to Eng land dafaruinad that -or,Id uyorI