The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-12-21

ened tone. ''please never tell MIN tina
was here tonight" The crisis pas
the woman in her reasserted itself.
II understand-dear."
Walking YEARLY homeward In tn
gray morning. Eleanor thought:
81 will Ike my acknowledgment Il
him and then will go away forever"
And forever seemed a long. dreary
time indeed.
One day when his strength was be
ginning TO creep back into his body
Kathleen came TO his bedside.
You haven't asked how the election
came out" she said.
He smiled YEARLY. I'D forgotten
lost. didn't ~
Lost" Kathleen laughed proudly
mo. indeed. You won-and by nearly
10000. Aren't they the dear, good peo-
pier
And 1t was true. Sanger had mis-.
calculated Paurs declaration had
been received by many with the skep-
| ticism with which eleventh hour
charges generally are received. 9th
| cts udu ottI OuIJ Tue lltd'utly III
Paul's deed and had become even
more set in their determination to vote
/ for McAdoO. Thousands had deiantly
said that they did not care and had
been ready to find excuses for the
bribing of the delegates And the
news Of his collapse and his critical
condition had been an unanswerable
appeal TO sympathy.
But Bob heard the news apatheti-
cally.
81 don't seem to care almost wish
bad lost Then | shouldn't have to
20 on with the fighting. wonder
why they did itT'
Don't you know?"
what they charged was true. The
delegates we're bribed. They ought to
have repudiated me-"
"Ah." Kathleen answered proudly.
but they love your
He shook his head YEARLY. ut was
because they didn't realize"
Another day-it was the first time be
was allowed to sit up in bed when
the nurse mad gone out of the room
for a few minutes be began the con
versation himself.
"Kathleen"- he began abruptly.
then stopped IL talked a good
deal?'
almost continuously"
"And you learned everything-abou
about Mrs. GilbertY'
Yes"
Even what cowardly brute I was
to her at the Dunmeades'?" A faint |
flush came to his sunken cheeks.
Yes. even that" she answered.
His next question came after a long
pause.
"A woman couldn't forgive that
could she. KathleenT
mot many women. think"
His voice became husky. 1--WE been
of that a good deal I'D
like to make that up to her II | could.
You may have the chance some
day." Long afterward. thinking over
this scene. he seemed to remember
that her voice was very tired: he sup
posed IL was because the strain of the
had been too much for her.
And he thought of many things be-
sides his relation to Eleanor Gilbert.
When Tom Haggin. in his rough way.
told him of the sorrow the people had
shown for his sickness Bob felt his
heart suddenly expand in a deep. :
strong affection for them. They were
his people-his not because his ma :
,hine had whipped them into submits .
non, but because he. though unworthy.
ived in their hearts. .
He knew that over the land were a .
hundred million others like those of =.
lis city-all struggling always. produc. .
ng always. giving to humanity the :
Equivalent for the right and means to ::
i've. giving more than the equivalent.
living more and better than they re-
eived from the world. A brave. pa !.
lent. Woodworking. faithful. deserving :.
eople these. Pity the man who could :
OF feel thrill of pride that he was (
ne of them! Bob suddenly knew that !
I'VE of ones people is distinct. def /
tie, overmaStering emotion which ex- z
Its man and dwarfs his petty self. !;
He knew of the great common" !:
eople of the land. whose lives are be- I
lg worn out in the effort to produce Z
lr more than they consume. at the :
I'd having nothing but the necessity !.
n increased, harder effort, looking /
bout them in dazed wonder and :.
aintively demanding: why is it that :.
e cannot rest? Why have we moth :
&? Whittier has it gone-that which -
e have createdT' =
Whittier had it gone? He knew the I.
lswer. 1t gloomed solemnly down at !.
IN from million dollar palaces, honk- /.
hoarsely through the streets from /.
silly imported automobiles, flashed ;
from bejeweled fingers, kept
canning necks and shoulders warm !
the face of shivering poverty. CUR !,
ed In goblets of precious vtntages,
ced painting under the wire. Above !.
!. be read the answer in the terrific
wer of the modern feudal system, .
wealth, whose machinery ;
is slowly crunching. crunching.
lnching. his people into helpless
biection. /.
low had such things come to pass7
/. that question he could answer, y,