New-York tribune., 1911-04-09
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR APRIL 9. 1911

NO, SIc rcpllcu, am llOl NolIiSllllS'
| am in no doubt whatever"
He looked at her sadly. Il thought YOU
above prejudice" he sighed in weary irony
But when YOU sit in judgment. remember
that have committed no greater folleS than
most men placed as | am placed, that | have
committed less than some. By the only
code to which am answerable | am respect.
ability itself
"You are under no obligation to tell me
this"
81 feel that am. 1t is one of the oddities
of the situation that feel constrained TO ex'
cuse things that it has never before occurred
to me required excuse. In fact, you make
me harbor regrets. Will YOU remember
those regrets also, as YOU sit in Judgment
81 am not your Judge" she returned
coldly.
81 am not unwilling that you should be
both Judge and ally
Il can be neither" she answered. Il an
sorry you chose as your confldante woman
who-who diSappointS you; but that is Ger
tainly your fault, not mine. | must ask you
to release me from my promise to help you
but want YOU to feel that YOU can trust mC
still. Nothing that YOU have told me"
"What are YOU saying?" he interrupted
81 can't release YOU now!"
"You must! | can't say more than have
1t has been most painful for me to discus,
others. "My aunt will be waiting"
"Iour aunt considers you quite safe ir
my company. and has gone on he pointed
out grimly. Il am not pariah in her eyes.
"Nor in mine. You exaggerate."
"Do |? How then shall describe man
so base that YOU would destroy his whole
future in order to be rid of him?"
Destroy your future!'
perhaps YOU think still exaggerate? II
YOU do, must beg YOU to reflect that ii is
no small affair in which | am concerned.
cannot afford to undcrvalue my obstacles
Haven't | made YOU realize that there are
men who would rather see me dead than dis
turb the present arrangement in the Bal
kanS! For over two months YOU have given
me immunity from their spying. In a month
more, perhaps in less time, even in a few
days, | may go TO my work. Not in a hun
drcd years has the time seemed so ripe
Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, all Southeastern
Europe, is in a fcrment. The newspapers
inspired by the chancelleries, tell YOU that
there is no danger; but | know the pulse OF
those people. War may flame out tomorrow
When il does. my hour will have struck. un-
less His gesture left the issue with Ann
The fiery magnetism of his personality had
never done him more eloquent service. 1t
might be absolute unrcaSon, il might be
sheer immortality, but she could not hclI
feeling that she had taken narrow view.
Il don't want to lmpcril your cause, she
said; "but-"
ut is for the cause alone am pleading
he assured her quickly. Forget me and my
lmperfectionS, if you can. Think of tho
millions you will serve! 1t is for my people
not myself. BE their ally a little longer
Tell me YOU will"
The voice of the individual may be dis
regarded; the voice of the people will not
take no for an answer.
A Nm heard scarcely a word of the final act
OF the luckleSS play. RodoSlav. not IN,
royal rake, filled her minds eve. The sinner
She had gone forth 10 stone had turned and
bombardcd her He had made her outlook
seem petty. her tardy ScrupleS selfish. Why
II she had not perceived his past rs a bar il
the beginning. had she had the folly 10 raiS,
1t now She should have kept upon the i'm
personal footing she had SO impcrouslv re-
quircd at the outset. Now it was he VIII,
was lmpcrSonal. He had not pleaded will
hcr like an errlng lover. He had ctfaccC