Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-03-03

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She looked shrewdly at me-au8
She laughed queerly, and struck The
guessed. said she. "Nobody's ever 81,
blind as he let's others think. It.
funny, isn't It? There are things g.
your mind that you'd never tell me-
and things in my mind that I'd neye,
tell you. And each of us guesses mos.
of them, without ever letting on.
She laughed queerly, and struck the
horse smutly so that he leaped into
a gait at which conversation was inn
possible
When we resumed the subject wa
the details of our wedding.
At home again, I found my m0thc.
too i'll to leave her bed. She had
been i'll before many times when sh.
wouldn't confess 1t, several time
when she was forced to admit It, bu
never before SO Ill that she could no.
dress and come down stairs. 81 shall
be up tomorrow she assured mo
and | almost believed her. She drew
letter from under her pillow. "TBis
came while you were away" she went
on. 81 kept it here, because" a lu,k
of shame fitted across her face and
then her eyes were steady and proud
again--"why should | be ashamed Of
It? had the impulse to destroy the
letter, and I'm not sure but that I'm
failing in my duty"
l took it-yes, it was from Boston
from Betty l opened it and forum
ately had neryed myself against show
ing myself to my mother There was
neither beginning nor end, just a
single sentence:
From the bottom Of my broken
heart | am thankful that | have been
spared the horror of discovering |
had bound myself for life to a coward, "
The shot went straight to the cen
ter of the target, But There lay
my mother-dd she not have the right
to determine my destiny--she who
had given me my life and her own
| tore up Betty's letter, and | looked
at mother and said: There's nothing
in that to make me wayer-Or regret"
1t was the only lie ! ever told her. /
told it well, thank God, for she was
convinced, and the look in her face
repaid me thousandfold. 1t repays
me once more as 1 write.
CarlOtta and ] were married at her
bedside, and she lived only until the
next day but one. When the doctor
told me of the long concealed mortal
disease that was the cause of her go
ing, he ended with: "And, Mr. Sayler.
it passes belief that she managed to
keep alive for five years. / can't I'M
derstand it," But | understood She
simply refused to go until she felt that
her mission was accomplished
I'VE must never forget her" said
Carlotta, trying to console me by
grieving with me,
l did not answer-how could | ex-
plain? Never forget her! On the
contrary, | knew that | must forget
and that | must work and grow and
so heal the wound and cover its scar
| lost not day in beginning.
To those few succeeding months
owe the power | have had all these
years to concentrate my mind upon
whatever | will to think about; for
in those months | fought the fight
dared not lose-fought it and won
Let those who have never loved talk
of remembering the dead.
! turned away from her grave with
the resolve that my first act of power
would be to stamp out Dominick. But
for him she would not have gone for
many year. 1t was his prosecutions
that involved us in the miseries which
wasted her and made her fall a victim
to the mortal disease 1t was his
malignity that poisoned her last years,
which. but for him, would have been
happy.
AS my plans for ousting Dunkirk
took shape, | saw clearly that, if he
We're to be overthrown at once. | must
use part of the existing control Of the
machine of the party-it would take
several years, at least three to build
up an entirely new control To work
quickly | must use Crofiut, Dunkirks
colleague in the senate And Croffut
was the creature of Dominick
Early in September Woodruff came
to me, at Fredonia, his manner jubi-
liant 81 can get Dominick," he ex-
claimed He is furious against Dun
kirk because he's just discovered that
Dunkirk cheated him out Of 100000
on that perpetual street railway fran
cbiSe last winter"
But we don't want Dominlck, d"
said l.
My face must have reflected my
mind, for Woodruff merely replied:
"Ch, very well. OF course that alters
the case"
1--WE must get CroGut without him."
| went on.
Woodruff shook his head. Cant
get him, he said "Dominick controls
the two southern ranges of counties
He fances his own machine from
what he collects from vice and crime
in those cities. He gives that branch
of the plum tree to the boys. He
keeps the bigger one, the corporations