The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-06


 that showed on his face at this.
 Suppose I should tell you that all the time I was talking to you about what I felt. there was wall, great wall. for ever between usT'
 '.In that case 1 should regret God had made a man so forgetful Of honor. l should be glad heaven had left me un- touched by anything such man could say. Suppose that?- Why. suppose had cared and that had found afser all there was no hope? There comes in conscience, sir, there comes in honof'
 Then in such a case"-
 -In such a case any woman would hate man. Stress may win some wo- men. but deceit never did"
 'T have not deceived you"
 sDo you wish to do so nowp
 s-No. It's just the contrary. Haven't I said you must go? But since you must pay. I'm willing. If you wish. to bare my life to the very bone. to the heart before you. now-right now"
 She pondered for moment ''Of course. I knew there was something. There. in that roon-iu that wardrobe those were her garments-of another another woman WhoT'
 wait. now. Go slow, because Pm suffering. Listen I'll not hear word about your own life-I want no secret of you I'm content But I'm willing now. say, to tell you all about that about those things I didn't do that at first. but how could I? There wasn't any chance. Besides. when l saw you, the rest of the world. the rest of my life. it was all. all wiped out of my mind, as though some drug had done it.
 a-Oh. I'm awake nowi But reckon maybe that doesn't mean that Pm getting out of my dream. but only into if deeper yet was mad for you then. could feel the blood sting in my veins, for you. Life is life after all. and we're made as we are. But later. now, beside that, on top of that, some thing else-do you think its-do you suppose I'm capable of it. selfish as am1 Do you reckon it's. love. just big worthy, decent love. better than any thing in the world? Is that-do you reckon. dear girl. that that's why I'm able now to say goodby? l loved you once so much l could not let you go. Now I love you so much can not let you stay.
 It was any sort of time, a moment, an hour. before there was spoken speech between them after that At last they both heard her voice.
 Now. you begin to pay. am glad. am glad"
 Then if is your revenge2 Very well. You have it."
 She went to him swiftly, put a hand on his arm .sNor' said she "what I want you to believe is that it's life that makes us pay. that it's God that makes us pay"
 s-sls my debt to you paid, thenr His voice trembIed.
 ''So far as it runs to me, it is paid"
 What remains?'
 .Nothing but the debt of yourself to yourself I'm going to look back to strange chapter in my life-a life which has had some strange ones. Pm not going to be able to forget. of course, what you've said to me. A woman loves to be loved When I go. I go; but 1 want to look back now and then and see you are still paying and getting richer with each act of courage, when you pay to yourself. not me"
 a.Ah. fanatic. An, visionary! Ah dreamer. dreamer! And you!''
 That is the rest of the debt. Each of us has suffered Mine own is for the faith. for the cause.'
 For what cause? What cause do you meang"
 -aThe cause of the world,'' she an swered vaguely. ''The cause of hu- manity- Oh. the worlds so big, and we're so very little. Life runs away so fast So many suffer in the world. so many want! Is 1t right for us, more fortunate, to take all, to eat in greed, to sleep in sloth. to be free from care when there are thousands all over the world needing food, aid, sympathy, op- portunity, the chance to grow?
 ''Oh"-she beat her hands together as was sometimes her way-"America. this great west, this splendid country where the feet are hurrying on so fast, fast-and the steam now carries men faster, faster, so that it may be done it may be done-without delay-why, al this America must one day give over war and selfishness. just as we two have tried to give over war and selfish ness, right here, right now. Do you suppose this world was made just to hold selfshness and unhappiness? Do Fou think that's all there ever was to inc plan of life2 An, no! There's some lining in living beyond eating and drink Ing and sleeping and begetting. Faith a great faith in something. some plan ahead, some purpose under you-ah, that's HvingP'
 .sBut they banished you for that?'
 -sYes, that's why they put me out of Washington. suppose I've been twice hauished- That Is why I came here to this country. Maybe, sir, that is xSy | came to you. here! Who shall Eay as to these things?'
 His throat worked strongly There was some struggle in the man. At last he spoke, and quietly. ''I see what separates us now It is the wall of our convictions- You are specifically an abolitionist, just as you are in gen eraI a revoIutionist- Pm on the other side. That's between us, then? An