The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-01-04

Ihat should count for great dea
Paul"
IF only could be of some use {,
hint I'd like 10 be-" The humility sa
strangely on Paul.
"Ah. | see you don't understand. III
needs all the help all of us can give
For William Murchell is dying. anC
Bob must take his place"
HE has risen high I am glad
And she saw that he was sincere. He
sat up suddenly. with a despairlng cry:
Kathleen. it's not possible! | can't
stay. | can't help him. | can only
hurt him. Don't you see. I'll be a re-
minder to him and TO every one of
what must be forgOtten-that thing
his shame"
But you don't understand" she
cried What others think doesn't
count He has never denied 1t. part
| ly. think. because be wouldn't shame
you before the people. AS for him, 1t
wasn't his shame. He wasn't guilty"
He-wasnt-guiltyl"
| Then to the bewildered Paul she told
the story OF the convention as she had
mad IL from Haggin.
| IL was long before he answered. His
hands and face twitched continuously
| Evidently his nerves were gone. II
was not easy. the thing required of
him.
At last he opened his eyes. ITS the
only thing to do"
She guessed what was in his mind.
He would never ask It. Paul"
Let us call Haggin and do it. Now
-tonight-while my courage lasts"
Carrying the baby. she left him
alone In the library. When she re-
turned. after many minutes, she had
left the child asleep in the motherly
arms of Norah.
Paul was lying I'm the chair I'm the
same attitude as when she had left
him, his eyes closed. He opened his
eyes and looked up at her question
ingly.
They are coming now" she an
swered. Then she added abruptly, al
most sharply. Paul, it's only fair to
you 10 tell you that-that Bob and
Mrs. Gilbert She stopped as alb
ruptly as she had begun.
He made no answer, and after
awhile she continued gently:
"ls there any reason why they
shouldn't be happy-as men and wo-
men want 10 be happy, PaulY
Again II was long time before he
answered in voice that was very
tired: There is no reason. All that
is dead. 1t has no right to live. Kath-
leen."
In her heart she was crying Jealous
~ to her secret. "lt's rhe last thing 1
can do for himr" Aloud she said:
You must tell him that TOO"
He did not notice that her voice was
sharp and constrained He was
watching the fires OF a real suffering
burning out the last vestige of the
self that had been Paul Remington.
When Bob came home the two men
met quietly. What was said the
need not be set down here, but a new
footing was established. Thereafter
many things were ignored by them.
Paul went ON the staff of Bob's news
paper The Bugle's editorials are
often quoted In other newspapers of
note.
Many have often tried TO initiate
them In vain. perhaps because they
breathe a spirit that cannot be simu-
lated convincingly. He Is no longer a
public figure in the Steel City. Few
hnr
lvowal of McAdoo, fewer still his |
equally sensational amende Some
lines there have been struggles with |
1 burning appetite. AT such times he |
las fed TO Kathleen. He tells her 1t |
s she who has conquered.
Both Kathleen and Paul are happy.
At least they have achieved content
The train that whirled Paul toward
he Steel City was passed by another
bearing Mayor McAdoo to the death
,ed of a man who had come very close
o him.
Bob saw much OF Murchel during
he two years following the Steel City
election He came TO feel
mighty admira ton and affection for
be great general who had created a
lew political era. who had shackled a
alton TO the service of a vast yora.
ious system. who had lifted at least
ne nonentity TO the presidents chair
nd who in the last years of his life
'as struggling to undo the work of his
rhine.
when a man reaches his threescore
ears and ten" Murchell said to him
ne day. ''he has learned that the evil
r good a man does concerns himself
EAST OF all. The balance must remain
cavity against me- must strive not
D atone. but TO make the way ready
Or other men who will undo what |
ave done"
MurcbelIs lofty self ignoring gave
i'm an example that be strove TO emu.
lite.
Many other things of less abstract
ind he learned from the master