The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-09
Copyright. 1910. by Emerson Rough
| By
 EMERS ON HOUGH


 this Union be IosrG An. mauam; an. madam! How great your heart. your mind! I kiss your hand"
 'ListenT she Interrupted ''There are about three and one-third millions of them now. Say they are worth. old and young, large and little. $1.O0o head-monstrous. thing. to put price upon human head. but suppose it is. It would amount to but a few billions of dollars. What would war cost between these two sections? Perhaps $1 .OOO. .O0O a day! How much cheaper could these slaves be purchased and deported from these shores! Their owners regard them as property. The laws protect that belief. The const1tu- tion establishes tire jaws. There is no peaceful way to end the turmoil. save by the purchase of these people. That is solution. It will prevent war. Let them be sent away to place where they belong. rather than here" My dear countess said Carlisle, ".you are. as usual, brilliant. But. as usual, you are visionary ar6 inpracti- cal. Buy them? To do this would re- quire the credit of nation. It would be subversive of all peace and all fn- dustry.''
 ''Al1 it needs is money and manage ment. A start and the country will follow. MT. Fillmore himself was about to recommend it in his last mes- sage. Let me furnish the money and
 do you attend to the complications"
 Carlisle rubbed his chin thoughtful ly. Its beautiful; it may be wise. but it's impossible. 1t would take kings credit"
 At least we might begin with such funds as are already at hand" smiled the Countess St. Auban. ''It might be difficult? I suppose the building of the pyramids was difficult. Yet they were begun Yet they are finished. Yet they stand complete today"
 "It is hardly for me to advise in case so grave as that said Carlisle. ''I should not undertake it. Have you really considered p
 '1 have often followed over the same old course of reasoning. south against north,'' she said, smiling at him. "Come, now. a revolutionist and two abolitionists should do much. You still can fight, though they have taken away your sword.''
 Carlisle rose and Strode about the room, his face drowning, his slender figure erect, martial even in it's civil ian dress. Presently he turned: But it is noble of you. magnificent, to think of doing what government hesitates to dol And a woman!'
 Could it be .done?" she demanded. ''It would require much money. But what noble solution it would beI''
 Precisely. I rejoice to see that your mind is so singularly clear although your heart is so kind"
 '"Thank you, my dear captain. This plan of mine to have any success must be carried out on lines broad minded and fair"
 But how adjust pocket interests on both sides? You'll see You'll be left alone. It is easier to make a speech for liberty, than 1t is to put the price of one slave in the hat passed for lib erty. New England, all the north. will talk, will hold mass meetings. will pass resolutions commenting resistance to the law-like this incident of which there's news this morning. You'll see the blacks commended for that But l you won't see much money raised to keep other blacks from being followed by their owners
 ''Then leave it for those who see | duty in more concrete form. Leave the cost to me. My only answer is-Lily."
 And again and again her only answer i to them both was-Lily. She told them her story. produced the girl herself | and made her confirm 1t, offered her Rs concrete example to be presented i In a platform campaign which might not end in talk alone-pleaded, argued, 1 and won. | Madam, I, too, kiss your hands," said Carlisle at last-and did so- | campaign for her two agents and had arranged for the expenditure of an | initial S1Oo.O0O.
 ! It was dusk Heavy shadows lay over the trees which lined the curving walks leading across little park to i the stately white house beyond. From that direction now appeared several 1 gentlemen, advancing in scattering 1 groups. They might almost have been made up of conspirators, so intent l they seemed, so apprehensive lest even | their thoughts might be read. Two of l them drew apart. one of these a slend i er bony man. the other tall and dark 1 man. The latter spoke almost mOodfly. "1 doubt your ability, my. dear sir, 1 to influence so shrewd a man in any i such way as you suggest. Besides, he i is not of our party
 1 "That's all the better man of our i party might, could. would and should keep his mouth shut about such a 1 hcklish matter: but outside our party 1 any who begins it has got to keep his l mouth shut.
 | 'There is no other way,'' he added, | smiling. Ut must be done. The ! Countess St. Auban is here again. 1 This band of gypsy heathens from 1 Hungary is also here. The country is 1 wild over Kossuth. We'll have to ac- 1 sept this invitation to invite him. But | Austria remains bitter against the l countess. What we must do is to have i her go back home with these commis-