The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-11-28

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est sources OF his being.
Have |. too. my price, oh. boastfu
soul2' he cried. Would 1 sell my
honor for million? No. For ten
| fifty hundred millions? No-not In
! the market place, no-but would | sell
! by compromise OF principle In the
secret conclave of my party-at a sale
the world could never would
sell for the presidency of the republic ?
Or would | sell now to win this wom-
an? Would II IL so, | should hold
her blameless. Have all men and all
women price II we but name It?
Answerl Answerp' And then from
the depths OF his being came the burn
ing words
mol ] swear 1t. Nor
He looked up with a start. wonder
ing vaguely If the crowd had heard
this cry.
No; they were intent on the drama
at the altar. The minister was say
ing:
what God hath Joined together let
not man put asunder."
"'Godp Surely he didn't say Cod"
Stuart brooded. Does God. the au-
gust. mysterious, awful creator of the
universe. work like this? Did not the
God Of heaven and earth give this wo-
man to him beneath the sunny skies
of the south while their souls sang for
joy?"
They were moving again down the
aisle, the organ throbbing the recess
slonal from Mendelssohn. wave of
emotion swept the crowd inside, and
they became a mob of vulgar, chatter
Ing. gossiplng fools, swarming over
stand OF racecourse. without hesita-
tlon tearing down and stealing its dec
orations for souvenirs.
BY a curious law of reaction all re-
sentiment and anger were gone, and
only great pity for Nan began to fill
Stuart's heart.
That night Stuart entered one of the |
more dlgnlfied and serious theaters just |
off Broadway. The play was serious
effort by a brilliant young dramatist
OF the modern school of realism. In
two minutes from the rising of the cur
tain the play had gripped him with re-
lentless power. Slowly. remorseless as
fate. he saw the purpose of the author
unfold itself In a series of tense and
terrible scenes. The comedy over which
the crowd laughed with such conta-
gious merriment was even more SIMS
ter than the serious parts. No matter
what the situation-whether set to
aughter. to terror or to tears-beneath
I all throbbed one insistent question:
"Has the woman who sells herself
or money soul?'
With breathless interest he watched
he cruel carving of her body into tiny
,ieces. Without smiling, whining or
pology, with arms barred and gleam-
ng scalpel firmly gripped In hand
hat never quivered once, the author
issected her. Always he could hear
his white invisible figure bending over
ach scene talking TO the audience In
is quiet. terrible way:
well, IL be she has a soul we shall ,
nd It. Perhaps it's here" 4,
With a firm. strong hand the last
Acret OF muscle and nerve and bone
as laid bare, and the white face look
! into the eyes OF the audience through
mist of tears.
I'm sorry. my friends. But we must :
ice the truth. It's better TO know the
nth. however bitter. than to believe !,
e."
With a soft rush the big curtain came :
,wn in silence that could be felt
he dazed crowd walked from the spell b
I'd poured into the aisles, while Stu
t still sat gripping the arms of his
at with strangling emotion. n
AT last he said to himself with chok- r
& emphasis;
'He was cruel. inhuman, unjust. | II
fuse to believe i'll She has SOUL h
lie has soulp' II
Next day stuart went 10 his office m
It'll his mind keyed 10 a higher pitch IL
power He felt that he was on his
ettle. The fight was not yet won. n
It this morning he was winning. He 9,
unged into his work with tireless -,
al Everything he touched seemed a,
umined with new light. n,
At the close OF the days work he was
III conscious of an exhaustless pity n,
hich had found no adequate express ss
IN in his labor on his clients cases. NC
IS mind wandered to the dark silent h,
.llions into whose world the doctor =,
d led him that night-millions who ~,
We no voice in courts because they ~
We no money to sustain fight for M
e enforcement of justice. He had ~
yer thought about these people be =,
re. They were calling now for his 80
lp. Why? Because he had been en-