The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-03-01

drove a roundabout course
streets and alleys to tho rea
of the bank. Like thieves. thew
and carried what lay there
carriage. Then they drove
ing that no untimely pas
CHANGED to observe them.
But the luck held.
Later still, with another
little. faded old woman bee,
instant a foolishly smiling CT
into their memories, Haig
chell emerged from the hom
rem Bake. Haig stopped, loo
Il wonder what John Dul
going through just now?
the end. The good have
There's a curse on the man ri
for this night. Old man. dc
amen? You and l will have
the matter of payment"
He caught the other by t
ders. peered closely into his
laughing harshly, turned aw
Through a night that SCENE
q man fought battle old as
He had sought the solitude Of
in Il blind. vain wish to es
issue and the thing that filed
He had come so near to g
And now. at an hour when b.
most to need stimulus and su
was brought face to face
temptation to desert. 1t was
in a moment of disheartenmeL
as he had cried to himself,
come to the end" It was far
when opportunity had come
a sinking cause to stay his he
knew he had but to reach gu
close. not an Excalibur rising
the waters to lend invincit
him who would WELD 1t, but
prod for q calloused people, {
the more to add to the knt
whose cumulati tive power In
would-must-carry the peoI
ward, upward.
1t was. Hampden, Katheri
John Dunmeade against the pe
And what did he owe the pee
calloused fools whose knowlt
not complete. was yet full en-
show them whittier they wer
and whittier they must turn,
trudged contentedly on. indifft
all but the present profit, |
only Of self, repudiating and s
at those who offered honest
and counsel? The balance
against them and In his fave
some one else now take up t
to which John Dunmeade hs
unequal.
He saw Stephen Hampden &C
a suddenly broken, fear palsit
before the death agony, lookil
a kind of usefulness on th,
mans face. as though in
Blake's example he saw a wa.
the tangle. A troop of miseral
able figures marched before hir
ton. Brown. Parsons, SheehaI
men whom he had punished
lives he had shattered or take
crusade-to what end? Theil
had been taken by other men
kind. the world no better, NJ
so far as he could see. Beh
troop marched regiment of I
women. his neighbors. who's
savings would be lost. did Il
fail through his disclosures, BIT
be preserved il Murchell's prt
intervene was kept. Was th
more virtue In mercy than in
ment?
For long. in the fear Of the q
knows himself weakening, he
to face the crucial fact. But
to come TO ito her-at la
saw her as he had last seen
rose in bloom. a strong wol
fined and softened by some be
cess of which he knew nothing
went forward he must cloud Il
dor and beauty of her woI
with disgrace and suffering.
volted against the thought-w
she. innocent. and at his b
made TO suffer the penalty tha
uau earned: IouIu ne strike q
1t made no difference that
fouted him for unworthy THU
once before nothing that ST
say lad added to the temptat
lay in her very existence. so N
ing that she had done could ia
the fact of his love. For ii lii
could find through the years IN
ing work an anodyne TO dea
ache, but on this Mount Olive
again. a throbbing passion &
merged all things else. He
the strength OF God. be told
He could not be so merciless
to himself.
| He fed homeward in the W. n
and prayed feverishly for df v
By his window. as one
watched a dawn Of promise b
come. but without promisS.
the battle ended. too tired TO
bed. he fell asleep in the chair