The Washington times., 1913-12-07

I see your point of view, all right.
There are no butts"
Wait moment. You. said some
thing about going away, didn't your
Il think l did
why don't you go to her first and
tell her all that you have told me?
Why don't you take her with you?
Eh? Why don't you?"
Harvard laughed a.oud and bitterly.
ASK her TO go away with felon?
As kher TO become the wife of a man
with price on his Aead?" he demanded
But you are not guilty. You are
not 4 felnn."
Il will be one-when 1 have finished
with RushtOn.'
You can put him and your vengeance
against him aside il you win her. Bing.
Il don't want to win her. l wouldn't
marry her il she were the last woman
on earth-and because of the very rea-
son why l would not do that, neither
Will l put ASIDE the sentence l have
passed upon Rodney Rushton."
w hat is that reason?"
Don't you know What 1t Is!
If l did know l wouldn't ask"
Cant you see-dont you know that
she believes that / am guilty? Can't
you understand that she looks upon me
as Il thief? Great Heavens, man, don
you grasp the truth that Rusnton mas
forced her to believe that OF me IN pre-
ClStlA llG SdLIlC "dy lldl LAC SoA'AAASSN
Has she told you that she believes
it?''
In words-no. By implication, by ac-
tions, by a thousand little things-yes!
1T is not possible, l tell you. am
not mistaken. She believes it-and, not
withstanding the fact that she does be-
lieve it, she has permitted herself to
defend me, to assist me, to help me. TO
make q traitor of herself for my sake,
M all haramSa wnu1anlika she has AL
low ed herself to think little too much
of me.
Don't misunderstood me, Tom. I'm
not fool enough TO think for moment
that Katherine Maxwell is in love with
ne. That would be nonsense. But
her life down there at headquarters has
brought her so closely in touch with
the things that are false that she has
forgotten what real things are like.
She has discovered inside of herself
some sort of sentimental fondness for
me-possibly because l am honest-and
she has mistaken the imitation for the
real
oh! we'll, l won't argue 1t with you.
What do you want me to do?"
Find her. Go down to headquar-
ters, if necessary; but find her. Tell
her as much or as little as you please
of what have said to you. Make her
at least, l have become, or will have
become by that time a murderer.
Tell her that she Is a misfit where
she is-that she does not belong there.
Tell her that said so. Find pos ton
for her somewhere in some other calling.
make her resign from that damnable
system. Save her from herself, for my
sake and for her own. That is what I
want my friend Tom Clancy to do for
me. That IS what l cannot do myself,
and must ask you to do in my place. .
Clancy was silent
viii you do il, Tom?'
TN try. was thinking over the pos
sibilities of it I'll try.
With clasped hands the two men
stood looking into each others eyes.
AT last Clancy spoke.
4 wish, Bing," he said, wistfuIly.
that you'd give up that idea about
RTshton."
Give it up? Spare Rushton now?
Not in a thousand years. Tom. His
arm is mended by this time. Spare
him7 ! guess not. 1 am going after
him as soon as I leave you, and when
have found him and finished with
him-then-I shall leave the country for
good and ALL"