The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-29

for some change Of feeling which might blunt the edge of my grief, but none came, and my love seemed to grow stronger each succeeding day.
 It was maddening to think that I had lost her, and what gave this sorrow keener edge was the knowledge that l had forever put it out of my power to be of any service to her or to lend as- sistance to those she loved. I would become prey at times to the keenest bangs of jealousy. I had no doubt that the squire would renew his suit. and I feared that she might be led in her bitter resentment toward me to accept his hand In marriage. l wrote her several letters begging for her for giveness and if she could not grant me that to~try at least to understa nd the feelings which had prompted me to write the letters which had been the means of separating us. I told her of the hopeless state of mind into which had fallen and that 1 believed that my life would be aimless unless she would touch the magic spring which would set my blood aglow once more and arouse the dormant ambition with in me to accomplish something in the world.
 | WTOI0 Ou duu OAs G4u1uSLG0 UJ logic and mental powers to make her understand. reviewed my visit to the Pines at length, from the moment had met Colonel Turpfn to the last interview had had with her. My first mistake, told her, had been in letting my introduction to her and her mother as relative of the Kentucky Palmers go unchallenged explained how believed myself to have been merely 8 boarder and the almost fatal mistake I had made in speaking to the colonel on the subject
 Such hospitality was unaccustom- ed to. nor do now fully understand the promptings of that kind old heart when he invited me to the Pines. I told her of my life and of my work: how I had come into her section with the bitterest feelings against it. My one ambition, told her, was to arouse 8 hostile sentiment in New England against the political party then in pow CT in nearly all the southern states. I did not conceal from her the satisfac- ton I had felt when this assignment had been given me nor my disappoint- ment when l learned afterward that I was not to touch on politics in my letters l told her of my resolution to leave the Pines on the day after had arrived there, but how that resolve melted as snow before the sun when had seen her and looked into her eyes; how step by step she had led me to look upon life with a broader and a kindlier view and had brought me finally to a full understanding of her section and her people. and how she had made me know for the first time hot fof oT7& 1Hnvr bn wont to say that all the two great sec- tions of the country needed was to get acquainted.
 The letter which had so offended her, said. would be the means of bringing thousands of persons to a proper ap- preciation of her home land and the southern character, just as the facts embodied in it had caused me to change the opinions I had held once. I did not believe my offense was past forgiveness, and 1 begged her that in a spirit of fairness she would try to appreciate the impulses of one whose instincts seemed to be to write of things as they are and whose training had led him always to seek out those things to describe which were novel and of interest. I followed this letter with another, but with no better result 1 wearied the postal officials with ques- hons and got them to go through the general delivery a half dozen times 8 day.
 do not know how it would have ended had the thought not come to me. as if by inspiration. that 1 could at least be of some small service to her, yet keep my identity in the back ground. After waiting in Augusta one more week in anxious hope that each day might bring a letter from her I took the train for Atlanta and there began a search for the holders of the mortgage on the Pines. With good references I presented myself at the office of one of the large trust compa- nies and authorized it's agents to trace the mortgage and to secure it at any cost After weeks of incessant work we traced the holders somewhere in the southern part of the state. and an agent of the company was dispatched there to take up the mortgage The utmost caution was necessary to se- cure the consent of Bud without excit- ing his suspicion. The holders of the paper were instructed to say that they