The Carlisle independent., 1914-07-16
CHAPTER xII-continued.


 Not now. Not since I have found you out. The thing I have feared all along has come to pass. I am relieved. now that you show me just where I truly stand. But I asked: what of you7'
 The world is more likely to applaud than to curse me, Hetty. It likes a new sensation. My change of heart will appear quite natural"
 Are you sure that the world will applaud your real design? You hate the Wrandalls VIII they be charitable toward you when the truth Is given out? Will Leslie applaud you? Listen, please: am trying to save you from yourself, Sara. You will fail in every thing you have hoped for. You will be more accursed than I. The world will pity me, 1t may even forgive me. It will listen to my story, which Is more than you will do, and it will be- heve me. An, am not afraid now. At first was iD terror l had no hope to escape. All that Is past. Today am ready to take my chances with the big, generous world. Men will try me, and men are not made of stone and steel. They punish but they do not avenge when they sit in jury boxes. They are not women! Good God, Sara, ss there man living today who could have planned this thing you have cher ished all these months? Not one! And ali men will curse you for it, even though they send me to prison or to the-chair. But they will not con- demn me. They will hear my story and they will set me free And then, what of your"
 Sara stood perfectly rigid. regarding this earnest reasoner with growing wonder
 My dear." she said. you would bet tor be thinking of yourself, not of me-"
 Why. when I tell my story, the world will hate you, Sara Wrandall You have helped me, you have been good to me, no matter what sinister motive you may have had in doing so. 1t is my turn to help you"
 ITO help mel" cried Sara, aston ashed in spite of herself
 Yes. To save you from execra- tion-and even worse"
 There Is no moral wrong in mar riage with Leslie Wrandall," said Sara. returning to her own project.
 "No moral wrongly cried Hetty aghast- No. I suppose not" she went oH, moment later. ''It is something much deeper, much blacker than moral {c C., If marry him, what then? Wherein lies your triumph? You can't mean that-God in heaven! You would not go to them with the truth when it was too late for him toto cast me off!"
 T am no such fool as that The secret would be forever safe in that event My triumph. as you call it, we will not discuss"
 How you must hate me, to be will ing to do such an infamous thing to mel"
 T do not hate you. Hetty."
 Tn heavens name, what do you call itr"
 Justification. Listen to me now. am saying this for your good sense to seize and appreciate. Would it be right in ne tc alloy you to marry any other man, knowing all that I know? There is but one man you can in just Ice marry: the one who can repair the wreck that his own blood created. Not Brandon Booth, nor any man save Les lie Wrandall He is the man who must pay"
 q do not intend to marry" said Hetty.
 But Leslie will marry some one, and intend that it shall be you He shall marry the ex-chorus girl, the artists model, the-the prostitutel Wait! Don't fly at me like that! Don't assume that look of yirtuous horror! Let me say what have to eav. Thh much of your story shall