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to ask Ann Sullivan some time" she

TO ask Ann Sullivan some time" she
laughed.
One thing" answered Halsey.
Shed tell you hat she isn't trying to
get the envy of her neighbors. don't
believe she'd be happy in that"
oh, but she's fresh over-she's not
American yet, don't you see? She
hasn't had a ~chance-you cant tell
what she would do IL she were rich
There are two ways OF looking at
it," said Halsey musingly. his anger
passing. now leaving him meditative,
relaxed. They were talking now as
though there were not two others, un-
happy. waiting on the gallery near
by. Eli tell you something. If you'll
let me talk about myself. Mrs. Rawn.'
Go on; I'm glad!"
Il don't suppose you care for things
that interest me. You called me a
Socialist. I'll admit that | studied a
lot about that, attended their meet
ings, all hat sort of thing. Maybe that
made me think. II seems to me that
money is rolling up too fast in this
country nowhere all mad about
money. It's like the big apple with
no taste to it. ! had it offered me to
choose between those two. and took
the little apple that to me seemed
sweeter.
Now. | We perfected that invention.
It'll make somebody rich any time !
say the word-any time ] like that big
apple and not the little one-any
time ! like that success which comes
from outside and not from inside. But
I've figured that that doesn't mean
happiness. Maybe I'm wrong. don't
know. Somehow | believe that Abra-
ham Lincoln, or John Ruskin, or Jim
Sullivan. or Tim, or Ann, or Sir Isaac
Newton-any thinking person-any
philosopher-would come in with me
about this. | broke up the machines
"Why-where it meant RUM
Because they'd tighten up the grip
Of a few men on the neck of the peo-
plei | don't know whether you call
that being a Socialist or not, and
don't care, Change is coming It's
not the fault of the poor that it's com
ing. It's the fault of the rich. | broke
them up-because things cant go on
this way, money rolling up all the time
for a few, and life getting harder all
the time for so many. God didn't
make the rivers and the mountains
and forests for that purpose-to give
them to a few. We've got to make
changes, and big ones, in this govern
ment, or we're gone. I'm no Socialist
at all. | don't want what some one
else has WON'T he's won II fair. But
the wrong is in u government-the
very one of all on earth that meant
fair play. We don't get it-now. Some
day we must. | don't see what differ
ence it makes what name you give the
new form of government. There must
be change, that's all; or else we're
gone,
We'll, now, what they wanted me to
do was to give hat all to a few.
couldn't do it! My God! Mrs. Rawn,
| faced it and / tried, and | couldn't
do it, Maybe I was wrong. Anyhow,
here | stand"
do you know" she said at length,
slowly, these are things that never
came to my mind in all my life? ]
never in all my life thought of any of
these things. | only wanted"
you wanted to win. You wanted
what most American women do
money-station-power-to be envied:
that's what you played for. Well,
you've won! Look at all this about
you. ! don't suppose there's a woman
in this town more admired by men or
more envied by women than you.
You've got what you craved, | recken."
Il thought ! had. But now. tonight.
I'm not so surei'
You couldn't give it up he sheer
ed. "any more than Grace could. and
she couldn't any more than . leopard
could change its spots. It gees too
deep. You couldn't expect anything
different. '
Il told you | was a student, Mrs.
Rawn," he went on after a time. Il
haven't got much mind. But some
how, while don't suppose religion can
change business very much, | think of
the twelve disciples and their Master,
trying to lift the load off of human be-
ings, trying to lift the people of the
world III above the day of tooth and
claw. | don't reckon they a do 1t
But you see. each fellow has to choose
for himself. I've mad this put before
me. | could have thrown in with
Rawn-I can do SO yet, right here,
now. as you know. | can hold him
up, as he would hold me up, or any
one else-l a take his money
fifty thousand, a Million don't think
he's really got as much money as most
people think. He's In debt, deep
That's all right so long as your credi,
is good. He has had all sorts of
credit-and it depended on neon
my invention. 1t wasn't his. II isn't
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