The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-07-10
CHAPTER xn.-contlrued

GrNHT ~
Not now. Not since l have found
you out. The thing ! have feared all
along has come 20 pass. am relieved.
now that you show me just where !
truly stand. But, l asked what OF
you"
The world Is more likely 10 applaud
than 10 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
cut? VIII Leslie applaud you? Listen,
please l am trying to save you from
yourself, Sara You will fall in every
thing you have hoped for. You will
be more accursed thar /. The world
will pity me, II may even forgive me.
1t will listen to my story, which Is
more than you will do, and It will be-
ueye me. All, l am not afraid now.
A first was In terror. had no hope
70 escape. All that is past. Today I
an 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
ayenge when they sit in jury boxes.
They are not women Good God, Sara.
Is there a man living today who could
have planned this thing you have cher
ished all these months? Not one! And
all men Will curse you for II. even
though they SEND me 10 prison or to
the-chair. But they viii not con
denim me. They will hear my story
and they will set me free. And then.
what Of your"
sara stood perfectly rigid. regarding
this earnest r%easoner with growing
wonder.
Ny dear % she said, you would bet
ter 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"
TO help mel" cried Sara, aston
2shed in spite OF herself.
Yes. To save you from execra-
t1on-and ever worse"
There Is no moral wrong in mar
riage with Leslie Wrandall," said
Sara, returning to her own project.
NO moral wrong" cried Hetty,
aghast. NO, I suppose not" she went
on. a moment later. 1T is something
much deeper, much blacker than moral
wrong. There is no word for 1t. And
If / marry him, what then? Wherein
ties your triumph? You can't mean
shat-God IN heaven! You would not
60 TO them with the truth when It was
too late for him Toto cast me off,"
Il am no such fool as that. The
secret would be forever safe in that
event. My triumph, as you call 1t.
we will not discuss"
How you must hate me, to be will
Eng TO do such an infamous thing to
me"
Il do not hate you, Hetty."
Tn heavens name, what do you call
ST.
Justification. Listen to me now.
i am saying this for -FOUR good sense
~ "a eAh app EN4dtt' WOulU IL De
right in me TO allow you to marry any
other man, knowing all that I know?
There ia but n man you can In Just
ice marry; the one who can repair the
wreck that his W blood created. Not
Brandon Booth, nor any man save Les
lie Wrandall. He Is the man who must
pay
II do not intend to marry" said
Petty.
But Leslie will marry some one,
and | intend that it shall be you. He
ehah marry the %ex-chorus girl, the
artists model. the-the prostitute.
Wait, Don't fly at me like that!
Don't assume that look Of ~virtuous
horror! Let IRE say what I have to
Gay, This much of your story shall