The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-12-03
CHAPTER xIi.-contlnued.

mot now. Not since I have found
you out. Tho thing have feared all
along has come to pass. / am relieved,
now that you show me just where |
truly stand. But. ! asked: what of
your"
1.-THE world rs more likely to applaud
than to curse me. Hetty. 1t likes a
new sensation. My change of heart
will appear quite natural"
Are you sure that the world will
applaud your real designf You hate
the Wrandalls. Will 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 l. The world
will pity me, II may even forgive me.
II will listen to my story, which Is
more than you will do, and II will be-
licve me-. All, | am not afraid now.
At first | was in terror. | had no hope
to escape. All that is past. Today l
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,
Is there a mar living today who could
have planned this thing you have cher
iahed all these months? Not one! And
all mon uutit rtYrcn tyntt fAr e 49,
though they send me to prison or to
the-chair. But they will 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 with growing
wonder.
MY DEAR" she said, you would bet
ter be thinking Of yourself, not OF me-"
why, when l 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
ished In spite Of herself.
Yes. To save you from execra-
tion-and even worse"
There 10 no moral wrong in mar
Rage with Leslie Wrandall," said
Sara. returning to her own project.
mo moral wrongl" cried Hetty,
aghast mo. l suppose not" she went
on, q moment later. 1T is something
much deeper, much blacker than moral
wrong. There Is NO word for 1t. And
u ! marry him, what then? Wherein
Hes your triumph Yoa cant mean
that-God IT. heaven! You would not
60 to them with tho truth when It was
TOO late for him toto cast me OIL"
II am M such .trol az that. The
secret would be forever safe In that
event. My triunJh. A. you call 1t.
We win not discusS"
sIzcw you must hate me, to be will.
tng to do such IN Infamous thing to
mel"
Il do not hate ron. Hetty." .
I'm heavens naue. what do you call
n.y.
classification. Listen to me low
am saying this sor your good sense
- seize and appreciate. Would It be
night in me to allow you TO- marry any
cher man, moving all that l know ?
There IL but one IAN you can in Just
tes marry: the n who can repair the
wreck that his owl blood created. Not
xBraudon Booth. nor any man save Les
~ wrandall. He " the man who must
pay"
Il DO not intend to marry" said
uetty.
"But Leslie VIII marry some one.
and / intend that It shall be you. He
marry the ex-chorus girl. the
model, the-the prostitute!
Esiti Don't ~ at me like that!
fou't that look Of virtucus
borrof Let me say what have p
Nv. his mucA Ct vnnr stor- sAaa