The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-15
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 M should I find fault in anything ouu Aave dune or failed to doT' he 0annanded ef both her and himself SW1V utould yUu be Apeaogetic or re gzutf1af Such thAng II I had to do tWo l1ysl ago. has held no place in youf, world and never could, but l eanst Ind 1t in myusif to be apologetic, G1tn bdpanso It 1s . part of mine. I '1nea6esto nm nAn-WAnted to kill him --beGalne I was certain of your scorn. Ihaf VII v1Idictfve; that was foolish IT GuaA But as for the rest of it |y mow I nay havo 1t all to do over ilGn any day. It was vulgar brawl 1o yun: to We" sNot tut q brawe. she ccntradfcted 9ulckl azxious to bs understood. S1pnttA 70 needlGssly brutal At '1xot Il left m only dased and nause-sl jo1n4 btt ifose I had had tlme to think N pnds pyeolf sse your side of it. H6a must cruth 1nsubofdinAtion And ol11z it stona ae thslGh there might
 axe beeh . lees horr1ble way"
 ;HHe ha4 lnlksd my work," he told TT steznly "He has fired upon me m cossf when ho dared not come out into tho open. He has been taking
 ndne0 for his work from a man who IuHs bent on beating ms 1t any cost. Uould I ak him plsase not to spoil my Aeldoeh n that your ideA of mans 1tny1 ZhiG ip my work, and while I es kznuS ii ft men who oppose mo with ths1r hfains VIII Arht with my brain { Dut men who force md to meet them G1th fists must boat with like weap- unG There Is no alternative. I have s1o choice unless quit. And that is tHo xeAsnn know tAat tllls ts the end Eof you and mel NY ways would have m to be yonr wayuy and we have lfag md long. They lie too far apart
 IT tAem exex to meet.
 < .8 Fl promised. to teach yeu to love ma. \ Nh1 I've failed. And moving that Nag failure is not all my own fault is { iptodlng to make t any easier fer me You've taught me lonellness I'm never 6u1nG to forget as long as live, but I { 1ont love you any tho less for that. | 1paaned big dreams for both of us." fIlS voice was dreary of sudden T { IEo1n1sed I'd make those dreams come 1fue. because I thought my life could lDfyopr life. I've not done so. That
 llnS could never be. I've talked big
 th1u could practice. and that is' fIE going to help my self confidence 7 4Gny, but as 1t stands now I can earn 1t 1ock. I couldn't have done that if I 1ad married you and walked some day \ fo ind you shrinking from me It Z kculd have Killed 1t and my self re-' 3poct, too. to have 1earned too late that Y0u believed stil n your own greater Gheness V
 s'T tell you 1t Il nctEthAtr' she cried but. Cant make yod understand''-
 "You have made mo understand till ' am sure, z he stated- T am no longer Nox1ng myself with trivial things. You hgve been uncertAin. I have seen that You are certain now. And the funda- spental thing remains unchanged. In 1neI there is that man who once man ' handled Harriean and you didn't < Nant meto touch yeu! You don't have to tell me any moro that you can't love ine When you drew away from me, V { that was enough"
 She sat and watched him put the soom in order. and that hurt her more inn anything else, for he would not TT her help. He made her change her high heeled boon for moccasins, which n brought and laced upon her feet. ' 4ut the remainder Of the day it was the old Steve who helped her over the hAd bits of going and talked discon- bectedly of many. things meanwhile. And yet no longer the, old Steve, who
 kd been SO entirely her own. Hers Nns the sad face when they entered khe clearing at Thirty Mile, and a hearse shout saluted her return. In hsr fathers embrace she chung and Mendersd that she did not cry. And 2 twe pages had turned for her that day, 3cr she sent WickershamNba back his ring the same night the private car rolled M0wn to Morrison.
 Harrigan was with Archibald Wick { ersham when the package, unaccom.
 panied by explanation, reached the lat < ter in his hotel room in town.
 ssGe out and get him." said Wicker
 alkim. "And see that you get him
 IT goed."
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