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+ON THE NIGHT OF HIS ARRIVAL IN LONDON ALEXANDER WENT IMMEDIATELY TO THE HOTEL ON THE EMBANKMENT AT WHICH HE ALWAYS STOPPED AND IN THE LOBBY HE WAS ACCOSTED BY AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE MAURICE MAINHALL WHO FELL UPON HIM WITH EFFUSIVE CORDIALITY AND INDICATED A WILLINGNESS TO DINE WITH HIM. BARTLEY NEVER DINED ALONE IF HE COULD HELP IT AND MAINHALL WAS A GOOD GOSSIP WHO ALWAYS KNEW WHAT HAD BEEN GOING ON IN TOWN ESPECIALLY HE KNEW EVERYTHING THAT WAS NOT PRINTED IN THE NEWSPAPERS. THE NEPHEW OF ONE OF THE STANDARD VICTORIAN NOVELISTS MAINHALL BOBBED ABOUT AMONG THE VARIOUS LITERARY CLIQUES OF LONDON AND ITS OUTLYING SUBURBS CAREFUL TO LOSE TOUCH WITH NONE OF THEM. HE HAD WRITTEN A NUMBER OF BOOKS HIMSELF AMONG THEM A HISTORY OF DANCING A HISTORY OF COSTUME A KEY TO SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS A STUDY OF THE POETRY OF ERNEST DOWSON ET CETERA. ALTHOUGH MAINHALL'S ENTHUSIASM WAS OFTEN TIRESOME AND ALTHOUGH HE WAS OFTEN UNABLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN FACTS AND VIVID FIGMENTS OF HIS IMAGINATION HIS IMPERTURBABLE GOOD NATURE OVERCAME EVEN THE PEOPLE WHOM HE BORED MOST SO THAT THEY ENDED BY BECOMING IN A RELUCTANT MANNER HIS FRIENDS. HE SPOKE WITH AN EXTREME OXFORD ACCENT AND WHEN HE WAS TALKING WELL HIS FACE SOMETIMES WORE THE RAPT EXPRESSION OF A VERY EMOTIONAL MAN LISTENING TO MUSIC. MAINHALL LIKED ALEXANDER BECAUSE HE WAS AN ENGINEER. HE HAD PRECONCEIVED IDEAS ABOUT EVERYTHING AND HIS IDEA ABOUT AMERICANS WAS THAT THEY SHOULD BE ENGINEERS OR MECHANICS. HE HATED THEM WHEN THEY PRESUMED TO BE ANYTHING ELSE. WHILE THEY SAT AT DINNER MAINHALL ACQUAINTED BARTLEY WITH THE FORTUNES OF HIS OLD FRIENDS IN LONDON AND AS THEY LEFT THE TABLE HE PROPOSED THAT THEY SHOULD GO TO SEE HUGH MAC CONNELL'S NEW COMEDY BOG LIGHTS. IT'S REALLY QUITE THE BEST THING MAC CONNELL'S DONE HE EXPLAINED AS THEY GOT INTO A HANSOM. IT'S TREMENDOUSLY WELL PUT ON TOO. FLORENCE MERRILL AND CYRIL HENDERSON. BUT HILDA BURGOYNE'S THE HIT OF THE PIECE. HUGH'S WRITTEN A DELIGHTFUL PART FOR HER AND SHE'S QUITE INEXPRESSIBLE. I HAPPEN TO HAVE MAC CONNELL'S BOX FOR TONIGHT OR THERE'D BE NO CHANCE OF OUR GETTING PLACES. THERE'S EVERYTHING IN SEEING HILDA WHILE SHE'S FRESH IN A PART. SHE'S APT TO GROW A BIT STALE AFTER A TIME THE ONES WHO HAVE ANY IMAGINATION DO. HILDA BURGOYNE. ALEXANDER EXCLAIMED MILDLY. WHY I HAVEN'T HEARD OF HER FOR YEARS. MAINHALL LAUGHED. THEN YOU CAN'T HAVE HEARD MUCH AT ALL MY DEAR ALEXANDER. IT'S ONLY LATELY SINCE MAC CONNELL AND HIS SET HAVE GOT HOLD OF HER THAT SHE'S COME UP. MYSELF I ALWAYS KNEW SHE HAD IT IN HER. IF WE HAD ONE REAL CRITIC IN LONDON BUT WHAT CAN ONE EXPECT. DO YOU KNOW ALEXANDER MAINHALL LOOKED WITH PERPLEXITY UP INTO THE TOP OF THE HANSOM AND RUBBED HIS PINK CHEEK WITH HIS GLOVED FINGER DO YOU KNOW I SOMETIMES THINK OF TAKING TO CRITICISM SERIOUSLY MYSELF. IN A WAY IT WOULD BE A SACRIFICE BUT DEAR ME WE DO NEED SOME ONE. JUST THEN THEY DROVE UP TO THE DUKE OF YORK'S SO ALEXANDER DID NOT COMMIT HIMSELF BUT FOLLOWED MAINHALL INTO THE THEATRE. WHEN THEY ENTERED THE STAGE BOX ON THE LEFT THE FIRST ACT WAS WELL UNDER WAY THE SCENE BEING THE INTERIOR OF A CABIN IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. AS THEY SAT DOWN A BURST OF APPLAUSE DREW ALEXANDER'S ATTENTION TO THE STAGE. MISS BURGOYNE AND HER DONKEY WERE THRUSTING THEIR HEADS IN AT THE HALF DOOR. AFTER ALL HE REFLECTED THERE'S SMALL PROBABILITY OF HER RECOGNIZING ME. SHE DOUBTLESS HASN'T THOUGHT OF ME FOR YEARS. HE FELT THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE HOUSE AT ONCE AND IN A FEW MOMENTS HE WAS CAUGHT UP BY THE CURRENT OF MAC CONNELL'S IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY

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+THE AUDIENCE HAD COME FOREWARNED EVIDENTLY AND WHENEVER THE RAGGED SLIP OF A DONKEY GIRL RAN UPON THE STAGE THERE WAS A DEEP MURMUR OF APPROBATION EVERY ONE SMILED AND GLOWED AND MAINHALL HITCHED HIS HEAVY CHAIR A LITTLE NEARER THE BRASS RAILING. YOU SEE HE MURMURED IN ALEXANDER'S EAR AS THE CURTAIN FELL ON THE FIRST ACT ONE ALMOST NEVER SEES A PART LIKE THAT DONE WITHOUT SMARTNESS OR MAWKISHNESS. OF COURSE HILDA IS IRISH THE BURGOYNES HAVE BEEN STAGE PEOPLE FOR GENERATIONS AND SHE HAS THE IRISH VOICE. IT'S DELIGHTFUL TO HEAR IT IN A LONDON THEATRE. THAT LAUGH NOW WHEN SHE DOUBLES OVER AT THE HIPS WHO EVER HEARD IT OUT OF GALWAY SHE SAVES HER HAND TOO. SHE'S AT HER BEST IN THE SECOND ACT. SHE'S REALLY MAC CONNELL'S POETIC MOTIF YOU SEE MAKES THE WHOLE THING A FAIRY TALE. ALEXANDER ANNOYED BY MAINHALL'S SIGHS AND EXCLAMATIONS WATCHED HER WITH KEEN HALF SKEPTICAL INTEREST. AS MAINHALL HAD SAID SHE WAS THE SECOND ACT THE PLOT AND FEELING ALIKE DEPENDED UPON HER LIGHTNESS OF FOOT HER LIGHTNESS OF TOUCH UPON THE SHREWDNESS AND DEFT FANCIFULNESS THAT PLAYED ALTERNATELY AND SOMETIMES TOGETHER IN HER MIRTHFUL BROWN EYES. WHEN SHE BEGAN TO DANCE BY WAY OF SHOWING THE GOSSOONS WHAT SHE HAD SEEN IN THE FAIRY RINGS AT NIGHT THE HOUSE BROKE INTO A PROLONGED UPROAR. AFTER HER DANCE SHE WITHDREW FROM THE DIALOGUE AND RETREATED TO THE DITCH WALL BACK OF PHILLY'S BURROW WHERE SHE SAT SINGING THE RISING OF THE MOON AND MAKING A WREATH OF PRIMROSES FOR HER DONKEY. WHEN THE ACT WAS OVER ALEXANDER AND MAINHALL STROLLED OUT INTO THE CORRIDOR. THEY MET A GOOD MANY ACQUAINTANCES MAINHALL INDEED KNEW ALMOST EVERY ONE AND HE BABBLED ON INCONTINENTLY SCREWING HIS SMALL HEAD ABOUT OVER HIS HIGH COLLAR. MAC CONNELL LET ME INTRODUCE MISTER BARTLEY ALEXANDER. I SAY IT'S GOING FAMOUSLY TO NIGHT MAC AND WHAT AN AUDIENCE. YOU'LL NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN MARK ME. A MAN WRITES TO THE TOP OF HIS BENT ONLY ONCE. THE PLAYWRIGHT GAVE MAINHALL A CURIOUS LOOK OUT OF HIS DEEP SET FADED EYES AND MADE A WRY FACE. AND YOU'LL NEVER BRING HILDA OUT LIKE THIS AGAIN. DEAR ME MAC THE GIRL COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE BETTER YOU KNOW MAC CONNELL GRUNTED. HE NODDED CURTLY AND MADE FOR THE DOOR DODGING ACQUAINTANCES AS HE WENT. POOR OLD HUGH MAINHALL MURMURED HE'S HIT TERRIBLY HARD. HE'S BEEN WANTING TO MARRY HILDA THESE THREE YEARS AND MORE. SHE DOESN'T TAKE UP WITH ANYBODY YOU KNOW. ONE OF YOUR COUNTRYMEN ALEXANDER BY THE WAY AN AMERICAN STUDENT WHOM SHE MET IN PARIS I BELIEVE. I DARE SAY IT'S QUITE TRUE THAT THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANY ONE ELSE. MAINHALL VOUCHED FOR HER CONSTANCY WITH A LOFTINESS THAT MADE ALEXANDER SMILE EVEN WHILE A KIND OF RAPID EXCITEMENT WAS TINGLING THROUGH HIM. BLINKING UP AT THE LIGHTS MAINHALL ADDED IN HIS LUXURIOUS WORLDLY WAY SHE'S AN ELEGANT LITTLE PERSON AND QUITE CAPABLE OF AN EXTRAVAGANT BIT OF SENTIMENT LIKE THAT. HERE COMES SIR HARRY TOWNE. HE'S ANOTHER WHO'S AWFULLY KEEN ABOUT HER LET ME INTRODUCE YOU. SIR HARRY TOWNE MISTER BARTLEY ALEXANDER THE AMERICAN ENGINEER. SIR HARRY TOWNE BOWED AND SAID THAT HE HAD MET MISTER ALEXANDER AND HIS WIFE IN TOKYO. MAINHALL CUT IN IMPATIENTLY. I SAY SIR HARRY THE LITTLE GIRL'S GOING FAMOUSLY TO NIGHT ISN'T SHE. SIR HARRY WRINKLED HIS BROWS JUDICIOUSLY. THE FACT IS SHE'S FEELING RATHER SEEDY POOR CHILD. A LITTLE ATTACK OF NERVES POSSIBLY. HE BOWED AS THE WARNING BELL RANG AND MAINHALL WHISPERED YOU KNOW LORD WESTMERE OF COURSE THE STOOPED MAN WITH THE LONG GRAY MUSTACHE TALKING TO LADY DOWLE. LADY WESTMERE IS VERY FOND OF HILDA. WHEN THEY REACHED THEIR BOX THE HOUSE WAS DARKENED AND THE ORCHESTRA WAS PLAYING THE CLOAK OF OLD GAUL. IN A MOMENT PEGGY WAS ON THE STAGE AGAIN AND ALEXANDER APPLAUDED VIGOROUSLY WITH THE REST. FOR SOME REASON HE FELT PLEASED AND FLATTERED BY THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE AUDIENCE

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+IN THE HALF LIGHT HE LOOKED ABOUT AT THE STALLS AND BOXES AND SMILED A LITTLE CONSCIOUSLY RECALLING WITH AMUSEMENT SIR HARRY'S JUDICIAL FROWN. HE WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL A KEEN INTEREST IN THE SLENDER BAREFOOT DONKEY GIRL WHO SLIPPED IN AND OUT OF THE PLAY SINGING LIKE SOME ONE WINDING THROUGH A HILLY FIELD. HE LEANED FORWARD AND BEAMED FELICITATIONS AS WARMLY AS MAINHALL HIMSELF WHEN AT THE END OF THE PLAY SHE CAME AGAIN AND AGAIN BEFORE THE CURTAIN PANTING A LITTLE AND FLUSHED HER EYES DANCING AND HER EAGER NERVOUS LITTLE MOUTH TREMULOUS WITH EXCITEMENT. HE HAD NOT THOUGHT OF HILDA BURGOYNE FOR YEARS INDEED HE HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN HER. HE HAD LAST WRITTEN TO HER FROM CANADA AFTER HE FIRST MET WINIFRED TELLING HER THAT EVERYTHING WAS CHANGED WITH HIM THAT HE HAD MET A WOMAN WHOM HE WOULD MARRY IF HE COULD IF HE COULD NOT THEN ALL THE MORE WAS EVERYTHING CHANGED FOR HIM. HILDA HAD NEVER REPLIED TO HIS LETTER. WHEN HE WROTE HER THAT EVERYTHING WAS CHANGED FOR HIM HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH. AFTER HE MET WINIFRED PEMBERTON HE SEEMED TO HIMSELF LIKE A DIFFERENT MAN. YOU SEE ONE CAN'T BE JEALOUS ABOUT THINGS IN GENERAL BUT ABOUT PARTICULAR DEFINITE PERSONAL THINGS HERE SHE HAD THROWN HER HANDS UP TO HIS SHOULDERS WITH A QUICK IMPULSIVE GESTURE OH ABOUT THOSE I SHOULD BE VERY JEALOUS. I SHOULD TORTURE MYSELF I COULDN'T HELP IT. AFTER THAT IT WAS EASY TO FORGET ACTUALLY TO FORGET. HE HAD BEEN IN LONDON MORE OR LESS BUT HE HAD NEVER HAPPENED TO HEAR OF HER. ALL THE SAME HE LIFTED HIS GLASS HERE'S TO YOU LITTLE HILDA. YOU'VE MADE THINGS COME YOUR WAY AND I NEVER THOUGHT YOU'D DO IT. BUT I NEVER THOUGHT SHE'D DO ANYTHING. SHE HADN'T MUCH AMBITION THEN AND SHE WAS TOO FOND OF TRIFLES. SHE MUST CARE ABOUT THE THEATRE A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN SHE USED TO. PERHAPS SHE HAS ME TO THANK FOR SOMETHING AFTER ALL. SOMETIMES A LITTLE JOLT LIKE THAT DOES ONE GOOD. I'M GLAD SHE'S HELD HER OWN SINCE. AFTER ALL WE WERE AWFULLY YOUNG. IT WAS YOUTH AND POVERTY AND PROXIMITY AND EVERYTHING WAS YOUNG AND KINDLY. I SHOULDN'T WONDER IF SHE COULD LAUGH ABOUT IT WITH ME NOW. I SHOULDN'T WONDER BUT THEY'VE PROBABLY SPOILED HER SO THAT SHE'D BE TIRESOME IF ONE MET HER AGAIN

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+THE LAST TWO DAYS OF THE VOYAGE BARTLEY FOUND ALMOST INTOLERABLE. THE STOP AT QUEENSTOWN THE TEDIOUS PASSAGE UP THE MERSEY WERE THINGS THAT HE NOTED DIMLY THROUGH HIS GROWING IMPATIENCE. HE HAD PLANNED TO STOP IN LIVERPOOL BUT INSTEAD HE TOOK THE BOAT TRAIN FOR LONDON. EMERGING AT EUSTON AT HALF PAST THREE O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON ALEXANDER HAD HIS LUGGAGE SENT TO THE SAVOY AND DROVE AT ONCE TO BEDFORD SQUARE. WHEN MARIE MET HIM AT THE DOOR EVEN HER STRONG SENSE OF THE PROPRIETIES COULD NOT RESTRAIN HER SURPRISE AND DELIGHT. SHE BLUSHED AND SMILED AND FUMBLED HIS CARD IN HER CONFUSION BEFORE SHE RAN UPSTAIRS. ALEXANDER PACED UP AND DOWN THE HALLWAY BUTTONING AND UNBUTTONING HIS OVERCOAT UNTIL SHE RETURNED AND TOOK HIM UP TO HILDA'S LIVING ROOM. THE ROOM WAS EMPTY WHEN HE ENTERED. A COAL FIRE WAS CRACKLING IN THE GRATE AND THE LAMPS WERE LIT FOR IT WAS ALREADY BEGINNING TO GROW DARK OUTSIDE. ALEXANDER DID NOT SIT DOWN. HE STOOD HIS GROUND OVER BY THE WINDOWS UNTIL HILDA CAME IN. SHE CALLED HIS NAME ON THE THRESHOLD BUT IN HER SWIFT FLIGHT ACROSS THE ROOM SHE FELT A CHANGE IN HIM AND CAUGHT HERSELF UP SO DEFTLY THAT HE COULD NOT TELL JUST WHEN SHE DID IT. SHE MERELY BRUSHED HIS CHEEK WITH HER LIPS AND PUT A HAND LIGHTLY AND JOYOUSLY ON EITHER SHOULDER. OH WHAT A GRAND THING TO HAPPEN ON A RAW DAY. I FELT IT IN MY BONES WHEN I WOKE THIS MORNING THAT SOMETHING SPLENDID WAS GOING TO TURN UP. I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE SISTER KATE OR COUSIN MIKE WOULD BE HAPPENING ALONG. I NEVER DREAMED IT WOULD BE YOU BARTLEY. BUT WHY DO YOU LET ME CHATTER ON LIKE THIS. COME OVER TO THE FIRE YOU'RE CHILLED THROUGH. WHEN DID YOU COME BARTLEY AND HOW DID IT HAPPEN YOU HAVEN'T SPOKEN A WORD. I GOT IN ABOUT TEN MINUTES AGO. I LANDED AT LIVERPOOL THIS MORNING AND CAME DOWN ON THE BOAT TRAIN. ALEXANDER LEANED FORWARD AND WARMED HIS HANDS BEFORE THE BLAZE. HILDA WATCHED HIM WITH PERPLEXITY. THERE'S SOMETHING TROUBLING YOU BARTLEY WHAT IS IT. BARTLEY BENT LOWER OVER THE FIRE. IT'S THE WHOLE THING THAT TROUBLES ME HILDA YOU AND I. HILDA TOOK A QUICK SOFT BREATH. SHE LOOKED AT HIS HEAVY SHOULDERS AND BIG DETERMINED HEAD THRUST FORWARD LIKE A CATAPULT IN LEASH. WHAT ABOUT US BARTLEY. SHE ASKED IN A THIN VOICE. HE LOCKED AND UNLOCKED HIS HANDS OVER THE GRATE AND SPREAD HIS FINGERS CLOSE TO THE BLUISH FLAME WHILE THE COALS CRACKLED AND THE CLOCK TICKED AND A STREET VENDOR BEGAN TO CALL UNDER THE WINDOW. AT LAST ALEXANDER BROUGHT OUT ONE WORD EVERYTHING. HILDA WAS PALE BY THIS TIME AND HER EYES WERE WIDE WITH FRIGHT. SHE LOOKED ABOUT DESPERATELY FROM BARTLEY TO THE DOOR THEN TO THE WINDOWS AND BACK AGAIN TO BARTLEY. I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU WISH ME TO BARTLEY SHE SAID TREMULOUSLY. I CAN'T STAND SEEING YOU MISERABLE. I CAN'T LIVE WITH MYSELF ANY LONGER HE ANSWERED ROUGHLY. HE ROSE AND PUSHED THE CHAIR BEHIND HIM AND BEGAN TO WALK MISERABLY ABOUT THE ROOM SEEMING TO FIND IT TOO SMALL FOR HIM. HE PULLED UP A WINDOW AS IF THE AIR WERE HEAVY. HILDA WATCHED HIM FROM HER CORNER TREMBLING AND SCARCELY BREATHING DARK SHADOWS GROWING ABOUT HER EYES. IT IT HASN'T ALWAYS MADE YOU MISERABLE HAS IT. HER EYELIDS FELL AND HER LIPS QUIVERED. ALWAYS BUT IT'S WORSE NOW. IT'S UNBEARABLE IT TORTURES ME EVERY MINUTE. BUT WHY NOW SHE ASKED PITEOUSLY WRINGING HER HANDS. HE IGNORED HER QUESTION. I AM NOT A MAN WHO CAN LIVE TWO LIVES HE WENT ON FEVERISHLY EACH LIFE SPOILS THE OTHER. I GET NOTHING BUT MISERY OUT OF EITHER. THE WORLD IS ALL THERE JUST AS IT USED TO BE BUT I CAN'T GET AT IT ANY MORE. THERE IS THIS DECEPTION BETWEEN ME AND EVERYTHING

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+AT THAT WORD DECEPTION SPOKEN WITH SUCH SELF CONTEMPT THE COLOR FLASHED BACK INTO HILDA'S FACE AS SUDDENLY AS IF SHE HAD BEEN STRUCK BY A WHIPLASH. SHE BIT HER LIP AND LOOKED DOWN AT HER HANDS WHICH WERE CLASPED TIGHTLY IN FRONT OF HER. COULD YOU COULD YOU SIT DOWN AND TALK ABOUT IT QUIETLY BARTLEY AS IF I WERE A FRIEND AND NOT SOME ONE WHO HAD TO BE DEFIED. HE DROPPED BACK HEAVILY INTO HIS CHAIR BY THE FIRE. IT WAS MYSELF I WAS DEFYING HILDA. I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT IT UNTIL I AM WORN OUT. HE LOOKED AT HER AND HIS HAGGARD FACE SOFTENED. HE PUT OUT HIS HAND TOWARD HER AS HE LOOKED AWAY AGAIN INTO THE FIRE. SHE CREPT ACROSS TO HIM DRAWING HER STOOL AFTER HER. WHEN DID YOU FIRST BEGIN TO FEEL LIKE THIS BARTLEY. AFTER THE VERY FIRST. THE FIRST WAS SORT OF IN PLAY WASN'T IT. HILDA'S FACE QUIVERED BUT SHE WHISPERED YES I THINK IT MUST HAVE BEEN. BUT WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME WHEN YOU WERE HERE IN THE SUMMER. ALEXANDER GROANED. I MEANT TO BUT SOMEHOW I COULDN'T. WE HAD ONLY A FEW DAYS AND YOUR NEW PLAY WAS JUST ON AND YOU WERE SO HAPPY. YES I WAS HAPPY WASN'T I. SHE PRESSED HIS HAND GENTLY IN GRATITUDE WEREN'T YOU HAPPY THEN AT ALL. SHE CLOSED HER EYES AND TOOK A DEEP BREATH AS IF TO DRAW IN AGAIN THE FRAGRANCE OF THOSE DAYS. SOMETHING OF THEIR TROUBLING SWEETNESS CAME BACK TO ALEXANDER TOO. HE MOVED UNEASILY AND HIS CHAIR CREAKED. YES I WAS THEN YOU KNOW BUT AFTERWARD. YES YES SHE HURRIED PULLING HER HAND GENTLY AWAY FROM HIM. PRESENTLY IT STOLE BACK TO HIS COAT SLEEVE. PLEASE TELL ME ONE THING BARTLEY. AT LEAST TELL ME THAT YOU BELIEVE I THOUGHT I WAS MAKING YOU HAPPY. HIS HAND SHUT DOWN QUICKLY OVER THE QUESTIONING FINGERS ON HIS SLEEVES. YES HILDA I KNOW THAT HE SAID SIMPLY. SHE LEANED HER HEAD AGAINST HIS ARM AND SPOKE SOFTLY. YOU SEE MY MISTAKE WAS IN WANTING YOU TO HAVE EVERYTHING. I WANTED YOU TO EAT ALL THE CAKES AND HAVE THEM TOO. I SOMEHOW BELIEVED THAT I COULD TAKE ALL THE BAD CONSEQUENCES FOR YOU. I WANTED YOU ALWAYS TO BE HAPPY AND HANDSOME AND SUCCESSFUL TO HAVE ALL THE THINGS THAT A GREAT MAN OUGHT TO HAVE AND ONCE IN A WAY THE CARELESS HOLIDAYS THAT GREAT MEN ARE NOT PERMITTED. BARTLEY GAVE A BITTER LITTLE LAUGH AND HILDA LOOKED UP AND READ IN THE DEEPENING LINES OF HIS FACE THAT YOUTH AND BARTLEY WOULD NOT MUCH LONGER STRUGGLE TOGETHER. I UNDERSTAND BARTLEY I WAS WRONG. BUT I DIDN'T KNOW YOU'VE ONLY TO TELL ME NOW. WHAT MUST I DO THAT I'VE NOT DONE OR WHAT MUST I NOT DO. SHE LISTENED INTENTLY BUT SHE HEARD NOTHING BUT THE CREAKING OF HIS CHAIR. YOU WANT ME TO SAY IT SHE WHISPERED. YOU WANT TO TELL ME THAT YOU CAN ONLY SEE ME LIKE THIS AS OLD FRIENDS DO OR OUT IN THE WORLD AMONG PEOPLE I CAN DO THAT. I CAN'T HE SAID HEAVILY. HILDA SHIVERED AND SAT STILL. BARTLEY LEANED HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS AND SPOKE THROUGH HIS TEETH. IT'S GOT TO BE A CLEAN BREAK HILDA. I CAN'T SEE YOU AT ALL ANYWHERE. WHAT I MEAN IS THAT I WANT YOU TO PROMISE NEVER TO SEE ME AGAIN NO MATTER HOW OFTEN I COME NO MATTER HOW HARD I BEG. HILDA SPRANG UP LIKE A FLAME. SHE STOOD OVER HIM WITH HER HANDS CLENCHED AT HER SIDE HER BODY RIGID. NO SHE GASPED. IT'S TOO LATE TO ASK THAT DO YOU HEAR ME BARTLEY. IT'S TOO LATE I WON'T PROMISE. IT'S ABOMINABLE OF YOU TO ASK ME. BUT IF YOU COME TO ME I'LL DO AS I SEE FIT. THE SHAMEFULNESS OF YOUR ASKING ME TO DO THAT. ALEXANDER ROSE AND SHOOK HIMSELF ANGRILY. YES I KNOW I'M COWARDLY. I'M AFRAID OF MYSELF I DON'T TRUST MYSELF ANY MORE

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+I CARRIED IT ALL LIGHTLY ENOUGH AT FIRST BUT NOW I DON'T DARE TRIFLE WITH IT IT'S GETTING THE BETTER OF ME. IT'S DIFFERENT NOW I'M GROWING OLDER AND YOU'VE GOT MY YOUNG SELF HERE WITH YOU. IT'S THROUGH HIM THAT I'VE COME TO WISH FOR YOU ALL AND ALL THE TIME. HE TOOK HER ROUGHLY IN HIS ARMS DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. HILDA HELD HER FACE BACK FROM HIM AND BEGAN TO CRY BITTERLY. OH BARTLEY WHAT AM I TO DO. YOU ASK ME TO STAY AWAY FROM YOU BECAUSE YOU WANT ME. AND I'VE GOT NOBODY BUT YOU. I WILL DO ANYTHING YOU SAY BUT THAT. I WILL ASK THE LEAST IMAGINABLE BUT I MUST HAVE SOMETHING. BARTLEY TURNED AWAY AND SANK DOWN IN HIS CHAIR AGAIN. HILDA SAT ON THE ARM OF IT AND PUT HER HANDS LIGHTLY ON HIS SHOULDERS. JUST SOMETHING BARTLEY. I MUST HAVE YOU TO THINK OF THROUGH THE MONTHS AND MONTHS OF LONELINESS. I MUST SEE YOU I MUST KNOW ABOUT YOU. THE SIGHT OF YOU BARTLEY TO SEE YOU LIVING AND HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL CAN I NEVER MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS TO ME. SHE PRESSED HIS SHOULDERS GENTLY. YOU SEE LOVING SOME ONE AS I LOVE YOU MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD DIFFERENT. IF I'D MET YOU LATER IF I HADN'T LOVED YOU SO WELL BUT THAT'S ALL OVER LONG AGO. THEN CAME ALL THOSE YEARS WITHOUT YOU LONELY AND HURT AND DISCOURAGED THOSE DECENT YOUNG FELLOWS AND POOR MAC AND ME NEVER HEEDING HARD AS A STEEL SPRING. AND THEN YOU CAME BACK NOT CARING VERY MUCH BUT IT MADE NO DIFFERENCE. SHE SLID TO THE FLOOR BESIDE HIM AS IF SHE WERE TOO TIRED TO SIT UP ANY LONGER. BARTLEY BENT OVER AND TOOK HER IN HIS ARMS KISSING HER MOUTH AND HER WET TIRED EYES. DON'T CRY DON'T CRY HE WHISPERED. WE'VE TORTURED EACH OTHER ENOUGH FOR TONIGHT. FORGET EVERYTHING EXCEPT THAT I AM HERE

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+ON THE LAST SATURDAY IN APRIL THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED AN ACCOUNT OF THE STRIKE COMPLICATIONS WHICH WERE DELAYING ALEXANDER'S NEW JERSEY BRIDGE AND STATED THAT THE ENGINEER HIMSELF WAS IN TOWN AND AT HIS OFFICE ON WEST TENTH STREET. ON SUNDAY THE DAY AFTER THIS NOTICE APPEARED ALEXANDER WORKED ALL DAY AT HIS TENTH STREET ROOMS. HIS BUSINESS OFTEN CALLED HIM TO NEW YORK AND HE HAD KEPT AN APARTMENT THERE FOR YEARS SUBLETTING IT WHEN HE WENT ABROAD FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME. BESIDES HIS SLEEPING ROOM AND BATH THERE WAS A LARGE ROOM FORMERLY A PAINTER'S STUDIO WHICH HE USED AS A STUDY AND OFFICE. IT WAS FURNISHED WITH THE CAST OFF POSSESSIONS OF HIS BACHELOR DAYS AND WITH ODD THINGS WHICH HE SHELTERED FOR FRIENDS OF HIS WHO FOLLOWED ITINERANT AND MORE OR LESS ARTISTIC CALLINGS. OVER THE FIREPLACE THERE WAS A LARGE OLD FASHIONED GILT MIRROR. ALEXANDER'S BIG WORK TABLE STOOD IN FRONT OF ONE OF THE THREE WINDOWS AND ABOVE THE COUCH HUNG THE ONE PICTURE IN THE ROOM A BIG CANVAS OF CHARMING COLOR AND SPIRIT A STUDY OF THE LUXEMBOURG GARDENS IN EARLY SPRING PAINTED IN HIS YOUTH BY A MAN WHO HAD SINCE BECOME A PORTRAIT PAINTER OF INTERNATIONAL RENOWN. HE HAD DONE IT FOR ALEXANDER WHEN THEY WERE STUDENTS TOGETHER IN PARIS. SUNDAY WAS A COLD RAW DAY AND A FINE RAIN FELL CONTINUOUSLY. WHEN ALEXANDER CAME BACK FROM DINNER HE PUT MORE WOOD ON HIS FIRE MADE HIMSELF COMFORTABLE AND SETTLED DOWN AT HIS DESK WHERE HE BEGAN CHECKING OVER ESTIMATE SHEETS. IT WAS AFTER NINE O'CLOCK AND HE WAS LIGHTING A SECOND PIPE WHEN HE THOUGHT HE HEARD A SOUND AT HIS DOOR. HE STARTED AND LISTENED HOLDING THE BURNING MATCH IN HIS HAND AGAIN HE HEARD THE SAME SOUND LIKE A FIRM LIGHT TAP. HE ROSE AND CROSSED THE ROOM QUICKLY. WHEN HE THREW OPEN THE DOOR HE RECOGNIZED THE FIGURE THAT SHRANK BACK INTO THE BARE DIMLY LIT HALLWAY. HE STOOD FOR A MOMENT IN AWKWARD CONSTRAINT HIS PIPE IN HIS HAND. COME IN HE SAID TO HILDA AT LAST AND CLOSED THE DOOR BEHIND HER. HE POINTED TO A CHAIR BY THE FIRE AND WENT BACK TO HIS WORKTABLE WON'T YOU SIT DOWN. HE WAS STANDING BEHIND THE TABLE TURNING OVER A PILE OF BLUEPRINTS NERVOUSLY. THE YELLOW LIGHT FROM THE STUDENT'S LAMP FELL ON HIS HANDS AND THE PURPLE SLEEVES OF HIS VELVET SMOKING JACKET BUT HIS FLUSHED FACE AND BIG HARD HEAD WERE IN THE SHADOW. THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT HIM THAT MADE HILDA WISH HERSELF AT HER HOTEL AGAIN IN THE STREET BELOW ANYWHERE BUT WHERE SHE WAS. OF COURSE I KNOW BARTLEY SHE SAID AT LAST THAT AFTER THIS YOU WON'T OWE ME THE LEAST CONSIDERATION BUT WE SAIL ON TUESDAY. I SAW THAT INTERVIEW IN THE PAPER YESTERDAY TELLING WHERE YOU WERE AND I THOUGHT I HAD TO SEE YOU THAT'S ALL GOOD NIGHT I'M GOING NOW. SHE TURNED AND HER HAND CLOSED ON THE DOOR KNOB. ALEXANDER HURRIED TOWARD HER AND TOOK HER GENTLY BY THE ARM. SIT DOWN HILDA YOU'RE WET THROUGH. LET ME TAKE OFF YOUR COAT AND YOUR BOOTS THEY'RE OOZING WATER. HE KNELT DOWN AND BEGAN TO UNLACE HER SHOES WHILE HILDA SHRANK INTO THE CHAIR. HERE PUT YOUR FEET ON THIS STOOL. YOU DON'T MEAN TO SAY YOU WALKED DOWN AND WITHOUT OVERSHOES. HILDA HID HER FACE IN HER HANDS. I WAS AFRAID TO TAKE A CAB. CAN'T YOU SEE BARTLEY THAT I'M TERRIBLY FRIGHTENED. I'VE BEEN THROUGH THIS A HUNDRED TIMES TO DAY. DON'T BE ANY MORE ANGRY THAN YOU CAN HELP. I WAS ALL RIGHT UNTIL I KNEW YOU WERE IN TOWN. IF YOU'D SENT ME A NOTE OR TELEPHONED ME OR ANYTHING. BUT YOU WON'T LET ME WRITE TO YOU AND I HAD TO SEE YOU AFTER THAT LETTER THAT TERRIBLE LETTER YOU WROTE ME WHEN YOU GOT HOME. IS THIS THE WAY YOU MEAN TO ANSWER IT HILDA HE ASKED UNSTEADILY. I CAME TO TELL YOU THAT I'M WILLING TO DO AS YOU ASKED ME

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+AND HE THREW IT BACK AT ME A SECOND TIME. SHE FELT THE STRENGTH LEAP IN THE ARMS THAT HELD HER SO LIGHTLY. TRY HIM AGAIN HILDA TRY HIM ONCE AGAIN

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+IF HANSON SAT EVERY EVENING IN THE FRONT ROOM AND READ HIS PAPER IF HE WENT TO BED AT NINE AND MINNIE A LITTLE LATER WHAT WOULD THEY EXPECT OF HER. SHE SAW THAT SHE WOULD FIRST NEED TO GET WORK AND ESTABLISH HERSELF ON A PAYING BASIS BEFORE SHE COULD THINK OF HAVING COMPANY OF ANY SORT. HER LITTLE FLIRTATION WITH DROUET SEEMED NOW AN EXTRAORDINARY THING. NO SHE SAID TO HERSELF HE CAN'T COME HERE. SHE ASKED MINNIE FOR INK AND PAPER WHICH WERE UPON THE MANTEL IN THE DINING ROOM AND WHEN THE LATTER HAD GONE TO BED AT TEN GOT OUT DROUET'S CARD AND WROTE HIM. I CANNOT HAVE YOU CALL ON ME HERE YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR FROM ME AGAIN. MY SISTER'S PLACE IS SO SMALL. SHE TROUBLED HERSELF OVER WHAT ELSE TO PUT IN THE LETTER. SHE WANTED TO MAKE SOME REFERENCE TO THEIR RELATIONS UPON THE TRAIN BUT WAS TOO TIMID. SHE CONCLUDED BY THANKING HIM FOR HIS KINDNESS IN A CRUDE WAY THEN PUZZLED OVER THE FORMALITY OF SIGNING HER NAME AND FINALLY DECIDED UPON THE SEVERE WINDING UP WITH A VERY TRULY WHICH SHE SUBSEQUENTLY CHANGED TO SINCERELY. SHE SEALED AND ADDRESSED THE LETTER AND GOING IN THE FRONT ROOM THE ALCOVE OF WHICH CONTAINED HER BED DREW THE ONE SMALL ROCKING CHAIR UP TO THE OPEN WINDOW AND SAT LOOKING OUT UPON THE NIGHT AND STREETS IN SILENT WONDER. FINALLY WEARIED BY HER OWN REFLECTIONS SHE BEGAN TO GROW DULL IN HER CHAIR AND FEELING THE NEED OF SLEEP ARRANGED HER CLOTHING FOR THE NIGHT AND WENT TO BED. WHEN SHE AWOKE AT EIGHT THE NEXT MORNING HANSON HAD GONE. HER SISTER WAS BUSY IN THE DINING ROOM WHICH WAS ALSO THE SITTING ROOM SEWING. SHE WORKED AFTER DRESSING TO ARRANGE A LITTLE BREAKFAST FOR HERSELF AND THEN ADVISED WITH MINNIE AS TO WHICH WAY TO LOOK. THE LATTER HAD CHANGED CONSIDERABLY SINCE CARRIE HAD SEEN HER. SHE WAS NOW A THIN THOUGH RUGGED WOMAN OF TWENTY SEVEN WITH IDEAS OF LIFE COLOURED BY HER HUSBAND'S AND FAST HARDENING INTO NARROWER CONCEPTIONS OF PLEASURE AND DUTY THAN HAD EVER BEEN HERS IN A THOROUGHLY CIRCUMSCRIBED YOUTH. SHE HAD INVITED CARRIE NOT BECAUSE SHE LONGED FOR HER PRESENCE BUT BECAUSE THE LATTER WAS DISSATISFIED AT HOME AND COULD PROBABLY GET WORK AND PAY HER BOARD HERE. SHE WAS PLEASED TO SEE HER IN A WAY BUT REFLECTED HER HUSBAND'S POINT OF VIEW IN THE MATTER OF WORK. ANYTHING WAS GOOD ENOUGH SO LONG AS IT PAID SAY FIVE DOLLARS A WEEK TO BEGIN WITH. A SHOP GIRL WAS THE DESTINY PREFIGURED FOR THE NEWCOMER. SHE WOULD GET IN ONE OF THE GREAT SHOPS AND DO WELL ENOUGH UNTIL WELL UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENED NEITHER OF THEM KNEW EXACTLY WHAT. THEY DID NOT FIGURE ON PROMOTION. THEY DID NOT EXACTLY COUNT ON MARRIAGE. THINGS WOULD GO ON THOUGH IN A DIM KIND OF WAY UNTIL THE BETTER THING WOULD EVENTUATE AND CARRIE WOULD BE REWARDED FOR COMING AND TOILING IN THE CITY. IT WAS UNDER SUCH AUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES THAT SHE STARTED OUT THIS MORNING TO LOOK FOR WORK. BEFORE FOLLOWING HER IN HER ROUND OF SEEKING LET US LOOK AT THE SPHERE IN WHICH HER FUTURE WAS TO LIE. IN EIGHTEEN EIGHTY NINE CHICAGO HAD THE PECULIAR QUALIFICATIONS OF GROWTH WHICH MADE SUCH ADVENTURESOME PILGRIMAGES EVEN ON THE PART OF YOUNG GIRLS PLAUSIBLE. ITS MANY AND GROWING COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES GAVE IT WIDESPREAD FAME WHICH MADE OF IT A GIANT MAGNET DRAWING TO ITSELF FROM ALL QUARTERS THE HOPEFUL AND THE HOPELESS THOSE WHO HAD THEIR FORTUNE YET TO MAKE AND THOSE WHOSE FORTUNES AND AFFAIRS HAD REACHED A DISASTROUS CLIMAX ELSEWHERE. IT WAS A CITY OF OVER FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND WITH THE AMBITION THE DARING THE ACTIVITY OF A METROPOLIS OF A MILLION. ITS STREETS AND HOUSES WERE ALREADY SCATTERED OVER AN AREA OF SEVENTY FIVE SQUARE MILES. ITS POPULATION WAS NOT SO MUCH THRIVING UPON ESTABLISHED COMMERCE AS UPON THE INDUSTRIES WHICH PREPARED FOR THE ARRIVAL OF OTHERS. THE SOUND OF THE HAMMER ENGAGED UPON THE ERECTION OF NEW STRUCTURES WAS EVERYWHERE HEARD. GREAT INDUSTRIES WERE MOVING IN. THE HUGE RAILROAD CORPORATIONS WHICH HAD LONG BEFORE RECOGNISED THE PROSPECTS OF THE PLACE HAD SEIZED UPON VAST TRACTS OF LAND FOR TRANSFER AND SHIPPING PURPOSES. STREET CAR LINES HAD BEEN EXTENDED FAR OUT INTO THE OPEN COUNTRY IN ANTICIPATION OF RAPID GROWTH

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+THE CITY HAD LAID MILES AND MILES OF STREETS AND SEWERS THROUGH REGIONS WHERE PERHAPS ONE SOLITARY HOUSE STOOD OUT ALONE A PIONEER OF THE POPULOUS WAYS TO BE. THERE WERE REGIONS OPEN TO THE SWEEPING WINDS AND RAIN WHICH WERE YET LIGHTED THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT WITH LONG BLINKING LINES OF GAS LAMPS FLUTTERING IN THE WIND. NARROW BOARD WALKS EXTENDED OUT PASSING HERE A HOUSE AND THERE A STORE AT FAR INTERVALS EVENTUALLY ENDING ON THE OPEN PRAIRIE. IN THE CENTRAL PORTION WAS THE VAST WHOLESALE AND SHOPPING DISTRICT TO WHICH THE UNINFORMED SEEKER FOR WORK USUALLY DRIFTED. IT WAS A CHARACTERISTIC OF CHICAGO THEN AND ONE NOT GENERALLY SHARED BY OTHER CITIES THAT INDIVIDUAL FIRMS OF ANY PRETENSION OCCUPIED INDIVIDUAL BUILDINGS. THE PRESENCE OF AMPLE GROUND MADE THIS POSSIBLE. IT GAVE AN IMPOSING APPEARANCE TO MOST OF THE WHOLESALE HOUSES WHOSE OFFICES WERE UPON THE GROUND FLOOR AND IN PLAIN VIEW OF THE STREET. THE CASUAL WANDERER COULD SEE AS HE PASSED A POLISHED ARRAY OF OFFICE FIXTURES MUCH FROSTED GLASS CLERKS HARD AT WORK AND GENTEEL BUSINESS MEN IN NOBBY SUITS AND CLEAN LINEN LOUNGING ABOUT OR SITTING IN GROUPS. POLISHED BRASS OR NICKEL SIGNS AT THE SQUARE STONE ENTRANCES ANNOUNCED THE FIRM AND THE NATURE OF THE BUSINESS IN RATHER NEAT AND RESERVED TERMS. THE ENTIRE METROPOLITAN CENTRE POSSESSED A HIGH AND MIGHTY AIR CALCULATED TO OVERAWE AND ABASH THE COMMON APPLICANT AND TO MAKE THE GULF BETWEEN POVERTY AND SUCCESS SEEM BOTH WIDE AND DEEP. INTO THIS IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL REGION THE TIMID CARRIE WENT. SHE WALKED EAST ALONG VAN BUREN STREET THROUGH A REGION OF LESSENING IMPORTANCE UNTIL IT DETERIORATED INTO A MASS OF SHANTIES AND COAL YARDS AND FINALLY VERGED UPON THE RIVER. SHE WALKED BRAVELY FORWARD LED BY AN HONEST DESIRE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT AND DELAYED AT EVERY STEP BY THE INTEREST OF THE UNFOLDING SCENE AND A SENSE OF HELPLESSNESS AMID SO MUCH EVIDENCE OF POWER AND FORCE WHICH SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND. THESE VAST BUILDINGS WHAT WERE THEY. THESE STRANGE ENERGIES AND HUGE INTERESTS FOR WHAT PURPOSES WERE THEY THERE. SHE COULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF A LITTLE STONE CUTTER'S YARD AT COLUMBIA CITY CARVING LITTLE PIECES OF MARBLE FOR INDIVIDUAL USE BUT WHEN THE YARDS OF SOME HUGE STONE CORPORATION CAME INTO VIEW FILLED WITH SPUR TRACKS AND FLAT CARS TRANSPIERCED BY DOCKS FROM THE RIVER AND TRAVERSED OVERHEAD BY IMMENSE TRUNDLING CRANES OF WOOD AND STEEL IT LOST ALL SIGNIFICANCE IN HER LITTLE WORLD. IT WAS SO WITH THE VAST RAILROAD YARDS WITH THE CROWDED ARRAY OF VESSELS SHE SAW AT THE RIVER AND THE HUGE FACTORIES OVER THE WAY LINING THE WATER'S EDGE. THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOWS SHE COULD SEE THE FIGURES OF MEN AND WOMEN IN WORKING APRONS MOVING BUSILY ABOUT. THE GREAT STREETS WERE WALL LINED MYSTERIES TO HER THE VAST OFFICES STRANGE MAZES WHICH CONCERNED FAR OFF INDIVIDUALS OF IMPORTANCE. SHE COULD ONLY THINK OF PEOPLE CONNECTED WITH THEM AS COUNTING MONEY DRESSING MAGNIFICENTLY AND RIDING IN CARRIAGES

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+THAT NIGHT HURSTWOOD REMAINED DOWN TOWN ENTIRELY GOING TO THE PALMER HOUSE FOR A BED AFTER HIS WORK WAS THROUGH. HE WAS IN A FEVERED STATE OF MIND OWING TO THE BLIGHT HIS WIFE'S ACTION THREATENED TO CAST UPON HIS ENTIRE FUTURE. WHILE HE WAS NOT SURE HOW MUCH SIGNIFICANCE MIGHT BE ATTACHED TO THE THREAT SHE HAD MADE HE WAS SURE THAT HER ATTITUDE IF LONG CONTINUED WOULD CAUSE HIM NO END OF TROUBLE. SHE WAS DETERMINED AND HAD WORSTED HIM IN A VERY IMPORTANT CONTEST. HOW WOULD IT BE FROM NOW ON. HE WALKED THE FLOOR OF HIS LITTLE OFFICE AND LATER THAT OF HIS ROOM PUTTING ONE THING AND ANOTHER TOGETHER TO NO AVAIL. MISSUS HURSTWOOD ON THE CONTRARY HAD DECIDED NOT TO LOSE HER ADVANTAGE BY INACTION. NOW THAT SHE HAD PRACTICALLY COWED HIM SHE WOULD FOLLOW UP HER WORK WITH DEMANDS THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF WHICH WOULD MAKE HER WORD LAW IN THE FUTURE. HE WOULD HAVE TO PAY HER THE MONEY WHICH SHE WOULD NOW REGULARLY DEMAND OR THERE WOULD BE TROUBLE IT DID NOT MATTER WHAT HE DID. SHE REALLY DID NOT CARE WHETHER HE CAME HOME ANY MORE OR NOT. THE HOUSEHOLD WOULD MOVE ALONG MUCH MORE PLEASANTLY WITHOUT HIM AND SHE COULD DO AS SHE WISHED WITHOUT CONSULTING ANY ONE. NOW SHE PROPOSED TO CONSULT A LAWYER AND HIRE A DETECTIVE. SHE WOULD FIND OUT AT ONCE JUST WHAT ADVANTAGES SHE COULD GAIN. HURSTWOOD WALKED THE FLOOR MENTALLY ARRANGING THE CHIEF POINTS OF HIS SITUATION. SHE HAS THAT PROPERTY IN HER NAME HE KEPT SAYING TO HIMSELF. WHAT A FOOL TRICK THAT WAS CURSE IT WHAT A FOOL MOVE THAT WAS. HE ALSO THOUGHT OF HIS MANAGERIAL POSITION. IF SHE RAISES A ROW NOW I'LL LOSE THIS THING. THEY WON'T HAVE ME AROUND IF MY NAME GETS IN THE PAPERS MY FRIENDS TOO. HE GREW MORE ANGRY AS HE THOUGHT OF THE TALK ANY ACTION ON HER PART WOULD CREATE. HOW WOULD THE PAPERS TALK ABOUT IT. EVERY MAN HE KNEW WOULD BE WONDERING. HE WOULD HAVE TO EXPLAIN AND DENY AND MAKE A GENERAL MARK OF HIMSELF. THEN MOY WOULD COME AND CONFER WITH HIM AND THERE WOULD BE THE DEVIL TO PAY. MANY LITTLE WRINKLES GATHERED BETWEEN HIS EYES AS HE CONTEMPLATED THIS AND HIS BROW MOISTENED. HE SAW NO SOLUTION OF ANYTHING NOT A LOOPHOLE LEFT. THROUGH ALL THIS THOUGHTS OF CARRIE FLASHED UPON HIM AND THE APPROACHING AFFAIR OF SATURDAY. TANGLED AS ALL HIS MATTERS WERE HE DID NOT WORRY OVER THAT. IT WAS THE ONE PLEASING THING IN THIS WHOLE ROUT OF TROUBLE. HE COULD ARRANGE THAT SATISFACTORILY FOR CARRIE WOULD BE GLAD TO WAIT IF NECESSARY. HE WOULD SEE HOW THINGS TURNED OUT TO MORROW AND THEN HE WOULD TALK TO HER THEY WERE GOING TO MEET AS USUAL. HE SAW ONLY HER PRETTY FACE AND NEAT FIGURE AND WONDERED WHY LIFE WAS NOT ARRANGED SO THAT SUCH JOY AS HE FOUND WITH HER COULD BE STEADILY MAINTAINED. HOW MUCH MORE PLEASANT IT WOULD BE. THEN HE WOULD TAKE UP HIS WIFE'S THREAT AGAIN AND THE WRINKLES AND MOISTURE WOULD RETURN. IN THE MORNING HE CAME OVER FROM THE HOTEL AND OPENED HIS MAIL BUT THERE WAS NOTHING IN IT OUTSIDE THE ORDINARY RUN. FOR SOME REASON HE FELT AS IF SOMETHING MIGHT COME THAT WAY AND WAS RELIEVED WHEN ALL THE ENVELOPES HAD BEEN SCANNED AND NOTHING SUSPICIOUS NOTICED. HE BEGAN TO FEEL THE APPETITE THAT HAD BEEN WANTING BEFORE HE HAD REACHED THE OFFICE AND DECIDED BEFORE GOING OUT TO THE PARK TO MEET CARRIE TO DROP IN AT THE GRAND PACIFIC AND HAVE A POT OF COFFEE AND SOME ROLLS. WHILE THE DANGER HAD NOT LESSENED IT HAD NOT AS YET MATERIALISED AND WITH HIM NO NEWS WAS GOOD NEWS. IF HE COULD ONLY GET PLENTY OF TIME TO THINK PERHAPS SOMETHING WOULD TURN UP. SURELY SURELY THIS THING WOULD NOT DRIFT ALONG TO CATASTROPHE AND HE NOT FIND A WAY OUT. HIS SPIRITS FELL HOWEVER WHEN UPON REACHING THE PARK HE WAITED AND WAITED AND CARRIE DID NOT COME. COULD SOMETHING HAVE HAPPENED OUT THERE TO KEEP HER AWAY. COULD SHE HAVE BEEN REACHED BY HIS WIFE SURELY NOT. SO LITTLE DID HE CONSIDER DROUET THAT IT NEVER ONCE OCCURRED TO HIM TO WORRY ABOUT HIS FINDING OUT. HE GREW RESTLESS AS HE RUMINATED AND THEN DECIDED THAT PERHAPS IT WAS NOTHING. SHE HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET AWAY THIS MORNING. THAT WAS WHY NO LETTER NOTIFYING HIM HAD COME. HE WOULD GET ONE TO DAY IT WOULD PROBABLY BE ON HIS DESK WHEN HE GOT BACK HE WOULD LOOK FOR IT AT ONCE. AFTER A TIME HE GAVE UP WAITING AND DREARILY HEADED FOR THE MADISON CAR

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+TO ADD TO HIS DISTRESS THE BRIGHT BLUE SKY BECAME OVERCAST WITH LITTLE FLEECY CLOUDS WHICH SHUT OUT THE SUN. THE WIND VEERED TO THE EAST AND BY THE TIME HE REACHED HIS OFFICE IT WAS THREATENING TO DRIZZLE ALL AFTERNOON. HE WENT IN AND EXAMINED HIS LETTERS BUT THERE WAS NOTHING FROM CARRIE. FORTUNATELY THERE WAS NOTHING FROM HIS WIFE EITHER. HE THANKED HIS STARS THAT HE DID NOT HAVE TO CONFRONT THAT PROPOSITION JUST NOW WHEN HE NEEDED TO THINK SO MUCH. HE WALKED THE FLOOR AGAIN PRETENDING TO BE IN AN ORDINARY MOOD BUT SECRETLY TROUBLED BEYOND THE EXPRESSION OF WORDS. AT ONE THIRTY HE WENT TO RECTOR'S FOR LUNCH AND WHEN HE RETURNED A MESSENGER WAS WAITING FOR HIM. HE LOOKED AT THE LITTLE CHAP WITH A FEELING OF DOUBT. I'M TO BRING AN ANSWER SAID THE BOY. HURSTWOOD RECOGNISED HIS WIFE'S WRITING. HE TORE IT OPEN AND READ WITHOUT A SHOW OF FEELING. IT BEGAN IN THE MOST FORMAL MANNER AND WAS SHARPLY AND COLDLY WORDED THROUGHOUT. I WANT YOU TO SEND THE MONEY I ASKED FOR AT ONCE I NEED IT TO CARRY OUT MY PLANS. WHEN HE HAD FINISHED IT HE STOOD HOLDING IT IN HIS HANDS. THE AUDACITY OF THE THING TOOK HIS BREATH IT ROUSED HIS IRE ALSO THE DEEPEST ELEMENT OF REVOLT IN HIM. HIS FIRST IMPULSE WAS TO WRITE BUT FOUR WORDS IN REPLY GO TO THE DEVIL. BUT HE COMPROMISED BY TELLING THE BOY THAT THERE WOULD BE NO REPLY. THEN HE SAT DOWN IN HIS CHAIR AND GAZED WITHOUT SEEING CONTEMPLATING THE RESULT OF HIS WORK. WHAT WOULD SHE DO ABOUT THAT THE CONFOUNDED WRETCH. WAS SHE GOING TO TRY TO BULLDOZE HIM INTO SUBMISSION. HE WOULD GO UP THERE AND HAVE IT OUT WITH HER THAT'S WHAT HE WOULD DO. SHE WAS CARRYING THINGS WITH TOO HIGH A HAND THESE WERE HIS FIRST THOUGHTS. LATER HOWEVER HIS OLD DISCRETION ASSERTED ITSELF. SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE A CLIMAX WAS NEAR AND SHE WOULD NOT SIT IDLE. HE KNEW HER WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT WHEN SHE HAD DECIDED UPON A PLAN SHE WOULD FOLLOW IT UP. POSSIBLY MATTERS WOULD GO INTO A LAWYER'S HANDS AT ONCE. DAMN HER HE SAID SOFTLY WITH HIS TEETH FIRMLY SET I'LL MAKE IT HOT FOR HER IF SHE CAUSES ME TROUBLE. I'LL MAKE HER CHANGE HER TONE IF I HAVE TO USE FORCE TO DO IT. HE AROSE FROM HIS CHAIR AND WENT AND LOOKED OUT INTO THE STREET. THE LONG DRIZZLE HAD BEGUN PEDESTRIANS HAD TURNED UP COLLARS AND TROUSERS AT THE BOTTOM. HANDS WERE HIDDEN IN THE POCKETS OF THE UMBRELLALESS UMBRELLAS WERE UP. THE STREET LOOKED LIKE A SEA OF ROUND BLACK CLOTH ROOFS TWISTING BOBBING MOVING. TRUCKS AND VANS WERE RATTLING IN A NOISY LINE AND EVERYWHERE MEN WERE SHIELDING THEMSELVES AS BEST THEY COULD. HE SCARCELY NOTICED THE PICTURE. HE WAS FOREVER CONFRONTING HIS WIFE DEMANDING OF HER TO CHANGE HER ATTITUDE TOWARD HIM BEFORE HE WORKED HER BODILY HARM. AT FOUR O'CLOCK ANOTHER NOTE CAME WHICH SIMPLY SAID THAT IF THE MONEY WAS NOT FORTHCOMING THAT EVENING THE MATTER WOULD BE LAID BEFORE FITZGERALD AND MOY ON THE MORROW AND OTHER STEPS WOULD BE TAKEN TO GET IT. HURSTWOOD ALMOST EXCLAIMED OUT LOUD AT THE INSISTENCY OF THIS THING. YES HE WOULD SEND HER THE MONEY HE'D TAKE IT TO HER HE WOULD GO UP THERE AND HAVE A TALK WITH HER AND THAT AT ONCE. HE PUT ON HIS HAT AND LOOKED AROUND FOR HIS UMBRELLA. HE WOULD HAVE SOME ARRANGEMENT OF THIS THING. HE CALLED A CAB AND WAS DRIVEN THROUGH THE DREARY RAIN TO THE NORTH SIDE. ON THE WAY HIS TEMPER COOLED AS HE THOUGHT OF THE DETAILS OF THE CASE. WHAT DID SHE KNOW WHAT HAD SHE DONE. PERHAPS SHE REALLY HAD EVIDENCE AND WAS PREPARED TO FELL HIM AS A MAN DOES ANOTHER FROM SECRET AMBUSH SHE WAS SHREWD. WHY SHOULD SHE TAUNT HIM THIS WAY UNLESS SHE HAD GOOD GROUNDS. HE BEGAN TO WISH THAT HE HAD COMPROMISED IN SOME WAY OR OTHER THAT HE HAD SENT THE MONEY PERHAPS HE COULD DO IT UP HERE. HE WOULD GO IN AND SEE ANYHOW HE WOULD HAVE NO ROW. BY THE TIME HE REACHED HIS OWN STREET HE WAS KEENLY ALIVE TO THE DIFFICULTIES OF HIS SITUATION AND WISHED OVER AND OVER THAT SOME SOLUTION WOULD OFFER ITSELF THAT HE COULD SEE HIS WAY OUT. HE ALIGHTED AND WENT UP THE STEPS TO THE FRONT DOOR BUT IT WAS WITH A NERVOUS PALPITATION OF THE HEART. HE PULLED OUT HIS KEY AND TRIED TO INSERT IT BUT ANOTHER KEY WAS ON THE INSIDE. HE SHOOK AT THE KNOB BUT THE DOOR WAS LOCKED. THEN HE RANG THE BELL NO ANSWER. HE RANG AGAIN THIS TIME HARDER STILL NO ANSWER

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+HE JANGLED IT FIERCELY SEVERAL TIMES IN SUCCESSION BUT WITHOUT AVAIL THEN HE WENT BELOW. THERE WAS A DOOR WHICH OPENED UNDER THE STEPS INTO THE KITCHEN PROTECTED BY AN IRON GRATING INTENDED AS A SAFEGUARD AGAINST BURGLARS. HE RANG THE BELL AND THEN WAITED. FINALLY SEEING THAT NO ONE WAS COMING HE TURNED AND WENT BACK TO HIS CAB. I GUESS THEY'VE GONE OUT HE SAID APOLOGETICALLY TO THE INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS HIDING HIS RED FACE IN A LOOSE TARPAULIN RAIN COAT

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+ASHES OF TINDER THE LOOSING OF STAYS. WHEN HURSTWOOD GOT BACK TO HIS OFFICE AGAIN HE WAS IN A GREATER QUANDARY THAN EVER. LORD LORD HE THOUGHT WHAT HAD HE GOT INTO. HOW COULD THINGS HAVE TAKEN SUCH A VIOLENT TURN AND SO QUICKLY. HE COULD HARDLY REALISE HOW IT HAD ALL COME ABOUT. IT SEEMED A MONSTROUS UNNATURAL UNWARRANTED CONDITION WHICH HAD SUDDENLY DESCENDED UPON HIM WITHOUT HIS LET OR HINDRANCE. MEANWHILE HE GAVE A THOUGHT NOW AND THEN TO CARRIE. WHAT COULD BE THE TROUBLE IN THAT QUARTER. NO LETTER HAD COME NO WORD OF ANY KIND AND YET HERE IT WAS LATE IN THE EVENING AND SHE HAD AGREED TO MEET HIM THAT MORNING. TO MORROW THEY WERE TO HAVE MET AND GONE OFF WHERE. HE SAW THAT IN THE EXCITEMENT OF RECENT EVENTS HE HAD NOT FORMULATED A PLAN UPON THAT SCORE. HE WAS DESPERATELY IN LOVE AND WOULD HAVE TAKEN GREAT CHANCES TO WIN HER UNDER ORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES BUT NOW NOW WHAT. SUPPOSING SHE HAD FOUND OUT SOMETHING. IT WOULD BE JUST LIKE THIS TO HAPPEN AS THINGS WERE GOING NOW. MEANWHILE HE HAD NOT SENT THE MONEY. HE STROLLED UP AND DOWN THE POLISHED FLOOR OF THE RESORT HIS HANDS IN HIS POCKETS HIS BROW WRINKLED HIS MOUTH SET. HE WAS GETTING SOME VAGUE COMFORT OUT OF A GOOD CIGAR BUT IT WAS NO PANACEA FOR THE ILL WHICH AFFECTED HIM. HIS WHOLE NATURE WAS VIGOROUSLY AND POWERFULLY SHAKEN UP AND HE WAS FINDING WHAT LIMITS THE MIND HAS TO ENDURANCE. HE DRANK MORE BRANDY AND SODA THAN HE HAD ANY EVENING IN MONTHS. HE WAS ALTOGETHER A FINE EXAMPLE OF GREAT MENTAL PERTURBATION. FOR ALL HIS STUDY NOTHING CAME OF THE EVENING EXCEPT THIS HE SENT THE MONEY. IT WAS WITH GREAT OPPOSITION AFTER TWO OR THREE HOURS OF THE MOST URGENT MENTAL AFFIRMATION AND DENIAL THAT AT LAST HE GOT AN ENVELOPE PLACED IN IT THE REQUESTED AMOUNT AND SLOWLY SEALED IT UP. THEN HE CALLED HARRY THE BOY OF ALL WORK AROUND THE PLACE. YOU TAKE THIS TO THIS ADDRESS HE SAID HANDING HIM THE ENVELOPE AND GIVE IT TO MISSUS HURSTWOOD YES SIR SAID THE BOY. IF SHE ISN'T THERE BRING IT BACK YES SIR. YOU'VE SEEN MY WIFE. HE ASKED AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE AS THE BOY TURNED TO GO. OH YES SIR I KNOW HER. ALL RIGHT NOW HURRY RIGHT BACK. ANY ANSWER I GUESS NOT. THE BOY HASTENED AWAY AND THE MANAGER FELL TO HIS MUSINGS. NOW HE HAD DONE IT THERE WAS NO USE SPECULATING OVER THAT. HE WAS BEATEN FOR TO NIGHT AND HE MIGHT JUST AS WELL MAKE THE BEST OF IT. BUT OH THE WRETCHEDNESS OF BEING FORCED THIS WAY. HE COULD SEE HER MEETING THE BOY AT THE DOOR AND SMILING SARDONICALLY. SHE WOULD TAKE THE ENVELOPE AND KNOW THAT SHE HAD TRIUMPHED. IF HE ONLY HAD THAT LETTER BACK HE WOULDN'T SEND IT. HE BREATHED HEAVILY AND WIPED THE MOISTURE FROM HIS FACE. FOR RELIEF HE AROSE AND JOINED IN CONVERSATION WITH A FEW FRIENDS WHO WERE DRINKING. HE TRIED TO GET THE INTEREST OF THINGS ABOUT HIM BUT IT WAS NOT TO BE. ALL THE TIME HIS THOUGHTS WOULD RUN OUT TO HIS HOME AND SEE THE SCENE BEING THEREIN ENACTED. ALL THE TIME HE WAS WONDERING WHAT SHE WOULD SAY WHEN THE BOY HANDED HER THE ENVELOPE. IN ABOUT AN HOUR AND THREE QUARTERS THE BOY RETURNED. WELL SAID HURSTWOOD. I GAVE IT TO HER MY WIFE. YES SIR ANY ANSWER. SHE SAID IT WAS HIGH TIME. HURSTWOOD SCOWLED FIERCELY. THERE WAS NO MORE TO BE DONE UPON THAT SCORE THAT NIGHT. HE WENT ON BROODING OVER HIS SITUATION UNTIL MIDNIGHT WHEN HE REPAIRED AGAIN TO THE PALMER HOUSE. HE WONDERED WHAT THE MORNING WOULD BRING FORTH AND SLEPT ANYTHING BUT SOUNDLY UPON IT. NEXT DAY HE WENT AGAIN TO THE OFFICE AND OPENED HIS MAIL SUSPICIOUS AND HOPEFUL OF ITS CONTENTS NO WORD FROM CARRIE. NOTHING FROM HIS WIFE WHICH WAS PLEASANT THE FACT THAT HE HAD SENT THE MONEY AND THAT SHE HAD RECEIVED IT WORKED TO THE EASE OF HIS MIND FOR AS THE THOUGHT THAT HE HAD DONE IT RECEDED HIS CHAGRIN AT IT GREW LESS AND HIS HOPE OF PEACE MORE. HE FANCIED AS HE SAT AT HIS DESK THAT NOTHING WOULD BE DONE FOR A WEEK OR TWO MEANWHILE HE WOULD HAVE TIME TO THINK. HOW ABOUT THAT NOW HIS PAIN AT HER FAILURE TO MEET OR WRITE HIM RAPIDLY INCREASED AS HE DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THIS SUBJECT. HE DECIDED TO WRITE HER CARE OF THE WEST SIDE POST OFFICE AND ASK FOR AN EXPLANATION AS WELL AS TO HAVE HER MEET HIM

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+THE THOUGHT THAT THIS LETTER WOULD PROBABLY NOT REACH HER UNTIL MONDAY CHAFED HIM EXCEEDINGLY. HE MUST GET SOME SPEEDIER METHOD BUT HOW. HE THOUGHT UPON IT FOR A HALF HOUR NOT CONTEMPLATING A MESSENGER OR A CAB DIRECT TO THE HOUSE OWING TO THE EXPOSURE OF IT BUT FINDING THAT TIME WAS SLIPPING AWAY TO NO PURPOSE HE WROTE THE LETTER AND THEN BEGAN TO THINK AGAIN. THE HOURS SLIPPED BY AND WITH THEM THE POSSIBILITY OF THE UNION HE HAD CONTEMPLATED. HE HAD THOUGHT TO BE JOYOUSLY AIDING CARRIE BY NOW IN THE TASK OF JOINING HER INTERESTS TO HIS AND HERE IT WAS AFTERNOON AND NOTHING DONE. THREE O'CLOCK CAME FOUR FIVE SIX AND NO LETTER. THE HELPLESS MANAGER PACED THE FLOOR AND GRIMLY ENDURED THE GLOOM OF DEFEAT. HE SAW A BUSY SATURDAY USHERED OUT THE SABBATH IN AND NOTHING DONE. ALL DAY THE BAR BEING CLOSED HE BROODED ALONE SHUT OUT FROM HOME FROM THE EXCITEMENT OF HIS RESORT FROM CARRIE AND WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO ALTER HIS CONDITION ONE IOTA. IT WAS THE WORST SUNDAY HE HAD SPENT IN HIS LIFE. IN MONDAY'S SECOND MAIL HE ENCOUNTERED A VERY LEGAL LOOKING LETTER WHICH HELD HIS INTEREST FOR SOME TIME. HE READ IT THROUGH CAREFULLY SEVERAL TIMES AND THEN MERELY SHOOK HIS HEAD. IT SEEMED AS IF HIS FAMILY TROUBLES WERE JUST BEGINNING. WELL HE SAID AFTER A TIME QUITE AUDIBLY I DON'T KNOW. THEN HE FOLDED IT UP AND PUT IT IN HIS POCKET. TO ADD TO HIS MISERY THERE WAS NO WORD FROM CARRIE. HE WAS QUITE CERTAIN NOW THAT SHE KNEW HE WAS MARRIED AND WAS ANGERED AT HIS PERFIDY. HIS LOSS SEEMED ALL THE MORE BITTER NOW THAT HE NEEDED HER MOST. HE THOUGHT HE WOULD GO OUT AND INSIST ON SEEING HER IF SHE DID NOT SEND HIM WORD OF SOME SORT SOON. HE WAS REALLY AFFECTED MOST MISERABLY OF ALL BY THIS DESERTION. HE HAD LOVED HER EARNESTLY ENOUGH BUT NOW THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF LOSING HER STARED HIM IN THE FACE SHE SEEMED MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE. HE REALLY PINED FOR A WORD AND LOOKED OUT UPON HER WITH HIS MIND'S EYE IN THE MOST WISTFUL MANNER. HE DID NOT PROPOSE TO LOSE HER WHATEVER SHE MIGHT THINK. COME WHAT MIGHT HE WOULD ADJUST THIS MATTER AND SOON. HE WOULD GO TO HER AND TELL HER ALL HIS FAMILY COMPLICATIONS. HE WOULD EXPLAIN TO HER JUST WHERE HE STOOD AND HOW MUCH HE NEEDED HER. SURELY SHE COULDN'T GO BACK ON HIM NOW IT WASN'T POSSIBLE. HE WOULD PLEAD UNTIL HER ANGER WOULD MELT UNTIL SHE WOULD FORGIVE HIM. SUDDENLY HE THOUGHT SUPPOSING SHE ISN'T OUT THERE SUPPOSE SHE HAS GONE HE WAS FORCED TO TAKE HIS FEET. IT WAS TOO MUCH TO THINK OF AND SIT STILL. NEVERTHELESS HIS ROUSING AVAILED HIM NOTHING. ON TUESDAY IT WAS THE SAME WAY. HE DID MANAGE TO BRING HIMSELF INTO THE MOOD TO GO OUT TO CARRIE BUT WHEN HE GOT IN OGDEN PLACE HE THOUGHT HE SAW A MAN WATCHING HIM AND WENT AWAY. HE DID NOT GO WITHIN A BLOCK OF THE HOUSE. ONE OF THE GALLING INCIDENTS OF THIS VISIT WAS THAT HE CAME BACK ON A RANDOLPH STREET CAR AND WITHOUT NOTICING ARRIVED ALMOST OPPOSITE THE BUILDING OF THE CONCERN WITH WHICH HIS SON WAS CONNECTED THIS SENT A PANG THROUGH HIS HEART. HE HAD CALLED ON HIS BOY THERE SEVERAL TIMES. NOW THE LAD HAD NOT SENT HIM A WORD. HIS ABSENCE DID NOT SEEM TO BE NOTICED BY EITHER OF HIS CHILDREN. WELL WELL FORTUNE PLAYS A MAN QUEER TRICKS. HE GOT BACK TO HIS OFFICE AND JOINED IN A CONVERSATION WITH FRIENDS. IT WAS AS IF IDLE CHATTER DEADENED THE SENSE OF MISERY. THAT NIGHT HE DINED AT RECTOR'S AND RETURNED AT ONCE TO HIS OFFICE. IN THE BUSTLE AND SHOW OF THE LATTER WAS HIS ONLY RELIEF. HE TROUBLED OVER MANY LITTLE DETAILS AND TALKED PERFUNCTORILY TO EVERYBODY. HE STAYED AT HIS DESK LONG AFTER ALL OTHERS HAD GONE AND ONLY QUITTED IT WHEN THE NIGHT WATCHMAN ON HIS ROUND PULLED AT THE FRONT DOOR TO SEE IF IT WAS SAFELY LOCKED. ON WEDNESDAY HE RECEIVED ANOTHER POLITE NOTE FROM MC GREGOR JAMES AND HAY IT READ. DEAR SIR WE BEG TO INFORM YOU THAT WE ARE INSTRUCTED TO WAIT UNTIL TO MORROW THURSDAY AT ONE O'CLOCK BEFORE FILING SUIT AGAINST YOU ON BEHALF OF MISSUS JULIA HURSTWOOD FOR DIVORCE AND ALIMONY. IF WE DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU BEFORE THAT TIME WE SHALL CONSIDER THAT YOU DO NOT WISH TO COMPROMISE THE MATTER IN ANY WAY AND ACT ACCORDINGLY. VERY TRULY YOURS ET CETERA COMPROMISE. EXCLAIMED HURSTWOOD BITTERLY COMPROMISE AGAIN HE SHOOK HIS HEAD

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+SO HERE IT WAS SPREAD OUT CLEAR BEFORE HIM AND NOW HE KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT. IF HE DIDN'T GO AND SEE THEM THEY WOULD SUE HIM PROMPTLY. IF HE DID HE WOULD BE OFFERED TERMS THAT WOULD MAKE HIS BLOOD BOIL. HE FOLDED THE LETTER AND PUT IT WITH THE OTHER ONE

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+CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE COMMANDANT'S BUTLER. RUFUS DAWES HAD BEEN A FORTNIGHT AT THE SETTLEMENT WHEN A NEW COMER APPEARED ON THE CHAIN GANG. THIS WAS A YOUNG MAN OF ABOUT TWENTY YEARS OF AGE THIN FAIR AND DELICATE. HIS NAME WAS KIRKLAND AND HE BELONGED TO WHAT WERE KNOWN AS THE EDUCATED PRISONERS. HE HAD BEEN A CLERK IN A BANKING HOUSE AND WAS TRANSPORTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT THOUGH BY SOME GRAVE DOUBTS AS TO HIS GUILT WERE ENTERTAINED. SO DOUBTLESS IT WAS AND MIGHT HAVE BEEN HAD NOT AN UNTOWARD ACCIDENT OCCURRED. CAPTAIN BURGESS WHO WAS A BACHELOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL CONFESSED TO AN AMIABLE WEAKNESS FOR BLASPHEMY AND WAS GIVEN TO CONDEMNING THE CONVICTS EYES AND LIMBS WITH INDISCRIMINATE VIOLENCE. KIRKLAND BELONGED TO A METHODIST FAMILY AND OWNED A PIETY UTTERLY OUT OF PLACE IN THAT REGION. MY BLANK CRIED BURGESS. YOU BLANK BLANK IS THAT YOUR BLANK GAME. I'LL BLANK SOON CURE YOU OF THAT. AND FORTHWITH ORDERED HIM TO THE CHAIN GANG FOR INSUBORDINATION. HE WAS RECEIVED WITH SUSPICION BY THE GANG WHO DID NOT LIKE WHITE HANDED PRISONERS. TROKE BY WAY OF EXPERIMENT IN HUMAN NATURE PERHAPS PLACED HIM NEXT TO GABBETT. THE DAY WAS GOT THROUGH IN THE USUAL WAY AND KIRKLAND FELT HIS HEART REVIVE THE TOIL WAS SEVERE AND THE COMPANIONSHIP UNCOUTH BUT DESPITE HIS BLISTERED HANDS AND ACHING BACK HE HAD NOT EXPERIENCED ANYTHING SO VERY TERRIBLE AFTER ALL. WHEN THE MUSTER BELL RANG AND THE GANG BROKE UP RUFUS DAWES ON HIS SILENT WAY TO HIS SEPARATE CELL OBSERVED A NOTABLE CHANGE OF CUSTOM IN THE DISPOSITION OF THE NEW CONVICT. INSTEAD OF PLACING HIM IN A CELL BY HIMSELF TROKE WAS TURNING HIM INTO THE YARD WITH THE OTHERS. I'M NOT TO GO IN THERE SAYS THE EX BANK CLERK DRAWING BACK IN DISMAY FROM THE CLOUD OF FOUL FACES WHICH LOWERED UPON HIM. THE GOVERNOR SAYS A NIGHT IN THERE'LL TAKE THE STARCH OUT OF YE. COME IN YER GO BUT MISTER TROKE. STOW YOUR GAFF SAYS TROKE WITH ANOTHER OATH AND IMPATIENTLY STRIKING THE LAD WITH HIS THONG I CAN'T ARGUE HERE ALL NIGHT GET IN. SO KIRKLAND AGED TWENTY TWO AND THE SON OF METHODIST PARENTS WENT IN. RUFUS DAWES AMONG WHOSE SINISTER MEMORIES THIS YARD WAS NUMBERED SIGHED. SO FIERCE WAS THE GLAMOUR OF THE PLACE HOWEVER THAT WHEN LOCKED INTO HIS CELL HE FELT ASHAMED FOR THAT SIGH AND STROVE TO ERASE THE MEMORY OF IT. WHAT IS HE MORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE SAID THE WRETCHED MAN TO HIMSELF AS HE HUGGED HIS MISERY CLOSE. ABOUT DAWN THE NEXT MORNING MISTER NORTH WHO AMONGST OTHER VAGARIES NOT APPROVED OF BY HIS BISHOP HAD A HABIT OF PROWLING ABOUT THE PRISON AT UNOFFICIAL HOURS WAS ATTRACTED BY A DISPUTE AT THE DOOR OF THE DORMITORY. WHAT'S THE MATTER HERE HE ASKED. A PRISONER REFRACTORY YOUR REVERENCE SAID THE WATCHMAN. WANTS TO COME OUT MISTER NORTH. MISTER NORTH CRIED A VOICE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET ME OUT OF THIS PLACE. KIRKLAND GHASTLY PALE BLEEDING WITH HIS WOOLLEN SHIRT TORN AND HIS BLUE EYES WIDE OPEN WITH TERROR WAS CLINGING TO THE BARS. OH MISTER NORTH MISTER NORTH OH MISTER NORTH. OH FOR GOD'S SAKE MISTER NORTH. WHAT KIRKLAND CRIED NORTH WHO WAS IGNORANT OF THE VENGEANCE OF THE COMMANDANT. WHAT DO YOU DO HERE BUT KIRKLAND COULD DO NOTHING BUT CRY OH MISTER NORTH FOR GOD'S SAKE MISTER NORTH. AND BEAT ON THE BARS WITH WHITE AND SWEATING HANDS. LET HIM OUT WATCHMAN SAID NORTH. CAN'T SIR WITHOUT AN ORDER FROM THE COMMANDANT. I ORDER YOU SIR NORTH CRIED INDIGNANT. VERY SORRY YOUR REVERENCE BUT YOUR REVERENCE KNOWS THAT I DAREN'T DO SUCH A THING. WOULD YOU SEE ME PERISH BODY AND SOUL IN THIS PLACE MISTER NORTH

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+OH YOU MINISTERS OF CHRIST WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING YOU SHALL BE JUDGED FOR THIS. LET HIM OUT CRIED NORTH AGAIN STAMPING HIS FOOT. IT'S NO GOOD RETURNED THE GAOLER. I CAN'T IF HE WAS DYING I CAN'T. NORTH RUSHED AWAY TO THE COMMANDANT AND THE INSTANT HIS BACK WAS TURNED HAILES THE WATCHMAN FLUNG OPEN THE DOOR AND DARTED INTO THE DORMITORY. TAKE THAT HE CRIED DEALING KIRKLAND A BLOW ON THE HEAD WITH HIS KEYS THAT STRETCHED HIM SENSELESS. THERE'S MORE TROUBLE WITH YOU BLOODY ARISTOCRATS THAN ENOUGH LIE QUIET. THE COMMANDANT ROUSED FROM SLUMBER TOLD MISTER NORTH THAT KIRKLAND MIGHT STOP WHERE HE WAS AND THAT HE'D THANK THE CHAPLAIN NOT TO WAKE HIM UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT BECAUSE A BLANK PRISONER SET UP A BLANK HOWLING. BUT MY GOOD SIR PROTESTED NORTH RESTRAINING HIS IMPULSE TO OVERSTEP THE BOUNDS OF MODESTY IN HIS LANGUAGE TO HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER YOU KNOW THE CHARACTER OF THE MEN IN THAT WARD. YOU CAN GUESS WHAT THAT UNHAPPY BOY HAS SUFFERED. IMPERTINENT YOUNG BEGGAR SAID BURGESS. DO HIM GOOD CURSE HIM. MISTER NORTH I'M SORRY YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD THE TROUBLE TO COME HERE BUT WILL YOU LET ME GO TO SLEEP. NORTH RETURNED TO THE PRISON DISCONSOLATELY FOUND THE DUTIFUL HAILES AT HIS POST AND ALL QUIET. WHAT'S BECOME OF KIRKLAND HE ASKED. FRETTED HISSELF TO SLEEP YER REVERENCE SAID HAILES IN ACCENTS OF PARENTAL CONCERN POOR YOUNG CHAP. IT'S HARD FOR SUCH YOUNG UNS. IN THE MORNING RUFUS DAWES COMING TO HIS PLACE ON THE CHAIN GANG WAS STRUCK BY THE ALTERED APPEARANCE OF KIRKLAND. IT'S NO GOOD BEING IN THE MOPES YOU KNOW. WHAT DO THEY DO IF YOU TRY TO BOLT WHISPERED KIRKLAND. KILL YOU RETURNED DAWES IN A TONE OF SURPRISE AT SO PREPOSTEROUS A QUESTION. THANK GOD SAID KIRKLAND. NOW THEN MISS NANCY SAID ONE OF THE MEN WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU. KIRKLAND SHUDDERED AND HIS PALE FACE GREW CRIMSON. OH HE SAID THAT SUCH A WRETCH AS I SHOULD LIVE SILENCE CRIED TROKE. THE WORK OF THE GANG THAT AFTERNOON WAS THE CARRYING OF SOME HEAVY LOGS TO THE WATER SIDE AND RUFUS DAWES OBSERVED THAT KIRKLAND WAS EXHAUSTED LONG BEFORE THE TASK WAS ACCOMPLISHED. THEY'LL KILL YOU YOU LITTLE BEGGAR SAID HE NOT UNKINDLY. WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING TO GET INTO THIS SCRAPE. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN THAT THAT PLACE I WAS IN LAST NIGHT ASKED KIRKLAND. RUFUS DAWES NODDED. DOES THE COMMANDANT KNOW WHAT GOES ON THERE I SUPPOSE SO. WHAT DOES HE CARE CARE. MAN DO YOU BELIEVE IN A GOD. NO SAID DAWES NOT HERE HOLD UP MY LAD. IF YOU FALL WE MUST FALL OVER YOU AND THEN YOU'RE DONE FOR. HE HAD HARDLY UTTERED THE WORDS WHEN THE BOY FLUNG HIMSELF BENEATH THE LOG. IN ANOTHER INSTANT THE TRAIN WOULD HAVE BEEN SCRAMBLING OVER HIS CRUSHED BODY HAD NOT GABBETT STRETCHED OUT AN IRON HAND AND PLUCKED THE WOULD BE SUICIDE FROM DEATH. HOLD ON TO ME MISS NANCY SAID THE GIANT I'M BIG ENOUGH TO CARRY DOUBLE. SOMETHING IN THE TONE OR MANNER OF THE SPEAKER AFFECTED KIRKLAND TO DISGUST FOR SPURNING THE OFFERED HAND HE UTTERED A CRY AND THEN HOLDING UP HIS IRONS WITH HIS HANDS HE STARTED TO RUN FOR THE WATER. HALT YOU YOUNG FOOL ROARED TROKE RAISING HIS CARBINE. BUT KIRKLAND KEPT STEADILY ON FOR THE RIVER. JUST AS HE REACHED IT HOWEVER THE FIGURE OF MISTER NORTH ROSE FROM BEHIND A PILE OF STONES. KIRKLAND JUMPED FOR THE JETTY MISSED HIS FOOTING AND FELL INTO THE ARMS OF THE CHAPLAIN. YOU YOUNG VERMIN YOU SHALL PAY FOR THIS CRIES TROKE. YOU'LL SEE IF YOU WON'T REMEMBER THIS DAY

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+OH MISTER NORTH SAYS KIRKLAND WHY DID YOU STOP ME. YOU'LL GET IT MY LAD SAID GABBETT WHEN THE RUNAWAY WAS BROUGHT BACK. KIRKLAND ONLY BREATHED HARDER AND LOOKED ROUND FOR MISTER NORTH BUT MISTER NORTH HAD GONE. THE NEW CHAPLAIN WAS TO ARRIVE THAT AFTERNOON AND IT WAS INCUMBENT ON HIM TO BE AT THE RECEPTION. TROKE REPORTED THE EX BANK CLERK THAT NIGHT TO BURGESS AND BURGESS WHO WAS ABOUT TO GO TO DINNER WITH THE NEW CHAPLAIN DISPOSED OF HIS CASE OUT OF HAND. MUST STOP THAT FIFTY LASHES TROKE. TELL MACKLEWAIN TO BE READY OR STAY I'LL TELL HIM MYSELF I'LL BREAK THE YOUNG DEVIL'S SPIRIT BLANK HIM. YES SIR SAID TROKE GOOD EVENING SIR. TROKE PICK OUT SOME LIKELY MAN WILL YOU. THAT LAST FELLOW YOU HAD OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN TIED UP HIMSELF. HIS FLOGGING WOULDN'T HAVE KILLED A FLEA. YOU CAN'T GET EM TO WARM ONE ANOTHER YOUR HONOUR SAYS TROKE THEY WON'T DO IT. OH YES THEY WILL THOUGH SAYS BURGESS OR I'LL KNOW THE REASON WHY. I WON'T HAVE MY MEN KNOCKED UP WITH FLOGGING THESE RASCALS. IF THE SCOURGER WON'T DO HIS DUTY TIE HIM UP AND GIVE HIM FIVE AND TWENTY FOR HIMSELF. I'LL BE DOWN IN THE MORNING MYSELF IF I CAN. VERY GOOD YOUR HONOUR SAYS TROKE. KIRKLAND WAS PUT INTO A SEPARATE CELL THAT NIGHT AND TROKE BY WAY OF ASSURING HIM A GOOD NIGHT'S REST TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS TO HAVE FIFTY IN THE MORNING. AND DAWES'LL LAY IT ON HE ADDED

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+I THOUGHT IT WAS A LITTLE PARADISE SAID MEEKIN. CAPTAIN FRERE SAYS THAT THE SCENERY IS DELIGHTFUL. POOR ABANDONED WRETCHES SAYS MEEKIN I SUPPOSE NOT. HOW SWEET THE MOONLIGHT SLEEPS UPON THAT BANK. ABANDONED INDEED BY GOD AND MAN ALMOST. MISTER NORTH PROVIDENCE NEVER ABANDONS THE MOST UNWORTHY OF HIS SERVANTS. NEVER HAVE I SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN NOR HIS SEED BEGGING THEIR BREAD. IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH HE IS WITH US. HIS STAFF YOU KNOW MISTER NORTH REALLY THE COMMANDANT'S HOUSE IS CHARMINGLY SITUATED. MISTER NORTH SIGHED AGAIN. YOU HAVE NOT BEEN LONG IN THE COLONY MISTER MEEKIN. I DOUBT FORGIVE ME FOR EXPRESSING MYSELF SO FREELY IF YOU QUITE KNOW OF OUR CONVICT SYSTEM. AN ADMIRABLE ONE A MOST ADMIRABLE ONE SAID MEEKIN. THERE WERE A FEW MATTERS I NOTICED IN HOBART TOWN THAT DID NOT QUITE PLEASE ME THE FREQUENT USE OF PROFANE LANGUAGE FOR INSTANCE BUT ON THE WHOLE I WAS DELIGHTED WITH THE SCHEME IT IS SO COMPLETE. NORTH PURSED UP HIS LIPS. YES IT IS VERY COMPLETE HE SAID ALMOST TOO COMPLETE. BUT I AM ALWAYS IN A MINORITY WHEN I DISCUSS THE QUESTION SO WE WILL DROP IT IF YOU PLEASE. IF YOU PLEASE SAID MEEKIN GRAVELY. HE HAD HEARD FROM THE BISHOP THAT MISTER NORTH WAS AN ILL CONDITIONED SORT OF PERSON WHO SMOKED CLAY PIPES HAD BEEN DETECTED IN DRINKING BEER OUT OF A PEWTER POT AND HAD BEEN HEARD TO STATE THAT WHITE NECK CLOTHS WERE OF NO CONSEQUENCE. THE DINNER WENT OFF SUCCESSFULLY. BURGESS DESIROUS PERHAPS OF FAVOURABLY IMPRESSING THE CHAPLAIN WHOM THE BISHOP DELIGHTED TO HONOUR SHUT OFF HIS BLASPHEMY FOR A WHILE AND WAS URBANE ENOUGH. YOU'LL FIND US ROUGH MISTER MEEKIN HE SAID BUT YOU'LL FIND US ALL THERE WHEN WE'RE WANTED. THIS IS A LITTLE KINGDOM IN ITSELF. CAPTAIN BURGESS HAD NEVER HEARD OF BERANGER BUT HE SMILED AS IF HE HAD LEARNT HIS WORDS BY HEART. OR LIKE SANCHO PANZA'S ISLAND SAID NORTH. YOU REMEMBER HOW JUSTICE WAS ADMINISTERED THERE. NOT AT THIS MOMENT SIR SAID BURGESS WITH DIGNITY. HE HAD BEEN OFTEN OPPRESSED BY THE NOTION THAT THE REVEREND MISTER NORTH CHAFFED HIM. PRAY HELP YOURSELF TO WINE. THANK YOU NONE SAID NORTH FILLING A TUMBLER WITH WATER I HAVE A HEADACHE. HIS MANNER OF SPEECH AND ACTION WAS SO AWKWARD THAT A SILENCE FELL UPON THE PARTY CAUSED BY EACH ONE WONDERING WHY MISTER NORTH SHOULD GROW CONFUSED AND DRUM HIS FINGERS ON THE TABLE AND STARE EVERYWHERE BUT AT THE DECANTER. MEEKIN EVER SOFTLY AT HIS EASE WAS THE FIRST TO SPEAK. HAVE YOU MANY VISITORS CAPTAIN BURGESS VERY FEW. SOMETIMES A PARTY COMES OVER WITH A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE GOVERNOR AND I SHOW THEM OVER THE PLACE BUT AS A RULE WE SEE NO ONE BUT OURSELVES. I ASKED SAID MEEKIN BECAUSE SOME FRIENDS OF MINE WERE THINKING OF COMING AND WHO MAY THEY BE. DO YOU KNOW CAPTAIN FRERE. I WAS QUARTERED WITH HIM AT SARAH ISLAND. SO HE'S A FRIEND OF YOURS EH. I HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING HIM IN SOCIETY. HE IS JUST MARRIED YOU KNOW IS HE SAID BURGESS. THE DEVIL HE IS I HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT IT TOO. MISS VICKERS A CHARMING YOUNG PERSON. CAPTAIN FRERE TAKES A DEEP INTEREST IN ALL RELATING TO CONVICT DISCIPLINE WENT ON MEEKIN UNHEEDING THE INTERRUPTION AND IS ANXIOUS THAT MISSUS FRERE SHOULD SEE THIS PLACE. YES ONE OUGHTN'T TO LEAVE THE COLONY WITHOUT SEEING IT SAYS BURGESS IT'S WORTH SEEING. SO CAPTAIN FRERE THINKS. A ROMANTIC STORY CAPTAIN BURGESS HE SAVED HER LIFE YOU KNOW. AH THAT WAS A QUEER THING THAT MUTINY SAID BURGESS. WE'VE GOT THE FELLOWS HERE YOU KNOW. I SAW THEM TRIED AT HOBART TOWN SAID MEEKIN

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+IN FACT THE RINGLEADER JOHN REX GAVE ME HIS CONFESSION AND I SENT IT TO THE BISHOP. A GREAT RASCAL PUT IN NORTH. A DANGEROUS SCHEMING COLD BLOODED VILLAIN. WELL NOW SAID MEEKIN WITH ASPERITY I DON'T AGREE WITH YOU. EVERYBODY SEEMS TO BE AGAINST THAT POOR FELLOW CAPTAIN FRERE TRIED TO MAKE ME THINK THAT HIS LETTERS CONTAINED A HIDDEN MEANING BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THEY DID. HE SEEMS TO ME TO BE TRULY PENITENT FOR HIS OFFENCES A MISGUIDED BUT NOT A HYPOCRITICAL MAN IF MY KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN NATURE GOES FOR ANYTHING I HOPE HE IS SAID NORTH. I WOULDN'T TRUST HIM OH. THERE'S NO FEAR OF HIM SAID BURGESS CHEERILY IF HE GROWS UPROARIOUS WE'LL SOON GIVE HIM A TOUCH OF THE CAT. I SUPPOSE SEVERITY IS NECESSARY RETURNED MEEKIN THOUGH TO MY EARS A FLOGGING SOUNDS A LITTLE DISTASTEFUL. IT IS A BRUTAL PUNISHMENT. IT'S A PUNISHMENT FOR BRUTES SAID BURGESS AND LAUGHED PLEASED WITH THE NEAREST APPROACH TO AN EPIGRAM HE EVER MADE IN HIS LIFE. HERE ATTENTION WAS CALLED BY THE STRANGE BEHAVIOUR OF MISTER NORTH. HE HAD RISEN AND WITHOUT APOLOGY FLUNG WIDE THE WINDOW AS THOUGH HE GASPED FOR AIR. HULLO NORTH WHAT'S THE MATTER. NOTHING SAID NORTH RECOVERING HIMSELF WITH AN EFFORT A SPASM. I HAVE THESE ATTACKS AT TIMES. HAVE SOME BRANDY SAID BURGESS. NO NO IT WILL PASS NO I SAY. AND SEIZING THE TUMBLER OFFERED TO HIM HE HALF FILLED IT WITH RAW SPIRIT AND SWALLOWED THE FIERY DRAUGHT AT A GULP. THE REVEREND MEEKIN EYED HIS CLERICAL BROTHER WITH HORROR THE REVEREND MEEKIN WAS NOT ACCUSTOMED TO CLERGYMEN WHO WORE BLACK NECKTIES SMOKED CLAY PIPES CHEWED TOBACCO AND DRANK NEAT BRANDY OUT OF TUMBLERS. HA SAID NORTH LOOKING WILDLY ROUND UPON THEM THAT'S BETTER. LET US GO ON TO THE VERANDAH SAID BURGESS IT'S COOLER THAN IN THE HOUSE. SO THEY WENT ON TO THE VERANDAH AND LOOKED DOWN UPON THE LIGHTS OF THE PRISON AND LISTENED TO THE SEA LAPPING THE SHORE. THE REVEREND MISTER NORTH IN THIS COOL ATMOSPHERE SEEMED TO RECOVER HIMSELF AND CONVERSATION PROGRESSED WITH SOME SPRIGHTLINESS. BY AND BY A SHORT FIGURE SMOKING A CHEROOT CAME UP OUT OF THE DARK AND PROVED TO BE DOCTOR MACKLEWAIN WHO HAD BEEN PREVENTED FROM ATTENDING THE DINNER BY REASON OF AN ACCIDENT TO A CONSTABLE AT NORFOLK BAY WHICH HAD CLAIMED HIS PROFESSIONAL ATTENTION. WELL HOW'S FORREST CRIED BURGESS. MISTER MEEKIN DOCTOR MACKLEWAIN. DEAD SAID DOCTOR MACKLEWAIN. DELIGHTED TO SEE YOU MISTER MEEKIN. CONFOUND IT ANOTHER OF MY BEST MEN GRUMBLED BURGESS. MACKLEWAIN HAVE A GLASS OF WINE. BUT MACKLEWAIN WAS TIRED AND WANTED TO GET HOME. COME ON THEN SAID NORTH. OUR ROADS LIE TOGETHER DOCTOR. YOU WON'T HAVE A NIP OF BRANDY BEFORE YOU START ASKED BURGESS NO. THEN I SHALL SEND ROUND FOR YOU IN THE MORNING MISTER MEEKIN GOOD NIGHT. MACKLEWAIN I WANT TO SPEAK WITH YOU A MOMENT. BEFORE THE TWO CLERGYMEN HAD GOT HALF WAY DOWN THE STEEP PATH THAT LED FROM THE COMMANDANT'S HOUSE TO THE FLAT ON WHICH THE COTTAGES OF THE DOCTOR AND CHAPLAIN WERE BUILT MACKLEWAIN REJOINED THEM. ANOTHER FLOGGING TO MORROW SAID HE GRUMBLINGLY. UP AT DAYLIGHT I SUPPOSE AGAIN. WHOM IS HE GOING TO FLOG NOW. THAT YOUNG BUTLER FELLOW OF HIS. WHAT KIRKLAND CRIED NORTH. YOU DON'T MEAN TO SAY HE'S GOING TO FLOG KIRKLAND. INSUBORDINATION SAYS MACKLEWAIN FIFTY LASHES. OH THIS MUST BE STOPPED CRIED NORTH IN GREAT ALARM HE CAN'T STAND IT. I TELL YOU HE'LL DIE MACKLEWAIN

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+PERHAPS YOU'LL HAVE THE GOODNESS TO ALLOW ME TO BE THE BEST JUDGE OF THAT RETURNED MACKLEWAIN DRAWING UP HIS LITTLE BODY TO ITS LEAST INSIGNIFICANT STATURE. MY DEAR SIR REPLIED NORTH ALIVE TO THE IMPORTANCE OF CONCILIATING THE SURGEON YOU HAVEN'T SEEN HIM LATELY. HE TRIED TO DROWN HIMSELF THIS MORNING. MISTER MEEKIN EXPRESSED SOME ALARM BUT DOCTOR MACKLEWAIN RE ASSURED HIM. THAT SORT OF NONSENSE MUST BE STOPPED SAID HE A NICE EXAMPLE TO SET. I WONDER BURGESS DIDN'T GIVE HIM A HUNDRED. HE WAS PUT INTO THE LONG DORMITORY SAID NORTH YOU KNOW WHAT SORT OF A PLACE THAT IS. I DECLARE TO HEAVEN HIS AGONY AND SHAME TERRIFIED ME. WELL HE'LL BE PUT INTO THE HOSPITAL FOR A WEEK OR SO TO MORROW SAID MACKLEWAIN AND THAT'LL GIVE HIM A SPELL. IF BURGESS FLOGS HIM I'LL REPORT IT TO THE GOVERNOR CRIES NORTH IN GREAT HEAT. THE CONDITION OF THOSE DORMITORIES IS INFAMOUS. IF THE BOY HAS ANYTHING TO COMPLAIN OF WHY DON'T HE COMPLAIN. WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT EVIDENCE COMPLAIN. WOULD HIS LIFE BE SAFE IF HE DID. BESIDES HE'S NOT THE SORT OF CREATURE TO COMPLAIN HE'D RATHER KILL HIMSELF. THAT'S ALL NONSENSE SAYS MACKLEWAIN. WE CAN'T FLOG A WHOLE DORMITORY ON SUSPICION I CAN'T HELP IT. THE BOY'S MADE HIS BED AND HE MUST LIE ON IT. I'LL GO BACK AND SEE BURGESS SAID NORTH. MISTER MEEKIN HERE'S THE GATE AND YOUR ROOM IS ON THE RIGHT HAND I'LL BE BACK SHORTLY. PRAY DON'T HURRY SAID MEEKIN POLITELY. YOU ARE ON AN ERRAND OF MERCY YOU KNOW EVERYTHING MUST GIVE WAY TO THAT. I SHALL FIND MY PORTMANTEAU IN MY ROOM YOU SAID YES YES. CALL THE SERVANT IF YOU WANT ANYTHING. HE SLEEPS AT THE BACK AND NORTH HURRIED OFF. AN IMPULSIVE GENTLEMAN SAID MEEKIN TO MACKLEWAIN AS THE SOUND OF MISTER NORTH'S FOOTSTEPS DIED AWAY IN THE DISTANCE. MACKLEWAIN SHOOK HIS HEAD SERIOUSLY. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG ABOUT HIM BUT I CAN'T MAKE OUT WHAT IT IS. HE HAS THE STRANGEST FITS AT TIMES. UNLESS IT'S A CANCER IN THE STOMACH I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT CAN BE CANCER IN THE STOMACH. DEAR ME HOW DREADFUL SAYS MEEKIN AH. DOCTOR WE ALL HAVE OUR CROSSES HAVE WE NOT. HOW DELIGHTFUL THE GRASS SMELLS. THIS SEEMS A VERY PLEASANT PLACE AND I THINK I SHALL ENJOY MYSELF VERY MUCH GOOD NIGHT. GOOD NIGHT SIR I HOPE YOU WILL BE COMFORTABLE. AND LET US HOPE POOR MISTER NORTH WILL SUCCEED IN HIS LABOUR OF LOVE SAID MEEKIN SHUTTING THE LITTLE GATE AND SAVE THE UNFORTUNATE KIRKLAND GOOD NIGHT ONCE MORE. CAPTAIN BURGESS WAS SHUTTING HIS VERANDAH WINDOW WHEN NORTH HURRIED UP. CAPTAIN BURGESS MACKLEWAIN TELLS ME YOU ARE GOING TO FLOG KIRKLAND. WELL SIR WHAT OF THAT SAID BURGESS. I HAVE COME TO BEG YOU NOT TO DO SO SIR. THE LAD HAS BEEN CRUELLY PUNISHED ALREADY. HE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TO DAY UNHAPPY CREATURE. WELL THAT'S JUST WHAT I'M FLOGGING HIM FOR. I'LL TEACH MY PRISONERS TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE. BUT HE CAN'T STAND IT SIR HE'S TOO WEAK. THAT'S MACKLEWAIN'S BUSINESS. CAPTAIN BURGESS PROTESTED NORTH I ASSURE YOU THAT HE DOES NOT DESERVE PUNISHMENT. I HAVE SEEN HIM AND HIS CONDITION OF MIND IS PITIABLE. LOOK HERE MISTER NORTH I DON'T INTERFERE WITH WHAT YOU DO TO THE PRISONER'S SOULS DON'T YOU INTERFERE WITH WHAT I DO TO THEIR BODIES. CAPTAIN BURGESS YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO MOCK AT MY OFFICE. THEN DON'T YOU INTERFERE WITH ME SIR. DO YOU PERSIST IN HAVING THIS BOY FLOGGED. I'VE GIVEN MY ORDERS SIR. THEN CAPTAIN BURGESS CRIED NORTH HIS PALE FACE FLUSHING I TELL YOU THE BOY'S BLOOD WILL BE ON YOUR HEAD. I AM A MINISTER OF GOD SIR AND I FORBID YOU TO COMMIT THIS CRIME. DAMN YOUR IMPERTINENCE SIR BURST OUT BURGESS. YOU'RE A DISMISSED OFFICER OF THE GOVERNMENT SIR

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+YOU'VE NO AUTHORITY HERE IN ANY WAY AND BY GOD SIR IF YOU INTERFERE WITH MY DISCIPLINE SIR I'LL HAVE YOU PUT IN IRONS UNTIL YOU'RE SHIPPED OUT OF THE ISLAND. THIS OF COURSE WAS MERE BRAVADO ON THE PART OF THE COMMANDANT. NORTH KNEW WELL THAT HE WOULD NEVER DARE TO ATTEMPT ANY SUCH ACT OF VIOLENCE BUT THE INSULT STUNG HIM LIKE THE CUT OF A WHIP. HE MADE A STRIDE TOWARDS THE COMMANDANT AS THOUGH TO SEIZE HIM BY THE THROAT BUT CHECKING HIMSELF IN TIME STOOD STILL WITH CLENCHED HANDS FLASHING EYES AND BEARD THAT BRISTLED. THE TWO MEN LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND PRESENTLY BURGESS'S EYES FELL BEFORE THOSE OF THE CHAPLAIN. BURGESS WHITE WITH RAGE RANG THE BELL THAT SUMMONED HIS CONVICT SERVANT. SHOW MISTER NORTH OUT HE SAID AND GO DOWN TO THE BARRACKS AND TELL TROKE THAT KIRKLAND IS TO HAVE A HUNDRED LASHES TO MORROW. I'LL SHOW YOU WHO'S MASTER HERE MY GOOD SIR. I'LL REPORT THIS TO THE GOVERNMENT SAID NORTH AGHAST. THIS IS MURDEROUS. THE GOVERNMENT MAY GO TO AND YOU TOO ROARED BURGESS GET OUT. AND GOD'S VICEREGENT AT PORT ARTHUR SLAMMED THE DOOR. NORTH RETURNED HOME IN GREAT AGITATION. THEY SHALL NOT FLOG THAT BOY HE SAID. I'LL SHIELD HIM WITH MY OWN BODY IF NECESSARY. I'LL REPORT THIS TO THE GOVERNMENT. I'LL SEE SIR JOHN FRANKLIN MYSELF. I'LL HAVE THE LIGHT OF DAY LET INTO THIS DEN OF HORRORS. NORTH TOOK DOWN A BOOK FROM THE SHELF AND TRIED TO READ BUT THE LETTERS RAN TOGETHER. I WISH I HADN'T TAKEN THAT BRANDY HE SAID FOOL THAT I AM. THEN HE BEGAN TO WALK UP AND DOWN TO FLING HIMSELF ON THE SOFA TO READ TO PRAY. OH GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH AID ME HELP ME. I STRUGGLE BUT I AM WEAK. O LORD LOOK DOWN UPON ME. TO SEE HIM ROLLING ON THE SOFA IN AGONY TO SEE HIS WHITE FACE HIS PARCHED LIPS AND HIS CONTRACTED BROW TO HEAR HIS MOANS AND MUTTERED PRAYERS ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT HIM SUFFERING FROM THE PANGS OF SOME TERRIBLE DISEASE. HE OPENED THE BOOK AGAIN AND FORCED HIMSELF TO READ BUT HIS EYES WANDERED TO THE CUPBOARD. THERE LURKED SOMETHING THAT FASCINATED HIM. HE GOT UP AT LENGTH WENT INTO THE KITCHEN AND FOUND A PACKET OF RED PEPPER. HE MIXED A TEASPOONFUL OF THIS IN A PANNIKIN OF WATER AND DRANK IT. IT RELIEVED HIM FOR A WHILE. I MUST KEEP MY WITS FOR TO MORROW. MEEKIN TOO WILL SUSPECT I WILL LIE DOWN. HE WENT INTO HIS BEDROOM AND FLUNG HIMSELF ON THE BED BUT ONLY TO TOSS FROM SIDE TO SIDE. SLEEP WOULD NOT COME TO HIM. IT WAS AS THOUGH HE HAD REACHED THE CRISIS OF A DISEASE WHICH HAD BEEN FOR DAYS GATHERING FORCE. I MUST HAVE A TEASPOONFUL HE SAID TO ALLAY THE CRAVING. TWICE HE PAUSED ON THE WAY TO THE SITTING ROOM AND TWICE WAS HE DRIVEN ON BY A POWER STRONGER THAN HIS WILL. HE REACHED IT AT LENGTH AND OPENING THE CUPBOARD PULLED OUT WHAT HE SOUGHT A BOTTLE OF BRANDY. WITH THIS IN HIS HAND ALL MODERATION VANISHED. HE RAISED IT TO HIS LIPS AND EAGERLY DRANK. THEN ASHAMED OF WHAT HE HAD DONE HE THRUST THE BOTTLE BACK AND MADE FOR HIS ROOM STILL HE COULD NOT SLEEP. THE TASTE OF THE LIQUOR MADDENED HIM FOR MORE. HE SAW IN THE DARKNESS THE BRANDY BOTTLE VULGAR AND TERRIBLE APPARITION. HE SAW ITS AMBER FLUID SPARKLE. HE HEARD IT GURGLE AS HE POURED IT OUT. HE SMELT THE NUTTY AROMA OF THE SPIRIT. HE PICTURED IT STANDING IN THE CORNER OF THE CUPBOARD AND IMAGINED HIMSELF SEIZING IT AND QUENCHING THE FIRE THAT BURNED WITHIN HIM. HE WEPT HE PRAYED HE FOUGHT WITH HIS DESIRE AS WITH A MADNESS

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+THAT AT ALL TIMES DEBASING AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME IT WAS INFAMOUS THAT A VICE UNWORTHY OF ANY MAN WAS DOUBLY SINFUL IN A MAN OF EDUCATION AND A MINISTER OF GOD IN VAIN. IN THE MIDST OF HIS ARGUMENTS HE FOUND HIMSELF AT THE CUPBOARD WITH THE BOTTLE AT HIS LIPS IN AN ATTITUDE THAT WAS AT ONCE LUDICROUS AND HORRIBLE. HE HAD NO CANCER. HIS DISEASE WAS A MORE TERRIBLE ONE

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+YOU SEE HOW MISTAKEN WE WERE AND GOD ONLY KNOWS WHEN THE END WILL COME. THE BOYS BLESS THEIR BRAVE HEARTS HAVE DONE NOBLY BUT OLDER MEN ARE NEEDED NOW WE CANNOT SACRIFICE ALL THE GALLANT LADS AND WE WHO HAVE MORE TO LOSE THAN THEY MUST TAKE OUR TURN AND TRY TO DO AS WELL. YOU OWN THIS I SEE IT IN YOUR FACES THEN DON'T HOLD ME BACK WHEN THE TIME COMES FOR ME TO GO. I MUST DO MY PART HOWEVER SMALL IT IS OR I SHALL NEVER FEEL AS IF I DESERVED THE LOVE YOU GIVE ME. YOU WILL LET ME GO I AM SURE AND NOT REGRET THAT I DID WHAT SEEMED TO ME A SOLEMN DUTY LEAVING THE CONSEQUENCES TO THE LORD. YES DAVID SISTER AND SWEETHEART ANSWERED BRAVELY FORGETTING IN THE FERVOR OF THE MOMENT WHAT HEAVY CONSEQUENCES GOD MIGHT SEE FIT TO SEND GOOD. I KNEW MY SPARTANS WOULD BE READY AND I WON'T DISGRACE THEM. BENNET WILL TAKE THE GARDEN AND GREEN HOUSE OFF MY HANDS THIS AUTUMN FOR A YEAR OR LONGER IF I LIKE. HE'S A KIND NEIGHBORLY MAN AND HIS BOY WILL TAKE MY PLACE ABOUT THE HOUSE AND PROTECT YOU FAITHFULLY. ONLY ONE DAUGHTER NEAR HER DAVID I SHALL ENLIST WHEN YOU DO SAID CHRISTIE RESOLUTELY YOU MEAN IT. I MEAN IT AS HONESTLY AS YOU DO. I KNEW YOU WOULD GO I SAW YOU GETTING READY AND I MADE UP MY MIND TO FOLLOW. I TOO HAVE PREPARED FOR IT AND EVEN SPOKEN TO MISSUS AMORY. SHE HAS GONE AS MATRON OF A HOSPITAL AND PROMISED TO FIND A PLACE FOR ME WHEN I WAS READY. DEAR OUGHT I TO LET YOU DO IT. YOU WILL LET ME DO IT AND IN RETURN I WILL MARRY YOU WHENEVER YOU ASK ME ANSWERED CHRISTIE SEALING THE PROMISE WITH A KISS THAT SILENCED HIM. HE HAD BEEN ANXIOUS TO BE MARRIED LONG AGO BUT WHEN HE ASKED MISTER POWER TO MAKE HIM HAPPY A MONTH AFTER HIS ENGAGEMENT THAT WISE FRIEND SAID TO THEM I DON'T ADVISE IT YET. YOU HAVE TRIED AND PROVED ONE ANOTHER AS FRIENDS NOW TRY AND PROVE ONE ANOTHER AS LOVERS THEN IF YOU FEEL THAT ALL IS SAFE AND HAPPY YOU WILL BE READY FOR THE GREATEST OF THE THREE EXPERIMENTS AND THEN IN GOD'S NAME MARRY. WE WILL THEY SAID AND FOR A YEAR HAD BEEN CONTENT STUDYING ONE ANOTHER FINDING MUCH TO LOVE AND SOMETHING TO LEARN IN THE ART OF BEARING AND FORBEARING. SHE NEVER HAD YET AND NOW RESOLVED TO ASK NOTHING BUT TO EARN HER BLESSING BY DOING HER SHARE IN THE GREAT WORK. I SHALL REMEMBER THAT WAS ALL DAVID ANSWERED TO THAT LAST PROMISE OF HERS AND THREE MONTHS LATER HE TOOK HER AT HER WORD. FOR A WEEK OR TWO THEY WENT ON IN THE OLD WAY CHRISTIE DID HER HOUSEWORK WITH HER HEAD FULL OF NEW PLANS READ BOOKS ON NURSING MADE GRUEL PLASTERS AND POULTICES TILL MISSUS STERLING PRONOUNCED HER PERFECT AND DREAMED DREAMS OF A HAPPY TIME TO COME WHEN PEACE HAD RETURNED AND DAVID WAS SAFE AT HOME WITH ALL THE STARS AND BARS A MAN COULD WIN WITHOUT DYING FOR THEM. ONE SEPTEMBER DAY HE WENT SLOWLY HOME AND SEEING CHRISTIE IN THE GARDEN JOINED HER HELPED HER FINISH MATTING UP SOME DELICATE SHRUBS PUT BY THE TOOLS AND WHEN ALL WAS DONE SAID WITH UNUSUAL GENTLENESS. COME AND WALK A LITTLE IN THE LANE. SHE PUT HER ARM IN HIS AND ANSWERED QUICKLY. YOU'VE SOMETHING TO TELL ME I SEE IT IN YOUR FACE DEAR I MUST GO. YES DAVID AND YOU. I GO TOO YES CHRISTIE. THAT WAS ALL SHE DID NOT OFFER TO DETAIN HIM NOW HE DID NOT DENY HER RIGHT TO FOLLOW. THEY LOOKED EACH OTHER BRAVELY IN THE FACE A MOMENT SEEING ACKNOWLEDGING THE DUTY AND THE DANGER YET READY TO DO THE ONE AND DARE THE OTHER SINCE THEY WENT TOGETHER. THEN SHOULDER TO SHOULDER AS IF ALREADY MUSTERED IN THESE FAITHFUL COMRADES MARCHED TO AND FRO PLANNING THEIR CAMPAIGN. NEXT EVENING AS MISSUS STERLING SAT ALONE IN THE TWILIGHT A TALL MAN IN ARMY BLUE ENTERED QUIETLY STOOD WATCHING THE TRANQUIL FIGURE FOR A MOMENT THEN WENT AND KNELT DOWN BESIDE IT SAYING WITH A MOST UNSOLDIERLY CHOKE IN THE VOICE. I'VE DONE IT MOTHER TELL ME YOU'RE NOT SORRY

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+ANYWAY I SHALL STINT THE FAMILY AND SEND THEM DEAR BRAVE FELLERS EVERY CENT I CAN GIT WITHOUT STARVIN THE CHILDREN. NOW CYNTHY DON'T BE FERCE. HE SAID NO MORE BUT FELL A THINKING. HE WAS NOT AS UNMOVED AS HE SEEMED BY THE GENERAL EXCITEMENT AND HAD FELT SUNDRY MANLY IMPULSES TO UP AND AT EM WHEN HIS COMRADES IN THE SHOP DISCUSSED THE CRISIS WITH IREFUL BRANDISHING OF AWLS AND VENGEFUL POUNDING OF SOLE LEATHER AS IF THE REBELS WERE UNDER THE HAMMER. NATURE ABHORS A VACUUM AND WHEN FOOD FELL SHORT PATRIOTISM HAD A CHANCE TO FILL THE ACHING VOID. AN UNEXPECTED ALLY APPEARED HOWEVER AND THE GOOD WOMAN TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT TO STRIKE ONE LAST BLOW. LISHA SAT EATING A LATE BREAKFAST ONE MORNING WITH A SMALL SON AT EITHER ELBOW WAITING FOR STRAY MOUTHFULS AND COMMITTING PETTY LARCENIES RIGHT AND LEFT FOR PA WAS IN A BROWN STUDY. MISSUS WILKINS WAS FRYING FLAP JACKS AND THOUGH THIS IS NOT CONSIDERED AN HEROICAL EMPLOYMENT SHE MADE IT SO THAT DAY. THIS WAS A FAVORITE DISH OF LISHA'S AND SHE HAD PREPARED IT AS A BAIT FOR THIS CAUTIOUS FISH. TO SAY THAT THE FISH ROSE AT ONCE AND SWALLOWED THE BAIT HOOK AND ALL BUT FEEBLY EXPRESSES THE JUSTICE DONE TO THE CAKES BY THAT LONG SUFFERING MAN. WAITING TILL HE HAD A TEMPTING PILE OF THE LIGHTEST BROWNEST FLAPJACKS EVER SEEN UPON HIS PLATE AND WAS WATCHING AN EXTRA BIG BIT OF BUTTER MELT LUXURIOUSLY INTO THE WARM BOSOM OF THE UPPER ONE WITH A FACE AS BENIGN AS IF SOME OF THE MOLASSES HE WAS TRICKLING OVER THEM HAD BEEN ABSORBED INTO HIS NATURE MISSUS WILKINS SEIZED THE PROPITIOUS MOMENT TO SAY IMPRESSIVELY. DAVID STERLIN HAS ENLISTED. WELL HE AIN'T GOT A FAMILY YOU SEE. EVERY ONE GIVES SOMETHIN I'VE ONLY GOT YOU AND I WANT TO DO MY SHARE AND DO IT HEARTY. IMAGINE HER DISMAY WHEN HAVING CONSUMED THE BAIT HER FISH GAVE SIGNS OF BREAKING THE LINE AND ESCAPING AFTER ALL FOR MISTER WILKINS PUSHED BACK HIS CHAIR AND SAID SLOWLY AS HE FILLED HIS PIPE. I'M BLEST EF I CAN SEE THE SENSE OF A LOT OF DECENT MEN GOING OFF TO BE FROZE AND STARVED AND BLOWED UP JEST FOR THEM CONFOUNDED NIGGERS. CAN YOU REMEMBER WHAT HEPSEY TOLD US AND CALL THEM POOR LONG SUFFERIN CREETERS NAMES. LISHA WILKINS LOOK AT THAT AND SAY NO EF YOU DARST. ONLY HEPSEY SITTING BY A BED WHERE LAY WHAT LOOKED MORE LIKE A SHRIVELLED MUMMY THAN A WOMAN. AH BUT IT WAS THAT OLD MOTHER WORKED AND WAITED FOR SO LONG BLIND NOW AND DEAF CHILDISH AND HALF DEAD WITH MANY HARDSHIPS BUT SAFE AND FREE AT LAST AND HEPSEY'S BLACK FACE WAS FULL OF A PRIDE A PEACE AND HAPPINESS MORE ELOQUENT AND TOUCHING THAN ANY SPEECH OR SERMON EVER UTTERED. HE'S A COMIN MA CALLED GUSTY PRESENTLY. NO HE AIN'T IT'S A TRAINER ADDED ANN LIZY. BEFORE MISSUS WILKINS COULD REPLY TO THESE CONFLICTING RUMORS HER HUSBAND WALKED IN LOOKING AS MARTIAL AS HIS HOLLOW CHEST AND THIN LEGS PERMITTED AND TURNING HIS CAP NERVOUSLY IN HIS HANDS SAID HALF PROUDLY HALF REPROACHFULLY. NOW CYNTHY BE YOU SATISFIED. OH MY LISHA I BE I BE. AND THE INCONSISTENT WOMAN FELL UPON HIS BUTTONY BREAST WEEPING COPIOUSLY. IF EVER A MAN WAS PRAISED AND PETTED ADMIRED AND CARESSED IT WAS ELISHA WILKINS THAT DAY. HIS WIFE FED HIM WITH THE FAT OF THE LAND REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES HIS CHILDREN REVOLVED ABOUT HIM WITH TIRELESS CURIOSITY AND WONDER HIS NEIGHBORS FLOCKED IN TO APPLAUD ADVISE AND ADMIRE EVERY ONE TREATED HIM WITH A RESPECT MOST GRATEFUL TO HIS FEELINGS HE WAS AN OBJECT OF INTEREST AND WITH EVERY HOUR HIS IMPORTANCE INCREASED SO THAT BY NIGHT HE FELT LIKE A COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND BORE HIMSELF ACCORDINGLY

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+DAVID AND CHRISTIE WENT SMILING AWAY TOGETHER AND IF THEY SHED ANY TEARS OVER THE BRIEF HAPPINESS NO ONE SAW THEM BUT THE FLOWERS AND THEY LOYALLY KEPT THE SECRET FOLDED UP IN THEIR TENDER HEARTS. MISTER POWER CHEERED THE OLD LADY WHILE LETTY ALWAYS GLAD TO SERVE MADE READY THE LAST MEAL DAVID MIGHT EVER TAKE AT HOME. A VERY SIMPLE LITTLE MARRIAGE FEAST BUT MORE LOVE GOOD WILL AND TENDER WISHES ADORNED THE PLAIN TABLE THAN IS OFTEN FOUND AT WEDDING BREAKFASTS AND BETTER THAN ANY SPEECH OR SONG WAS LETTY'S BROKEN WHISPER AS SHE FOLDED HER ARMS ROUND DAVID'S EMPTY CHAIR WHEN NO ONE SAW HER HEAVEN BLESS AND KEEP AND BRING HIM BACK TO US. HOW TIME WENT THAT DAY THE INEXORABLE CLOCK WOULD STRIKE TWELVE SO SOON AND THEN THE MINUTES FLEW TILL ONE WAS AT HAND AND THE LAST WORDS WERE STILL HALF SAID THE LAST GOOD BYES STILL UNUTTERED. I MUST GO CRIED DAVID WITH A SORT OF DESPERATION AS LETTY CLUNG TO ONE ARM CHRISTIE TO THE OTHER. GIVE THE LAST KISS TO MOTHER ADDED LETTY FOLLOWING HER EXAMPLE AND IN ANOTHER MINUTE DAVID WAS GONE. AT THE TURN OF THE LANE HE LOOKED BACK AND SWUNG HIS CAP ALL WAVED THEIR HANDS TO HIM AND THEN HE MARCHED AWAY TO THE GREAT WORK BEFORE HIM LEAVING THOSE LOVING HEARTS TO ASK THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION HOW WILL HE COME HOME. CHRISTIE WAS GOING TO TOWN TO SEE THE REGIMENT OFF AND SOON FOLLOWED WITH MISTER POWER. THEY WENT EARLY TO A CERTAIN FAVORABLE SPOT AND THERE FOUND MISSUS WILKINS WITH HER ENTIRE FAMILY PERCHED UPON A FENCE ON THE SPIKES OF WHICH THEY IMPALED THEMSELVES AT INTERVALS AND HAD TO BE PLUCKED OFF BY THE STOUT GIRL ENGAGED TO ASSIST IN THIS MEMORABLE EXPEDITION. I HEAR DRUMS THEY'RE COMIN CRIED WASH AFTER A LONG HALF HOUR'S WAITING HAD NEARLY DRIVEN HIM FRANTIC. THE TWO YOUNGER BOYS IMMEDIATELY TUMBLED OFF THE FENCE AND WERE WITH DIFFICULTY RESTORED TO THEIR PERCHES. HOLD ON TO ME BEHIND SOMEBODY FOR I MUST SEE EF I DO PITCH INTO THE GUTTER CRIED MISSUS WILKINS WITH A GASP AS SHE WIPED HER EYES ON HER SHAWL CLUTCHED THE RAILING AND STOOD READY TO CHEER BRAVELY WHEN HER CONQUERING HERO CAME. WASH HAD HEARD DRUMS EVERY FIVE MINUTES SINCE HE ARRIVED BUT THIS TIME HE WAS RIGHT AND BEGAN TO CHEER THE INSTANT A RED COCKADE APPEARED AT THE OTHER END OF THE LONG STREET. IT WAS A DIFFERENT SCENE NOW THAN IN THE FIRST ENTHUSIASTIC HOPEFUL DAYS. YOUNG MEN AND ARDENT BOYS FILLED THE RANKS THEN BRAVE BY INSTINCT BURNING WITH LOYAL ZEAL AND BLISSFULLY IGNORANT OF ALL THAT LAY BEFORE THEM. LITTLE OF THE GLAMOUR OF ROMANCE ABOUT THE WAR NOW THEY SAW WHAT IT WAS A LONG HARD TASK AND HERE WERE THE MEN TO DO IT WELL EVEN THE LOOKERS ON WERE DIFFERENT. ONCE ALL WAS WILD ENTHUSIASM AND GLAD UPROAR NOW MEN'S LIPS WERE SET AND WOMEN'S SMILELESS EVEN AS THEY CHEERED FEWER HANDKERCHIEFS WHITENED THE AIR FOR WET EYES NEEDED THEM AND SUDDEN LULLS ALMOST SOLEMN IN THEIR STILLNESS FOLLOWED THE ACCLAMATIONS OF THE CROWD. ALL WATCHED WITH QUICKENED BREATH AND PROUD SOULS THAT LIVING WAVE BLUE BELOW AND BRIGHT WITH A STEELY GLITTER ABOVE AS IT FLOWED DOWN THE STREET AND AWAY TO JOIN THE SEA OF DAUNTLESS HEARTS THAT FOR MONTHS HAD ROLLED UP AGAINST THE SOUTH AND EBBED BACK REDDENED WITH THE BLOOD OF MEN LIKE THESE. AS THE INSPIRING MUSIC THE GRAND TRAMP DREW NEAR CHRISTIE FELT THE OLD THRILL AND LONGED TO FALL IN AND FOLLOW THE FLAG ANYWHERE. THEN SHE SAW DAVID AND THE REGIMENT BECAME ONE MAN TO HER. HE WAS PALE BUT HIS EYES SHONE AND HIS WHOLE FACE EXPRESSED THAT TWO OF THE BEST AND BRAVEST EMOTIONS OF A MAN LOVE AND LOYALTY WERE AT THEIR HEIGHT AS HE GAVE HIS NEW MADE WIFE A LONG LINGERING LOOK THAT SEEMED TO SAY. I COULD NOT LOVE THEE DEAR SO MUCH LOVED I NOT HONOR MORE

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+SHE CAME BOUNDING TOWARDS THE WELL KNOWN SPOT WITH A SONG OF JOYOUS DELIGHT BUT ON REACHING IT SUDDENLY STOPPED SHORT AND IN A MINUTE AFTER BURST INTO A FLOOD OF TEARS. PRESENTLY WITH SORROWING STEPS SHE BENT HER WAY ROUND THE FLOWER BEDS WEEPING AFRESH AT EVERY ONE SHE LOOKED AT AND THEN SHE SAT DOWN UPON THE LAWN AND HID HER FACE IN HER HANDS. IN THIS POSITION SHE REMAINED UNTIL A GENTLE HAND WAS LAID UPON HER SHOULDER. THIS IS A SAD SIGHT INDEED MY DARLING SAID HER MOTHER'S VOICE. I AM NOT THINKING ABOUT THE GARDEN MAMMA REPLIED THE YOUNG GIRL WITHOUT LIFTING UP HER FACE WE CAN PLANT NEW FLOWERS AND TIE UP EVEN SOME OF THESE AFRESH. I AM THINKING THAT NOW AT LAST I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT THE NECESSITY OF TRAINING AND RESTRAINT AND CULTURE FOR US AS WELL AS FOR FLOWERS. THE WIND HAS TORN AWAY THESE POOR THINGS FROM THEIR FASTENINGS AND THEY ARE GROWING WILD WHICHEVER WAY THEY PLEASE AND I MIGHT PERHAPS ONCE HAVE ARGUED THAT IF IT WERE THEIR NATURAL WAY OF GROWING IT MUST THEREFORE BE THE BEST. BUT I CANNOT SAY SO NOW I SEE THE RESULT

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+IN THOSE VERY EARLY TIMES THERE WAS A MAN NAMED DEUCALION AND HE WAS THE SON OF PROMETHEUS. HE WAS ONLY A COMMON MAN AND NOT A TITAN LIKE HIS GREAT FATHER AND YET HE WAS KNOWN FAR AND WIDE FOR HIS GOOD DEEDS AND THE UPRIGHTNESS OF HIS LIFE. HIS WIFE'S NAME WAS PYRRHA AND SHE WAS ONE OF THE FAIREST OF THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN. AFTER JUPITER HAD BOUND PROMETHEUS ON MOUNT CAUCASUS AND HAD SENT DISEASES AND CARES INTO THE WORLD MEN BECAME VERY VERY WICKED. THEY NO LONGER BUILT HOUSES AND TENDED THEIR FLOCKS AND LIVED TOGETHER IN PEACE BUT EVERY MAN WAS AT WAR WITH HIS NEIGHBOR AND THERE WAS NO LAW NOR SAFETY IN ALL THE LAND. THINGS WERE IN MUCH WORSE CASE NOW THAN THEY HAD BEEN BEFORE PROMETHEUS HAD COME AMONG MEN AND THAT WAS JUST WHAT JUPITER WANTED. BUT AS THE WORLD BECAME WICKEDER AND WICKEDER EVERY DAY HE BEGAN TO GROW WEARY OF SEEING SO MUCH BLOODSHED AND OF HEARING THE CRIES OF THE OPPRESSED AND THE POOR. THESE MEN HE SAID TO HIS MIGHTY COMPANY ARE NOTHING BUT A SOURCE OF TROUBLE. WHEN THEY WERE GOOD AND HAPPY WE FELT AFRAID LEST THEY SHOULD BECOME GREATER THAN OURSELVES AND NOW THEY ARE SO TERRIBLY WICKED THAT WE ARE IN WORSE DANGER THAN BEFORE. THERE IS ONLY ONE THING TO BE DONE WITH THEM AND THAT IS TO DESTROY THEM EVERY ONE. SO HE SENT A GREAT RAIN STORM UPON THE EARTH AND IT RAINED DAY AND NIGHT FOR A LONG TIME AND THE SEA WAS FILLED TO THE BRIM AND THE WATER RAN OVER THE LAND AND COVERED FIRST THE PLAINS AND THEN THE FORESTS AND THEN THE HILLS. BUT MEN KEPT ON FIGHTING AND ROBBING EVEN WHILE THE RAIN WAS POURING DOWN AND THE SEA WAS COMING UP OVER THE LAND. NO ONE BUT DEUCALION THE SON OF PROMETHEUS WAS READY FOR SUCH A STORM. HE HAD NEVER JOINED IN ANY OF THE WRONG DOINGS OF THOSE AROUND HIM AND HAD OFTEN TOLD THEM THAT UNLESS THEY LEFT OFF THEIR EVIL WAYS THERE WOULD BE A DAY OF RECKONING IN THE END. ONCE EVERY YEAR HE HAD GONE TO THE LAND OF THE CAUCASUS TO TALK WITH HIS FATHER WHO WAS HANGING CHAINED TO THE MOUNTAIN PEAK. THE DAY IS COMING SAID PROMETHEUS WHEN JUPITER WILL SEND A FLOOD TO DESTROY MANKIND FROM THE EARTH. BE SURE THAT YOU ARE READY FOR IT MY SON. AND SO WHEN THE RAIN BEGAN TO FALL DEUCALION DREW FROM ITS SHELTER A BOAT WHICH HE HAD BUILT FOR JUST SUCH A TIME. HE CALLED FAIR PYRRHA HIS WIFE AND THE TWO SAT IN THE BOAT AND WERE FLOATED SAFELY ON THE RISING WATERS. DAY AND NIGHT DAY AND NIGHT I CANNOT TELL HOW LONG THE BOAT DRIFTED HITHER AND THITHER. THE TOPS OF THE TREES WERE HIDDEN BY THE FLOOD AND THEN THE HILLS AND THEN THE MOUNTAINS AND DEUCALION AND PYRRHA COULD SEE NOTHING ANYWHERE BUT WATER WATER WATER AND THEY KNEW THAT ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE LAND HAD BEEN DROWNED. AFTER A WHILE THE RAIN STOPPED FALLING AND THE CLOUDS CLEARED AWAY AND THE BLUE SKY AND THE GOLDEN SUN CAME OUT OVERHEAD. THEN THE WATER BEGAN TO SINK VERY FAST AND TO RUN OFF THE LAND TOWARDS THE SEA AND EARLY THE VERY NEXT DAY THE BOAT WAS DRIFTED HIGH UPON A MOUNTAIN CALLED PARNASSUS AND DEUCALION AND PYRRHA STEPPED OUT UPON THE DRY LAND. AFTER THAT IT WAS ONLY A SHORT TIME UNTIL THE WHOLE COUNTRY WAS LAID BARE AND THE TREES SHOOK THEIR LEAFY BRANCHES IN THE WIND AND THE FIELDS WERE CARPETED WITH GRASS AND FLOWERS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE FLOOD

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+AS I APPROACHED THE CITY I HEARD BELLS RINGING AND A LITTLE LATER I FOUND THE STREETS ASTIR WITH THRONGS OF WELL DRESSED PEOPLE IN FAMILY GROUPS WENDING THEIR WAY HITHER AND THITHER. LOOKING ABOUT ME I SAW A GENTLEMAN IN A NEAT BLACK DRESS SMILING AND HIS HAND EXTENDED TO ME WITH GREAT CORDIALITY. HE MUST HAVE REALIZED I WAS A STRANGER AND WISHED TO TENDER HIS HOSPITALITY TO ME I ACCEPTED IT GRATEFULLY I CLASPED HIS HAND HE PRESSED MINE. WE GAZED FOR A MOMENT SILENTLY INTO EACH OTHER'S EYES. HE UNDERSTOOD MY BEWILDERMENT AMID MY NOVEL SURROUNDINGS AND OFFERED TO ENLIGHTEN ME. OF COURSE YOU ARE GOING THERE TOO I SAID TO MY FRIENDLY GUIDE. YES HE ANSWERED I CONDUCT THE WORSHIP I AM A PRIEST. A PRIEST OF APOLLO. I INTERROGATED NO NO HE REPLIED RAISING HIS HAND TO COMMAND SILENCE APOLLO IS NOT A GOD HE WAS ONLY AN IDOL. AN IDOL I WHISPERED TAKEN BY SURPRISE. THEY WORSHIPPED GODS THAT DID NOT EXIST. BUT THE GREEKS LOVED THEIR GODS I PROTESTED MY HEART CLAMORING IN MY BREAST. WHEN YOU CANNOT PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF YOUR GOD WHEN YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM NOR HEARD HIS VOICE NOR TOUCHED HIM WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING PROVABLE ABOUT HIM HE IS AN IDOL HAVE YOU SEEN APOLLO. HAVE YOU HEARD HIM HAVE YOU TOUCHED HIM. NO I SAID IN A LOW VOICE. DO YOU KNOW OF ANY ONE WHO HAS. I HAD TO ADMIT THAT I DID NOT. HE WAS AN IDOL THEN AND NOT A GOD. YOU IMAGINE YOU HAVE RETURNED MY GUIDE. IF HE WERE REALLY DIVINE HE WOULD BE LIVING TO THIS DAY. IS HE THEN DEAD I ASKED. IT MADE THE GREEKS A NATION OF POETS ORATORS ARTISTS WARRIORS THINKERS. IT MADE ATHENS A CITY OF LIGHT IT CREATED THE BEAUTIFUL THE TRUE THE GOOD YES OUR RELIGION WAS DIVINE. IT HAD ONLY ONE FAULT INTERRUPTED MY GUIDE WHAT WAS THAT. I INQUIRED WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT HIS ANSWER WOULD BE IT WAS NOT TRUE. BUT I STILL BELIEVE IN APOLLO I EXCLAIMED HE IS NOT DEAD I KNOW HE IS ALIVE. PRODUCE APOLLO AND HE SHALL BE OUR GOD. PRODUCE HIM. I WHISPERED TO MYSELF WHAT BLASPHEMY. THEN TAKING HEART I TOLD MY GUIDE HOW MORE THAN ONCE I HAD FELT APOLLO'S RADIANT PRESENCE IN MY HEART AND TOLD HIM OF THE IMMORTAL LINES OF HOMER CONCERNING THE DIVINE APOLLO. DO YOU DOUBT HOMER. I SAID TO HIM HOMER THE INSPIRED BARD. HOMER WHOSE INKWELL WAS AS BIG AS THE SEA WHOSE IMPERISHABLE PAGE WAS TIME. HOMER WHOSE EVERY WORD WAS A DROP OF LIGHT. THEN I PROCEEDED TO QUOTE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD THE GREEK BIBLE WORSHIPPED BY ALL THE HELLENES AS THE RAREST MANUSCRIPT BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH. THEN I RECITED THE LINES WHICH PICTURE APOLLO BURSTING HIS BANDS LEAPING FORTH FROM HIS CRADLE AND SPREADING HIS WINGS LIKE A SWAN SOARING SUNWARD DECLARING THAT HE HAD COME TO ANNOUNCE TO MORTALS THE WILL OF GOD. IS IT POSSIBLE I ASKED THAT ALL THIS IS PURE FABRICATION A FANTASY OF THE BRAIN AS UNSUBSTANTIAL AS THE AIR. NO NO APOLLO IS NOT AN IDOL. HE IS A GOD AND THE SON OF A GOD. THE WHOLE GREEK WORLD WILL BEAR ME WITNESS THAT I AM TELLING THE TRUTH. IT SEEMED AS IF HE WISHED TO SAY TO ME YOU POOR DELUDED PAGAN. THERE WERE BESIDES PICTURES ALTARS AND IMAGES ALL AROUND ME. THE AIR WAS HEAVY WITH INCENSE A NUMBER OF MEN IN GORGEOUS VESTMENTS WERE PASSING TO AND FRO BOWING AND KNEELING BEFORE THE VARIOUS LIGHTS AND IMAGES

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+THE AUDIENCE WAS UPON ITS KNEES ENVELOPED IN SILENCE A SILENCE SO SOLEMN THAT IT AWED ME. OBSERVING MY ANXIETY TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF ALL THIS MY GUIDE TOOK ME ASIDE AND IN A WHISPER TOLD ME THAT THE PEOPLE WERE CELEBRATING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTHDAY OF THEIR BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR JESUS THE SON OF GOD. FORGET APOLLO HE SAID WITH A SUGGESTION OF SEVERITY IN HIS VOICE. THERE IS NO SUCH PERSON HE WAS ONLY AN IDOL. IF YOU WERE TO SEARCH FOR APOLLO IN ALL THE UNIVERSE YOU WOULD NEVER FIND ANY ONE ANSWERING TO HIS NAME OR DESCRIPTION. JESUS HE RESUMED IS THE SON OF GOD HE CAME TO OUR EARTH AND WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN. AGAIN I WAS TEMPTED TO TELL MY GUIDE THAT THAT WAS HOW APOLLO BECAME INCARNATE BUT I RESTRAINED MYSELF. I WANT TO SEE JESUS I HASTENED TURNING TOWARD HIM. WILL HE NOT BE HERE THIS MORNING. WILL HE NOT SPEAK TO HIS WORSHIPPERS I ASKED AGAIN. WILL HE NOT PERMIT THEM TO TOUCH HIM TO CARESS HIS HAND TO CLASP HIS DIVINE FEET TO INHALE THE AMBROSIAL FRAGRANCE OF HIS BREATH TO BASK IN THE GOLDEN LIGHT OF HIS EYES TO HEAR THE MUSIC OF HIS IMMACULATE ACCENTS. LET ME TOO SEE JESUS I PLEADED. HE DOES NOT SHOW HIMSELF ANY MORE. I WAS TOO MUCH SURPRISED AT THIS TO MAKE ANY IMMEDIATE REPLY. FOR THE LAST TWO THOUSAND YEARS MY GUIDE CONTINUED IT HAS NOT PLEASED JESUS TO SHOW HIMSELF TO ANY ONE NEITHER HAS HE BEEN HEARD FROM FOR THE SAME NUMBER OF YEARS. FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS NO ONE HAS EITHER SEEN OR HEARD JESUS. I ASKED MY EYES FILLED WITH WONDER AND MY VOICE QUIVERING WITH EXCITEMENT. NO HE ANSWERED. WOULD NOT THAT THEN I VENTURED TO ASK IMPATIENTLY MAKE JESUS AS MUCH OF AN IDOL AS APOLLO. AND IF FAITH THAT JESUS IS A GOD PROVES HIM A GOD WHY WILL NOT FAITH IN APOLLO MAKE HIM A GOD

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+AND IF FOR PRUDENTIAL REASONS I SHOULD SOMETIMES HOLD BACK THE TRUTH HOW WOULD YOU KNOW WHEN I AM TELLING WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE THE TRUTH AND WHEN I AM HOLDING IT BACK FOR REASONS OF POLICY. THE TRUTH HOWEVER UNWELCOME IS NOT INJURIOUS IT IS ERROR WHICH RAISES FALSE HOPES WHICH DESTROYS DEGRADES AND POLLUTES AND WHICH SOONER OR LATER MUST BE ABANDONED. WAS IT NOT SPENCER WHOM DARWIN CALLED OUR GREAT PHILOSOPHER WHO SAID REPULSIVE AS IS ITS ASPECT THE HARD FACT WHICH DISSIPATES A CHERISHED ILLUSION IS PRESENTLY FOUND TO CONTAIN THE GERM OF A MORE SALUTARY BELIEF. HOLY WATER AND SAINTED BONES CAN GIVE A NATION ILLUSIONS AND DREAMS BUT NEVER STRENGTH. POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY WERE DISCOVERED THROUGH PERIL AND STRUGGLE. THE WORLD OWES ITS EMANCIPATION TO HUMAN DARING. HAD COLUMBUS FEARED DANGER AMERICA MIGHT HAVE SLEPT FOR ANOTHER THOUSAND YEARS. I HAVE A DIFFICULT SUBJECT IN HAND IT IS ALSO A DELICATE ONE. BUT I AM DETERMINED NOT ONLY TO KNOW IF IT IS POSSIBLE THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS BUT ALSO TO COMMUNICATE THAT TRUTH TO OTHERS. I CANNOT I MUST SHARE MY INTELLECTUAL LIFE WITH THE WORLD. IF I LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS AGO I MIGHT HAVE COLLAPSED AT THE SIGHT OF THE BURNING STAKE BUT I FEEL SURE I WOULD HAVE DESERVED THE STAKE. PEOPLE SAY TO ME SOMETIMES WHY DO YOU NOT CONFINE YOURSELF TO MORAL AND RELIGIOUS EXHORTATION SUCH AS BE KIND DO GOOD LOVE ONE ANOTHER ET CETERA. BUT THERE IS MORE OF A MORAL TONIC IN THE OPEN AND CANDID DISCUSSION OF A SUBJECT LIKE THE ONE IN HAND THAN IN A MULTITUDE OF PLATITUDES. I NEVER DELIVER A LECTURE IN WHICH I DO NOT EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY GIVE FULL AND FREE EXPRESSION TO MY FAITH IN EVERYTHING THAT IS WORTHY OF FAITH. IF I DO NOT BELIEVE IN DOGMA IT IS BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN FREEDOM. IF I DO NOT BELIEVE IN ONE INSPIRED BOOK IT IS BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT ALL TRUTH AND ONLY TRUTH IS INSPIRED. OH HE TEARS DOWN BUT DOES NOT BUILD UP IS ANOTHER CRITICISM ABOUT MY WORK IT IS NOT TRUE. NO PREACHER OR PRIEST IS MORE CONSTRUCTIVE. CLAPPING TRUTH INTO JAIL GAGGING THE MOUTH OF THE STUDENT IS THAT BUILDING UP OR TEARING DOWN. WHEN BRUNO LIGHTED A NEW TORCH TO INCREASE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD WHAT WAS HIS REWARD THE STAKE. DURING ALL THE AGES THAT THE CHURCH HAD THE POWER TO POLICE THE WORLD EVERY TIME A THINKER RAISED HIS HEAD HE WAS CLUBBED TO DEATH. COUNT YOUR RIGHTS POLITICAL RELIGIOUS SOCIAL INTELLECTUAL AND TELL ME WHICH OF THEM WAS CONQUERED FOR YOU BY THE PRIEST. I WISH TO TELL YOU SOMETHING. BUT FIRST LET US BE IMPERSONAL THE EPITHETS IRREVERENT BLASPHEMER ATHEIST AND INFIDEL ARE FLUNG AT A MAN NOT FROM PITY BUT FROM ENVY. NOT HAVING THE COURAGE OR THE INDUSTRY OF OUR NEIGHBOR WHO WORKS LIKE A BUSY BEE IN THE WORLD OF MEN AND BOOKS SEARCHING WITH THE SWEAT OF HIS BROW FOR THE REAL BREAD OF LIFE WETTING THE OPEN PAGE BEFORE HIM WITH HIS TEARS PUSHING INTO THE WEE HOURS OF THE NIGHT HIS QUEST ANIMATED BY THE FAIREST OF ALL LOVES THE LOVE OF TRUTH WE EASE OUR OWN INDOLENT CONSCIENCE BY CALLING HIM NAMES. TO EXCUSE OUR OWN MEDIOCRITY WE CALL THE MAN WHO TRIES TO GET OUT OF THE RUT A BLASPHEMER

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+A MYTH IS A FANCIFUL EXPLANATION OF A GIVEN PHENOMENON. OBSERVING THE SUN THE MOON AND THE STARS OVERHEAD THE PRIMITIVE MAN WISHED TO ACCOUNT FOR THEM THIS WAS NATURAL. THE MIND CRAVES FOR KNOWLEDGE THE CHILD ASKS QUESTIONS BECAUSE OF AN INBORN DESIRE TO KNOW. A MYTH THEN IS A GUESS A STORY A SPECULATION OR A FANCIFUL EXPLANATION OF A PHENOMENON IN THE ABSENCE OF ACCURATE INFORMATION. MANY ARE THE MYTHS ABOUT THE HEAVENLY BODIES WHICH WHILE WE CALL THEM MYTHS BECAUSE WE KNOW BETTER WERE TO THE ANCIENTS TRUTHS. NOW AND THEN THEY CAME CLOSE ENOUGH TO SNAP AT EACH OTHER. WITH THIS MYTHUS THE PRIMITIVE MAN WAS SATISFIED UNTIL HIS DEVELOPING INTELLIGENCE REALIZED ITS INADEQUACY SCIENCE WAS BORN OF THAT REALIZATION. THIS WAS IMAGINARY KNOWLEDGE WHICH TRAVEL AND RESEARCH HAVE CORRECTED. THE MYTH OF A ONE EYED PEOPLE LIVING IN INDIA HAS BEEN REPLACED BY ACCURATE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE HINDOOS. IT WILL BE SEEN FROM THESE EXAMPLES THAT THERE IS NO HARM IN MYTH MAKING IF THE MYTH IS CALLED A MYTH. AND THIS IS PRECISELY THE USE TO WHICH MYTHS HAVE BEEN PUT. IS JESUS A MYTH. THERE IS IN MAN A FACULTY FOR FICTION. BEFORE HISTORY WAS BORN THERE WAS MYTH BEFORE MEN COULD THINK THEY DREAMED. IT WAS WITH THE HUMAN RACE IN ITS INFANCY AS IT IS WITH THE CHILD. THE CHILD'S IMAGINATION IS MORE ACTIVE THAN ITS REASON. IT IS EASIER FOR IT TO FANCY EVEN THAN TO SEE. IT THINKS LESS THAN IT GUESSES. THIS WILD FLIGHT OF FANCY IS CHECKED ONLY BY EXPERIENCE. IT IS REFLECTION WHICH INTRODUCES A BIT INTO THE MOUTH OF IMAGINATION CURBING ITS PACE AND SUBDUING ITS RESTLESS SPIRIT. IN CHILDHOOD WE NEED PLAYTHINGS AND THE MORE FANTASTIC AND BIZARRE THEY ARE THE BETTER WE ARE PLEASED WITH THEM. WE DREAM FOR INSTANCE OF CASTLES IN THE AIR GORGEOUS AND CLOTHED WITH THE AZURE HUE OF THE SKIES. WE FILL THE SPACE ABOUT AND OVER US WITH SPIRITS FAIRIES GODS AND OTHER INVISIBLE AND AIRY BEINGS. WE COVET THE RAINBOW WE REACH OUT FOR THE MOON. OUR FEET DO NOT REALLY BEGIN TO TOUCH THE FIRM GROUND UNTIL WE HAVE REACHED THE YEARS OF DISCRETION. I KNOW THERE ARE THOSE WHO WISH THEY COULD ALWAYS REMAIN CHILDREN LIVING IN DREAMLAND. BUT EVEN IF THIS WERE DESIRABLE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE. SCIENCE WAS NOT BORN UNTIL MAN HAD MATURED. CHILDREN MAKE RELIGIONS. GROWN UP PEOPLE CREATE SCIENCE. THE CRADLE IS THE WOMB OF ALL THE FAIRIES AND FAITHS OF MANKIND. THE SCHOOL IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF SCIENCE. RELIGION IS THE SCIENCE OF THE CHILD. IN THE DISCUSSION OF THIS SUBJECT I APPEAL TO THE MATURE NOT TO THE CHILD MIND. THE MULTITUDE IS EVER JOINED TO ITS IDOLS LET THEM ALONE. HE IS GOD'S MOUTHPIECE AND NO ONE MAY DISAGREE WITH HIM. THE ONLY WAY I MAY COMMAND YOUR RESPECT IS TO BE REASONABLE. IN ALL PROBABILITY THEY ARGUE THERE WAS A MAN CALLED JESUS WHO SAID MANY HELPFUL THINGS AND LED AN EXEMPLARY LIFE AND ALL THE MIRACLES AND WONDERS REPRESENT THE ACCRETIONS OF FOND AND PIOUS AGES. LET US PLACE OURSELVES ENTIRELY IN THE HANDS OF THE EVIDENCE. AS INTELLIGENT BEINGS WE DESIRE TO KNOW WHETHER THIS JESUS WHOSE WORSHIP IS NOT ONLY COSTING THE WORLD MILLIONS OF THE PEOPLE'S MONEY BUT WHICH IS ALSO DRAWING TO HIS SERVICE THE TIME THE ENERGIES THE AFFECTION THE DEVOTION AND THE LABOR OF HUMANITY IS A MYTH OR A REALITY

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+A MAN MUST HAVE A BIRTHPLACE AND A BIRTHDAY. THERE HAS BEEN CONSIDERABLE CONFUSION AND CONTRADICTION ABOUT IT IT CANNOT BE PROVED THAT THE TWENTY FIFTH OF DECEMBER IS HIS BIRTHDAY. A NUMBER OF OTHER DATES WERE OBSERVED BY THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT VARIOUS TIMES AS THE BIRTHDAY OF JESUS THE GOSPELS GIVE NO DATE AND APPEAR TO BE QUITE UNCERTAIN REALLY IGNORANT ABOUT IT. THAT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH HIS DEATH AND SUPPOSED RESURRECTION IS NOT VERIFIABLE IS GENERALLY ADMITTED. YET THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS BORN ON THAT DAY. WHY THIS DISCREPANCY IN A HISTORICAL DOCUMENT TO SAY NOTHING ABOUT INSPIRATION. AGAIN MATTHEW SAYS THAT TO ESCAPE THE EVIL DESIGNS OF HEROD MARY AND JOSEPH WITH THE INFANT JESUS FLED INTO EGYPT LUKE SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THIS HURRIED FLIGHT NOR OF HEROD'S INTENTION TO KILL THE INFANT MESSIAH. WHEN WE COME TO THE MORE IMPORTANT CHAPTERS ABOUT JESUS WE MEET WITH GREATER DIFFICULTIES. IT IS EVIDENT THAT NOBODY KNOWS AND NOBODY EVER KNEW THE DATE ON WHICH THE CRUCIFIXION TOOK PLACE IF IT EVER TOOK PLACE. WHILE IT IS ALWAYS ON A FRIDAY THAT THE CRUCIFIXION IS COMMEMORATED THE WEEK IN WHICH THE DAY OCCURS VARIES FROM YEAR TO YEAR. GOOD FRIDAY FALLS NOT BEFORE THE SPRING EQUINOX BUT AS SOON AFTER THE SPRING EQUINOX AS THE FULL MOON ALLOWS THUS MAKING THE CALCULATION TO DEPEND UPON THE POSITION OF THE SUN IN THE ZODIAC AND THE PHASES OF THE MOON. THE PAGAN OESTERA HAS BECOME THE CHRISTIAN EASTER. THIS IS SO IMPORTANT THAT WE REFER OUR READERS TO ORIGIN'S OWN WORDS ON THE SUBJECT. BUT IN THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE ORIGIN OFFERS THE FOLLOWING METAPHYSICAL ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE SCEPTICAL CELSUS ONE. IF JESUS IS NOT REAL SAYS ORIGIN THEN APOLLO WAS NOT REAL AND THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES HAVE NOT BEEN FULFILLED. IF WE ARE TO HAVE ANY MYTHOLOGY AT ALL HE SEEMS TO ARGUE WHY OBJECT TO ADDING TO IT THE MYTHUS OF JESUS. THERE COULD NOT BE A MORE DAMAGING ADMISSION THAN THIS FROM ONE OF THE MOST CONSPICUOUS DEFENDERS OF JESUS STORY AGAINST EARLY CRITICISM. ALL HE SEEMS TO ASK FOR IS THAT JESUS BE GIVEN A HIGHER PLACE AMONG THE DIVINITIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. TO HELP THEIR CAUSE THE CHRISTIAN APOLOGISTS NOT INFREQUENTLY ALSO CHANGED THE SENSE OF CERTAIN OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGES TO MAKE THEM SUPPORT THE MIRACULOUS STORIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. AND WHEN IT IS REMEMBERED THAT THESE FOLLIES WERE DEEMED NECESSARY TO PROVE THE REALITY OF WHAT HAS BEEN CLAIMED AS THE MOST STUPENDOUS EVENT IN ALL HISTORY ONE CAN READILY SEE UPON HOW FRAGILE A FOUNDATION IS BUILT THE STORY OF THE CHRISTIAN GOD MAN. LET US CONTINUE ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S ASSOCIATES AND CONTEMPORARIES ARE ALL KNOWN TO HISTORY. THE IMMEDIATE COMPANIONS OF JESUS APPEAR TO BE ON THE OTHER HAND AS MYTHICAL AS HE IS HIMSELF. WHO WAS MATTHEW WHO WAS MARK. WHO WERE JOHN PETER JUDAS AND MARY. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE THAT THEY EVER EXISTED. THEY ARE NOT MENTIONED EXCEPT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS WHICH AS WE SHALL SEE ARE SUPPOSED COPIES OF SUPPOSED ORIGINALS. IF PETER EVER WENT TO ROME WITH A NEW DOCTRINE HOW IS IT THAT NO HISTORIAN HAS TAKEN NOTE OF HIM. JACOB HAD TWELVE SONS THERE WERE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL TWELVE MONTHS IN THE YEAR TWELVE GATES OR PILLARS OF HEAVEN ET CETERA. HERE AGAIN WE SEE THE PRESENCE OF A MYTH. SEVENTY WISE MEN ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE TRANSLATED THE OLD TESTAMENT SITTING IN SEVENTY DIFFERENT CELLS. HE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW THEM. PETER PAUL JOHN JAMES JUDAS OCCUPY THE STAGE ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY. THEY WRITE HISTORY NOT STORIES. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THE CONTEMPORARIES OF JESUS THE AUTHORS AND HISTORIANS OF HIS TIME DO NOT TAKE NOTICE OF HIM. COULD THEY HAVE BEEN IN A CONSPIRACY AGAINST HIM. HOW ELSE IS THIS UNANIMOUS SILENCE TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR

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+SHOULD THE STUDENT LOOKING INTO ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S HISTORY DISCOVER THAT NO ONE OF HIS BIOGRAPHERS KNEW POSITIVELY JUST WHEN HE LIVED OR WHERE HE WAS BORN HE WOULD HAVE REASON TO CONCLUDE THAT BECAUSE OF THIS UNCERTAINTY ON THE PART OF THE BIOGRAPHERS HE MUST BE MORE EXACTING THAN HE OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE BEEN. THAT IS PRECISELY OUR POSITION. OF COURSE THERE ARE IN HISTORY GREAT MEN OF WHOSE BIRTHPLACES OR BIRTHDAYS WE ARE EQUALLY UNCERTAIN. IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE STRONG ENOUGH TO PROVE THE HISTORICITY OF JESUS IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT NOT EVEN HIS SUPPOSED COMPANIONS WRITING DURING THE LIFETIME OF JESUS MOTHER HAVE ANY DEFINITE INFORMATION TO GIVE BUT LET US CONTINUE. THAT LINCOLN WAS PRESIDENT OF THESE UNITED STATES THAT HE SIGNED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION AND THAT HE WAS ASSASSINATED CAN BE READILY AUTHENTICATED. HOW THEN ARE WE TO DECIDE WHICH OF THE NUMEROUS CANDIDATES FOR DIVINE HONORS SHOULD BE GIVEN OUR VOTES. AND CAN WE BY VOTING FOR JESUS MAKE HIM A GOD. AND SUCH A FAITH IS NEVER FREE IT IS ALWAYS MAINTAINED BY THE SWORD NOW AND BY HELL FIRE HEREAFTER. YET THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE UTTERANCES ARE PUT IN JESUS MOUTH. HE IS MADE TO SAY WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK IN MY NAME THAT WILL I DO. HAS JESUS KEPT HIS PROMISE DOES HE GIVE HIS PEOPLE EVERYTHING OR WHATSOEVER THEY ASK OF HIM. BUT IT IS ANSWERED JESUS ONLY MEANT TO SAY THAT HE WOULD GIVE WHATEVER HE HIMSELF CONSIDERED GOOD FOR HIS FRIENDS TO HAVE INDEED. COULD HE NOT HAVE SAID JUST WHAT HE MEANT IN THE FIRST PLACE. BETTER TO PROMISE A LITTLE AND DO MORE THAN TO PROMISE EVERYTHING AND DO NOTHING. SUCH A CHARACTER IS TOO WILD TO BE REAL. ONLY A MYTHICAL JESUS COULD VIRTUALLY HAND OVER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSE TO COURTIERS WHO HAVE PETITIONS TO PRESS UPON HIS ATTENTION. MOREOVER IF JESUS COULD KEEP HIS PROMISE THERE WOULD BE TODAY NO MISERY IN THE WORLD NO ORPHANS NO CHILDLESS MOTHERS NO SHIPWRECKS NO FLOODS NO FAMINES NO DISEASE NO CRIPPLED CHILDREN NO INSANITY NO WARS NO CRIME NO WRONG. HAVE NOT A THOUSAND THOUSAND PRAYERS BEEN OFFERED IN JESUS NAME AGAINST EVERY EVIL WHICH HAS PLOUGHED THE FACE OF OUR EARTH. HAVE THESE PRAYERS BEEN ANSWERED. THEN WHY IS THERE DISCONTENT IN THE WORLD. HOW MANY SELF DELUDED PROPHETS THESE EXTRAVAGANT CLAIMS HAVE PRODUCED. AND WHO CAN NUMBER THE BITTER DISAPPOINTMENTS CAUSED BY SUCH IMPOSSIBLE PROMISES. GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE OF ENGLAND TELLS HOW IN THE DAYS OF UTTER POVERTY HIS BELIEVING MOTHER ASKED THE LORD AGAIN AND AGAIN ON HER KNEES WITH TEARS STREAMING FROM HER EYES AND WITH ABSOLUTE FAITH IN JESUS ABILITY TO KEEP HIS PROMISE TO GIVE HER STARVING CHILDREN THEIR DAILY BREAD. BUT THE MORE FERVENTLY SHE PRAYED THE HEAVIER GREW THE BURDEN OF HER LIFE. A STONE OR WOODEN IDOL COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE INDIFFERENT TO A MOTHER'S TEARS. IT NEVER STRUCK ME CONTINUES MISTER HOLYOAKE THAT THE PREACHER'S THREADBARE DRESS HIS HALF FAMISHED LOOK AND NECESSITY OF TAKING UP A COLLECTION THE PREVIOUS NIGHT TO PAY EXPENSES SHOWED THAT FAITH WAS NOT A SOURCE OF INCOME TO HIM. IT NEVER STRUCK ME THAT IF HELP COULD BE OBTAINED BY PRAYER NO CHURCH WOULD BE NEEDY NO BELIEVER WOULD BE POOR. THE SAME WHICH THE PREACHERS OF TODAY GIVE HE PARRIED HIS ANSWER WITH MANY WORDS AND AT LENGTH SAID THAT THE PROMISE WAS TO BE TAKEN WITH THE PROVISION THAT WHAT WE ASKED FOR WOULD BE GIVEN IF GOD THOUGHT IT FOR OUR GOOD. WHY THEN DID NOT JESUS EXPLAIN THAT IMPORTANT PROVISO WHEN HE MADE THE PROMISE. WAS JESUS ONLY MAKING A HALF STATEMENT THE OTHER HALF OF WHICH HE WOULD REVEAL LATER TO PROTECT HIMSELF AGAINST DISAPPOINTED PETITIONERS. BUT HE SAID IF YE ASK ANYTHING IN MY NAME I WILL DO IT AND IF IT WERE NOT SO I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU. DID HE NOT MEAN JUST WHAT HE SAID

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+THE TRUTH IS THAT NO HISTORICAL PERSON IN HIS SENSES EVER MADE SUCH EXTRAORDINARY SUCH IMPOSSIBLE PROMISES AND THE REPORT THAT JESUS MADE THEM ONLY GOES TO CONFIRM THAT THEIR AUTHOR IS ONLY A LEGENDARY BEING. WHEN THIS TRUTH DAWNED UPON MISTER HOLYOAKE HE CEASED TO PETITION HEAVEN WHICH WAS LIKE DROPPING A BUCKET INTO AN EMPTY WELL AND BEGAN TO LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR HELP. SELF EFFORT AND NOT PRAYER IS THE REMEDY AGAINST IGNORANCE SLAVERY POVERTY AND MORAL DEGRADATION. FORTUNATELY BY HOLDING UP BEFORE US AN IMPOSSIBLE JESUS WITH HIS IMPOSSIBLE PROMISES THE CHURCHES HAVE SUCCEEDED ONLY IN POSTPONING BUT NOT IN PREVENTING THE PROGRESS OF MAN

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+OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS SNOW A MEETING. IT WAS A NIGHT WHEN SORROW MAY COME TO THE BRIGHTEST WITHOUT CAUSING ANY GREAT SENSE OF INCONGRUITY WHEN WITH IMPRESSIBLE PERSONS LOVE BECOMES SOLICITOUSNESS HOPE SINKS TO MISGIVING AND FAITH TO HOPE WHEN THE EXERCISE OF MEMORY DOES NOT STIR FEELINGS OF REGRET AT OPPORTUNITIES FOR AMBITION THAT HAVE BEEN PASSED BY AND ANTICIPATION DOES NOT PROMPT TO ENTERPRISE. THE SCENE WAS A PUBLIC PATH BORDERED ON THE LEFT HAND BY A RIVER BEHIND WHICH ROSE A HIGH WALL. STILL TO A CLOSE OBSERVER THEY ARE JUST AS PERCEPTIBLE THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT THEIR MEDIA OF MANIFESTATION ARE LESS TRITE AND FAMILIAR THAN SUCH WELL KNOWN ONES AS THE BURSTING OF THE BUDS OR THE FALL OF THE LEAF. THE VAST ARCH OF CLOUD ABOVE WAS STRANGELY LOW AND FORMED AS IT WERE THE ROOF OF A LARGE DARK CAVERN GRADUALLY SINKING IN UPON ITS FLOOR FOR THE INSTINCTIVE THOUGHT WAS THAT THE SNOW LINING THE HEAVENS AND THAT ENCRUSTING THE EARTH WOULD SOON UNITE INTO ONE MASS WITHOUT ANY INTERVENING STRATUM OF AIR AT ALL. THESE FEATURES MADE UP THE MASS. IF ANYTHING COULD BE DARKER THAN THE SKY IT WAS THE WALL AND IF ANY THING COULD BE GLOOMIER THAN THE WALL IT WAS THE RIVER BENEATH. THE INDISTINCT SUMMIT OF THE FACADE WAS NOTCHED AND PRONGED BY CHIMNEYS HERE AND THERE AND UPON ITS FACE WERE FAINTLY SIGNIFIED THE OBLONG SHAPES OF WINDOWS THOUGH ONLY IN THE UPPER PART. BELOW DOWN TO THE WATER'S EDGE THE FLAT WAS UNBROKEN BY HOLE OR PROJECTION. AN INDESCRIBABLE SUCCESSION OF DULL BLOWS PERPLEXING IN THEIR REGULARITY SENT THEIR SOUND WITH DIFFICULTY THROUGH THE FLUFFY ATMOSPHERE. IT WAS A NEIGHBOURING CLOCK STRIKING TEN. THE BELL WAS IN THE OPEN AIR AND BEING OVERLAID WITH SEVERAL INCHES OF MUFFLING SNOW HAD LOST ITS VOICE FOR THE TIME. ABOUT THIS HOUR THE SNOW ABATED TEN FLAKES FELL WHERE TWENTY HAD FALLEN THEN ONE HAD THE ROOM OF TEN. NOT LONG AFTER A FORM MOVED BY THE BRINK OF THE RIVER. BY ITS OUTLINE UPON THE COLOURLESS BACKGROUND A CLOSE OBSERVER MIGHT HAVE SEEN THAT IT WAS SMALL. THIS WAS ALL THAT WAS POSITIVELY DISCOVERABLE THOUGH IT SEEMED HUMAN. THE SHAPE WENT SLOWLY ALONG BUT WITHOUT MUCH EXERTION FOR THE SNOW THOUGH SUDDEN WAS NOT AS YET MORE THAN TWO INCHES DEEP. AT THIS TIME SOME WORDS WERE SPOKEN ALOUD ONE. TWO THREE. FOUR FIVE. BETWEEN EACH UTTERANCE THE LITTLE SHAPE ADVANCED ABOUT HALF A DOZEN YARDS. IT WAS EVIDENT NOW THAT THE WINDOWS HIGH IN THE WALL WERE BEING COUNTED. THE WORD FIVE REPRESENTED THE FIFTH WINDOW FROM THE END OF THE WALL. HERE THE SPOT STOPPED AND DWINDLED SMALLER. THE FIGURE WAS STOOPING. THEN A MORSEL OF SNOW FLEW ACROSS THE RIVER TOWARDS THE FIFTH WINDOW. IT SMACKED AGAINST THE WALL AT A POINT SEVERAL YARDS FROM ITS MARK. THE THROW WAS THE IDEA OF A MAN CONJOINED WITH THE EXECUTION OF A WOMAN. NO MAN WHO HAD EVER SEEN BIRD RABBIT OR SQUIRREL IN HIS CHILDHOOD COULD POSSIBLY HAVE THROWN WITH SUCH UTTER IMBECILITY AS WAS SHOWN HERE. AT LAST ONE FRAGMENT STRUCK THE FIFTH WINDOW

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+THE RIVER WOULD HAVE BEEN SEEN BY DAY TO BE OF THAT DEEP SMOOTH SORT WHICH RACES MIDDLE AND SIDES WITH THE SAME GLIDING PRECISION ANY IRREGULARITIES OF SPEED BEING IMMEDIATELY CORRECTED BY A SMALL WHIRLPOOL. THE WINDOW WAS STRUCK AGAIN IN THE SAME MANNER. THEN A NOISE WAS HEARD APPARENTLY PRODUCED BY THE OPENING OF THE WINDOW. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY A VOICE FROM THE SAME QUARTER. WHO'S THERE. THE TONES WERE MASCULINE AND NOT THOSE OF SURPRISE. IS IT SERGEANT TROY. SAID THE BLURRED SPOT IN THE SNOW TREMULOUSLY. YES CAME SUSPICIOUSLY FROM THE SHADOW. OH FRANK DON'T YOU KNOW ME SAID THE SPOT. YOUR WIFE FANNY ROBIN FANNY. SAID THE WALL IN UTTER ASTONISHMENT. THE DIALOGUE WENT ON. HOW DID YOU COME HERE. I ASKED WHICH WAS YOUR WINDOW FORGIVE ME. YOU SAID I WAS TO COME. WELL I SAID THAT YOU MIGHT. YES I MEAN THAT I MIGHT. YOU ARE GLAD TO SEE ME FRANK. OH YES OF COURSE. CAN YOU COME TO ME. THEN I SHAN'T SEE YOU TILL THEN. HOW DID YOU GET HERE FROM WEATHERBURY. I AM SURPRISED. YES SO AM I AND FRANK WHEN WILL IT BE. WHAT THAT YOU PROMISED. I DON'T QUITE RECOLLECT. NEVER MIND SAY IT. O MUST I IT IS WHEN SHALL WE BE MARRIED FRANK. I HAVE MONEY. WILL IT BE BY BANNS OR LICENSE. AND WE LIVE IN TWO PARISHES DO WE WHAT THEN. MY LODGINGS ARE IN SAINT MARY'S AND THIS IS NOT. SO THEY WILL HAVE TO BE PUBLISHED IN BOTH. IS THAT THE LAW. YES O FRANK YOU THINK ME FORWARD I AM AFRAID. DON'T DEAR FRANK WILL YOU FOR I LOVE YOU SO. DON'T CRY NOW IT IS FOOLISH. IF I SAID SO OF COURSE I WILL. AND SHALL I PUT UP THE BANNS IN MY PARISH AND WILL YOU IN YOURS. YES TO MORROW. NOT TO MORROW WE'LL SETTLE IN A FEW DAYS. YOU HAVE THE PERMISSION OF THE OFFICERS. NO NOT YET O HOW IS IT. YOU SAID YOU ALMOST HAD BEFORE YOU LEFT CASTERBRIDGE. THE FACT IS I FORGOT TO ASK. YOUR COMING LIKE THIS IS SO SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED. YES YES IT IS. THERE ARE BAD WOMEN ABOUT AND THEY THINK ME ONE. GOOD NIGHT FRANK GOOD NIGHT. AND THE NOISE WAS AGAIN HEARD OF A WINDOW CLOSING. THE LITTLE SPOT MOVED AWAY. WHEN SHE PASSED THE CORNER A SUBDUED EXCLAMATION WAS HEARD INSIDE THE WALL. HO HO SERGEANT HO HO

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+THINGS ARRANGE THEMSELVES. BUT THE COUNTESS NEVER GAVE WAY AN INCH. THE FOLLOWING WAS THE ANSWER WHICH SHE RETURNED TO THE NOTE WRITTEN TO HER BY AUNT JULIA. THE COUNTESS LOVEL PRESENTS HER COMPLIMENTS TO MISS LOVEL. BY HEAVENS SHE IS THE BEST LOVEL OF US ALL SAID THE RECTOR WHEN HE READ THE LETTER. THIS REPLY WAS RECEIVED AT YOXHAM THREE DAYS BEFORE ANY ANSWER CAME EITHER FROM LADY ANNA OR FROM THE TAILOR. IT ALMOST TAKES MY BREATH AWAY SAID THE TAILOR TO HIS SWEETHEART LAUGHING. THEY ARE COUSINS YOU KNOW SAID LADY ANNA. NO ONE SHOULD UNLESS I BE MEAN AND DESPICABLE BUT THEY DO YOU MAY BE SURE. IT IS ONLY HUMAN NATURE THAT THEY SHOULD. WE ARE MADE OF DIFFERENT FABRIC THOUGH THE STUFF WAS ORIGINALLY THE SAME. I SHOULD BE HALF AFRAID OF THEIR GILT AND THEIR GINGERBREAD AND SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF MYSELF BECAUSE I WAS SO. I SHOULD NOT KNOW HOW TO DRINK WINE WITH THEM AND SHOULD DO A HUNDRED THINGS WHICH WOULD MAKE THEM THINK ME A BEAST. I DON'T SEE WHY YOU SHOULDN'T HOLD UP YOUR HEAD WITH ANY MAN IN ENGLAND SAID LADY ANNA. AND SO I OUGHT BUT I SHOULDN'T. I SHOULD BE AWED BY THOSE WHOM I FEEL TO BE MY INFERIORS I HAD RATHER NOT. BUT THE GIRL BEGGED FOR SOME DELAY. IT WAS A MATTER THAT REQUIRED TO BE CONSIDERED. IF IT WERE NECESSARY FOR HER TO QUARREL WITH ALL HER COUSINS FOR THE SAKE OF HER HUSBAND WITH THE BRIGHT FAINEANT YOUNG EARL WITH AUNTS JANE AND JULIA WITH HER DARLING MINNIE SHE WOULD DO SO. THE HUSBAND SHOULD BE TO HER IN ALL RESPECTS THE FIRST AND FOREMOST. BUT IF THE COUSINS WERE WILLING TO ACCEPT HER HUSBAND WHY SHOULD HE NOT BE WILLING TO BE ACCEPTED. PRIDE IN HIM MIGHT BE AS WEAK AS PRIDE IN THEM. IF THEY WOULD PUT OUT THEIR HANDS TO HIM WHY SHOULD HE REFUSE TO PUT OUT HIS OWN. GIVE ME A DAY DANIEL TO THINK ABOUT IT. OUR TAILOR RECEIVED HIM COURTEOUSLY HAVING LEARNED TO LIKE THE MAN UNDERSTANDING THAT HE HAD BEHAVED WITH HONESTY AND WISDOM IN REGARD TO HIS CLIENT AND RESPECTING HIM AS ONE OF THE WORKERS OF THE DAY BUT HE DECLARED THAT FOR THE LOVEL FAMILY AS A FAMILY HE DID NOT CARE FOR THEM PARTICULARLY. THEY ARE POLES ASUNDER FROM ME HE SAID. NOT SO REPLIED SIR WILLIAM THEY WERE POLES ASUNDER IF YOU WILL. BUT BY YOUR GOOD FORTUNE AND MERIT IF YOU WILL ALLOW ME TO SAY SO YOU HAVE TRAVELLED FROM THE ONE POLE VERY FAR TOWARDS THE OTHER. I AM AN OLDER MAN THAN YOU MISTER THWAITE AND ALLOW ME TO ASSURE YOU THAT YOU ARE WRONG. WHY SHOULD THE CHILDREN OF LORDS BE SUCH TO THE TENTH AND TWENTIETH GENERATION. IT IS A FAIR SUBJECT FOR ARGUMENT. AT PRESENT I THINK THAT THE SENSE OF THE COUNTRY IS IN FAVOUR OF AN ARISTOCRACY OF BIRTH. IT IS NOT MY AMBITION PARDON ME. WHEN YOU WERE A WORKMAN AMONG WORKMEN DID YOU NOT WISH TO BE THEIR LEADER. WHEN YOU WERE FOREMOST AMONG THEM DID YOU NOT WISH TO BE THEIR MASTER. IF YOU WERE A MASTER TRADESMAN WOULD YOU NOT WISH TO LEAD AND GUIDE YOUR BROTHER TRADESMEN. WOULD YOU NOT DESIRE WEALTH IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT BE ASSISTED BY IT IN YOUR VIEWS OF AMBITION. THE THEORY OF EQUALITY IS VERY GRAND. THE GRANDEST THING IN THE WORLD SIR WILLIAM. IT IS ONE TO WHICH ALL LEGISLATIVE AND ALL HUMAN EFFORTS SHOULD AND MUST TEND. THE ENERGETIC THE TALENTED THE HONEST AND THE UNSELFISH WILL ALWAYS BE MOVING TOWARDS AN ARISTOCRATIC SIDE OF SOCIETY BECAUSE THEIR VIRTUES WILL BEGET ESTEEM AND ESTEEM WILL BEGET WEALTH AND WEALTH GIVES POWER FOR GOOD OFFICES. AS WHEN ONE MAN THROWS AWAY FORTY THOUSAND A YEAR ON RACE COURSES. WHEN YOU MAKE MUCH WATER BOIL MISTER THWAITE SOME OF IT WILL PROBABLY BOIL OVER. THE SUBJECT IS SO LARGE THAT I SHOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS IT WITH YOU WHEN WE HAVE MORE TIME. IT WILL SHOW A HIGHER MANLINESS IN YOU TO GO AMONG THEM AND ACCEPT AMONG THEM THE POSITION WHICH YOUR WIFE'S WEALTH AND YOUR OWN ACQUIREMENTS WILL GIVE YOU THAN TO STAND ALOOF MOODILY BECAUSE THEY ARE ARISTOCRATS. YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELF UNDERSTOOD WHEN YOU SPEAK SIR WILLIAM. I CANNOT AND SO YOU HAVE THE BEST OF ME

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+BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE ME LIKE A LORD OR THINK THAT A YOUNG MAN OUGHT TO WEAR A SILK GOWN. I QUITE AGREE WITH YOU THAT THE SILK GOWNS SHOULD BE KEPT FOR THEIR ELDERS AND SO THE CONVERSATION WAS ENDED. ON THE FOLLOWING DAY LADY ANNA WAS WITH HIM AS USUAL FOR THE PRETEXT OF HIS WOUND STILL AFFORDED TO HER THE MEANS OF PAYING TO HIM THOSE DAILY VISITS WHICH IN HAPPIER CIRCUMSTANCES HE WOULD NATURALLY HAVE PAID TO HER. WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO TO YOXHAM HE SAID. SHE LOOKED WISTFULLY UP INTO HIS FACE. WITH HER THERE WAS A REAL WISH THAT THE POLES MIGHT BE JOINED TOGETHER BY HER FUTURE HUSBAND. IF YOU REALLY WISH IT YOU SHALL GO HE SAID. BUT YOU MUST GO ALSO. YES FOR ONE DAY. AND I MUST HAVE A PAIR OF GLOVES AND A BLACK COAT. AND A BLUE ONE TO BE MARRIED IN ALAS ME. MUST I HAVE A PINK SILK GOWN TO WALK ABOUT IN EARLY IN THE MORNING. YOU SHALL IF YOU LIKE AND I'LL MAKE IT FOR YOU. I'D SOONER SEE YOU DARNING MY WORSTED STOCKINGS SWEETHEART. I CAN DO THAT TOO. THE TAILOR MUST BEHAVE HIMSELF PROPERLY SAID LADY ANNA. THAT'S JUST WHAT HE WON'T DO AND CAN'T DO. I WON'T BE ASHAMED OF YOU I WILL NEVER BE ASHAMED OF YOU. I WILL BE ASHAMED OF THEM IF THEY ARE NOT GOOD TO YOU. WHAT DOES IT ALL SIGNIFY IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY. I WILL GO SAID HE. AND NOW I'LL SIT DOWN AND WRITE A LETTER TO MY LORD. TWO LETTERS WERE WRITTEN ACCEPTING THE INVITATION. AS THAT FROM THE TAILOR TO THE LORD WAS SHORT AND CHARACTERISTIC IT SHALL BE GIVEN. LADY ANNA'S REPLY TO AUNT JULIA WAS LONGER AND LESS SENTENTIOUS BUT IT SIGNIFIED HER INTENTION OF GOING DOWN TO YOXHAM A WEEK BEFORE THE DAY SETTLED FOR THE MARRIAGE WHICH WAS NOW THE TENTH OF JULY. SHE WAS MUCH OBLIGED SHE SAID TO THE RECTOR FOR HIS GOODNESS IN PROMISING TO MARRY THEM AND AS SHE HAD NO FRIENDS OF HER OWN SHE HOPED THAT MINNIE LOVEL WOULD BE HER BRIDESMAID

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+THEY CROUCHED SO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER THAT HE COULD FEEL HER FURS AGAINST HIM. NEITHER HAD SPOKEN SINCE THEY LEFT THE ROADWAY TILL SHE SAID WITH ATTEMPTED UNCONCERN THIS IS UNFORTUNATE. IT IS MORE UNFORTUNATE FOR YOU PERHAPS THAN FOR ME HE SAID AND I AM VERY SORRY THAT IT SHOULD BE SO. SHE REPLIED NOTHING TO THIS AND HE ADDED THAT IT WAS RATHER A DESOLATE PLACE FOR A WOMAN ALONE AND AFOOT. HE HOPED NOTHING SERIOUS HAD HAPPENED TO DRAG HER OUT AT SUCH AN UNTOWARD TIME. BUT AS THE RAIN GAVE NOT THE LEAST SIGN OF CESSATION HE OBSERVED I THINK WE SHALL HAVE TO GO BACK NEVER. WHY NOT HE INQUIRED. THERE ARE GOOD REASONS. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW YOU SHOULD KNOW ME WHILE I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. OH BUT YOU KNOW ME ABOUT ME AT LEAST. INDEED I DON'T HOW SHOULD I YOU ARE A KIMBERLIN. I SHOULD THINK SO. HE'S MY FATHER INDEED. AFTER MAKING OVER HIS LARGE BUSINESS TO THE COMPANY HE RETIRED I BELIEVE TO LONDON. YES. OUR HOUSE OR RATHER HIS NOT MINE IS AT SOUTH KENSINGTON WE HAVE LIVED THERE FOR YEARS. BUT WE HAVE BEEN TENANTS OF SYLVANIA CASTLE ON THE ISLAND HERE THIS SEASON. THEN I HAVE BEEN STAYING QUITE NEAR YOU MISS BENCOMB. MY FATHER'S IS A COMPARATIVELY HUMBLE RESIDENCE HARD BY. BUT HE COULD AFFORD A MUCH BIGGER ONE IF HE CHOSE. YOU HAVE HEARD SO. I DON'T KNOW HE DOESN'T TELL ME MUCH OF HIS AFFAIRS. MY FATHER SHE BURST OUT SUDDENLY IS ALWAYS SCOLDING ME FOR MY EXTRAVAGANCE. WAS THAT THIS EVENING. I HAVE LEFT MY FATHER FOR EVER. NOW I SHALL TAKE THE TRAIN AS SOON AS I REACH THE MAINLAND. I MUST SIT HERE TILL IT STOPS. AND THERE ON THE NETS THEY SAT. JOCELYN THOUGHT IT STRANGE THAT HE SHOULD BE THROWN BY FATE INTO A POSITION TO PLAY THE SON OF THE MONTAGUES TO THIS DAUGHTER OF THE CAPULETS. AS THEY TALKED THERE WAS A MUTUAL INSTINCT TO DROP THEIR VOICES AND ON THIS ACCOUNT THE ROAR OF THE STORM NECESSITATED THEIR DRAWING QUITE CLOSE TOGETHER. SOMETHING TENDER CAME INTO THEIR TONES AS QUARTER HOUR AFTER QUARTER HOUR WENT ON AND THEY FORGOT THE LAPSE OF TIME. IT WAS QUITE LATE WHEN SHE STARTED UP ALARMED AT HER POSITION. RAIN OR NO RAIN I CAN STAY NO LONGER SHE SAID. DO COME BACK SAID HE TAKING HER HAND. I'LL RETURN WITH YOU MY TRAIN HAS GONE. NO I SHALL GO ON AND GET A LODGING IN BUDMOUTH TOWN IF EVER I REACH IT. IT IS SO LATE THAT THERE WILL BE NO HOUSE OPEN EXCEPT A LITTLE PLACE NEAR THE STATION WHERE YOU WON'T CARE TO STAY. I CANNOT LEAVE YOU IT WOULD BE TOO AWKWARD FOR YOU TO GO THERE ALONE. THE SEA ROLLED AND ROSE SO HIGH ON THEIR LEFT AND WAS SO NEAR THEM ON THEIR RIGHT THAT IT SEEMED AS IF THEY WERE TRAVERSING ITS BOTTOM LIKE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. NOTHING BUT THE FRAIL BANK OF PEBBLES DIVIDED THEM FROM THE RAGING GULF WITHOUT AND AT EVERY BANG OF THE TIDE AGAINST IT THE GROUND SHOOK THE SHINGLE CLASHED THE SPRAY ROSE VERTICALLY AND WAS BLOWN OVER THEIR HEADS. QUANTITIES OF SEA WATER TRICKLED THROUGH THE PEBBLE WALL AND RAN IN RIVULETS ACROSS THEIR PATH TO JOIN THE SEA WITHIN. THE ISLAND WAS AN ISLAND STILL. THEY HAD NOT REALIZED THE FORCE OF THE ELEMENTS TILL NOW. THE ETHEREAL SUBSTANCE CLOSED NOT LONG DIVISIBLE. HER CLOTHING OFFERED MORE RESISTANCE TO THE WIND THAN HIS AND SHE WAS CONSEQUENTLY IN THE GREATER DANGER. FIRST HE GAVE HIS ARM BUT THE WIND TORE THEM APART AS EASILY AS COUPLED CHERRIES. HE STEADIED HER BODILY BY ENCIRCLING HER WAIST WITH HIS ARM AND SHE MADE NO OBJECTION. IT MEANT A POSSIBLE MIGRATION OF THE WELL BELOVED. AS SOON AS THEY HAD CROSSED THE FERRY BRIDGE THERE WAS A LITTLE MORE SHELTER BUT HE DID NOT RELINQUISH HIS HOLD TILL SHE REQUESTED HIM

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+THEY PASSED THE RUINED CASTLE AND HAVING LEFT THE ISLAND FAR BEHIND THEM TROD MILE AFTER MILE TILL THEY DREW NEAR TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE NEIGHBOURING WATERING PLACE. INTO IT THEY PLODDED WITHOUT PAUSE CROSSING THE HARBOUR BRIDGE ABOUT MIDNIGHT WET TO THE SKIN. HE PITIED HER AND WHILE HE WONDERED AT IT ADMIRED HER DETERMINATION. THE HOUSES FACING THE BAY NOW SHELTERED THEM COMPLETELY AND THEY REACHED THE VICINITY OF THE NEW RAILWAY TERMINUS WHICH THE STATION WAS AT THIS DATE WITHOUT DIFFICULTY. THEIR APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION LED TO THE WITHDRAWAL OF A BOLT AND THEY STOOD WITHIN THE GASLIGHT OF THE PASSAGE. HE COULD SEE NOW THAT THOUGH SHE WAS SUCH A FINE FIGURE QUITE AS TALL AS HIMSELF SHE WAS BUT IN THE BLOOM OF YOUNG WOMANHOOD. HER FACE WAS CERTAINLY STRIKING THOUGH RATHER BY ITS IMPERIOUSNESS THAN ITS BEAUTY AND THE BEATING OF THE WIND AND RAIN AND SPRAY HAD INFLAMED HER CHEEKS TO PEONY HUES. SHE PERSISTED IN THE DETERMINATION TO GO ON TO LONDON BY AN EARLY MORNING TRAIN AND HE THEREFORE OFFERED ADVICE ON LESSER MATTERS ONLY. I WILL TELL THE SERVANT TO DO THIS AND SEND YOU UP SOMETHING TO EAT. HE FELT RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY HIMSELF AND SET ABOUT DRYING HIS CLOTHES AS WELL AS HE COULD AND EATING AT THE SAME TIME. AT FIRST HE WAS IN DOUBT WHAT TO DO BUT SOON DECIDED TO STAY WHERE HE WAS TILL THE MORROW. BY THE AID OF SOME TEMPORARY WRAPS AND SOME SLIPPERS FROM THE CUPBOARD HE WAS CONTRIVING TO MAKE HIMSELF COMFORTABLE WHEN THE MAID SERVANT CAME DOWNSTAIRS WITH A DAMP ARMFUL OF WOMAN'S RAIMENT. PIERSTON WITHDREW FROM THE FIRE. THE MAID SERVANT KNELT DOWN BEFORE THE BLAZE AND HELD UP WITH EXTENDED ARMS ONE OF THE HABILIMENTS OF THE JUNO UPSTAIRS FROM WHICH A CLOUD OF STEAM BEGAN TO RISE. AS SHE KNELT THE GIRL NODDED FORWARD RECOVERED HERSELF AND NODDED AGAIN. YOU ARE SLEEPY MY GIRL SAID PIERSTON. THEN I'LL RELIEVE YOU OF THAT GO AND LIE DOWN IN THE OTHER ROOM JUST AS IF WE WERE NOT HERE. I'LL DRY THE CLOTHING AND PUT THE ARTICLES HERE IN A HEAP WHICH YOU CAN TAKE UP TO THE YOUNG LADY IN THE MORNING. THE NIGHT PORTER THANKED HIM AND LEFT THE ROOM AND HE SOON HEARD HER SNORING FROM THE ADJOINING APARTMENT. THEN JOCELYN OPENED PROCEEDINGS OVERHAULING THE ROBES AND EXTENDING THEM ONE BY ONE. HE AGAIN BECAME CONSCIOUS OF THE CHANGE WHICH HAD BEEN INITIATED DURING THE WALK. THE WELL BELOVED WAS MOVING HOUSE HAD GONE OVER TO THE WEARER OF THIS ATTIRE. IN THE COURSE OF TEN MINUTES HE ADORED HER. AND HOW ABOUT LITTLE AVICE CARO. HE DID NOT THINK OF HER AS BEFORE

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+SHE DRAWS CLOSE AND SATISFIES. HE COULD NOT FORGET MISSUS PINE AVON'S EYES THOUGH HE REMEMBERED NOTHING OF HER OTHER FACIAL DETAILS. THEY WERE ROUND INQUIRING LUMINOUS. NOW THE QUESTION WAS OUGHT HE TO SEE HER AGAIN HE HAD HIS DOUBTS. AT THE DINNER HE TOOK DOWN MISSUS PINE AVON UPON HIS ARM AND TALKED TO NOBODY ELSE DURING THE MEAL. AFTERWARDS THEY KEPT APART AWHILE IN THE DRAWING ROOM FOR FORM'S SAKE BUT EVENTUALLY GRAVITATED TOGETHER AGAIN AND FINISHED THE EVENING IN EACH OTHER'S COMPANY. WHEN SHORTLY AFTER ELEVEN HE CAME AWAY HE FELT ALMOST CERTAIN THAT WITHIN THOSE LUMINOUS GREY EYES THE ONE OF HIS ETERNAL FIDELITY HAD VERILY TAKEN LODGINGS AND FOR A LONG LEASE. BUT THIS WAS NOT ALL. AT PARTING HE HAD ALMOST INVOLUNTARILY GIVEN HER HAND A PRESSURE OF A PECULIAR AND INDESCRIBABLE KIND A LITTLE RESPONSE FROM HER LIKE A MERE PULSATION OF THE SAME SORT TOLD HIM THAT THE IMPRESSION SHE HAD MADE UPON HIM WAS RECIPROCATED. SHE WAS IN A WORD WILLING TO GO ON. BUT WAS HE ABLE. HE WAS NOW OVER FORTY SHE WAS PROBABLY THIRTY AND HE DARED NOT MAKE UNMEANING LOVE WITH THE CARELESS SELFISHNESS OF A YOUNGER MAN. IT WAS UNFAIR TO GO FURTHER WITHOUT TELLING HER EVEN THOUGH HITHERTO SUCH EXPLICITNESS HAD NOT BEEN ABSOLUTELY DEMANDED. HE DETERMINED TO CALL IMMEDIATELY ON THE NEW INCARNATION. SHE LIVED NOT FAR FROM THE LONG FASHIONABLE HAMPTONSHIRE SQUARE AND HE WENT THITHER WITH EXPECTATIONS OF HAVING A HIGHLY EMOTIONAL TIME AT LEAST. BUT SOMEHOW THE VERY BELL PULL SEEMED COLD ALTHOUGH SHE HAD SO EARNESTLY ASKED HIM TO COME. AS THE HOUSE SPOKE SO SPOKE THE OCCUPANT MUCH TO THE ASTONISHMENT OF THE SCULPTOR. TO BE SURE IT WAS MISSUS NICHOLA PINE AVON BUT FROSTED OVER INDESCRIBABLY. RAISING HER EYES IN A SLIGHTLY INQUIRING MANNER FROM THE BOOK SHE WAS READING SHE LEANT BACK IN THE CHAIR AS IF SOAKING HERSELF IN LUXURIOUS SENSATIONS WHICH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM AND REPLIED TO HIS GREETING WITH A FEW COMMONPLACE WORDS. THE UNFORTUNATE JOCELYN THOUGH RECUPERATIVE TO A DEGREE WAS AT FIRST TERRIBLY UPSET BY THIS RECEPTION. HE HAD DISTINCTLY BEGUN TO LOVE NICHOLA AND HE FELT SICK AND ALMOST RESENTFUL. BUT HAPPILY HIS AFFECTION WAS INCIPIENT AS YET AND A SUDDEN SENSE OF THE RIDICULOUS IN HIS OWN POSITION CARRIED HIM TO THE VERGE OF RISIBILITY DURING THE SCENE. SHE SIGNIFIED A CHAIR AND BEGAN THE CRITICAL STUDY OF SOME RINGS SHE WORE. THEY TALKED OVER THE DAY'S NEWS AND THEN AN ORGAN BEGAN TO GRIND OUTSIDE. NO I DON'T SHE REPLIED. NOW I'LL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT SAID HE GRAVELY. IT IS BASED ON A SOUND OLD MELODY CALLED THE JILT'S HORNPIPE. JUST AS THEY TURN MADEIRA INTO PORT IN THE SPACE OF A SINGLE NIGHT SO THIS OLD AIR HAS BEEN TAKEN AND DOCTORED AND TWISTED ABOUT AND BROUGHT OUT AS A NEW POPULAR DITTY INDEED. YOU WOULD FIND THIS IS OFTEN DONE WITH EXCELLENT EFFECT. SHE THAWED A LITTLE AND THEN THEY WENT ON TO TALK ABOUT HER HOUSE WHICH HAD BEEN NEWLY PAINTED AND DECORATED WITH GREENISH BLUE SATIN UP TO THE HEIGHT OF A PERSON'S HEAD AN ARRANGEMENT THAT SOMEWHAT IMPROVED HER SLIGHTLY FADED THOUGH STILL PRETTY FACE AND WAS HELPED BY THE AWNINGS OVER THE WINDOWS. YES I HAVE HAD MY HOUSE SOME YEARS SHE OBSERVED COMPLACENTLY AND I LIKE IT BETTER EVERY YEAR. DON'T YOU FEEL LONELY IN IT SOMETIMES O NEVER. SHE ASKED HIM TO COME AGAIN AND HE THOUGHT HE WOULD TELL THE TRUTH. NO I SHALL NOT CARE TO COME AGAIN HE ANSWERED IN A TONE INAUDIBLE TO THE YOUNG LADIES. SHE FOLLOWED HIM TO THE DOOR. WHAT AN UNCIVIL THING TO SAY SHE MURMURED IN SURPRISE. IT IS RATHER UNCIVIL

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+GOOD BYE SAID PIERSTON. AS A PUNISHMENT SHE DID NOT RING THE BELL BUT LEFT HIM TO FIND HIS WAY OUT AS HE COULD. NOW WHAT THE DEVIL THIS MEANS I CANNOT TELL HE SAID TO HIMSELF REFLECTING STOCK STILL FOR A MOMENT ON THE STAIRS. AND YET THE MEANING WAS STARING HIM IN THE FACE. MEANWHILE ONE OF THE THREE YOUNG LADIES HAD SAID WHAT INTERESTING MAN WAS THAT WITH HIS LOVELY HEAD OF HAIR. I SAW HIM AT LADY CHANNELCLIFFE'S THE OTHER NIGHT. JOCELYN PIERSTON. O NICHOLA THAT IS TOO BAD. O DIDN'T HE MARRY HER. SAID MISSUS PINE AVON WITH A START. WHY I HEARD ONLY YESTERDAY THAT HE DID THOUGH THEY HAVE LIVED APART EVER SINCE. QUITE A MISTAKE SAID THE YOUNG LADY HOW I WISH I COULD RUN AFTER HIM. BUT JOCELYN WAS RECEDING FROM THE PRETTY WIDOW'S HOUSE WITH LONG STRIDES. BY SOME ACCIDENT HE ARRIVED RATHER EARLY. LADY IRIS HAD LEFT THE DRAWING ROOM FOR A MOMENT TO SEE THAT ALL WAS RIGHT IN THE DINING ROOM AND WHEN HE WAS SHOWN IN THERE STOOD ALONE IN THE LAMPLIGHT NICHOLA PINE AVON. SHE HAD BEEN THE FIRST ARRIVAL. SHE HAD JUST COME OUT OF THE CLOAK ROOM AND WAS SO TENDER AND EVEN APOLOGETIC THAT HE HAD NOT THE HEART TO BE OTHER THAN FRIENDLY. AS THE OTHER GUESTS DROPPED IN THE PAIR RETREATED INTO A SHADY CORNER AND SHE TALKED BESIDE HIM TILL ALL MOVED OFF FOR THE EATING AND DRINKING. HE HAD NOT BEEN APPOINTED TO TAKE HER ACROSS TO THE DINING ROOM BUT AT THE TABLE FOUND HER EXACTLY OPPOSITE. ANYHOW HE WAS NOT DISPOSED TO RESENT AN INEXPLICABILITY IN WOMANKIND HAVING FOUND THAT IT USUALLY AROSE INDEPENDENTLY OF FACT REASON PROBABILITY OR HIS OWN DESERTS. SO HE DINED ON CATCHING HER EYES AND THE FEW PRETTY WORDS SHE MADE OPPORTUNITY TO PROJECT ACROSS THE TABLE TO HIM NOW AND THEN. PIERSTON DREW IT SUFFICIENTLY FORTH TO OBSERVE BY THE POST MARK THAT IT CAME FROM HIS NATAL ISLE. HAVING HARDLY A CORRESPONDENT IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD NOW HE BEGAN TO CONJECTURE ON THE POSSIBLE SENDER. THE SPRING IN THE PRESENT CASE WAS THE ARTISTIC COMMENDATION SHE DESERVED AND CRAVED. THE LADY ON JOCELYN'S LEFT WIFE OF A LORD JUSTICE OF APPEAL WAS IN LIKE MANNER TALKING TO HER COMPANION ON THE OUTER SIDE SO THAT FOR THE TIME HE WAS LEFT TO HIMSELF. HE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY DREW OUT HIS LETTER AND READ IT AS IT LAY UPON HIS NAPKIN NOBODY OBSERVING HIM SO FAR AS HE WAS AWARE. IT CAME FROM THE WIFE OF ONE OF HIS FATHER'S FORMER WORKMEN AND WAS CONCERNING HER SON WHOM SHE BEGGED JOCELYN TO RECOMMEND AS CANDIDATE FOR SOME POST IN TOWN THAT SHE WISHED HIM TO FILL. BUT THE END OF THE LETTER WAS WHAT ARRESTED HIM