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17 TKePurcKase Price J AMUSEMENTS When YOU Buy A STOCK COMPANY v rim cause o THE FARMER: DECEMBER 6, 1912 SSfe Sep l iFsl i i F J SI'S ALL THIS WEEK (Continued.) ' "The law does not prevent my tlomg ' as 1 like." she replied. It was agouy that showed on bis face at this. "Suppose I should tell you that all the time I was talking to you about what I felt, there" was a wall, a great wall, for ever between us?" "In that case I should regret God had made a man so forgetful of honor. 1 should be glad heaven bad left me un touched by anything such a man could 1 say. Suppose' that? Why. suppose I bad cared and that I had found af er all there was no hope? There comes In conscience, sir, there comes In bonof." - j Tben In such a case5 "In such a case any woman would ' bate a man! Stress may win some wo men, but deceit never did." "I have not deceived you." "Do you wish to do so now? No. It's Just the contrary. Haven't X said you must go? But since you must pay. I'm willing. If you wish, to bare my life to the very bone, to the heart before you. now right cow." , She pondered for a moment. "Of coarse. I knew there was something. There, In that room In that wardrobe those were her garmentsof another iK)iuer woman- , v no r -Wait. now. Go slow, because I'm suffering. .Listen. I'll not hear a word j about your own life I want no secret of you. I'm content. But I'm willing now. I say, to tell you all about that about those things. I didn't do that at flrst. but how could I? There wasn't any chance. Besides, when I saw you. tb rest of the world, the rert of my life, it was all. all wiped out of my mind, as though some drug had done it. Ob, I'm awake now! But I reckon maybe , that doesn't mean that I'm netting out of my dream, but only into it deeper yet. I was maj for yoa then. I could feel the blood sting In my veins, for you. Life Is life after all. and we're made as we are. But later, now, beside that, on top of that, some titfng else do you think Ifs do you suppose Fm capable of It, selfish as I am? Do you reckon lfs love. Just big, worthy, decent love, better than any thing in the .world? -'Is that do you reckon, dear girl, that that's why I'm able now to say goodby? I loved you one so much I could not let you go. Now I love yoa so much I can not let yoa' stay. T It waa any sort of time, a moment, h n hour, before there was spoken speech between them after that. At last they both heard ber voice. . 'Now, yon begin to pay. I am glad. I am glad." "Then it Is your revenge? "Very well. Too have it." She went to him swiftly, put a hand on hla arm. "No!" said she. "What I want yoa to believe Is that it's life that makes ns pay, that it's God that makes ns pay." ;"& my debt to yon paid, then? His rolce trembled. ."So far as it runs to me, ft Is paid." "What remains f -".Nothing but the debt of yourself to yourself. I'm going to look back to a strange chapter in my life a life which has bad some strange ones. I'm not going to be able to forget, of course, what you've said to me. A woman loves to be loved. When I go. I go; but I want to look back now and then and see you are still paying and getting richer with each act of courage, --when you pay to yourself, not me." "Ah. fanatic! Ah. visionary! Ah. dreamer, dreamer! And you!" "That is the rest of the debt Each of ua has suffered. Mine own Is for the faith, for the cause." -For what cause? What cause do you mean?" "The cause of the world," she an rwered vaguely. "The cause of hu manity. Oh, the world's so big, and we're so Tery little. Life runs away so fast. So many suffer in the world, so many want! Is It right for us, more fortunate, to take all, to eat in greed, to Bleep In sloth, to be free from care, when there are thousands all over the.! world needing food. aid. sympathy, op portunity, the chance to grow? "Oh" she beat her hands together, as was sometimes ber way "America, this great west, this splendid country where the feet are hurrying on so fast, fast and the steam now carries men faster, faster, so that it may be done It may be done without delay why, all this Amentca must one day give over war and selfishness, Just as we two have tried to give over war and selfish ness, right here, right now. Do you suppose 'this world was made just to hold selfishness and un happiness? Do rou think thaf s all there ever was to the plan of life? Ah. no! There's some thing In living beyond eating and drink ing and sleeping and begetting. Faith great faith in something, some plan ahead, some purpose under you ah, last's living!" "But they banished you for that?" "Tea, that's why they put me out of Washington, I suppose. I've been twice banished. That Is why I came bere to this country. Maybe, sir, that Is ray J came to you. here! Who shall (ay ss to these things?" His throat worked strongly. There was some struggle in the man. At last be spoke, and quietly. "I see what separates us now. It is the wall of our convictions. Tou are specifically an abolitionist, just as you are In gen eral a revolutionist I'm on the other !r That's between ua, then? An ciBciNM EMERSON HOUGH Copyright, 1910. by Emarson Komgb ! abstraction V ' "1 don't think so. There are three walls between as. The first yon put up when you first met me. The sec ond Is what you call traditions, your belief in wasting human life. The third it's this thing of which you I must not speak. Take the case of the girl Lily. She was the actual cause of your getting hurt. oi many men be ing killed. Why r' "Because she was a runaway slave. The law has to bo enforced, property must be protected, even if it costs life sometimes. Tbere'd be no government otherwise. We men have to take our chances in a time like that. The duty is plain." ' "How utterly you fail of the truth! That's not why there was blood spilled over her. Do you know who she is?" 1 -No," he said. "She Is the daughter of your friend. Judge Clayton of the bench of justice in your commonwealth. That is why he wants to run away! Her father does not know be Is her father. God has bis way of righting such thing." "There are things we must not talk . tha cooperage business at St. Gene about in this slavery question. Stop! . tn tn desirability of the sur- I did not. of course, know this. And Clayton did not know! 1 have bought uiy zrom mm. xou nra wumg much." "l will tell yon that night, when Carlisle would have killed you in your room there, when I afterward put you all on parole" ' V "Yes, yes." ' - "I saved you then and sent them away. Do you know why T" .'.'; . "I suppose It was the horror of more . blood." j "I don't think so. I believe it was I just for this for this very talk I'm having now with you. I saved you then so that some day I might demand 1 you as hostage. "I want you to vote with me." she continued, "for the 'higher law. I want you to vote with God's poor people. If : "Why, sir, if I could only get you to think as Mr. Benton does a man j with your power and influence and faculty for leadership I'd call this ; winter well spent better spent than if I'd been left in Washington." "Suppose I wanted to change my be liefs, bow would 1 go about It? If a man hasn't got faith, how's he going to get it by what process can he reach out into the dark and find It? What's tbs use of his saying be has found faith when he knows he hasn't?" "I cannot give .you any answer. For myself, I have found that faith." "Yon would endure much for your convictions?" he demanded suddenly. "Would you suffer more? Undertake the conversion of a sinner like my self?" The flame of his eye caught hers In spite of herself. A little flush, came Into her cheek. " "Tell me," he demanded imperiously, "on what terms?" Too do not play the game. You would ask me to preach to yon but you would come to see the revival, not to listen to grace. It isn't playing the game." "But you're seeking converts? "I would despise no man in the world so much as a hypocrite, a turncoat! You can't purchase faith in the market place, not any more than" "Any more than you can purchase love? But Fve been wanting not the sermon, but the preacher. You! You! Yes, It is the truth. I want nothing eise In the world so much as you." "I'd never care for a man who would admit that" "There never was a woman in the world loved a man who did not" "Oh, always I try to analyze these things," she went on desperately, fac ing him, her eyes somber, her face aglow, her attitude tense. "I don't see how a woman could care for a man who only eared for her beauty . "Any price, for Just that!" he said grimly. "You would be cheap at any cost." "But a man even like yourself, sir. would be very cheap if his price was as you say. No turncoat could win me I'd love him more on his own side yonder threefold wall, with his con vict ions, than on my side without them. I couldn't be bought cheap as that, nor by a cheap man. ' I'd never iove a man who held himself cheap. "But then," she added, casting back at him one of his own earlier speeches, "if you only thought as J did, what could we not do together? Ah, life Is so little, so short!" " "No, no! Stop!" he cried out "lean not recant! I cannot give up my con. victions or my love, either one; and yet I'm not sure I'm going to have left either one. It's hell, that's what" s left for me. But listen. Much as I love you. I'd rather see yon marry some other man than think of yon never married at all. God never meant a flower such as you to wither, to die, to be wasted. Why, look at you! Look at you! And you say you are to be wasted! God never meant It so, you beauty, you wondepful woman r Even as she was about to speak, drawn by the passion of him, the agony of his cry. there came to the ears of both an arresting sound one which it seemed to Josephine was not wholly strange to her ears. It was like the cry of a babe, a child's wail, difficult to locate, indefinite in distance. "What was it?" she whispered. "Did you hear?" Jl He took her by the arms, looking 111 lltIJM- 9 r tV- .V7-i It sadly, mournfully into her face, and said: "You must go. Once in awhile I for get. If s got to be goodby between you and me. We'll set tomorrow morning as the time for you to go. "As I have a witness," he said at last, "I've paid. Goodby." He crushed her to him once, as though she were no more than a flower, as though he would take the heart of her fragrance. Then, even as she felt the heave of his great body, panting at the touch of her. mad at the scent of her hair, he put her back from him. with a sob, a groan. He bent and kissed her hands, his lips hot pn them, and so left her trembling. , , CHAPTER XIII. ' Ths Way ef a Maid. HECTOR had not tarried a sec ond week at Tallwoods before offering his band and bis cooper shop to Jeanne. With Gallic caution she made dellcato in quiry of Hector's father, as to the yearly returns and probable future of nntrv upon wnlcte the ! cooperage business must base Its own j fortunes. All these matters met ner '.nnmni . Wherefore, the air" of jeanne became tinged with a certain lofty condescension. In her own heart . Bne trembled now;, not so much as to j her own wisdom or her own future. j DHt as to the meeting which must be bad between herself and her mistress, J "Jeanne," demanded Josephine on av. "why are you away so much ; when "I desire you?, I have often seen 'you and that young man yonder In j very close -.conversation. Yon must ; have a care." "Madame." expostulated Jeanne, "it Is nothing. I assure you."8. "Perhaps, but 'it is of such nothings that troubles sometimes come. Tell, me, what has this young man Said to you?'" "But he has said many things, madame," i .. ' " ' , I "As, for instance, that you please him. that you are beautiful, that you have a voice and band, a--turn of the arm that you have the manner Pari sienne Jeanne, is it not so?" "But, yes, madame, and indeed more. I find that young man of excellent Judgment of most discriminating taste. Also he is of an excellent cooperage business in St Genevieve yonder. Moreover, I find the produce of the grape in this country to increase year ly, so that the business seems to be of a certain future, madame. His com-, munity is well founded,- the oldest la tbis portion of the valley. He is young, he has no entanglements at least so far as I discover. He has an excellent home with his old mother. Ah, well! madame, one might do worse." "So, then, a cooperage business so promising as that Jeanne, seems more desirable than my own poor employ ment? You have no regard for your duty to one who has cared for . you, I suppose? You desert me precisely at the time my own affairs require my presence In Washington." "Butmadame, why Washington? Is that our home? What actual home has madame on the face of the earth? Ah, heaven, were only It possible that this man were to be considered! This place so large, so beautiful, so in need of a mistress to control it Madame says she was carried away against her will. AH my life have I dreamed have I hoped that some time a man should steal me, to carry me away to . some place such as this! And to make love of such a warmness!" i "Jeanne. I forbid you to continue!" The eyes of the mistress bad a danger ous sparkle. "I obey, madame. I am silent . But listen! Now comes this Hector, far more bold and determined than tbis Mr. Dunwodee. That assassin, that brute, began, but hesitated. Ah, Hec tor has not hesitated! Seeing that be would In any case possess myself, would carry me away, I yielded, but with hpnor and grace, madame. "You would forsake me?" "Madame, I confess sometimes in my heart there comes a desire for a home, for a place where one may abide, where one may cease to wander." Josephine sat silent for a moment In what direction might she herself now turn even for the humblest friend ship? And where was any home now for her? The recreant maid saw some thing of ber mistress' feeling upon her face. "Madame!" she exclaimed, falling upon her knees in consternation. "To think I would desert you! In my heart resides nothing but loyalty for you. How could you doubt?" But Josephine was wise in her own way. That night Jeanne kissed her hand dutifully, yet the very next morn ing in the presence of Lily, with sobs, tears, she admitted that she had decided to leave service, no longer to be Jeanne, sut Mme. Hector Founder. "But, madame," said Jeanne, still tear ful, returning after a brief absence from the room, "although I leave now. for St. Genevieve to stand before the priest. I shall not see madame go without at tendance. See, 1 have asked of this Lily person if she could take service with madame. Madame plans soon to return to the east Perhaps this Lily, then""- (To Be Continued.) A Will YOU Pay a Double Profit by Selecting From the DEALER or COME HERE and Buy at FACTORY PRICES We ask this question in good faith, knowing what we are talking about. . We know that it is impossible for the middleman, who buys of the manu- 1 facturer, to sell as reasonably as can the manufacturer himself . And there is another point WORTH considering in making a purchase of y this nature, and that is the fact that the transaction is between you as an in dividual and the Wissner Factory, when you buy here. - jpd dickering by an " in-bet ween inari," the purchase is direct from the maker and the assets of a large and growing industry are back of the deal. ; . And still another point is the fact that - are made by a man who established and has built up a vast patronage and fol-! . lowing, among musicians of note in every section of this country and abroad, through the meritorious pro- duction of a PIANO that is distinctly individual in construction, arrange ' ment of scale and tone quality. These facts should be considered when you get ready to buy not be cause we advance them, but because , they will mean a guarantee of the high est grade piano that you may select at the price you wish to pay Saving You $50 to $100 On terms of payment to suit your convenience. Come in and, put these statements to the severest test. Wissner Warerooms BROAD AND STATE STREETS SMOKERS TVe carry a very up-to-date Ham of CIGARS. TOBACCO, PIPSS and other goods In the smokers tlnei We also carry stock of GUMS, AMMUNITION and FISHING TACKLE. Our motto is. oHaevtt tiooda Cor Utile Money D. D. SMITH, 44 Fairfield Ave INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS iNcryuDrNG fire. 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