Show temptation atlon I 1 have mentioned there are things I 1 want ft ant to say eav to you not many you already know my story dut but I 1 do not know yours anil and I 1 cannot die till I 1 ilo do what took you into the ravine that evening oliver and why having picked nicked up tho the stick did you ling fling it from you and fly back to t the lie highway for the re reason ason thal I 1 ascribed escrib d to coal e tell me M e that no cloud may remain between us lot let me know your lour heart a as well as you ou now know mine tho the reply brought the blood back into his fading cheek rather father I 1 have nc n c r all this to mr air andrews and now I 1 will explain it to you I 1 never liked mr etheridge as well as aa you ou lid did and 1 I blooded brooded incessantly in those days over the influence which he seemed to exert ovir you in regard to tny my future career deft I 1 ier dreamed of do ing him a harm harin and never supposed that I 1 could so BO much as attempt any argument with hini on oil my own behalf till that very night of infernal camph and coincidences the cause of this change was aa as follows I 1 hail gone up stairs you ou remember leaving you ou alone with him as I 1 knew you d sired how I 1 come camo to be lit in the he room above I 1 dont remember but I 1 wis was there and leaning out of the window directly over the porch when rd and mr etheridge came out and stood in some debate on oil the steps be low IN he was talking and you were its toning and noer never shall hall I 1 forget the el ef feet his words and tones tonea had upon me I 1 had supposed him liliu devoted to you anil and here he was waa addressing you anti and lit in an ungracious marker er which bespoke a man very ery dIffer different eat from the ono one I 1 had been taught to look upon as superior the awe of years yielded before this display and finding him juat human like the rest of us its tho the courage which I 1 had always lacked inched in approaching him took instant posses slon sion of me file anil and I 1 determined with ith a boys bois unreasoning impulse to subject him to a personal appeal not to add ills hla influence to the distaste you at present felt for the career upon which I 1 had set my heart nothing could have been more foolish and nothing moro more natural perhaps than too the act which followed I 1 ran down into tile the ravine with the wild intention so strangely duplicated in yourself sour a few minutes ini later of meeting and pleading my cause alt i him at the bridge but unlike you I 1 took the middle of the ravine for my road and not the secluded path at tho the side it was this which determined our fate father for here I 1 saw the stick anti and catching it tip lip without further thought thin than of the facility it offered for whittling started with it down the ravine scoville was |