Show while tie ne ind and I 1 were waiting in I 1 the tha sitting room tor for the news ho he ani oed ahls S eart T 1 I want to foil fell you yo U if harvey arvey said he e that the boy or girl whichever it is la 13 to bo be my heir 1 I shant hold you to that I 1 replied with a laugh augh adf ill ili sever never marry he went on there was an an angel you know the shaker seti settlement lement well out there I 1 looked at him in 11 wonder it ir ever there was a man who seemed anro mantle it was he be heavy and prosaic and so shy that he was visibly agitated oven even in bowing to a woman ac 1 I 1 I met her ho he was saying when I 1 was driving that way the horse ran I 1 was thrown out and her parents had bar to take me in and let her nurse me youve seen her face or faces facea like it most alost of those over on the other side in all the galleries suggest her well her parents were furious hear of it you know shakers think marriage and love and all those things are wicked and sho she thought so too ilow how she used to suffer it wore her to a shadow she marry me let me so much as touch her hand band but we user used to meet and then she caught a cold walting waiting hours for me one winter ni night ht when been a misunderstanding der about the place I 1 was in ore oe place she in another ano Lher and the cold you yon see she fight against it and and there wont bp bo another harvey all women are arc sacred to me for her sake but I 1 any more marry than I 1 could could stop feeling her sitten sitting beside me just a little way off wrapped la her r drab shawl with her face like a glimpse Il through the gates of heaven within me up started the memories that I 1 kept battered down your children are too harvey he ended I 1 took from carlottia Carlot Carl ottas taa workbasket work basket an unfinished bit of baby clothing I 1 wept went to him and held it up and pointed to the monogram she had embroidered on it E R S he read aloud then ile looked at me with a queer expression beginning to form in his eyes edward ramsay sayler i if its a boy said 1 I edwina ramsay sayler if its a girl gir ile he snatched the hit bit of 0 linen from me and buried his face in it the baby was a boy fortunately for I 1 dont admire the name edwina and I 1 have liked to handicap a child with it carlotta and ed were delighted but I 1 felt a momentary keen disappointment I 1 had wanted a girl girls never leave their parents completely ely as boys do also I 1 should rather have looked forward to my childs having a sheltered life one in which the fine and beautiful ideals do not have to be molded into the gross ugly forms of the practical I 1 may say in passing that 1 I 1 deplore the entrance of women into the world of struggle women are the natural and only custodians of the ideals we men are compelled to wander often to wander far from the ideal unless our women remain aloof from action how low are the ideals to be preserved man for action woman to purify man when he returns stained with the tha blood and sin of battle dut but with the birth of the first child I 1 began to appreciate how profoundly oun y r right my mother had been about marriage and its source of happiness there are other lowers flowers than the rose other flowersjr flowers flower sr and b beautiful the most beautiful for foi its absence CHAPTER IX to the seats of the mighty we our party carried the state as 33 usual our legislative majority was increased by 11 to 37 on joint ballot it was certain that Dun kirks successor would be of the tha same political faith but would he be be dunkirk at first that venerable custodian of 0 the plum plain tree a he had come to look on it as his personal property but after he had talked to legislators elect from various parts of the state he be became uneasy he found that the bartys members were dangerously evenly divided between himself and the dominick croffut faction and soon he was at me to declare for him I 1 evaded as long as I 1 could which did not decrease his nervousness when he be put I 1 it I 1 to me point blank I 1 said 1 I 1 cant ho it senator I 1 will not mix in quarrels within the party but they are saying you are against me die he be pleaded and your people are saying I 1 am tor for you I 1 retorted but surely you are not against me and ad for schoolcraft School cratt what 1 has h lie done for you and what have you done for me I 1 replied a mere interrogation with out any feeling in it tell me I 1 try to pay my debts his eyes shifted shit ted nothing sayler nothing he said 1 I mean to insinuate that you owed roe me anything still I 1 thou thought glit you havo have been state chairman except As he halted I 1 said except that you roil needed me and aou ou will recall that I 1 took it only on condition that C should be free then you are ara opposed to me ile ho said nobody can be on oil the fence in this ahls fight to be conti continued nuee |