| Show 1 dimir I HE PURCHASE A CHASE A FRICE 7 OR i THE CAUSE OF compromise by EMERSON HOUGH copyright 1910 by emerson tough hough OH APTEl ER KVIT continued in some way a moment later inter they fliey found themselves alone in the special apartment reserved for guests of distinction an awkward moment ensued josephine was birst to break the silence 1 I ivna w talking with jeanne tills very she said she was telling nio some story that you nave have been un fortunate tort fortu tinto that there have been thatis to to say Y political POIl changes ch aDges 7 he saw said smiling ini ling just to show you thi extent of my downfall I 1 have heard all eliat it they are intending to tar and feather me to tonight llight perhaps to give tit me it a ride upon a rail not that it ter terrifies rifles me the meeting Is going to lie be held field than it Is true trite that you are to speak here tonight ight and to uphold doctrines doc precisely the reverse of what yes ves that is true ho he spoke very quietly 1 I h had i 0 not thought that possible she said ild gently of f course slip she added 1 I 1 have been in entire ignorance of till all matters out lien here tor for a year abear past I 1 have been busy why should you follow the political ort or of an obscure missourian Missour lan ho he asked on oil the I 1 he contrary there is it at waist least one obscure missourian who has fins followed tol lowed yours A As usual she hung on the main point but tell in me she demanded of him presently it a little added color coming into lier her checks do you mean to say to nit ine gleit you really remember what we talked about ti lie he nodded sti illing dont you remember we ve talked about faith and how to get tt hold of if and I 1 said I 1 ind in it well I 1 have no apologies wid and tio no all I 1 have to say is that I 1 fought 1 it out thrashed it till all over and then somehow I 1 dont know how well malth came to me 1111 th that I 1 it Is fill all I 1 and it cost you evou everything thing lust about everything in it the world 1 reckon so fillas it worldly goods io go 1 suppose v you know what aliat you ind and your little colonization scheme eclie ml have doup 1 0 me ille to you what do you topan mean why you know that cill Carlls elwe 1 mid lind K Ka your youl agents and lily out our late hate disappearing slave and niso late lecturing fugitive yonder represent thorn them dont you really know about that no I 1 had bothin nothing to do with their operations luy lily or those these wen men or people like them tools took away every solitary negro front from my lily plantation its as well as from two or three others neighboring me they stop to buy liay property they just tool took it you see madam all lie he smiled rattier rather grimly gri tilly these northern abolitionists tit in the belief that they have fill all the virtue and all the fair dealing in the world it lias fills been a little hard on my lily cotton crop I 1 will not havu have illy any crop tills fall 1 I had no labor I 1 will vill not have any crop next summer nier with money at 12 per calit cent and no state salary coming in ill that means rather more I 1 than kimn I 1 care to talk about at ali and it was 1 1 who did that for you voil belleri belleve believe me 1 was wholly vent of it I 1 would not have done that to my worst enemy 11 no I 1 suppose not but here Is where we ve come colin again to to the real heart icv 1 ii ul llyle nylons nt lons so ho I 1 ay iy or of us apel lible able to sove solve offhand t 11 t if if erelio e should you make tie he steu ill anif aik another if fr it Is 4 right it to or I 1 t lie north to tree free nil III these slaves ves paying for thell why should ie he anything 4 in ill my lily favor over 1 guv it oil one of my I 1 neighbors and must most f till why should you yon not be over dyed at me why am ain I 1 not your you W wo I 1 sc e enemy e iny d J dItT differed ered froll froin yon v 11 1 W u gouged rouged v d you I 1 haribed yon I 1 did 0 rv ry thIll ill 1 the world world I 1 rould id to 10 boll 1 I never meant it I 1 intended it it wal way 4 hille dino wholly without my illy knowledge I 1 ani am sorry yon need lived vot not 1 bo be sorry it la 19 only one iw of the cou consequences sequences of follows following it olios falth faith Ariy how im just a 11 little leq loss inconsistent t than mr renton benton who hal always horn heen opposed to shi slavery verv although li hp he still owns slaves same tfx ial true trae of mr clay thoy both have been prominent politically leall well if set it them thorn free of their slaves wid a nd they mid and I 1 would be about even we it comes to being pretty much the same I 1 must confess 1 I can understand that said she vor v th at matter we tire are both ruined and for the same reason what do you met mean tin and tell me once Lq more ore who are you you tainia have stirred things up tip ks As to the latter it makes little difference fe said she 1 I will confess to being ie in it a revolutionist and a visional visionary reformer antl and an absolute failure I 1 will confess ress that I 1 have undertaken things which I 1 thought were within my power lower wit but which were entirely beyond me well it has ruined me ine also 11 in a material way how flow do you mean tills colonization work was carried on oil by my lily own funds it is not long tig bigl that I 1 got a letter saying that my funds were tit at an end I 1 had some stilt small all L estates in the old country they tire lire gone confiscated my illy last rents wore won not collected slie she in ill tu turn rn smiled spreading 0 out her heinds you see me here in ill st k ne perhaps on my way to st louis tell me is there demand for persons of forell foreign ti experience who understand a little french a little english perhaps a little music it was his turn to show consternation tion Is it indeed true lie he said now it Is time for me to say I 1 am sorry I 1 do not understand all about it of course I 1 could see all along alon 1 that nn an amount of money was being paid into tills this colonization folly al and id it was your money and you tire are ruined its it a shame a s shame haine im it a num man I 1 can stand it hut itlie you you ought to have ease lu laury ury v all your life now look what you hilve have done doll there taine came it a sudden knock at the floor door and without much pause lector hector mit entered wed somewhat excited 1 I monsieur madame tit he exclaimed one coill comes who is 14 it demanded Dun dunwody wooly rr frowning owning my father he is come hut but now from Tal lwoods monsieur what mint is wron wrong out atit there tell him to conle come in ill I 1 go A moment later dunwody had find loft left the room to meet old elleazar lle azar atio made inde ti such stich response as it lie could to the hurried queries Iii erles monsieur said tie he 1 I have ridden down from the hills there is trot trouble ihie in the neighborhood tire are some who ire are angry because their negroes have dis disappear alwene they accuse al M dunco d e e of being the cause and say that lie he I 1 is it a traitor it a turncoat this very night it a hand are said to plan art an att attack belc upon the house liollio of monsieur I 1 have met above there al clayton al bill jones it ie docteur Jam jamieson leson an and ot others liers who ride to the assistance of M it is tills this very night and 1 I there being no other to come have ha ve come to advise believing that monsieur might desire to carry el with hlin him certain friends I 1 have brought the largo large carriage it Is herel thank god said dunwody they dont x le e with me but they ride with we mo st si my neighbors my friends even yett to be continued |
