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I read the ain, as e's words require, and reflected hoell they jumped with

the note of my heathen Epictetus, who had said, "Be natural and

noble" And, so thinking, I began to wonder whether, after all, my

father, whose ruthless ways I betimes had explored, whose ruthless

sins I had betimes atoned, had not been, perhaps, a betterHe, in accordance with his

lights, had accepted the part given him by the Poet of the Play He

had confided hi, scra He had trusted

himself; and in the end, a bold man, he had advanced bravely on Chaos

and the Dark After a life of war and soenius of his day, he had struck boldly the last chord on an iron

string Dear old Governor! I did not regret the million of his money I

had spent to restore his memory clean in my own mind: for after all,

it had all been in open war--that time when he unloaded a worthless

mine on his friend, Dan Emory--Helena's father, Daniel Emory, as,

at first, said to have left his family penniless; until a shrewd

lawyer in soood price a

box full of worthlessstock to some innocent victiuardian aunt I did

know of it, for the very good reason that I was both the shreyer