The Reverend McMillans lips weretightly and sadly
compressed.
So this was the end of all that wonderful
dream!
It was a lie that he had experienced a change of
heart.
He looked directly at McMillan, who, pale and dumb,
now gazed athim in return.
Oh, yes, I will, if youwill only spare me. But such
a confession once made, would it notsurely and truly lead to his conviction? That
mission life that to his mother was so wonderful, yet, to him,so dreary! Ask of God
on your knees His forgiveness and Hewill hear you. And in the faceof all his
tenderness and mercy? Let the wickedness of my heart pass andremember it
not.
And yet finally adding: But you did rise to
saveher. Oh, yes, I will, if youwill only spare me. I suppose some one ought to
telegraph her.
And unquestionably,as Mason had so shrewdly pointed
out at the trial, he might havesaved her. Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and
Hein us, because He hath given us of His spirit. Oh, yes, I will, if youwill only
spare me.
And so, finally finding courage to say to Mrs. He
had longed for so much there in Kansas City and hehad had so little. I have
confessed everything to God and to Mr. Oh, these evasive and tangled and torturesome
thoughts!
Let the wickedness of my heart pass andremember it
not. In fact even now tohimself there was much that was evasive and even insoluble
aboutit.
Did he really and truly deserve to die for this?
Cannot you as their representativeexercise the mercy that they may feel? As you must
know this is alegal proceeding.
Was that what the Reverend McMillan would decide?