father's death and showed him that the tragedy
had been the result of pride and the habit of domination, of an
unwillingness to listen to advice, or to discuss necessary matters. Her
brothers had urged that the stallion be left in the barn and that another
horse be substituted, since by its outcries and prancings it would keep
the strange horses nervous and irritable, but Mr. Farnshaw, having said in
the beginning that the animal should be used, would not listen to anything
that the family wished him to do in the matter. Mrs. Farnshaw had objected
to Jack being placed upon the horsepower, but once having started to place
him there, her husband would listen to no caution. Last but not least of
those refusals to advise with those who knew as well as he what should be
done had been the one of not heeding the cries of the men who had warned
him not to approach the vicious brute. To dominate had been the keynote of
her father's character; his death had been a fitting symbol of his
overweening desire to pursue that phantom.

After enlarging upon the causes of the tragedy, she took up the matter of
the refusal to listen to necessary explanations which had had so much to
do with her separation from her husband.

Hugh Noland's life was sacrificed because he could not go to you and
talk to you of necessary things, and I am determined that if you and
I ever come together again that neither of us shall be afraid to talk
out anything in this whole world that is of interest to us both. Hugh
and I would have been so glad to go to you and ask you to let him be
taken away, or to have asked you to help us to higher living till he
was well enough to go. I need hardly tell you that we both recognized
that it was wronging you for him to stay on in the house after we
discovered that we loved each other. Hugh planned to go, and then
came the accident, and we were helpless. At last, in order not to
defeat me when he saw that I was trying to overcome the fault in
myself, he thought it necessary to die so that I should be free. You
know, John dear, I should never try to live with you again unless I
could tell you _anything_ and know that you'd listen and be fair,
even to my love for another man. There you have me as I am. If you
don't want me, don't take me; but at least you are not deceived about
the kind of woman you are going to live with this time.

Then Elizabeth pointed out to him how he had refused to re