and the members of the legislature that elected him were
all for silver, but this last election his Wall Street friends got hold
of him and worked on his feelings, and he repudiated his party, his
state, and his constituents and came out for gold."

"Well, but surely," Arkwright objected, "that took courage? To own that
for ten years you had been wrong, and to come out for the right at the
last."

Livingstone stared and shrugged his shoulders. "It's all a question of
motives," he said indifferently. "I don't want to shatter your idol; I
only want to save you from counting too much on him."

When Arkwright called on the morrow Senator Stanton was not at home,
and the day following he was busy, and could give him only a brief
interview. There were previous engagements and other difficulties in the
way of his going which he had not foreseen, he said, and he feared he
should have to postpone his visit to Cuba indefinitely. He asked if Mr.
Arkwright would be so kind as to call again within a week; he would then
be better able to give him a definite answer.

Arkwright left the apartment with a sensation of such keen
disappointment that it turned him ill and dizzy. He felt that the great
purpose of his life was being played with and put aside. But he had not
selfish resentment on his own account; he was only the more determined
to persevere. He considered new arguments and framed new appeals; and
one moment blamed himself bitterly for having foolishly discouraged the
statesman by too vivid pictures of the horrors he might encounter, and
the next, questioned if he had not been too practical and so failed
because he had not made the terrible need of immediate help his sole
argument. Every hour wasted in delay meant, as he knew, the sacrifice
of many lives, and there were other, more sordid and more practical,
reasons for speedy action. For his supply of money was running low and
there was now barely enough remaining to carry him through the month of
travel he had planned to take at Stanton's side. What would happen to
him when that momentous trip was over was of no consequence. He would
have done the work as far as his small share in it lay, he would have
set in motion a great power that was to move Congress and the people of
the United States to action. If he could but do that, what became of him
counted for nothing.

But at the end of the week his fears and misgivings were scattered
gloriously and a single line from the