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112 [Then breaking into intense pleading]

Oh, I’d get down on my knees to you, don’t make my boy run that risk! You got to give one Evans, the last one, a chance to live in this world! And you’ll learn to love him, if you give up enough for him!

[Then with a grim smile]

Why, I even love that idiot upstairs, I’ve taken care of her so many years, lived her life for her with my life, you might say. You give your life to Sammy, then you’ll love him same as you love yourself. You’ll have to! That’s sure as death!

[She laughs a queer gentle laugh full of amused bitterness]

[With a sort of dull stupid wonderment]

And you’ve found peace?—

[Sardonically]

There’s peace in the green fields of Eden, they say! You got to die to find out!

[Then proudly]

But I can say I feel proud of having lived fair to them that gave me love and trusted in me!

[Struck—confusedly]

Yes—that’s true, isn’t it?

[Thinking strangely]

Lived fair pride  trust  play the game! who is speaking to me Gordon! oh, Gor-