Out of the Past — page 144: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Out of the Past. I4I “T mean that I welcome the revolution—I shall work for it.” “You, of all men—priest—philanthropist—lover of men !” “It is because I love them. Do you grudge an arm on the clinique table if it mean life?” “But a revolution. My God!” said Robert, slowly, breathlessly. The priest did not hear. With knitted brows he looked over the restless sea, and then, as though in an- swer to some insistent doubt, he exclaimed uneasily: “Tt cannot be so bad as it was in other days. They know more. My children know more. The Republic has done much for them. In God’s hand—it is in His hand. He may dispel the storm at its very bursting. He b may show the people a better way.” For a moment he dropped his head in dejection. Then, clearing his face of its anxiety, Benedict turned to Robert unexpectedly: “And your news from Paris. A man does not take the midnight train on slight provocation. It must be a friend or——” “An enemy,” finished Robert. “It is the latter, a nasty business, and I cannot see whose hand it 1s.” After a momentary silence, Benedict impatiently exclaimed: “Well ?” COUNICLOOOKS.: