make that as my sole dying request of you. One long
sweet clinging kiss ere I drop into the ocean of death to be
lost in its tossing waves.

"Viola."

"BELOVED PAPA:--

"Your little daughter is gone. Her heart, though torn,
bleeding, dead, gave, as it were, an after throb of pain as it
thought of you. In life you never denied me a request. I have
one to make from my grave, knowing that you will not deny me.
Love Bernard as your son; draw him to you, so that, when in
your old age you go tottering to your tomb in quest of me, you
may have a son to bear you up. Take my lifeless body on your
knee and kiss me as you did of old. It will help me to rest
sweetly in my grave.

"Your little Vie."

"DEAR BERNARD:--

"Viola has loved and left you. Unto you, above all others, I
owe a full explanation of the deed which I have committed; and
I shall therefore lay bare my heart to you. My father was a
colonel in the Civil War and when I was very young he would
make my little heart thrill with patriotic fervor as he told
me of the deeds of daring of the gallant Negro soldiers. As
a result, when nothing but a tiny girl, I determined to be a
heroine and find some outlet for my patriotic feeling. This
became a consuming passion. In 18-- just two years prior to
my meeting you, a book entitled, 'White Supremacy and
Negro Subordination,' by the merest accident came into my
possession. That book made a revelation to me of a most
startling nature.

"While I lived I could not tell you what I am about to tell
you. Death has brought me the privilege. That book proved to
me that the intermingling of the races in sexual relationship
was sapping the vitality of the Negro race and, in fact, was
slowly but surely exterminating the race. It demonstrated that
the fourth generation of the children born of intermarrying
mulattoes were invariably sterile or woefully lacking in vital
force. It asserted that only in the most rare instances were
children born of this fourth generation and in no case did
such children reach maturity. This is a startling revelation.
While this intermingling was impairing the vital force of our
race and exterminating it, it was having no such effect on the
white race for the following reason. Every half-breed, or for
that, every person having a tin