won't you, Silas? Keep the men from the polls. Surrender
everything. Better to lose a vote than lose a life." She moved toward
the door, Mr. Wingate following. Laying her hand upon the knob, she
paused and faced him. "Coming events cast their shadows before," she
said. "I fear that our days of freedom are at an end in Wilmington.
Good night," and Molly Pierrepont was gone. "Poor girl, poor girl," said
Mr. Wingate, as he locked the door. "She might have been a queen, but,
like the base Judean, she threw a pearl away richer than all her tribe.

"'Of all the sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these, 'It might have been.'

"Harold Carlyle's youthful life was blighted because he could not give
up this woman who was unworthy of him. But at last repentance has come.
God forgive her."

CHAPTER VIII.

Dr. Jose.

I will read for your consideration this evening Joshua, tenth chapter,
eighth and tenth verses, which are as follows:

"And the Lord said unto Joshua, fear them not, for I have delivered them
into thine hand. There shall not a man of them stand before thee.

"And the Lord discomfited them before Israel and slew them with great
slaughter at Gibeon and chased them along the way that goeth up to
Beth-horon and smote them to Azekah and unto Makkedah."

Thus read the pastor of one of Wilmington's Presbyterian churches at the
beginning of one of the weekly prayer meetings. "Brethren," said he, "I
have chosen these two verses of Scripture this evening because my mind
is as, I believe, yours are--weighted down by the situation that
confronts the white people of this city. No doubt all of you would like
to see white man's government permanently restored, although you are
most of you averse to resorting to physical force to accomplish that
end. While most all Biblical students believe and teach that God told
Joshua to destroy these Amorites, Canaanites and Jebusites because of
their wickedness, I go further and say that they were to be destroyed
because they were the black descendants of Ham, the accursed son of
Noah. Joshua was commanded to utterly destroy them or put them under
subjection according to God's word--'Cursed be Canaan, servant of
servants shall he be.' The Jew in this instance represented Shem, the
blessed son, who was to triumph over Ham and keep him forever in
subjection. God has blackened with his curse the descendants of this
cursed son of Noah that Shem and Japheth may ever kno