one who had gone. Under the fir-trees around her open grave I obeyed
"Aunt Susan's" wish that I should utter the last words spoken over her
body as she was laid to rest:

"Dear friend," I said, "thou hast tarried with us long. Now thou hast
gone to thy well-earned rest. We beseech the Infinite Spirit Who has
upheld thee to make us worthy to follow in thy steps and to carry on thy
work. Hail and farewell."

XI. THE WIDENING SUFFRAGE STREAM

In my chapters on Miss Anthony I bridged the twenty years between 1886
and 1906, omitting many of the stirring suffrage events of that
long period, in my desire to concentrate on those which most vitally
concerned her. I must now retrace my steps along the widening suffrage
stream and describe, consecutively at least, and as fully as these
incomplete reminiscences will permit, other incidents that occurred on
its banks.

Of these the most important was the union in 1889 of the two great
suffrage societies--the American Association, of which Lucy Stone was
the president, and the National Association, headed by Susan B. Anthony
and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. At a convention held in Washington
these societies were merged as The National American Woman Suffrage
Association--the name our association still bears--and Mrs. Stanton was
elected president. She was then nearly eighty and past active work, but
she made a wonderful presiding officer at our subsequent meetings, and
she was as picturesque as she was efficient.

Miss Anthony, who had an immense admiration for her and a great personal
pride in her, always escorted her to the capital, and, having worked
her utmost to make the meeting a success, invariably gave Mrs. Stanton
credit for all that was accomplished. She often said that Mrs. Stanton
was the brains of the new association, while she herself was merely its
hands and feet; but in truth the two women worked marvelously together,
for Mrs. Stanton was a master of words and could write and speak to
perfection of the things Susan B. Anthony saw and felt but could not
herself express. Usually Miss Anthony went to Mrs. Stanton's house and
took charge of it while she stimulated the venerable president to the
writing of her annual address. Then, at the subsequent convention, she
would listen to the report with as much delight and pleasure as if each
word of it had been new to her. Even after Mrs. Stanton's resignation
from the presidency--at the end, I think, of three years--and M