on that seemed to prevail in some
quarters that the solution of the problem mainly hinged upon giving
industrial training to the Negro masses.

"That," said he to himself, "will solve a large part of the Negro's side
of the problem, but how great an army of carpenters can hammer the
spirit of repression out of those who hold that the eternal repression
of the Negro is the nation's only safeguard? What worker in iron can
fashion a key that will open the door to that world of higher
activities, the world of moral and spiritual forces which alone
woos Eunice's spirit and mine? What welder of steel can beat into
one the discordant soul forces of willing Negroes and unwilling whites,
the really pivotal point of the problem? Really pressing is the need of
industrial training for our people, but my peculiar case calls for
something that must come from Lincoln the emancipator rather than from
Lincoln the rail-splitter."

Earl next thought of Ensal's proposed campaign of education which had
been vigorously carried on by Tiara and he said: "It is one thing to
produce a Niagara and another thing to harness it. O for a means of
harnessing all the righteous sentiment in America in favor of the ideals
of the Constitution." Thus, on and on Earl soliloquized, groping for the
light.

He stretched out upon the sofa and sought to refresh his tired brain
with a few moments of sleep, but sleep refused to visit him. Suddenly he
leaped from the sofa and said:

"I have it! I have it! Eunice shall be free."

He now began to make hurried preparations for a trip South. While he is
thus engaged we shall divulge to the reader the process of reasoning
that at last led him to what he conceived to be daylight.

"Two things must be done," argued Earl within himself. "Repression in
the South must die and men with broader visions in that section must
take charge of affairs. This is an age of freedom and an age of local
self-government. Freedom must obtain in the South, and largely through
some agency found or developed therein. The most effective way of
killing repression is to make it kill itself and out of the soil
nurtured by its carcass will spring a just order of things.

"I will lure repression to its death and then find my force within the
South that will lead the South into nobler ways."

Understanding this much of Earl's new plan we are now prepared to follow
him and intelligently watch developments.

The scene now shifts from the Nor