carefully treasured, chapter by chapter, as her heart had thus
overflowed. "I am now," she said, "financially free, where I could
write my deepest and best thought for woman, and now I must die. O,
how much of my life I have been compelled to write what men would
buy, not what my heart most longed to say, and what a clog to my
spirit it has been."

As she sat there, reading from those chapters, her sweet face, her
lustrous eyes, her musical voice all aglow as with a live coal from
off the altar, I said: "Alice, I must have that story for The
Revolution!" "But I may never be able to finish it," she objected.
"We'll trust to Providence for that," I replied; and the last five
months of The Revolution carried The Born Thrall to thousands of
responsive hearts. But, alas, nature gave way and she was never
well enough to put the finishing touches to those terribly
true-to-life pictures of the pioneer wife and mother.

The poetry for The Revolution was selected by Mrs. Tilton, who had rare
literary taste and discrimination. The exquisite child articles,
entitled "Dot and I" and signed Faith Rochester, were written by
Francis E. Russell. It had a corps of foreign correspondents, among
them the English philanthropist, Rebecca Moore. The distinguished list
of contributors and the broad scope of The Revolution may be judged
from its prospectus for 1870.[55] The chances of its paying expenses,
however, did not increase, and the hoped-for stock company never was
formed. Mr. Pillsbury had been most anxious for the past year to be
released from his editorial duties, and had remained only because he
could not bear to desert the paper in its distress. Mrs. Stanton,
engaged in the lecture field, had sent only an occasional article, and
now declined to continue her services longer without a salary. One
person who stood by Miss Anthony unflinchingly through all this trying
period was the publisher, R.J. Johnston, who never once failed in
prompt and efficient service, and gave the most conscientious care to
the make-up of the paper. Although her indebtedness to him finally
reached the thousands, he remained faithful up to the printing of the
very last number, and his was the first debt she paid out of the
proceeds of her lyceum lectures.

When Mrs. Phelps had opened the Woman's Bureau and invited The
Revolution to take an office therein, Miss Anthony had warned her that
it might ke