CHAPTER 5.
Mr.Hethcote was the first to speak again.
"I can understand the poor creature's motive in joining your Community," he said.

"To a person of any sensibility her position, among such relatives as you describe, must have been simply unendurable after what had happened.

How did she hear of Tadmor and the Socialists ?" "She had read one of our books," Amelius answered; "and she had her married sister at New York to go to.

There were moments, after her recovery (she confessed it to me frankly), when the thought of suicide was in her mind.

Her religious scruples saved her.