In my slumber I told the story of my secret marriage in such circumstantial detail that it impressed him as being true.

Feeling that he could hold me with that, he spared my life, determined to wound me deeper than death if I struck at him.
"You see that he is a cowardly villain; but we sometimes have to use such.
"Now, my son, go forth; labor hard and climb high.

Scale the high wall of prejudice.

Make it possible, dear boy, for me to own you ere I pass out of life.

Let your mother have the veil of slander torn from her pure form ere she closes her eyes on earth forever." Bernard, handsome, brilliant, eloquent, the grandson of a governor, the son of a senator, a man of wealth, to whom defeat was a word unknown, steps out to battle for the freedom of his race; urged to put his whole soul into the fight because of his own burning desire for glory, and because out of the gloom of night he heard his grief stricken parents bidding him to climb where the cruel world would be compelled to give its sanction to the union that produced such a man as he.
Bernard's training was over.