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MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE
ling," the Senator said, with the trace of a smile on his white lips, "and besides— well, you are all the old man has, my little girl, and even the thought of losing you is terrifying."
Long after the girl had gone back to her rest and the dream had assumed its relative value, the thought of that still figure in the doorway haunted the man's mind. Suppose there had been a still figure there.
hard? What was brotherhood — charity — the helping hand — to blood t To the life of one's life? How dared a man live with the innocent blood of a fellow man or woman on his hands ? A life for a life! If it had been his little girl's life, what would the answer be ? He knew. And, as he knew, so must the myriad others know. So must mothers have felt when their sons were killed by some ruthless
SENATOR BRUCE WITHDRAWS HIS BILL
Suppose that it had been his daughter, shot down by that ruthless hand. What then? Would he have watched the liberating of the murderer with a sense of brotherhood then? Would he not have hungered, from the very core of his being, for the life of the man who had filched this tender life away? Would not the fact that that man lived, no matter where, no matter how, have been a daily, an hourly torture ? Viewing the question less personally, was it safe, was it justice to other helpless ones to permit the existence of a wretch so mercilessly
hand — so must men have felt when the very light of their world was quenched by some brutal outer force — so must other fathers have felt. A life for a life ! So be it !
Pandemonium reigned in the Senate the following morning when Senator Rodger Bruce withdrew his bill — Rodger Bruce, the implacable, the unalterable, the rock-firm. And, as he left the Senate that morning, crumpling his shattered arguments in his hand, he whispered grimly to himself : "A life for a life — amen to that!"