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Katie had not seen him since the night he had forced her to have Parnell dine with them and she stiffened a little as he offered his mocking congratulations and then suavely suggested that Parnell appoint him as the new chief secretary. He smiled even as Parnell angrily refused, but neither he nor Katie smiled as the door closed after him as last. For even that smile was a threat, and a few weeks later when they were setting out for Gladstone's" reception Katie was given a summons and as she looked at it she saw Willie was suing her for divorce and naming Parnell as co-respondent. It was the death of the thing Parnell had given his life to. Being named as corespondent in a divorce suit in Victoria's England was his political death. Willie O'Shea, the weakling, had torn down the hope Parnell the fearless had built into a certainty. Now with the leader of the Irish party in disrepute, Home Rule for Ireland was lost. There was a stormy meeting that night at Parnell's headquarters, and when he came back at last Katie was waiting for him in the drawing-room. "I want you to listen to me, Charles, and listen quietly," she said, and he saw that her hands twisted as they had that first time she had come to him. "I saw Willie tonight, and told him I am going to defend the suit. And my defense means that I can't see you again. You've got to be cleared at all costs, Charles, even at the cost of my denying you — my love for you." "Are you mad?" And for the first time something like anger against her stirred in his voice. "No, I'm sane. Horribly, agonizingly sane! I've thought this out, and this is the story. Willie and I conspired to get you here, to get you to make love to me, to fall in love with me. That it was a plot from the beginning against you." "Katie, this isn't sense !" He knew fully the thing she was offering him and the thing he was refusing. It was Ireland he was turning down in his love for her. "You can't defend this case. Isn't this what we've a'. ways wanted? Freedom for you, for us to marry?" "Not like this! It's more than your career," her hand touched his in a gesture of renunciation. "It's your destiny. You can't destroy that. Home rule might be just a phrase but I remember that old man O'Brien and what it meant to him." "Katie, this is not going to happen !" He took her by the shoulder and he was hurting her, but neither was aware of it. "We shall not defend the case. For better or worse this thing has happened and in any case it means a fight. You know I've never been afraid of that — I shan't be with you beside me. But without you, there'd be no heart in me to go on. And I shan't lose. The party will stand by me. They've never failed me yet. I've given my whole life to them. And all I'm asking for myself is you." "I'm afraid," she whispered, and even when he came to her and his arms were around her she whispered the words again against his cheek. "Oh, Charles, I'm so afraid!" So it was the O'Shea divorce case went undefended, and so it was when Willie's divorce was granted and Parnell's name had become something for men and women alike to jeer and mock at that Gladstone's letter, came demanding his resignation. Katie went to him, and it was hard to go through the ante-room to his office, to walk past the hatred in the eyes of his men as they looked at her, to see that now they no longer looked upon him as a god but as someone more human than they. He had changed since she last saw him, looked older and more tired, and pain had written new lines in his face; and then as she hesitated on the threshold he was smiling again and drawing her into his office and closing the door behind them. "Do you hate me terribly for doing this to you?" she asked. "Hate you?" Even now the old exultation came back into his voice. "From the first moment I saw you I knew I loved you. I knew that we must be together always, in this world or any world to come." "You can still say that!" she whispered. "I shall always say it. And now you must go. There's to be a meeting. I may be late, but however late it is I'll come to you tonight." So he stayed to face the men who had made a god of him and who could not forgive him now that he had proven himself a man. His voice that had moved them so often failed now as they turned against him. Home rule was not lost, he told them, and he begged them to follow him where before he had commanded; but now for the first time no one answered him. Afterwards he collapsed, and when the doctor came Parnell read the truth in his face. It was over then, life and love, over and done with. Once he would have been glad to have it like this, to go when his work was finished, but then he had not met Katie. He went to her as he had promised, and when she saw him there was no need to tell her the thing she saw already in his eyes. And this time it was on her arm that he leant and her young strength that supported him as they went into the house. "This room, a fire, and you !" he sighed as he lowered himself into the armchair. "I've thought of it the whole way down. I'd have come across the world to you tonight. Sit beside me, Katie. Let me hold you. Oh. it's good to have you here against my heart, where you belong!" It was afterwards, after she had gotten him into the great bed upstairs, that the crowd gathered outside the house and the man on the bed smiled as he heard his name shouted as it had been shouted before in love and awe. For already the news that he was dying had been whispered about the city and it was as if in dying he had come "to greater life again. "Katie," his hand reached out for her. "There's something we've got to talk about. Our marriage. We're going to be married. 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