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room where we can talk privately. I tell her quietly
what I intend to do. She says nothing. She does not
get excited. She maintains a perfect calm.
When I am through speaking, the whole idea has
become absurd. Not a trace of fear is in me. I laugh
at the insanity of it. We talk of other things. Strength
has come from weakness.
I cannot see the cause of this temptation now. But
I am to learn later that it began with my desire for
material success becoming greater than my interest
in the welfare of my fellow man. I learn more of
that foundation stone of character, which is honesty. I
learn that when we act upon the highest conception of
honesty that is given us, our sense of honesty be­
comes more acute.
I learn that honesty is truth and that truth shall
make us free!