"Let me go home with you!"
He looked at her, hesitated and then slowly tore the legal document to pieces, threw it in the fire and nodded his consent.
But this time his act was not surrender. He had heard the call of his people and his country. It was the first step toward the execution of a new life purpose that had suddenly flamed in the depths of his darkened soul as he watched the picture of the olive cheek of the woman against the clear white of his child's.
Book Two—Atonement
CHAPTER I
THE NEW LIFE PURPOSE
Norton had been compelled to wait twenty years for the hour when he could strike the first decisive blow in the execution of his new life purpose.