"Love lives, to seek reply.
I speak, no answer; Then I die,
To seek reincarnation."
As the cold days and long nights passed slowly by, and I cared for the stock and held down my wife's claim, the title of that story evolved in my mind, and I would repeat it until it seemed to drive me near insanity. I sought consolation in hope, and the winter days passed at last; but I continued to hope until I had grown to feel that when I saw my wife and called to her name, she would hear me and see the longing in my heart and soul; then would come the day of redemption.
CHAPTER XLIII
"AND SATAN CAME ALSO."
CAME a day when the snow had disappeared; my threshing was done; I had money again, and to Chicago I journeyed.
During the winter I had planned a way to get to see my wife, and took the first step toward carrying it out, immediately following my arrival in the city.
I went to a telephone and called up Mrs. Ewis. She recognized my voice and knew what I had come for. She said: "I am so glad I was near the phone when you called up, because your father-in-law is in the house this very minute." On hearing this I was taken aback, for it had not occurred to me that he might be in the city. As the realization that he was, became clear to me, I felt ill at ease, and asked how he came to be in the city at that time.