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Zora was looking on her world with the keener vision of one who, blind froain ider clearer vision Out of a nebulous cloudland she seee confusion, but where one thing stood steadfast, and that was love When love was shaken all things moved, but now, at last, for the first tihty world that stood behind that old and shaken dream

So she looked on the world about her with new eyes These men and women of her childhood had hitherto walked by her like shadows; today they lived for her in flesh and blood She saw hundreds and thousands of black men and woh and clear a light Sarah Smith, for thirty years and ht had not si beacons here and there in these dull souls

There were thoughts and vague stirrings of unrest in thisabout their firesides, and here Zora began to sit and listen, often speaking a word herself All through the countryside she flitted, till gradually the black folk came to know her and, in silent deference to soave her the title of white folk, calling her "Miss" Zora

Today, anized power in thisand testing, when voices arrested her

It was a desolate bit of the Cresswell manor, a tiny cabin, new-boarded and bare, in front of it a blazing bonfire A whiteinto the flames different household articles--a feather bed, a bedstead, two rickety chairs A young, boyish fellow, golden-faced and curly, stood with clenched fists, while a wo to him The white man raised a cradle to dash it into the flames; the woly But Zora's hand was on his shoulder

"What's theus out," he ely "Millie's been sick since the last baby died, and I had to neglect my crop to tend her and the other little ones--I didn't s to n a contract and be a slave But by--"

"There, Rob, let Millie coet land to rent and arrange somehow"