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"I really don't know," she presently confessed "I think it was one thousand dollars; but I was so hurried in leaving that I didn't look carefully," and the wild thought surged in her, suppose it was ed into her trunk; beneath the clothes, beneath the beauty of the Silver Fleece, till her fingers clutched and tore the envelope A little choking cry burst froed to sit down

In her fingers fluttered a check for--ten thousand dollars!

It was not until the next day that the tomen were sufficiently composed to talk matters over sanely

"What is your plan?" asked Zora

"To put the s bank at three per cent interest; to supply the rest of the interest, and the deficit in the running expenses, fro"

Zora shook her head "It won't do," she objected "I'd h, and I can't talk to rich white folks the way they expect us to talk"

"It wouldn't be hypocrisy, Zora; you would be serving in a great cause If you don't go, I--"

"Wait! You sha'n't go If any one goes it e, we get enough to run the school as it has been run Then what? There will still be slavery and oppression all around us The children will be kept in the cotton fields; the men will be cheated, and the woain rapidly: "We must have land--our own far of a free community"

Miss Smith threw up her hands iet land, with Cresswell owning every inch and bound to destroy us?"

Zora sat hugging her knees and staring out the ard the so the o; in her brain danced all the drea," shethe swamp"