THE PENALTY

By

Gouverneur Morris

Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy

1913






[Illustration: "Are you in love with me now?" he
asked wistfully]




TO MARY BALDWIN

If I should lose from my life that part of it of which you are a part,
there would be but a skeleton left. Yet if you had played a larger part
in my life I should have been so spoiled that there would be no living
with me. And I'm spoiled enough, God knows!

In the Iliad you wrote for me, and I "drawed" for us both, 'twas Hector
fixed Achilles. When I sat at your right hand and your sharp, swift