In doing thus you
have always boldly risked your life, often at such fearful odds that
men have trembled at their firesides to hear of it. And even women,
while deploring your crimes, have admired your courage."
"I thank 'em kindly for it! Women always like men with a spice of
the devil in them!" laughed the outlaw.
"No, they do not!" said Capitola, gravely. "They like men of
strength, courage and spirit--but those qualities do not come from
the Evil One, but from the Lord, who is the giver of all good. Your
Creator, Donald, gave you the strength, courage and spirit that all
men and women so much admire; but He did not give you these great
powers that you might use them in the service of his enemy, the
devil!"
"I declare there is really something in that! I never thought of
that before."
"Nor ever thought, perhaps, that however misguided you may have
been, there is really something great and good in yourself that
might yet be used for the good of man and the glory of God!" said
Capitola, solemnly.
"Ha, ha, ha! Oh, you flatterer! Come, have you done? I tell you it
is after one o'clock, and I am tired to death!"
"Donald, in all your former acts of lawlessness your antagonists
were strong men; and as you boldly risked your life in your
depredations, your acts, though bad, were not base! But now your
antagonist is a feeble girl, who has been unfortunate from her very
birth; to destroy her would be an act of baseness to which you never
yet descended.
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