She may lead me into the wilderness, yet I must follow her; she may strip me of all love, yet I must pursue her; though she slay me, yet will I trust in her; and I ask no other epitaph on my tomb but "'SHE TRIED TO FOLLOW TRUTH.'" Meanwhile, with this new controversy on my hands, the School Board work went on, rendered possible, I ought to say, by the generous assistance of friends unknown to me, who sent me, L150 a year during the last year and a half.

So also went on the vigorous Socialist work, and the continual championship of struggling labour movements, prominent here being the organisation of the South London fur-pullers into a union, and the aiding of the movement for shortening the hours of tram and 'bus men, the meetings for which had to be held after midnight.

The feeding and clothing of children also occupied much time and attention, for the little ones in my district were, thousands of them, desperately poor.

My studies I pursued as best I could, reading in railway carriages, tramcars, omnibuses, and stealing hours for listening to H.P.B.by shortening the nights.
In October, Mr.Bradlaugh's shaken strength received its death-blow, though he was to live yet another fifteen months.

He collapsed suddenly under a most severe attack of congestion and lay in imminent peril, devotedly nursed by his only remaining child, Mrs.Bonner, his elder daughter having died the preceding autumn.