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j LIKE OTHER MEN
Dy Frederic Van Rensselaer I>ey,
;* Author of “The Brotherhood of Silence," “The
Quality of a Bin,” Etc.
Copyright, 1801. by Frederic Vau Rensselaer Dey.
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CHAPTER XII.
"hb made me live a lie.”
f"wpT"*Oß a moment Erna was stTTpe-
I J I tied by the outburst of pas
"Ji sion from I.isle. She had be
-1L2.3J nun to think that her new
friend would accept the change In her
destiny as a matter of course and that
in fact she was seeretely glad that
fate had created her u woman. The
repressed passion which I.isle had suf
fered without manifesting any sign
was a phase of character entirely for
eign to her understanding. All her j
life Erna had without restraint ex- ;
pressed every emotion that possessed
her, and she could not comprehend a
nature which concealed the Impulses of
the heart until they were swollen to
such an extent that they burst all
bounds and swept everything before
them. Just us a raging torrent, held iu
check for years, at last demolishes the
solid wall of masonry which holds it i
and rushes downward to engulf and
destroy everything that lies in its path.
Slit 1 did not know that Llsle's calmness
in view of the discovery made was the
result of pride of will, which dominated
her every act. She could hot under
stand a woman who could endure with
calmness agony that was consuming
hef like tire within, and instead of as
sisting Lisle, as she had beeu requested
to do. she stood with clasped hands,
parted lips and bated breath, terror
stricken by the revelation of a depth
of pqssion which slit* l.ad not believed
existed.
Not until Lisle had torn the “instru
ments of torture" apart and dung them
savagely to the far end of the room
did she regain her composure; then,
using much better Judgment than
. would have been expected of her. she
sprang to the assistance of lief friend,
but without offering any protest |
against what she had said and. better
still, without venturing to give advice
at a moment when It could neither be
appreciated nor followed.
Lisle kept silence also while being di
vested of the costume In which Etna,
had dressed her. Not until she had
resumed the masculine attire, the one
laid out for Erna and not the one pre- j
viously worn, did she utter a word,
but the struggle was raging within her
with the same savage fury with which
It had announced Itself, and Erna.
watching her furtively, became mote
aud more dismayed.
When Lisle was fully dressed In the
garments to which she was accustom
ed, she walked to the window and with
her back turned toward the room said
quietly:
“Dress yourself, Erna. as you were
last night. While you are busy 1 will
think. Do not speak to me, please, un
til you are dressed."
Erna hastened to obey. Lisle's de
meanor awed her into silence. Site i
felt instinctively that site was in tlie
presence of a character which dominat
ed everything Site was. without being
sensible of it. afraid, and she worked
in silence, rapidly.
“1 uni ready. Lisle.” she said at last,
but the girl at the window did not hear,
aud she approached timidly and touch- j
ed her upon one shoulder.
“I am ready. I.isle." site repeated, al
most fearing that the words would call ;
forth another tirade of passlouate an
ger, but i.isle turned calmly, and there j
was a pathetic smile upou her Ups
when she spoke.
“Forgive me. Erua. for giving way
as I did a few moments ago. 1 will en
deavor not to repeat the offense. Such
evidences of weakness cannot benefit
me. aud certainly you are not to blame. 1
The only person who is responsible
for this moment lies dead In another
room, aud my vengeance cannot reach
him. I am calm now and cold, too, as
cold as death, and. 1 think, as unfor
giving. You do ■ not understand me.
Nobody does; nobody ever can, 1 fear.
If I am revengeful, it Is because I in
herit it and because I have been taught
to be so ever since 1 can remember, if
I hate and despise the memory of that
dead man who taught me to call him
father, as he taught me to believe my
self to be a man, the sin rests upon his
soul, uot upon mine or yours. If l
am unreasonable in my anger and re
bellion against something that I can
not help or avoid, it is because that in
sane man wronged me so. not because
you discovered aud revealed the truth.
The truth 1 am glad u> know, i am
angry only because it has beeu denied
to me all these years Can a human
being commit a greater sin than to
seize upou aud defy a law of AJaiigbty
God aud with his puny strength dare to
make the effort to alter itV 1 think
not. Just heaven! Cannot you. my
friend, imagine something of the horror
of the position lam In 7 1 realize the
danger which surrounds me without
knowing what it is 1 know that there
are bottomless pitfalls iu my path, but
J cannot locate them or recognize them
when I see them. 1 know that there is
something left for me to do. but 1 have
no means of knowing what that duty
Is, for that despicable dead man. while
he lived, was far too cunning to have
left behind him evidence which will di
rect me. Think how he fooled me!
Think how tie has misled me'. Think
of the lie that he lived and compelled
me to live? Where shall 1 find truth
in his career? And. ( f 1 find it how
shall L recognize it? Do you wonder
that I am beside myself ? Do you won
der that 1 fear to speak lest 1 will
shriek aloud with a rage thut is ns im
potent as a particle of dust in a whirl
wind? Tell me, Erna, who besides your
self Is aware of this secret that we
share?"
"Nobody, Lisle," gasped Erna.
“Does not your father know?"
"Nobody knows but me.” She told
the falsehood tremblingly, but with de
cision. for she already stood in more
awe of this strange woman than she
feared the consequences of a harmless
41e.
"Ism glad of that.” commented
Lisle, and Erna breathed a sigh c f re
lief for tlie lie that she had told and In
recollection of the fact that she had al
ready warned her father that he was
not to appear to know the truth until
informed thut he could do so. She had
attended to that when she ran to him
just before Lisle went out with her to
the grove of pines. “I am very glad of
It. I will tell him the truth myself aft
or a little, when 1 have become calm
er.”
"Calmer? You ure calm now. Lisle,
frightfully calm!" exclaimed Erna.
“True; I amt frightfully calm. That
exactly expresses it. tt is the ealtp
ness of despair, of rage.'of of
a torrent of water. mlghtlLT deep,
which runs smoothly upon fbe surface,
but which is carrying the uni verse
along with it in Its silent depths. That
Is the calmness, that I feel.’ Do you
think tiiiit your-faylitr wiiredia'sdtJt to
remain boro with pie for u few days?"
“lie shall do so whether he consents
or not. I*ll make him do it!” Theft,
noticing the expression 1 of wrth'der that
came Into Lisle’s iAvs, she added: “Of
course lie will consent. lie never re
fuses me anything, and id this ease 1
think he will propose it. anyway.”
“1 win bo very grateful. Tomorrow
or the day after I must tell him what I
am. 1 must beseech him to advise me.
and”— .. (
“I know what you must do. You
must leave this ranch and all that con
cerns it in the care of your men and
return to Kansas City with me. There
In my home”—
Lisle raised one hand in protest.
“It Is kind.” she said, “but It cannot
be so at present. 1 have much to learn
before I will consent to face the world.
You forget the long years of training
that must be overcome before I can
hope to acquire the rudiments of the
new life that 1 must live. Already I
know much that you have uot told me.
The life that 1 must begin is entirely
different from the life that 1 leave be
hind me when I assume the garb that
you wear and appear before the world
for what I really am—a woman. God.
how I hate iti What would happen if
i should go with you now? I would
discover insults in compliments; 1
would mistake deliberate offenses for
favors. Ever since 1 was old enough
to hold a pistol in my hand I have been
taught to resent affronts with buliets.
Would you have me murder your best
friends? No; my place is here until 1
can go elsewhere with the freedom
that knowledge alone can impart. 1
am neither one thing nor the other
now. lam neither man nor woman. 1
am a monstrosity—a freak—n thing!
Here you respect me; there you would
despise me. I! re I am master; there,
I would be—nothing! Here, for awhile
at least. 1 can still be a man: there—
faugh! Let us go to your father. Then,
when 1 have talked with him, l will
ride out to meet Craig Thompson.”
Mr. Thomas walked out upou the
veranda with Lisle at her request.
I “Everything has been attended to, or
is being done. Lisle,” he said, adopting
the given name in preference to using
a pronoun which he did not know how
! to select. “Your men—that is. those
who have not been sent out on errands—
have proved themselves extremely ef
ficient In every way, and iu an hour”—
“I thank you. sir. 1 do not care for
the details. It is very kind of you to
oversee everything. Perhaps later 1
I will know better bow to express my
appreciation. .Just now”—
“Not a word! Not a word. Lisle.
I Why, l feel already ns if 1 had known
you always. I’ll go ahead just as
though I had. ninl now, if you will take
! my advice, you will get on your horse
ami go for a good ride. It will do you
good—lots of it! Take the word of
Thomas O. Thomas for that.”
CHAPTER XIII.
"don’t go back on the dead man!”
VnilAIG THOMPSON, with the
; bridle of a led horse in his
grasp aud with three men
iT similarly provided accompa
nying him. was riding with all speed
toward Maxwell's ranch. Already half
the distance of 30 miles had been cov
ered, and already he had changed
horses twice, urging them to their ut
most effort, impatient, silent, dogged.
Before him. not half a mile away, was
a rise of ground, more lofty than the
others, and-as he spurred his animal to
ward it a horseman 4 emerged from the
blank beyond aud halted upon its crest,
silhouetted .against the sky. Even at
that distance ‘Craig recognized the rid
er, and. rising in his sUrrups, he waved
his hat iu greeting. The salutation was
returned. The half mile which sepa
rated the men was quickly traveled,
and the galloping party came to a halt.
“Ride on ahead, boys,” ordered Craig,
addressing his companions. “I'll trail
along behind with the kid. We'll get I
there soon enough. ! reckon, since Lisle
is out here to meet us. Is It true. Lisle,
that Tom Thomas and his girl are
there?”
“Yes. They are at the house.”
“That's all right. You skip along. 1
boys, and don’t mind us. W'eTl Jog j
along at a slower pace. Ix>rd. kid. but I
fl was lucky that I was home. I hadn't !
been there more’n an hour either when
Pete roii* up with the news. No foul
play, was there. Lisle?”
“No.”
“Just turned up his toes without a
Word, eh? Broke your heart, too. eh?
may be of the sort that he can’t ex
plain. hut there’s one thing that is dead j
certain, and tlidt Is that every son and !
every daughter in the world lias got
a cxedlt as well as a debit account in !
tlii&unes of the old and any
body who won't study both sides of the ;
ledger before making out the balance
sheet ain’t tit to be mentioned In polite
society, and. Lisle, the only really po
lite society In the world is the one
that's made up of honest people.”
I Isle reached out one band and rett
ed It upon the arm of liei friend.
"You ere fight. Craig,” she said.
“There Is no need for me to think 1*
over. You have done that for me in the
few word* that you have uttergd. Be
fore you leave me. however, there is
oue question which i must ask you.”
“What Is It. kid?"
"Do you despise me tiecause I am a
woman? Tell me truly-do you despise
me ?”
“Lisle, the man never lived who
honestly despised women as a class.
Here and there one man may have
despised and Bated one woman or two
or a dozen - hut all of 'em? Not much!
'Taltt’t natural, and God Almighty nev
er made one of us that way.”
"My father did.”
“Not on your life. Lisle. The best
proof that you are wrong Is the fact
that he hid himself away from ’em all
the way he did. lie did lhat because
he laved ’em so that he didn’t dare to
go where they were for fear that his
pride, would give in to- hU'fuan nature.
It's more than likely'that one woman
has deceived him Somehow, and be got
on Ills car. just as you have done at 4
him. There wasn’t any old critter like
Craig Thompson around to tell him the
difference ’tween tweedledum and
tweedledee. Yon just make out that
balance slicet aud look it oyer, and if
you don’t find more to your'dad’s credit
than you’ve got ag’in him I’ll eat it.”
“But you have not replied to my
question. Craig.”
“Ain’t 1? Well. I'll answer It now.
It don’t make no difference to me or to
any other man whether a human crit
ter’s a man or a woman. It's the crit
ter. not the sex. that we look at. No
body will ever be despised by any
body If he or she Is honest and true.
Those are the biggest words In the dic
tionary of human conduct, ’cause they
mean the most. As for my despising
you because you're a woman, the idea
is Infernal rot. When I despise a per
son. that person’s pretty apt to know
It 'thout asking questions on the sub
ject. Look here. Lisle: 1 wasn’t in
-1 tending to talk any more to you till
after I had a chance to turn things
over in my mind, but I'll say this:
You're facing a situation that looks a j
heap sight bigger to you than it does
or ever will to anybody else. You have
found out that you are a woman with
out knowing what a woman is. and
you sorter feel as if you was walking
round arm in arm with your own ghost.
You’ve met a stranger that you can’t
git away from for the rest of your life.
Y'ou've got to get acquainted, and the
sooner you get on familiar terms with
yourself the better for all concerned.
If you had been picked up and carried
away and suddenly put down again on
another planet, you couldn’t have been
In a much worse fix than you are now.
but 1 reckon you’d find the inhabitants
of the other place sort of decent, and
you’ll find ’em so here. I think that
between Tom Thomas. Erna and me
we can set you on the right road all
right, hut you've got to remember that
you can’t jump on to your boss and
ride from here to my ranch in half an
hour If you do it in three, you’re rid
ing mighty fast, and you know it. So
you see you can’t expect to know every
thing that concerns tills transformation
of yours in a holy minute. It uiu’t the
future that’s puzzling me: it's the pres
ent. I'll have a talk with Tom and bis
daughter, and bimeby we’ll look over
Dick's papers and things. The domi
nie’ll he here about sundown, and we’ll
have the funeral and plant your guv’-
nor in the morniug.and tomorrow night
after the rest have gone to bed you and
me and maybe Tom will sit down in
the library and talk it over. In the
meantime I’ll be doing some think
ing. and you can tote Erna around the
place and show her things and talk.
Tom and I will manage everything.
You jest leave that to us. You keep
v '— n
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"You arc right." said Lisle.
your head up and be n man yet awhile.
Don't let anybody see that things are
any different, and for the rest put your
elbow on Craig Thompson's shoulder
and lean there, and. lastly, don’t go
back on the dead man.”
lie turned away abruptly and left
Lisle alone, for they had brought their
horses to a halt close beside the corral.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
THROUGHOUT
. THEfiOIINTY.
CASS STATION.
Mr. C. F. Posey, of Atlanta, re
turned last week, after spending
several days at home.
Miss Dixie Lee Hargis returned
recently from Chattanooga, after
spending the holidays with rela
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The Misses Hall and the Misses
Collins, of your city, visited the
Misses Vernon last week, accom
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Robert Shatzev.
Mrs. Harry Griffin and mother,
Mrs. j. F. liargis, of Kingston,
visited relatives at Cass last week
The friends of Mrs. R, Chap
man are sorry to learn of her sick
ness
We are glad to report Mrs. Posey
as much improved, after being sick
tor several weeks. We hope she
may soon recover and be in her us
ual health again.
Mr. W. R. Hargis, of Atlanta,
was up to see his best girl Sunday,
near Cassville Will seems very
much devoted to old Bartow.
Messrs. Tom and Will Gaines
were up to see home folks Satur
day.
Mr. TANARUS! ornas Pasco, Jr., is much
better, after having Gwen sick for
several weeks.
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I. TANARUS., by seven masked men. The
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