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CHAPTER VI.
With a curious zeal in contributing
as much as might bo to her own dis
comfort, Edith Ellery for the next few
days shut herself persistently indoors,
devoting herself to certain mending of
Nelsine's, long laid upon the shelf for
its especial disagreeableness. She was
acutely miserable, her sensibilities seem
ing compacted of nerves all a-quiver
with auger and chagrin. To her morbid
imagination now the glance of invita
tion she had directed at Paul Brown on
the night of the dance had become dis
torted to a gesture which all the world
might have understood. She could fancy
those simple women, so starved for gos
sip, snatching at the episode as a god
send. She pictured them together, wag
ging their virtuous heads over her in
\ discretion—hers—when but the other
day she must have laughed at the idea
of any indis-rvtion being imputed to
her. SI: • hated Paul Brown with a
fierce vindictive anger, that interest in
him should have betrayed her to such a
step—in him, Artalissa’s lover! And
therein lay the most poignant sting of
all—that she should have seemed even
for a moment to pose as the rival of that
dark faced girl who served in her broth
er's kitchen. With an ingenuity of tor
ture, possible only to a woman with
nerves wholly unstrung, she even fan
cies! him comparing them in his mind,
holding them up side by side while he
nnilcel Tn masculine vanity, pluming
himself with the fancy that his conquest
\ had extended from kitchen to parlor.
But in truth Paul Brown had never
been in a more unsmiling mood. lie
could not but see in the chill repellenco
of Miss Ellery's manner, wffen they
chanced to meet, that he was hopelessly
. out of favor, and he interpreted it all to
mean that she had repented her impul
sive kindness of the other Sunday and
would relegate him to his proper place.
In particular he fancied that Ker purpose
might be to punish him for that auda
cious glance at parting which his heart
teats quickened even now to remember.
He grimly told himself that he had
fittingly rounded out a career of wasted
effort by his senseless infatuation for a
woman as far removed from him in ac
tual fact as if she had belonged to an
other planet. If ho had racked his brain
to discover the most irrational thing
. left him to do, it seemed to him notv it
could have been only this, and yet it had
’come about so without any smallest vo
lition on his part that he felt he should
rail at fate rather than at himself. She
was the first woman of her class, of his
own class, as he liked to remember, that
ho had chanced to meet in friendly inti
macy since his old home had been left
behind. There was that in her pronun
ciation of certain words—little tricks of
New England speech—in the dainty re
finement of her manner, even in the per
fume which subtly emanated from her
garments, which spoke to him bT'T.is
past as nothing had done in all the long
years of his frontier life. He was always
longing to be speaking to her, simply to
hear her answering voice. He delighted
to see her eyes deepen and darken as she
talked, to watch for the smile which
was really her greatest charm. Ho would
have been indignantly amazed had any
body suggested that she was only an or
dinarily pretty girl, with a distinct
sprinkle of freckles across her nose, as
was, in truth, the case. To him her
beauty was beyond question, and he
simply marveled that the other boys on
the place could Lo satisfied with saying
i so little about it. The fact that his own
tongue was tied by excess of feeling fill
ed him with duii'.b longing always to be
hearing others speak of her. He could
almost have pinned sonnets to the trees
for the joy of seeing her praises in ac
tual words.
But now for one mad moment he had !
forfeited all her favor, as it seemed, and !
I his heart was sore within him. He
I scarce had guessed himself the message j
i his eager eyes were telling until he
caught her answering glance, alarmed, i
imploring, with a certain sweet help- |
lessness that had somehow thrilled him i
1 with unreasoning exultation even while
it stirred all the chivalry of his nature
to repent his precipitancy. With all
their frightened forbidding there had
been no anger in her eyes that day, ho
reflected, arguing in savage protest
within himself that, for very consisten
cy’s sake, she might have been kinder
now.
Man learns with ill grace the lessons
of pain, and no one can be so ruthlessly
cruel as he whose sensibilities are blunt
ed by the egotism of his own suffering.
Paul Brown, never so ill humored in
his life as now, instinctively turned
upon Jim Kittery as a scapegoat at hand
for the venting of his spleen. He could
even find a sort of grim amusement, al
most sufficient now and then to divert
him from his own grievance, in goading .
this fellow sufferer to the verge of mad
ness by devotion to the
willing Artalissa. Jim, with the keen ’
eyes of a lover, guessing from the first
the bent of the girl's fickle fancy, had
made a point of behaving with a sullen
rudeness toward his rival, which Paul,
too proud and too indifferent at first to i
notice, now found a certain vicious sat
isfaction in avenging. It was this, no
less than a sort of desperate ennui lead- ;
ing him to seek any kind of diversion,
which impelled him now when the fam
ily dinner hour was past, the men’s sup
per having occurred at the same time, to I
seat himself in the kitchen doorway, .
listlessly smoking, while Artalissa, in I
her own phrase, was “doing" the great
piles of greasy dishes emanating from
the dual tables of the establishment.
It was a tribute to her charms for
which the girl paid a price, for it had I
been Jim’s office to assist her in the
kitchen, a duty which, for obvious tea
sons, he had taken upon himself so will
ingly that the other boys, always de
testing “women’s work, ’’ had come to
consider themselves wholly excused.
But now in a dunge.m Jim had deserted
his post, and Artalissa found her work
fairly doubled, while too proud, if not i
too discreet, to complain to Airs. Ellery, [
knowing full well that, without em- •
barrassing explanation on her part, it ,
could be only Jim who would be deputed
again to assist her.
“If Jim Kittery was sittin round like
you are, he'd take hold and do these
dishes himself, ” she tentative ly remark
ed one evening, the blunt hint rounded
off with a coquettish laugh.
“Was that the way he used to do?”
Paul Brown returned, with entire non-
settling himself yet more com-
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“If Jim Kittery irasnittln round W:o you
are, he'd do these dishes himself.”
fortably on the doorstep. “Then I would I
better be warned by his example and ■
leave such work alone, for you don’t !
think much of Jim, you know, Artalis- i
sa. ”
“How do you know I don’t?” she ;
cried, tossing her head, wholly pleased” I
with his cool audacity. She would have i
made him wash the dishes if she might, |
but womanlike she would have admired i
him tlio less had he stooped to the work. |
“Oh, I don’t know, of course, but I
am Yankee enough to be pretty good
at guessing,” imperturbably blowing
smoke rings over his head. “Don’t you
think you ought to be rather ashamed of
yourself to snub him so cruelly? Serious
ly now, Artalissa?”
“I don’t know what you mean,” the
girl declared, darting an oblique little
glance at him from her sloe black eyes,
her strong teeth gleaming in that smile
which always seemed to light her face
with a certain glow of evil. “Some
times girls play off and treat the worst
the fellows they really like the best.”
“Do they?” he asked, with dull in
difference, as if his mind had already
wandered to other topics. He generally
left the burden of their conversation to
her, rarely troubling himself to respond
beyond the demands of mere civility,
yet Artalissa, piqued and puzzled, with I
strange perversity found herself far
more interested in this strange follower
than in any of the others who, with
mistaken assiduity, had paid her court.
Iler swift glance of impatience softened
now as she looked at him, something in
the unconscious arrogance of his strong
masculinity irresistibly swaying her sen
suous, animal nature. In the unreason
ing polity of a woman's heart the king
can do no wrong.
“I’ll have one less to wash dishes for
next week, thank fortune!” she ex- i
churned after a little. “Miss Ellery is J
going.”
Brown, occupied with cleaning the
i ashes from his pipe, said nothing for a
‘moment. “And where is she going?” he ’
i slowly asked at length, with a show of
i desultory interest.
“I d’ know’s I know, and d’ know’s
I care, ” replied the girl, with a care
less laugh. “But I know what she is ;
goin to do. I heard them jokin her |
; about it at dinner tonight. She's goin i
to be married. ”
She was decidedly disappointed that
this bit of news, to her woman’s soul
i of such vital interest, seemed to fall so !
| flat. There was absolutely no response
| from the motionless figure in the door
i way. But that "Was just his way, she |
! petulantly remarked to herself. One i
might as well talk to a stump.
“She’s goin to have a kitchen of her !
: own to try her high toned ways of doin j
in,” she resumed after a moment, with .
| rather less animation, talking merely :
for the comfort of expressing her !
thoughts aloud. “She used to be comin '
out here ’most everyday, henninround, |
offerin to make the dessert or somethin j
or ’nother, sayin that she’d been to
cookin school and lettin on that she
knew how to do it all better than any
body. But I jus’ went to Airs. Ellery
and says I, ‘I ain’t been to cookin school
so much as I've been to district school,’
says I, ‘but if my cookin ain't good
' enough for this ranch I can just go
where it is.- I ain't above bein helped
with my work,’ says I, ‘in a place
where there’s as much to do as there is
here, but I ain’t askin for cookin les- |
sons from anybody. ’ I talked right up
ito her, just like that. Airs. Ellery |
blushed and was dreadfully cut up. She |
said I was quite mistaken, Aliss Edith
—she’s always callin her Miss Edith to i
me, emphasizin the words so’s to hint
that’s what I’d ought to call her—as if
I ever would!—me, that’s an educated j
woman and as good as her any day!
That’s one reason I hate to have her
round. She puts on too— Why!” break
ing off in sharp vexation as she turned !
• about to And herself alone and wrath- I
fully strode to the door to see whither ■
the truant had strayed. “Well, if that
ain’t polite! That man makes me tired
i from head to foot with his ways. He
just naturally does, but th n”—the ex- I
tenuating afterthought cut short with a
j sigh.
Hurrying aimlessly down toward the
bridge. Brown met Air. B??ery climbing
the path, a pair of small shoes and
stockings in one hand, while with the
other he led along his reluctant first
born, the urchin picking his steps with
a whimpering care which told how lit
tle the small pink sett were hardened
to contact with mother earth. “What
do you think of a young fellow who pre
fers going barefoot to wearing good
shoes and stockings?” he called out to
Brown as they met, his eyes twinkling
j with appreciation of his practical joke
iin the line of discipline. He had too
imperfectly outgrown his own boyhood
j for entire success in the role of the stern
! parent. “A boy who never thinks of
I snakes hicUng in the gra?s t all ready to
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bite him, to pay nothing cf tfic danger
tof becoming web footed, ”
“I’m not web footed yet,” protested
ilie small sinner, wriggling his rosy toes
in anxious experiment.
“But y u are taking chances—chances
of several sorts, young man. Ask 3!r.
1 -Brown if you’re not.” Then, catching
sight of Brown’s face, he added, “But
you may run to your mamma now and
tell her what you've been doing,”
laughing softly as he watched the un
happy youngster gingerly picking his
steps over the bristling stems of newly
: mown grass. “But what is it, Brown?
i Anything in particular?”
| “I believe I ought to be getting back
to my own place, Mr. Ellery,” the
young man said, with a certain brusque
' decisiveness. “I had a letter from my
■ partner yesterday. He tells me that
i somebody has been cutting the fences
i again, and things are at loose ends gen
erally. I ought to bo there.”
“These fence cutters ought to be
strung up without quarter for all the
trouble they make,” returned Ellery
slowly, his face frankly clouded as he
thoughtfully stroked his beard. “I was
hoping that you would be hero a couple
of weeks longer at least. ”
“Why, if I could spare the time”
Brown faltered, nervously sinking his
hands to the depths of his trousers
pockets. “But it is hardly necessary,
Mr. Ellery. All the bunch wo planned
to handle this time is pretty well broken
in already, and that fellow Kittery can
finish them off. He’s a consummate ass
about some things, but all the same he
' can ride a horse better than most, and
if it wasn’t for his temper and his fool
ways he’d do well enough.”
Ellery laughed amusedly. “He ought
to thank-you for such a recommendation.
If ho had been running for the legisla
ture, you could hardly have given him
a worse send off. But there happens to
be one job I hardly like to trust to Kit
tery anyhow. How long have you been
here? Three weeks Wednesday, was it
' not? Well, this is Friday. Don’t you
, think you’d better stay till next Wednes
. day and make it even weeks?” he urged,
i with'offhand persuasiveness. “Tuesday
i is the Fourth of July, you know, and a
! few days one way or the other don’t
■ count for much.
“The fact is, there is that Lothair colt
‘ —the bay filly you were riding today,
i It is simply wonderful the way that colt
| has come to the front since she was
driven in from the field. I believe she is
going to make a perfect beauty, while
you can’t point out another on the place
i with equal promise for speed. Kittery,
with all his ‘fool ways, ’ had the sense to
j say, when you w-ere riding across the
bridge today, that the colt ought to
' fetch SSOO anywhere. Now, it has oc
curred to me, Brown, that I would par
ticularly like to send that filly to ray
sister by and by for a—er —a present. ’ ’
A wedding present. Ho might as well
I have said the word. Brown’s alert im
agination filled in the slight pause.
“Yes, ” ho assented dully, his forefinger
I straying to the collar of his flannel
I shirt, which seemed somehow too tight
for him. "Yes, there is not a better
i colt on the place. ’ ’
“And I was going to ask you to take
her particularly in hand on that ac
; count. Since you have but a few days
left,” Ellery went on, easily assuming
i that his point was made as to the time,
! “you would better begin training her to
. the sidesaddle as soon as you can. I
j would like my sister to try her if possi
ble before you go, and especially I would
like tho animal hardened to noises of
every sort so far aS you can manage it.
Heaven only knows how one of these
j western horses can ever be educated up
i to the rackets of an eastern city. ”
“I ll do the best I can, ” returned
I Brown apathetically.
i “And you’ll stop until Wednesday?”
exclaimed the other in a tone cf cordial
satisfaction, “though I’m afraid that
! •will hardly give you time enough. ”
“I’ll stay until the filly is fit to offer
Miss Ellery,” ho said, with an odd
smile. A wedding present—and he was
bidden to make it ready for her! Ah,
■ the irony of fate!
CHAPTER VII.
To please the children and somewhat
i Celebrate tho day Hugh Ellery had
’planned a bonfire for the night of tho
Fourth of July, and Nelsine, frugally
minded to get the utmost possible out of
the entertainment, had seized upon the
i occasion to invite a few of her neigh
bors to dine at an hour, which, to the
majority, would have seemed more be
fitting thoughts of bed. But Mrs. Ellery,
with characteristic unconsciousness of
’any possibility of adverse criticism on
the part of those she thought to honor,
‘ had planned her hospitality with canny
■ thought for the falling of darkness, that
i the bonfire might promptly come after
[ dessert, having all due regard to this
powerful ally to relieve the burdens of
a hostess in a company whose coin of
sociability was too generally the doubt
ful gold of clamlike silence.
And now they were all gathered on
I the steep hillside up near the barns,
! overlooking the deep worn coulee, al-
I most filled to its brim with heaped brush
and debris, from which a mighty tower
of flame rose high against the blackness
of the night. But although the dinner
had been irreproachable throughout its
many courses, with nothing to mar its
sucoets, barring a certain despairing un
certainty observable now and then on
the part of the guests in respect to the
multiplicity of forks and spoons allotted
them, and although the bonfire was all
and more than its architect had planned,
both host aud hostess were heavily op
pressed with a growing consciousness
that the occasion was something of a
failure, after all.
For, in the first place, anxious to dis-
I charge all her social obligations at once,
; Nelsine had overlooked a long standing
. coolness between the Loverings of the
Lovering-Bakcr ranch and the Camp- i
| b‘ Ils of the 233 outfit, and the bringing
of these irate ladic-s together must in it
, st if have cast a certain gloom over the I
, function. Mrs. Lovering was supported !
i by her son, a stout, sunburned young ;
f.ilow, whose round, vacuous face sug- ;
gested nothing beyond a lifelong asso- i
ciation with good beef, and a daughter, !
a sallow, giggling girl of IR, while be
hind the trio sat a widowed sister, erect ;
in a s:-my silence, grim anti unbending i
as a n>innment ire-.ted to the memory I
of her loved and Is. -t.
Mrs. Campl 11 sat alone, her hus-
■ band, as it Eu-mri from force cf habit,
keeping as t;.r from her as circum
stances allowed, but sho appeared alto
gether equal to the emergency. When j
Mrs. Ellery addressed this lady of the j
833 ranch, the Loverings, who at other
tunes never appeared moved by any- >
thing to say, always drew together with j
animated remark, as though repudiat- |
ins anv smallest suggestion that thev j
could be Euppoged t > take part in that
particular conversation, while when
I their hostess turned her attention Upon
1 them Mrs. Campbell always pointedly
addressed Edith Ellery, who, in truth,
’ found something of wicked enjoyment
in the situation. Between these two
■ fires, as it were, Mr. and Mrs. Dennison
of the I X Bar ranch hovered uncertain
-1 ly, while Hugh, with tho good humored
blindness peculiar to his sex, moved
about in herculean effort to infuse a
1 spirit of general sociability into the
company.
Another element of disturbance had
been introduced by Mr. Campbell, who,
naturally of a cautious temperament,
'■ was full of wild anxiety lest the flying
1 spark should fire the range, or, with a
change in the wind, should endanger
the barns, until Ellery, who had, in fact,
' builded rather better than ho knew, was
wholly disquieted and unhappy. A fire
in earnest tonight was not a cheerful
1 possibility to contemplate, when of all
1 the men belonging on tho place not one
was at hand save Paul Brown, all the i
’ others having begged the day off to as- ,
1 i si. t at a picnic and dance a dozen miles
1 . away.
Edith, who said sho was sure that in
some previsus state of existence she had
been a Parsee, was finding an exquisite
1 , cnj-jyment in the wild revelry cf flame.
Her breath camo quicker; her nerves
tingled with excitement as her eyes
followed the writhing red arms which,
with almost diabolical prescience, w’ero
ever reaching out higher and higher in
wider and yet wider range, unerringly
snatching at tho furthermost twigs with
ckri.-five cries and hisses of mad triumph, I
gnawing tearing and beating down the :
mighty mass, soatteiiug a sparkling
shower of burnt out husks into the
glowing abyss, each falling branch for
the in-tant a glory of flame, as though
1 the subtle touch of life passed in guise
of new beauty from its erstwhile hold
on earth.
“To might imagine ourselves ship
wrecked sailors,” she remarked to Mrs.
Campbell, who was beside her, gingerly
holding up the ends of the garment sho
called “a polonay” from contact with
possible dew, "the rest of the world
seems so far away. ’ ’
“ ’Twduld bo kinder sociable to sec
something besides the light of the moon
an stars by night now, wouldn’t it?
: Not that there’s much moon tonight.
Goodness knows, I hope it’s goin to get
I up in time to light us home,” the good
woman returned, anxiously inspecting
J the blackness of the sky, as, wholly ob
: livious to Hugh’s feelings as the author
! of the entertainment, she sat with her
back squarely turned to the blaze. "It’s
more’n 20 years since I lived where I
could see a neighbor’s light by night.
Seems kinder lonesome sometimes, for
a fact, especially in time of sickness.
But I don’t feel to complain,” she add
ed, snapping a meaning glance at the
Lovering party. ‘ ‘Land knows, I’d want
to weed out my neighbors some before
I went to gettin ’em any nearer. ”
“Oh, did you say your boys had gone
to tho picnic?” Edith irrelevantly, de
manded, half laughing as she caught
sight of Nelsine’s despairing face.
“Yes. They just natchelly had to
go,” she said, with a sniff expressive of
unbounded contempt for such frivoli
ties. “Boys will be boys, an they never
outgrow all the man foolishness that’s
born in ’em. All your men gone to, I
see, ’cepting that horse trainer. How’d
it happen Artalissa didn’t want to go?
I understand Jim Kittery arst her. ”
“I am sure I don’t know,” Edith re
plied, with disappointing brevity, her
glance straying back to where the girl
was standing, somewhat apart from the
others. Paul Brown was now beside
her, and his laugh rang out at some re
mark which only his ear had heard.
“What a Girt that Artalissa is!” put
in Mis. Dennison, hitching her chair
nearer and settling herself for the sim
p’e dish of gossip her soul loved. “I hear
she’s all for that horse trainer now. ”
“An Jim Kittery is all for that horse
trainer, too, ” laughed Mrs. Campbell,
quite delighted with her own wit. “An
that horse trainer’d better watch out
for hisself if Jim comes home from the
dance drunk tonight, as he most likely
will. He only needs to get a little bit
uglier, an there’ll be some shootin done
on this range—now you see. The boys
was hectorin of him this mornin—l was
inside peekin out through the curtain
while they w r as waitin for my boys to
saddle up—an they was all slingin talk
■ at Jim, gassin him because this feller
had cut him out. ‘Well,’ says he, look
in for all the world like a bulldog, ‘jest
you wait an see who comes out ahead. ’
If the boys would jest leave him alone,
but they ain’t natchelly got any more
sense. What can you expect? An Ar
talissa, she don’t help matters none, I’ll
warrant. There’s jest enough cussed
ness in that girl to find victuals an
I drink in makin trouble. ”
Mrs. Dennison nodded comprehen
• sively. “I know. Jim was in an awful
. tantrum the night of the dance. He got
; madded somehow, and over he went to
1 the barn, swearin like he was crazy.
Brown come along and stood listenin—
he was just runnin down Brown for a
fool broncho buster that set himself up
for a masher, and they said Brown just
tip and laughed in his face, w’alkin
round in front of him cool as a cucum
ber. Everybody jumped, thinkin Kit
tery was goin to shoot sure, but Brown
kept just lockin at him like he looks an
ugly horse in the eye, they said, and
■ next thing Kittery just kind of quieted
down and sneaked off like a lamb. But
my husband said looked to him like
Kittery was just layin low for another
chance when there wa’n’t so many
around to see fair play. ”
“Yes, he’s layin low, an the horse
trainer’d better keep one eye over his
shoulder while he’s moseyiil round, for
Kittery’s jest the sort that likes to shoot
from behind,” remarked the older
i woman ominously, finding no little en-
I teriainment in the grewsome prophecy.
The bonfire burned low at last, and
I shortly after 9 o’clock the guests were
i taking their departure, the Lovering
’ party volubly lamenting that they had
not gone sooner, which, however natur
i al, in view of the very indefinite charac
ter of their road, was still not calculated
to cheer their weary hosts.
"Thank heaven, it is over at last!”
cried Nelsine fervently, examining her
| wet shoes by the light of the parlor
lamp. "And when I have them here
again”— she added in a tone eloquent
of fixed determination.
“It is one of the inexplicable mys
teries the 4 way a woman will insist up
on eating crow and then fall to kicking
about it afterward, ” her husband paren
j thetically observe, addressing the ceil
' icg.
■ “Now, Hugh, you know perfectly
■ ” r fcll,that we had to have them.” re-
monstrated Nelsine. "They had all in
vited us until I simply was ashamed to
look them in 11A face. ’ ’
"And now they will begin inviting
us all over again to spend the after
noon and stay to tea, ’ ’ groaned Hugh
miserably. “But I tell you plainly,
Nelsine, that when the evil days come
I shall have other engagements. I pos
itively will not bo killed with kindness,
whatever you may say. ”
“When I takeup my desert claim,
I think I will look up a more deserted
section than this,” observed Edith,
smiling wearily. “I forgive you this
time, Nelsine, but I hope that your so
cial obligations are now all disposed of. ”
"Oh, Edith, how can you! When you
helped me out so beautifully too! It
ought to be such a satisfaction to you. ”
“It is. I cannot remember a time
when I have felt more perfectly virtu
ous and happy, ” Edith declared, with a
sardonic little laugh. “I deserve to
j sleep the sleep of the just, I am sure,
■ and so good night.”
But she was not sleepy, sho found,
I when she was alone. Restlessly pacing
her room back and forth, sho opened tho
door leading out upon tho piazza. The
moon, large and red as the flame from
tho heart of the bonfire, was rising be
hind the trees, tho delicately clothed
branches showing in a black network
against the glowing disk exquisite as
old lace. Ashawl of Nelsine’s was lying
across a chair. Wrapping it about her
shoulders, she slipped into the hammock
which faced the eastern sky, luxurious
ly adjusting the pillows to her head.
There was a lively play of light like
I tho spangles on (be gown of a dancing
I girl glancing among the polished stems
of the vino leaves, while the dainty net
work of shadow spread over the floor
deepened and grew clearer with the ad
vancing light, like a photographic, film
in the developing bath. Above the soft
whispers among tho trees came the
soothing murmur of the creek, with its
subtle mockery of every voice she had
heard, every musical sound known to
earth, while the heavy, languorous scent
of growing things, voicelessly inviting
the caresses of the night moths, fell
upon tho senses like an anodyne. Edith
lay in a sort cf lethargic content, miss
ing nothing of sight or sound, yet scarce
thinking of anything. She idly wonder
ed if perhaps death might not be like
this—to lie at ease forever, forgetting
all cares of earth, always soothed and
made dreamily glad by tho soft lullaby
of the winds and the infinite harmonies
* xsm ••■j.s’t).
Continued next week,
ins identity rnxea.
"Yes,” said tho man with tho im
posing conversational manner, "this
country has much to loarn.”
“Think so?” replied tho hotel
clerk.
“Emphatically. I am daily pained
by its deficiencies in art, music, sci
enco and literature. What it wants
is some person—some cultivated per
son like myself, for instance—to
show’ it how its books should bo writ
ten, how its music should bo com
posed, how its army should bo dis
ciplined, how its government should
bo conducted”—
Hero ho was interrupted by tho
shrill stage whisper of one of tho
bellboys:
"Hi, dummy, tell do boss tor firo
dat brido an groom out’n de parlor
suit on de secon floor. Wo’s got do
emperor of Germany wit’ us in dis
guise.”—Washingtun Star.
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