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the summer to some quiet mountain resort to be with her during the long in which she would be recovering well he ould not complain now that was all right he do it he would be bored of course as usual ut it would be too bad to have her die when she could saved yes that was true and yet he went down to his office again ... | 43 |
of his children had been with him all these years besides the day had been so fine it was now a wondrous may evening the air and sky were simply delicious a haze was in the air the bell now ringing brought still another of a long series of inquiries as to her condition there had been so many of these during the last ... | 43 |
sorrow but to i himself it sounded false he lifted the hand and put it to his lips sadly then i leaned his head against her thinking of his long mixed i thoughts these many days while both mrs free and the nurse began wiping their eyes they were so sorry for him he was so old now after a while he got up they came forw... | 43 |
himself over to blank contemplation of the broad park and the occasional carriages that by presently his meditation was broken by an ant on his trousers which he away with his finger this awoke him to the thought that there might be more upon him he stood up shaking and brushing himself then he noticed an ant running a... | 43 |
other i was passing along here when that struck me indicating a huge i am done for though you may as well have this food now since you are one of us the tribe can use what you do not eat he sighed oh nothing of the sort said the while he viewed the crushed limbs and side of the sufferer you ll be all right why do you s... | 43 |
and shouted to the others immediately four warriors set out in pursuit mc hastened after to see what would become of him hidden himself he could do this with considerable as he approached he saw moving backward and forward to close the entrance to a cave in which he of the slave makers had now taken refuge apparently t... | 43 |
now that they are about where have you been you do not belong to our colony do you related his experiences since their meeting in the desert without explaining where he came from of the slave he knew that he was a member of some other of this same tribe without being sure of which one a strange feeling of wandering con... | 43 |
these it was upon a colony of who had their home in a neighboring forest the company went singing on their way until within a short distance of the colony when they became silent let us not lose track of one another said mc of the slave makers no said but they are nothing we will take all they possess without a struggl... | 43 |
of the slave makers noticing now for the first time s wounds it does not matter so much one more or less what of it but you have been injured i oh nothing you are the one to complain i fear you are badly injured oh i returned heavily feeling at last the weight of death upon him i am done for i cannot live i felt mys... | 43 |
so even though carried out as a part of the due process of law of his day and place now as he looked at this fine day and his excellent clothes he was not so sure that this was a why should he always be selected for such things just because he could write there were others lots of men on the staff he v began to hop... | 43 |
apparent indifference seemingly he was determined to protect his man and avoid mob justice come what may a mob should not have him if he had to shoot and if he shot it would be to kill finally since the company thus added to did not dash upon him he seemingly decided to scare them off apparently he thought he could do ... | 43 |
yet so great was the of the present situation he dared not leave bv contrast with the horror im g as he n ow noted th e night was so beautiful that it was all but stars were already be to shine distant lamps like yellow eyes from the s in r p the hill j the air was fresh and tender s ome were g afar and a st promised a... | 43 |
all and purposes he was alone for he did not inspire con he finally fell back a little observing ril im before all right and now the crowd itself began to returning to its stores and homes or standing about the and the one village finally smiled and came away he was sure he had the story of a defeated mob the was to be... | 43 |
that there was none of the enthusiasm about this company such as had the previous descent there was everywhere and he now began to feel that this was the beginning of the end after the had passed down the street toward the s house which was quite dark now he ran after it arriving a few moments after the former which wa... | 43 |
he moved closer to the house with the crowd eager to observe every detail of the now it was that a number of the men as eager in their search as appeared at a low cellar at the side of the house carrying a rope others followed with headed by father and son they began to descend into the dark hole with impressive daring... | 43 |
earlier to day and for a bridge over which they were heading here it ran now sparkling like in the night after a time the road drew closer to the water and then crossed directly over the bridge which could be seen a little way ahead up to this the company now rode and then halted the wagon was driven up on the bridge a... | 43 |
description after a time a door in the rear of the room opened and a little negro girl entered carrying a battered tin lamp without any chimney she had not heard his knock and started at the sight of his figure in the doorway then she raised her smoking lamp above her head in order to see better and approached io there... | 43 |
part of the country which was not so prosperous as it had once been about three miles from one of those small towns that instead of increasing in population is steadily the territory was not very thickly settled perhaps a house every other mile or so with large of corn and wheat land and fields that at odd seasons ha... | 43 |
with a black bonnet for her best wear as time had passed and they had only themselves to look after their movements had become slower and slower their fewer and fewer the annual keep of pigs had been reduced from five to one and the single horse which henry now retained was a sleepy animal not over nourished and not ve... | 43 |
her and how soon he himself would die he made a great business of making his coffee in the morning and himself a little bacon at night but his appetite was gone the shell in which he had been so long seemed vacant and its shadows were suggestive of so he lived quite for five long months and then a change began it was o... | 43 |
his feeling that he needed her greatly she would come back this kindly wife and tell him what to do she would perhaps be with him much of the time in the night anyhow and that would make him less lonely this state more in age and with the feeble it is not such a far cry from the of illusion to actual and in due time th... | 43 |
coffee an eat this bread must be the lost tired had a long walk this hei idea was to take counsel with her man and perhaps have him the authorities she about meditating on the of life while old on the rim of his hat with his pale fingers and later ate of what she offered his mind was on his wife however and since she w... | 43 |
of inquiries was when he no longer had any particular in view and no special inquiry to make which way to go these cross roads which led in four or even six directions came a time to puzzle him but solve this problem which became more and more of a puzzle there came to his aid another s spirit or some power of the air ... | 43 |
got up he had been expecting and dreaming of this hour all these years and now as he saw the feeble light dancing lightly before him he peered at it one thin hand in his gray hair the lost of a sudden there came to him now for the first time in many years the full charm of her girlish figure as he had known it in boyho... | 43 |
wholly dissipated it had contained so much of all she had desired love romance amusement laughter he had been so gay and thoughtless or so romantic and with such a love of play and change and to be saying and doing anything and everything arthur could dance in a gay way whistle sing after a fashion play he could play ... | 43 |
drawn her close and told her she had beautiful eyes and hair and such a delicately rounded chin and that he thought she danced gracefully and was sweet he had nearly fainted wi th ht do you like me he had asked in one place in the dance and in spite of herself she had looked up into his eyes and from that moment she wa... | 43 |
stopped in at the store and asked her to go to point with the result that she had no time to he had gone to the house and sat with her parents until ten thirty and then a the second choice few days later although she had written him offering an excuse had called at the store to complain slightly do you think you did ju... | 43 |
left but still somehow she realized that if she chose to favor him would only to be top grateful for even the of others where she was concerned and that even yet if she but to a finger she could have him he was so simple so good natured so stolid and matter of fact so different to arthur whom she could not help smiling... | 43 |
as he drew near his eyes searching her face he had i ot seen her for so long that he was intensely hungry and her paler beauty appealed to him more than ever why wouldn t she have him he was asking himself why wouldn t his persistent love yet win her perhaps it might i haven t seen you in a month of sundays it seems ho... | 43 |
other affair as she meditated these various moods racing to and fro in her mind seemed to notice and now it occurred to him that perhaps he had not pursued her enough was too easily put off she probably did like him yet this evening her present visit seemed to prove it sure sure he agreed like that come out sunday if ... | 43 |
stared out and then as the of came into view wondered so deep is romance what if arthur should come back at some time or now supposing he should l e here at the i j i i the second choice station now accidentally or on purpose to welcome her to soothe her weary heart he had met her here before how she would fly to him ... | 43 |
was more as it were to l e th or city than it was to be a south jew give him a self confident race track or manner put on him loud or clothes a diamond ring a pin in his tie a green hat yellow shoes a contemptuous tough smile and you have mr red as mr but wait on the star slightly the lesser of these two great that the... | 43 |
king s he having in the meanwhile to neglect some excellent tale of his own would go forth again free to point the next day to a column or column and a half or a half column story and declare im my story think of it i that swine there is an end to all things however even life and crime in due time as per a series of ac... | 43 |
with its curtain hung and its idle ing shuffling negro life even an old negro refrain appropriate to a and the low bold negro life two such might enjoy were pictured an old negro with a yellow dotted over her head who kept talking of and sam and the girl had moved him to a poetic frenzy naturally cm iv story of stories... | 43 |
all to think of that and they crawled into their ha ha you ve got the of a lifetime mr stared at the he recalled the detailed descriptions of the actions of the seven robbers how some of them had up and down outside the train while others went through it the passengers and still others forward the engineer and broke op... | 43 |
the good jl graces of the and the prisoner and begin his questioning as best he might i perhaps by the ease with which he should take charge in a few moments the express was rolling into the station and then saw his enemy leap aboard and with that iron and which always irritated so much race through the forward cars t... | 43 |
heard the grinding wheels of the express rushing up behind him in a thought as it were it was alongside and past its wheels and sparks true enough ft was stopping he would be able to get on oh glory and maybe wouldn t be able to wouldn t that be wonderful it was far ahead of him now but almost stock still and he was ru... | 43 |
when it came to those finer a story of stories shades of questioning which concerned just why for what reasons the had attempted this deed alone but even here noticed that his was all ears and making copious notes but always to s astonishment and the prisoner as well as his paid more attention to than they did to himse... | 43 |
discovery finally that this particular ex had returned rather recently to his semi native town and had there been going with a certain girl and that even now he was about to her also it was said that he was possessed of unusual means for him next it was discovered that her to those on the handkerchief mr was arrested a... | 43 |
one picture s as good as another and you can t take a story of stories any good pictures down there to anyhow and you know it he talked he held s eyes with his own and all at once the latter began to feel a curious w ve of ease and uncertainty or sion creep over with all this what was so wrong with this proposition an... | 43 |
urgent desire to be out in the street together after eight and to linger where the boys could see and overtake them r old mrs never knew she was a fat old completely by her and lord and at nine o clock regularly as he had long ago deemed meet and fit she was wont to her way upward and so to bed old himself at that hour... | 43 |
he would say and with a of his heel would turn back leaving to wonder whether she had him forever or no then she would hurry to her father s door all my time calling you on de old would roar the while his fat hand would descend on her back take dot now don d you come ven i call in now i show you und come you more at di... | 43 |
soften her progress than anything the outer door was open as usual but not the inner she tried it but it would not give it was locked for a moment she paused cold fear racing over her body and then knocked l io old and his no answer again she rattled the door this time nervously find was about to cry out still no answe... | 43 |
lingering near also detained he was beside himself with fear rage affection you you he exclaimed at once glaring at the when told that this was the young man who was found with his girl then seized with a sudden horror he added turning to you done oh oh you you he repeated again to angrily now that he felt that his dau... | 43 |
undue interest in his movements lastly one of the connected with his own party called to see him at his office you see it s this way he said after a short you have got a line as to what s going on in connection with that south land transfer the mayor is in on that but he is absolutely determined that the public is not ... | 43 |
now he was held close to his work and so was this coast he liked and and incidentally whom he wished to see prosper though he could not quite direct him in the proper way reaching the city one morning him to s o ce and there laid the whole case before him now that s the way it is he concluded staring at the pink cheeks... | 43 |
from now on she mrs was to be a really truly didn t they with her and if they were all very nice and with this a sweeping glance included them all they might help entertain her wouldn t that be fine she was a darling of a girl clever a good a in short various and sundry things almost too good to be true but above al... | 43 |
took quarters somewhere in the building coming and going and seeming never to know mrs or her friends and yet one day across some sand which skirted an adjacent he saw them and the jew walking along together he was so astounded that he stopped in amazement his first thought was to draw a little nearer and to make very ... | 43 |
or cleared up by the arrival of a third car containing a party of four middle aged men who seeing them in the wood and the other car standing by stopped to investigate it was s presence of mind which kept them there do you mind staying by until that other car leaves he whispered to one of the ho was helping to s machin... | 43 |
smiled and ex will yo c walk into parlor briefly and with some cynical comments as to the gear that wouldn t work as he did so he examined her sharply and she looked at him with what he thought might be pain or fear or horror in her glance certainly it was not a look a sympathetic interest in the plans of her friends o... | 43 |
me you must have me mixed up with some one else or with something that i don t know anything about she moved as if to leave now listen to me a minute he said sharply and don t be so ready to leave you know who i am and just what i m doing i m running an investigation on my own account with which i mean to break up the ... | 43 |
in so far as his own knowledge was concerned was all arranged for long before you came down here i haven t the slightest idea why you work for but i know now that that s what you re doing and i m sick of you and the whole thing you re just a plain little that s all and i m through with you and this whole thing and i do... | 43 |
came and which he had been accustomed to frequent as a splendid place to walk and smoke but not any more he was too certain of being picked up there or of being joined by mrs and only to be left with with possibly the three or a as witnesses he could not help thinking how ridiculous it all was he even took he and in s ... | 43 |
never felt quite so close to as he did this evening she had seemed so warm laughing gay the night had been but mellow they had and over such trifling things and now he felt that he would like to be with her a while longer she had become more or less a part of his life or seemingly so such a genial companion he took her... | 43 |
they had hoped and this very attractive girl had fallen in love with him for a while he stared down the black green path up which they had come and then fixed his eyes in lazy contemplation on one of the groups of stars showing above the suddenly or was it suddenly more a whisper or an idea he seemed to become aware... | 43 |
any pursuit but hearing none going to his mirror and mocking at himself for being such a fool as to will vol walk into my parlor be so easily taken in after all his caution and talk lord he sighed lord and after all her and promises this very evening too he thought what a revelation of the and treachery of human nature... | 43 |
he did not want to see this thing closed in this fashion with no chance to at least her to see what new lie she would tell after a while she came down pale and seemingly exhausted a weary look ai out her eyes as though she had not slept to his astonishment she came over quite simply to where he was sitting and when he ... | 43 |
can t help myself honestly i can t i didn t want to but oh she wrung her hands and sat down wearily you don t know how i m placed with them what it is yes well fm tired of that stuff now added and i suppose they told you to run back and tell me this so as to win my sympathy again oh you little liar you make me sick wh... | 43 |
you about that now not for the present anyhow you re either one of the greatest and that fever lived you re a little light in the upper story at any rate i should think that you might see that you could scarcely expect me to like you let alone to love you all things considered and particularly since this other thing ha... | 43 |
they certainly wouldn t be slow to use them if they had any reason for so doing of course they don t know anything yet about this confession unless you ve told them and i don t propose that they shall so long as i don t have to use it as for me i have to think of mv wife and kid and i want to do anything them if ey il ... | 43 |
had worked but where now because of this he might possibly not be able to work at least with any great profit to himself o l t l thought w hat cl ever those two were or could not be sure of and so thinking he left the great crowd at his own that vast which and the and all the daily and using the same crowd which had... | 43 |
the village smith was proud to be hailed as n little ike being of an order of mind that fancied the world ended somewhere abruptly in the rocky mountains and that you really could shoot bu after you left new york did not the meaning of it all at once but at last upon him when he got the idea that we really considered t... | 43 |
em going captain like order mate you re right cap i don t suppose the mate d ever condescend to take orders like that eh mate well hardly cap still you don t want to forget that i m captain mate and you don t want to forget that i m mate captain thus we would one another until one of the crew arrived when without loss ... | 43 |
thousand being incapable of grasping the true edge of our humor he was the one soul who was yet genial enough to take it and not complain we called upon him to ashes to split the wood to run aft that the of the was to the back gate and see how the water stood more than once he was threatened with those same irons previ... | 43 |
little before he could bring his cold coffee sealed in a tin can to the captain s engine and warm it again the captain s comfortable held his coat and hat the captain s wash bowl a large wooden tub to one side of the engine into which comforting warm water could be drawn served as an ideal means of washing up since t... | 43 |
i replied pleasantly boat vas he h she was john the n s mate he wasn t such a bad old was he henry even if he wouldn t quit up the s he certainly wasn t john he was a fine little remember the chains john echoed that worthy and then do vou the old could ever be found where s down there on the bottom mate well she migh... | 43 |
of there were ao artists ho models no no such as here about her there people worked and worked hard l her father was engaged at this minute in breaking soil of his for the spring planting an old man with a white beard an honest kindly eye a broad charity a sense of duty her mother was i married y bending daily over a ... | 43 |
have a right to be cheerful haven t i you seem to be finding a lot that s wrong with me now please don t get angry she persisted anxious to apply the measure of her criticism but at the same time to use the quickness of his sympathy for her obvious weakness and apparent helplessness to shield herself from him i can t e... | 43 |
he looked upon her in his superior way as a little girl largely because of the size of her body he seemed to think that because she was little she must be weak whereas she knew that she had the use and the advantage of a wisdom a tact fulness and a of which he did not even dream compared to her he was not nearly as wi... | 43 |
of the museum of fine arts and his wife joseph one of the wealthy of the opera and its and mrs neither nor had ever seen a private dining room set in so a manner it fairly glittered with and tinted glass the wine were seven in er set in an ascending row the order of food was complete from russian to black coffee nuts a... | 43 |
the important each season but as i often tell my husband when you have one baby two years old and another of five and another of seven it considerable time to attend to th e art of raising them i let him do the art for the family and i take care of the home this was sincere consolation for up to this time she appeared ... | 43 |
way understood this it keenly why he insisted you mustn t talk like that you re better than you say you are you say you don t know anything about or art or music why that isn t all there are things many things which are deeper than those things emotion is a great thing in itself dearest if you only knew you have that h... | 43 |
himself at this very time as to jt was that caused him to talk so was it sympathy love of beauty power of poetic expression delicacy of sentiment certainly nothing more wasn t it this was already causing him to be hailed as a married great he believed so could he honestly say that he loved ie no h was he couldn t now ... | 43 |
then one would take a look down the bay and through the distant to see if any sign of a familiar sail were present and how is master asked the elder the of the one exceedingly wealthy family of the community very well thank you returned the other surveying the company whose knee breeches and black coats presented a str... | 43 |
and s which however had already been sent to the collect for more water there was a deal of clatter and confusion coupled with the certainty of destruction for no could throw the water the second story more than once the as rattled forward from the collect and the east river was totally while the flames gained new grou... | 43 |
beauty he i not help thinking how much more they d appear behind her than his present hostess who was attractive enough it made him restless for certainly this afternoon he ould if he could learn his fate the jewels d be one excuse he would take her ta look at jewels before the evening called them to the er and then he... | 43 |
jewels from france oh yes i should like to see those let us go there she answered but i must have time to dress too you know to the guests then bowing as they passed they returned a smiling nod and meeting s in carriages and chairs extended this same courtesy bs they went along in a mock dreary manner but finding that ... | 43 |
these seemingly through which i walked each day doing collecting for an payment furniture these ponderous regions of large homes where i and dwelt these curiously foreign of almost all and lastly that great area surrounded on two sides by the river on the east by the lake and on the south by railroad yards and stations... | 43 |
way imagine then my intense delight one day when the help wanted male columns of the herald i encountered an advertisement which ran in wanted a of bright young men to assist in the business department daring the promotion possible apply to business between and a m here i thought as i read it is just the thing i am loo... | 43 |
them for nothing to the herald nor had any sensible plan been devised for checking up either the gifts given or the i who had received them and so the same person as some of these soon discovered could come over and over bearing different lists of toys and get them or at least a part of them until some with a better ey... | 43 |
that miss had a beau later i learned that was an orphan adopted by a fairly comfortable irish couple who loved her dearly and gave her as many pleasures and as much liberty as their circumstances permit they had made the mistake however of telling her that she was only an adopted child this gave her a sense of and a lo... | 43 |
reception of my first i visited other newspaper offices only to find the same and even colder conditions the offices in most cases were by no means so grand but the atmosphere was equally chill and the city editor was a difficult man to approach often i was stopped by an office boy who reported when i said i was lookin... | 43 |
belong to me was comforting and then youth youth that and song in one s very blood i felt as if i were walking on tinted clouds among the of the dawn how shall i do justice to this period which for perfection of spirit ease of soul was the very best i had so far known t in the first place because of months of exercise... | 43 |
pass i that youth should pass that in due time i should stand old and contemplating with age eyes joys and wonders whose sting and color i could no longer feel or even remember out on it for a damned tragedy and a joke proved to be in love with me she lived in a two flat frame house in what was then the far middle sou... | 43 |
as interesting as it had been chapter v as spring approached this affair moved on the work of the company was no harder than that of the company and i had more time to myself because of an sense of my personal importance and because i thought it a wonderful thing to be a newspaper man and so very much less to be a i li... | 43 |
scarcely be expected that we in our hi state should have much to do with the rest of you yet whenever a was in or near he made our home his abiding place two of the best rooms on the second floor were set aside for his and m s use the most stir a book about myself ring preparations were made whenever he was coming the ... | 43 |
buy furniture on the plan a was consulted as to this and refused saying which was the decent thing to say and characteristic of him that we ought to stay here and keep the home together for father s sake he being old and feeble e always a lover of adventure and eager to share in any new thing agreed to go with us we ha... | 43 |
liked me a little he seemed to take a fancy to me from the moment of our first conversation and included me in what i might call the family spirit he was interested in politics literature and the newspaper life of bit by bit he informed me as to the various who were the most successful newspaper men how some did police... | 43 |
park high school of which he had been a member a few years before had numbered about three of these two hundred were girls one hundred and fifty of whom he claimed to have known personally one afternoon as i was preparing to leave after all the had been given out the city editor called me over and with the help of this... | 43 |
taken to reading to me the passages in his mr the city editor confided to me one day that he was from a small town in central not unlike the from which i hailed and which i then roughly and to him and from then on we were on fairly good terms he dug up a number of poems and granted me the favor of reading them some of ... | 43 |
ever it but once i identified my man i never left him i dogged his steps so persistently that he turned on me one afternoon as he was going out of the house fixed me with his one fiery eye and said young man what do you want of me anyhow t well you re aren t yes sir i m well i m a from the i ve been told to learn what ... | 43 |
is to say i m from the globe and even a justice of the united states supreme court is smiling and agreeable to me i hurried to a to tell and he said he don t count write a stick of it if you want to and i ll look it over how much is a stick t i asked eagerly and curiously about a hundred and fifty words so much for a u... | 43 |
as to say you are all wrong well then who do think inquired the stranger who was short red faced of south i replied feeling as though i were stating an truth a tall f air dark haired in a white hat and paused at this moment in his hurried passage through the room and looking at the group exclaimed who does me the to me... | 43 |
a time when the country was over the possible of the old party to strength and power was something like living i listened to the speeches those conceived and word and whereby district leaders and personality followers seek to upon the attention of the country their own as well as those of the individuals whom they admi... | 43 |
career was begun in earnest chapter xii this change from to being an newspaper man was delightful for a very little while a year or so it seemed to open up a clear straight course which if followed must lead me to great heights of course i found that were very badly paid ranged from fourteen to twenty five dollars for ... | 43 |
then why was it that these others lived in a hell t was ood to blame t or society t i not solve it this matter of being with its difference is permanently above the understanding of man i fear i smiled as i thought of my father s attitude to all this there he was out on the west side demanding that all creatures of the... | 43 |
night and so on i tell these things not because i rejoice in them but merely to indicate the atmosphere into which i was thrown neither nor virtue nor nor was either a compelling or cause of either success or failure or had anything to do with true newspaper ability rather men succeeded by virtue of something that was ... | 43 |
job to job because of his weakness his skill if not by that of younger men it was said that he could drink more and stand it better than any other man in why he can t begin to work unless he s had three or four drinks to him up harry once said to me he has to have six or seven more to get through till evening he did no... | 43 |
picture i was against anything also against detection and being beaten up by those whom i was offending for i noticed after the first day or two that the of some of the shops occasionally studied me curiously or ceased their more shameful in my presence and produced something of more value the facts which my articles p... | 43 |
the subject of study urging me to give myself a general education by reading attending lectures and the like he wanted me to look into painting music as he talked the blood would in my head and i kept thinking what a brilliant career must be awaiting me one thing he did was to secure me a place on the st louis just at ... | 43 |
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