Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-12-13
forefinger plump on Lord Walters

And her eyes were olive in their depths, as
the kraken beneath the sea blue,
" Because fear you" he answered; you are
too fair,
And able to strangle my soul in mesh of
your golden hair.
"Please don't 90 on interrupted.
81 like the poem, but some way it isn't
pleasant now"
Hardly appropriate" he answered,
closing the volume dreamily. and then
added:
Il suppose you think Lord Walters
friend fool?'
'He is the type of large class; but,
Mr.. Alcott, are we not tread ne on dam
gerous ground? Do you know what
lies Just beyond?'
Yes, that most exasperating CUES
ton of woman's rights. Aurora
Leigh settles that for me-
1T takes soul to move 2 body he
repeated slowly. 1T takes a high-souled
man to move the masses, even to
cleaner style. 1t takes the ideal to blow
hair s-breadth off the dust of. the act
ual. All, your Fouriers failed-because
not poets enough to understand that
life develops from within
Never was truer word spoken than
that, Miss Ellis-'from within 1T takes
a soul to move the Masses and, ac-
cording to my observations, it makes
very little difference 20 whom the soul
belongs Men of intellect never have
subOrdinated women. See what excel
lent care Goethe takes of them. Look
at Faust's Margaret, the instinctively
pure child growing into self-rellant
woman, and see how, as Wilhelm
Webster develops spiritually and intel
lcctually, he comes naturally upon
women of purer and more innately re-
fined type-lirst Mignon, then Natalie,
afterward Theresa and Macaria-the
last a star soul"
Il thought as much,' said grand
mother, entering just here. 81 felt
sure YOU had come when | saw the
light" and no pet last child, Il baby,
was ever more welcomed than by my
dear dead father mother.
"You promised me, David, you would
certainly 90 20 bed at eight o'clock, .
said the old lady, reproachfully, after
having satisfied herself that l hadn't
changed bit since she last saw me.
But how could II" he asked, with q
comical gesture in my direction.
"Well, | hope you won't be any the
worse for it tomorrow" said she, land
row to bed with you this minute.
dear old Vagrant, good night, . said
the gentleman, with a rare smile, obey
inc Instantly: land pleasant dreams to
YOU Miss Ellis
'.Nice boy that" said grandmother,
as the door closed.
Boy" / repeated.
Eyes, boy"
ole is twenty-five years old if lie is q
! day."
..What of that? You are twenty; and
what are You but a girl. | should in
quire? Four weeks ago there didn't
anybody round here think he'd ever get
out again. The doctor gave him up
| and his sister was almost crazy; but the
| fever turned and he went to sleep and
slept two days steadily; but when he
woke up he was as bright as a button. y
! | did not see my new friend for two
| DAYS. He had over-eXcited himself. and
the result was solitude for this length of
time. | roamed the fields and haunted
the woods, read, wrote and thought.
| | never did so much thinking in so short
a space of time, with such unsatisfactory
! results
where under the sun have you been
all this afternoon% said grandmother,
as at sunset the second day l dragged
myself into the kitchen porch.
''Up 4 tree
up tree?' this with considerable
dsdain in voice and manner. you
have torn a great slit in your dress.
Sue, and you look like a fright. have
wanted YOU MORN your worth-for the
last three hours
''What are yon making, grand
mother?'
.sPanada."
"How many quarts of this stuff does
your patient consume, Mrs. Bliss, in
the course of twenty-four hours?"
THAT is according to his appetite,
Miss Saucebox," said a rich voice at my
elbow: and there stood Mr. Alcott
..No. % he continued, gravely.
They've sent for me up to Jones'
They think the baby is dying broke
in grandmother, while l stood blushing
/ like an embarrassed schoolgirl.
"And want you to keep house and
take care of him while l 60 up awhile
and see if can do anything to help
them. When this panada gets a little
bit cold, Sue, put in two tablespoonful
of brandy: that's the bottle on the Sec
ond shelf And the provoking old
lady tripped away as composedly as if it
were the most commonplace thing in
the world for a young lady to be left
with the care of an invalid, and the said
invalid man and stranger. A few
minutes sutficed to placesme entirely at
my ease, and no veteran hospital nurse
was more composedly eXacting than l
in my new role. Grandmother orders
were explicit; David mustn't think OF
such a thing rs reading aloud, and he
must lie on the lounge in the sitting
room until she returned. Such an even
ing rs that was. l read to him out of
i Auerbach-and this took us naturally
| to the Rhine-and then | found that my
kcompanion had travelled among all my
favorite European cities. What Won
derful pictures he drew me of the Cam
,a"na, the Coliseum and the Forum!
How exquisite was the play of the
moonlight on the Sabine Mountains,
and how charmingly picturesque the
ksketch of the old Roman ramparts. in
some places bare. and black with age,
\, with here and there patches of scarlet
land green made of poppies and ivy.
Grandmother came too soon. Sin
weeks of this dolce far niente life-and
T then
There is no good of life but lovs-bu;
love,
! What else looks good is some shade flung
from love.
lie ,ri,-o IL
| knew rs well as the Queen and poor
Constance what there was in life worth
living for--what love meant Not one