Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-02-24

King Sot0mon'z Mines" She" dc.
CHAPTER VI
THE STORM BREAKS.
$40 you know you are a very odd person.
Miss JESS" John said presently with little
laugh. II don't think you can have happy
mind"
She looked up. "a happy minds" she said.
"Who can have happy mind! Nobody who
can feel Supposing," she went on after a
pause-"supposing one puts ones self and
ones o. II little interests and joys and sorrows
quite away, how is it possible to he happy
when one feels the breath of human misery
beating on ones face and sees the great tide
* sorrow and suffering creeping up to ones
feeti One may he on a rock ones self and
out Of the path Of it till the spring floods or
the hurricane wave comes to sweep one away,
a one may be afloat upon it; whichever it is,
II is quite impossible, if one has any heart, to
be Indifferent to it"
"Then only the Indifferent are happyp
~Yes. the Indifferent and the selfish; but,
after all, it is the same thing; indifference is
the perfection Of selfishness."
u am afraid that there must be lots Of
selfishnes in the world, for there Is certainly
plenty Of happiness, oil evil things notwith-
standing. l should have said that happiness
comes from goodness and from q sound diges-
tinn"
Je0 shook her head As she answered, u may
be wrong, but I don't see how anybody who
feels can be quito happy in . world of sick
ness. suffering, slaughter and death. saw .
Kaffir woman die yesterday and her children
crying over her. She was q poor creature
and had . rough lot, but she loved her life
and her children loved her. Who can be
happy and thank God for his creation when
he has just seen such a thing7 But there.
Capt Mel, my ideas arc very crude and I
dare say very wrong, and everybody has
thought them before; at any rate, am not
going to infiict them on you. What is tho
use Of It'll" she went on, with a laugh; "what
IS the use of anythingl The same old thoughts
passing through the same human minds from
year to year and century to century, just as
the same clouds float across the same blue
Gky. The clouds are born in the sky and the
thoughts are born in the brain, and they both
=ad In tears and rearise in binding, bewilder-
Ag mist, and this is the beginning and end of
thoughts and clouds. They arise out of the
blue: they overshadow and break into storms
and tears. and then they are drawn up with
tho blue again and the whole thing begins
afresh.n
$50 you don't think that one can be happy
In the worldf' no asked.
II did not say that never said that. I
do not think that happiness is possible It is
possible II ono can love somebody 20 hard
that one can quite forget oneself and every
thing else except that person, and it is pos
sible IL one can sacrifice ones self for others.
There Is no true happiness outside Of love and
self sacrifice, or rather outside Of love, for it
includes the other. That is gold, all the rest
sgilt" 80
~How do you know thatr he asked quickly.
sYou have never been in love"
aNo,n che answered, u have never been In
love like that, but all the happiness I have
had In my life has come to me from loving.
1believe that love h the secret Of the world;
Il h like the philosophers stone they used to
look for, and almost as hard to find, but when
ono finds Il It turns everything to gold. Per-
hap" che went on with Q little laugh, @when
the angels lift the earth they left u love be-
hind, that by it and through it we may climb
mp to them again II is the one thing that
lifts % above tho brutes. Without love man
r. brute, and nothing but . brute; with love
be draws near to God When everything else
falls away the love win endure because it cam
not die while there e any lfe IL It Is true love,
for It b immortal Only Il must be true
you see. it must be true"
He had got through her reserve now; the
ice Of her manner broke up beneath the
warmth Of her words, and her usually i'm
passive face had caught the lifo and light
from the eyes above and acquired q certain
beauty Of it, own. He looked at Il, and
ssnlized something Of the untaught and H.
fAEulated intensity and depth Of the nature Of
sAlD curious girl he caught her eyes and
tbey moved him strangely, though be was not
an emotional man, and was too old to experi-
ence spasmodic thrills at the chance chances
Of pretty woman. He went toward her.
looking ct her curiously.
1T would Be worth living to be loved like
that, /" be ald, more to himself than to her.
She did not answer, but she let her eyes red
On hik Indeed, she did more, for she put al
her soul into them and gazed and gased tin
Johp Niel felt - though he wers being mes
mee4hed. Ahd - ehehdld 30 tnero rose up tn
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~ could gAin this mans heart and hold Il
against IN the world, for her nature was
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