St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-21
4 LOGICAL CONCLUSION.
Continued from Last Sunday. ]

Gmph and satisfaction. was Lee Ran
SONS defeat and bitter disappointment.
BY it he lost his beautiful dreamland-
he lost faith in his own spiritual part
and in the spiritual part Of the person
he had been pleased TO select from a
world of particulars to represent that
world to him, and to be the law by
which his realm of ideas should live or
die. The certain knowledge that his
love, like other mems, was cursed
with senSuality, the certain knOwl-
edge that the ethereal woman OF his
dreams had no actual eXistense. but, as
common clay as any human thing IS
made of, accepted the sensuality of love
as matter of course, and found no
cause for unhappinesS in it. created in
him such doubt of the existence any
where of purity and such lack Of faith
in the least reason why it should exist,
that the world went tumbling about
him and he was IN chaos.
He did not lose his kingdom in day,
a week or year. The idealist'S power
of self-deception dies hard. Even when
Waytie had unhesitatingly permitted
the final seal to be placed upon the
curse of love, by persistent effort, he
would now and then succeed in closing
his eyes again TO hateful realities, and
regain his lost estate for day. At such
times of elevation above the clouds he
would be seized by heroic spirit of
self-sacrifice. and VOW to Waytie that
they should part, and in everlasting
solitude atone for the past.
Lee" said she one day, interrupting
an imprisoned farewell, ''has it Oc-
cured to you that these serial good-byeS
of ours are becoming tritie-just
a trifie monOtonous? In the past three
months you have taken a last, sad fare
well of me nine timeS-nine times and
Une-half. to be exact, counting up to
date. Even that insane pair, Romeo
and Juliet, aspired only to continue
parting's sweet sorrow through twenty
four hours: don't you think we are car
rying matters to extremes little bit,
extending the delicious agony over
ninety-two or ninety-three days?"
lit is absurd" Lee humbly &C
knOwledged. But | 10 sooner mount
On the torn and bleeding body of our
love to sublime heights of spiritual per-
lection than [ begin to feel so lonely
without you, dear, that | conclude hell
with you is infinitely to be preferred to
the seventh heaven without you. and
back ] come, my lofty aspirations dis
appearing entirely again with the first
touch of your lips"
disappearing for time, you mean.
After about fOrty-eight hours of unin-
terrupted bliss, you are plunged in the
depths of penitent misery once more
alternating your kisses with groans,
and. with every caresS you beStOw upon
me, praying God to have mercy on you,
a miserable sinner"
Il know it is ridiculous, as | said, but
that's not all. Your absurdity is my
tragedy-nOne the less real ami painful
for having a comic side. | dare say it
would be better if l made mighty
effort and quit you forever"
Il dare say it would" she replied
nesting her pretty head upon his
shoulder and adding, Softly-"If you
Gould.n
But l can't-curse youI' he fiercely
exclaimed. crushing her in his arms
until she plaintively begged him not to
kill her.
xiii yOu-you poor, lovely, helpless
little wretch,l am not certain but shall
In the end-it is the only way to escape
YOU"
"Well, as you will, my lord and
master; but please do not kill me to-
day." she said, resting cOntentedly in
cape her, even dead.
The escape, the separation, however,
came about at length with no shedding
of blood, no supeFhuman effort on
either side. Waytie tired of Lee as she
had tired of score of men before him;
and he gradually lost the power of self
deceptiOn-the ability to see that Way
tie was other than what Howard Warde
had pronounced her-'ta very tieshly
woman" 1t finally became impossible
longer to idealize the fact that every
expression of ardent love on her part
had direct reference to his purse. He
could no longer fail to discern that an
especially tender caress, full exhibit
ton of all her most winning ways, and
the subsequent transfer of a handsome
jewel from the show window of Smith
tS Co. to the jewel case on her dressing
table were related as cause and effect.
Every sweet pet, he said to her one
night when she had followed up an
ayOwal of devotion with the intelligence
that the day previous she had stood half
an hour admlring bracelet of new de-
sign in a downtown show window. NV
sweet pet. L have heard of vari-
Gus earthly blessings, being worth their
weight in gold, but | never knew any
to quite so clearly demonstrate this fact.
as does the incompatible blessing of
your love-
such cruel words" she said-"for
shame" and she hushed him with a
kiss.
Very precious, my DEAR he pro-
nOunced it, as she unclaSped her arm
from his neck; ''quite deserving the
price of the bracelets. Give me pen."
She always had a pen strangely con-
venient on such occasions. He wrote
n ali fo hn Of %I,,I IA
and left her happy.
after all, he reflected as he walked
towards the club-''after all, don't
know but it is a fortunate arrangement
that the gifts of the gods come sO-with
tag attached stating their value in
dollars and cents. A man can always
tell how he stands with heaven by sim
ply looking over his check book. The
final judgment day is not to be the
awful ordeal we were once taught to be-
lieve it. There will be nothing but a
universal showing up of bank accounts,
and-Oh! to be sure, l had a note from
Abbott this morning informing me that
l had OVerdrawn mine.n
Elt is a calamity to lose faith in God
but unbelief does not give the worst il
has in store for man until faith in
humanity is lost as we'll. One can
more easily live without the former
than the latter. Perfect unbelief in
human nature robs mans existence
of all purpose, all reason. Life without
faith IN ones self and ones fellows be-
comes the mad dance a hen leads after
its head has been chopped off-a madden
dance, in fact, for in mans case the
bodyless head retains the power OF
seeing and thinking, and communicates
TO the body, to quicken its frantic move.
ments, all it divines of the inevitable
picking, roasting and eating there is fol-
it to suffer.
But one of two alternatives, accord