Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-03

TO my friends but Herr Blum said something almost
WHY. ana that eonsoled me. He say q" she con-
a & .e Jack "that Bernhar dts full face
at was Heiue who said it first - SAYS Herr Blum.
sorI ne aiways attributes everything he says to
sons one else IL relieves him OF so much respon-
sioihty, Mrs Carter explains amiably TO Jack
And, as she does so, with a smiling strong, restful
he SITS as II 10 steady himself: for. inconzr {ous
ana inexplicable as IL may SEEM she also reminds
nsm ., uedt pcfare Not In the lines OF the faee.
re ra put rather In It's entirety, its strength,
We'll. the worst has Gomez thinks he, rising
~ %it aSernation while the last faint spark
VI VI iihtelngence ~ aims VIII make my way home
ii uoh go soon shall have to be taken"
ro, aou are not going?" says Cara 'sNot before
hSien comes anyhow. Seei She Is here now"
JACK takes one look at the girl who enters. and
turning TO Cara. says:
MY dear girl, i am losing either my brains or
1T must be your eyesdght,- laughs Cara.
On says Jack, desperately; "yOu don't under
SECTIONS everywhere In you, in Miss lie Croix. IN
I I Helen, and just now notice that even Herr
Blum looks little like It."
IL GU nave the photograph on your brain" an
swers cara, so that Eugene hears
speaking OF photographs" she says, snakes
rhat al new tneory OF me1r BUM ne thinks
peoples brains, as we can OF their faces, It would
oe an easy way OF getting the average 1ntelli-
"a composite Photograph Jack caught at the
phrase with frantic hope. "a composite photo
"a composite photograph echoes the professor,
settling himself TO be Instructive, sis obtained by
exposing different photographs OF the same size,
for the same time, on the same sensitized plate.
These ladies were taken In this way recently, and
1t made a beautiful face. How could 1t do 9th err"
he added, simply enough.
"Apropos OF your explanation, professor" says
Jack. 81 have story 10 tell OF a friend OF mine,
who was the victim OF an unparalleled hoax"
me, and think shall go and SPEAK TO her for a
minute, II youl excuse me. VIII you come lieu
"You had better stay and defend yourself" says
Jack, 'for I'm going to tell"
~ shall need no defense here, am sure, +" she
says, laughing softly. "Au revoirI"
Three weeks after, as Jack and Cara stand be-
fore the newly-f framed picture, he says at was
rather shabby OF you TO do II, but forgive you.
and am just as much In love with IL as ever"
marry them all"
A. no; Utah is remote might
II refuse to tell you" says Cara; but she colors
slightly as she speaks
Your eyes have told me already" he answers,
and there, for a minute, they regard each other
steadily She has so much and he so little! She
has refused him once before, and yet-of late, he
'sDo you think, Cara-that you ever could
love- His eyes finish the sentence for him. and
he reaches his hands toward her with Infinite
longing.
Il think" she says SOFTLY smiling little as she
lays her hands In his, "that might-if were srf-
hciently urged" And then. with one OF those pas
sionate veerings which he knows so well, 81 think
have always loved you, Jack"
Ten day later she receives a note, over which she
smiles as IL has been but few hours since he has
left her:
TO Mrs. jack Hanndford chat ipiH bel:
When did you say tina. you would help form that
composite which will make you Madame Me? Iwant
to BEE statement Of the fact In your own writing.
Yours, JACK.
To which she answers:
You spoke of next month when you were here. Let
II be the twelfth. With all my love and sympathy
the terrible future before you. Lovingly