San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-03

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But thought in his then physical con-
dition was an i~mpossibility. The more
he ~endeavored TO muster ideas into line,
to pursue suggestions and to reach def
mite conclusions, the more elusive did
each and all become. The affair was at
a deadlock which his wearied brain re-
fused even TO strive to break, busying it
self ~perversely instead with the require
ments of his wearied body. Ma u-e he'd
been pushed to the point of re-:ss.nse
and dOggedly demanded her rights.
Had the case been that of another
man Royal would have recognized the
futility of his effort at once, but for
himself he persisted fully half an hour
in the totally useless experiment of try
ing to force nerve and brain tissue to
work of which for the time they were
incapable, thereby proving that knowl-
edge and experience admit of more ready
application to General than to particular
cases, and also the truth of the PROPOSE
ton that a man has usually n rule for
Ills HtlSlDOI dlu dlOJucI IOI hLIctll.
However, he gave it up at last, forced,
like his betters, to admit that so long as
spirit shall be incorporate in matter it
must submit to the limitations of mat
ter. He made such temporary explana-
tons to the ladies under his che an
such arrangements for their comfort as
would relieve him of anxiet~ o. tl~ir
account for the hours necessary to a2cUCe
needed rest for himself.
When he awOke the light was strug-
Cling through the shutters with the gray
pallor peculiar to winter dawn. The
great hotel and the streets around 1t
were as still as the heart of a desert.
Royal dressed himself and went to the
window. All along the street, in places,
shadows lay, as sharply defined as sill
houettes by the electric glare, which
deals little in the soft shading and witch
cry of the moonlight which it Stimulates.
1t was too early even for the rafting of
milk carts or the matutinal billingsgate
of sparrows; but away in the distance,
beyond the voicelesS thoroughfares and
expressionless houses, the sky was family
coloring for joy in a coming good.
Royal drew a chair to the window,
and grappled anew with the situation,
taking it externally, and as apart from
himself, after the manne of a man of
action whose intuitive position relative
to circumstances is that of an extra
neous, coercive force, rather than one
which is inherent and, insensibly, regu-
lative.
1t did not take him many moments to
decide that a disclosure of the true state
of the case was inevitable, and must be
made as speedily as possible. In spite
of the intimate connection with the at
fairs of the dead man which had been
thrust upon him, he knew next to moth
ing of his family relations Oh circum-
stances. He might have brothers and
sisters, wen parents, living with whom
it would be necessary to communicate
at once by letter or telegram. There
would be funeral arrangements to make,
and explanations of some sort to give to
the curious. A man dying amid a hotel
full of people cannot be carried to e
cemetery. and incontinently buried
without further cognizance being taken
of the matter than such as would be
involved in the settlement of hotel and
undertaker's charges. None knew bet
ter than Royal the impossibihty OF
avoidance or Escape from the omnipres-
To BE Continued.