Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-19
"Is il quite painless?"

Quite, If you give 1t gradually. Ii you
urry the thing, the man feels as though he
were being smothered. But the real diff
Guilty is what to do with him, as I said be-
FORE"
"Take him home and get q keeper from
the lunstic asylum" the Wanderer sug-
gested.
"Then comes the whole question of an in
quiry into his sanity" objected Keyork.
1--WE come back to the starting point. We
must settle all this before We go to him. A
lunatic asylum is not club in this country.
There is a great deal of formality connected
with getting into it: and great deal more
connected with getting out. Now, I could
not get keeper for Kafka without going to
the physician in charge and making state
ment and demanding an examination and
all tine rest of it. And Israel Kafka is
person of Importance among his own people.
He comes of great Hebrews in Moravia, and
we should have the whole Hebrews quarter
which means nearly the whole of Prague,
in broad sense-about our ears in "a hours.
No, no, my friend. To avoid an enormous
scandal things must be done very quetly in
deed"
81 cannot see anything to be done, then,
unless We bring him here" said the Wan
derer, falling into the trap from sheer per-
plexiiy. Everything that Keyork had said
was undeniably true.
"He would be d nuisance in the house."
answered the sage, not wishing, for reasons
of his own, to appear to accept the propo-
sition too eagerly. "Not but that the In
diyidual would max. capital keeper. He
is as gentle as he is strong, and as quick as
tiger cat"
$50 far as that is concerned" said the
Wauderer coolly, 81 could take charge of
him myself, if you did not object to my
presence"
"You do not trust me-" said the other,
with sharp glance
'My dear Keyork, we are old acquaint-
snces, and l trust you implicitly to do what
ever you have predetermined to do for the
advantage of your studies, unless someone
interferes with you. You have no more re-
spect for human life or sympathy for hu-
man suffering than you have belief in the
importance of anything not conducive to
your researches. am perfectly well aware
that if you thought you could learn some
thing by making experiments upon the body
of Israel Kafka you would not scruple to
make living mummy of him. You would
do it without the least hesitation. I should
expect to find him with his head cut of,
living bv means of glass heart and think
ing through q rabbits brain. That is the
reason do not trust you. Before l could
deliver him into your hands I would re-
quire of you contract to give him back
unhurt-and contract of the kind you
would consider binding"
Keyork Arabian wondered whether
Unorua, in the recklessness of her passion,
had betrayed the nature of the experiment
they had been making together, but mo-
ment's reflection told him that he need
have no anxiety on this score. He under
stood the Wanderers nature too we'll to sus-
pect him of wishing to convey a covert hint
instead Of saying openly what was in his
mind.
Taste one of these oranges" he said, by
way of avoiding an answer. "They have
just come from Smyrna" The Wanderer
smiled as he took the proiered fruit
$50 that unless you have serious objec-
tion 70 nv presence" he said, continuing his
former speech, "you will have me as guest
SO long as Israel Kafka is here"
Keyork Arabian saw no immediate es-
cape.
''My dear rfriendr' he exclaimed with alac-
rity. "If you are really in earnest, am as
really delighted. So far from taking your
distrust i'll. regard it as q providentialIv
fortunate bias of your mind. since it will
keep us together for time. You will be
the only loser. You see how simply liYe."
''There is a simplicity which is the ex-
tremest development of refined sybarsm,"
the Wanderer said, smiling again. II know
your simplicity of old. 1t consists of getting
precisely what you want, and in producing
local earthquakes and revolutions when you
cannot get it. Moreover, YOU want what is
good-to the taste, at least"
"There is something in that" answered
Keyork, with a merry twinkle In his eve.
Happiness is a matter OF speculation.
Comfort is matter of fact. Most men are
uncomfortable because they do not know
what they want. If you have tastes, study
them. If you have intelligence, apply it to
the question OF gratifying your tastes. Con-
suit yourself frst-and nobody second. Con-
slider this orange-I am fond of oranges, and
they suit my constitution admirably. Con-
slider the difficulty have had in procuring
it at this time of year-not in the wretched
condition in which they are sold in the mar
ket, plucked half green in Spain or Italy
and ripened on the voyage in the ferment.
ing heat of the decay OF those which are al
ready rotten-buf ripe from the tree and
brought to me directly by the shortest and
quickest means possible. Consider this
orange. say. Do you vainly imagine that
if had but two or three like it l would offer
you one?"
II would not be so rash as to imagine any,
thing of the kind, my dear Keyork. 1 know
you very we'll. If you offer me one 1t is be-
cause you have weeks supply at least"
Exactly" said Keyork. "And few to
spare, because they will only keep week
as like them. and because would no more
run the risk of missing nv orange week
hence for your sake than would deprive
myself of it to-day"
"a nd that is your simplicity?'
"That is nv simplicity. 1t is indeed a
perfectly simple matter for there is only
one idea in it, and in all things carry that
one idea out to its ultimate expression. That
one idea, as you very we'll put it. is to have
exactly what want in this world"
"And will you be getting what you want
in having me quartered upon you rs poor
Israel Kafka's housekeeper?" asked the
Wanderer, with an expression Of amusement.
But Keyork did not vince.
Precisely" be answered without hesita-
tion. ''In the first place, you will relieve
me of much trouble and responsibility, and
the Individual will not be so often called
away from his manifold and important
household duties. In the second place, L
shall have most agreeable and intelligent
companion. with whom can talk as long
as I like. In the third place, 1 shall un-
doubtedly satisfy my curiosity"
''In what respect, if you please?"
81 shall discover the secret of your won
derlul interest in Israel Kafka's welfare 1
always like to follow the workings of L
brain essentially different from my own, as
know that yours is. Your solicitude for
Kafka is philanthropic. of course How
could it be anything else? Philanthropy
deals with 4 class of ideas wholly unfamiliar
to me. l shall ieara much IN your society,""
And possibly 1 shall learn something
from you" the Wanderer answered. "There