The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-06

plihss II, aots everything right. We can
tx 1T without spelling your arrangements,
my enid. Yon'ye got your heart set on"
other N''
mo, Won't have 1t. Yon arc "A good,
nara working, darling child, and your
father 10 not the man to %disappoint you
when yOu-"
"Bnt papa. l."
get along, dear"
dwsndolen WAS ready to cry with vexa-
lion. But there was nothing to do but
start, which she was about to do when her
lu.ner mt upon an idea which filled him
WIN delight, because it 80 deity covered
az the difficulties of the situation and made
tninRS smooth and satisfactory.
I've got 1T. my love, SO that you won't be
robbed OF your holiday and at the sums
s ; aa, %ela .. prstty enthusiastically fixed for
son here--perfectly beautiful creature,
tracy, perfectly beautiful; ! want You to
zee that girl; why, you'll Just 20 mad; you'll
20 mao inside OF q minute; yes, you send
hef right along, GwsndoIen, and tell her
why, she's gone" He turned-she was al
.sauy passing ont ut tho gate. He nut
tereu, II wonder-what's the matter; I
aon,t know what her mouths doing. but I
tnihK ner shoulders are swearing"
=, we'll said Sellers, blithely, to Tracy,
: shhil miss h%er-parents always miss the
childfen as soon as they're out of sight, it's
oniy a natural n wisely ordained par
IhilSy--bu you'll be all right, because Miss
Belle will supply the youthful element for
yon ana to your entire content; and we
ola people will do our best, too. We shall
nave a good enough time. And you'll have
= chanoe to get better acquainted with
ADMIRAL Hawkins. That's q faro character,
Mr.. Tracy--one of the rarest and most en-
OAX1nU CnnFHCkarS thA wand b.s rrn},,oal
Ionll nnd him worth studying. I've
btudled MIN ever since he was Il child, and
have always found him developing. |
really consider that one OF the main Things
that has enabled me to master the difficult
science Of misunderstanding was the livid
banning lnscrutabilitieg of his ways and in
gplrations."
Tracy was not hearing a word. His spirits
were gone; he was dosolate.
yes, a most wonderful character. Con-
cealment-that' the basis of it. Always the
hrst thing you want to do is to find the key
stone g mans character is built ou--then
you've got it. No misleading and appar-
entity Inconsistent peculiarities can fool you
tEen. What doyou read on the senator's
surface? Simplicity; 4 kind of rank pro-
protubsrant simplicity; whereas, in fact,
that's one of the deepest minds in the world.
y per1ectly honest mnn-an absolutely hon.
Y6L WlUuOuJ
doubt the protonndest master Of dissimula-
ton the world has ever SEEM
20, it's devilish." This was wrunp from
the christening Tracy by the aneuished
thought of what might have been if only
the dinner arrangements hadn'tg got mixed.
NO. ! shouldn't call it THAT" said Sellers,
VINO was placidly walking up and
down the room with his hands under his
coat tails and listening to himself talk.
One could quite properly call it devilish in
another man, but not in the senator. Your
term is right-perfectly right grant that
but inc application 10 wrong 1t makes a
great difference. Yes. he is a marvellous
character. lido not suppose that any other
statesman ever had such q colossal sense Of
humor. combined with the ability to totally
conceal 1t. l may except George Washing
ton and Cromwell and perhaps Robespierte,
but draw the line there. A person not an
expert might be in j udRe Hawking COM
pany a lifetime and never find out be had
any more sense of humor than a cemetery,n
A d~eep-drawn, yard-long sigh from the
dlstraught n dreaming artist, followed
by a murmured miserable. oh, misera-
"'Well. no, / shouldn't say that about it,
to conceal his humor, even more if possible
thanI admire the gift itself, stupendous as
it is. Another thing-Gen. Hawkins is a
thinker; q keen, logical, exhaustive, analv-
teal thinker-perhaps the ablest of modern
That is, of course. upon themes
suited to his size, like the glacial period
and the correlation of forces. and the evo-
luton of the Christian from the caterpillar
OF those things; give him a subject
to his size and Just stand back
and watch him think. Why. you can see
the place rock. All. yes, you must know
him; you must get on the inside of aim.
Perhaps the most extraordinary mind since
Aristotle."
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