The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-22
Your wife would be

"never 10 marry. Your wife would be
very unhappy"
''But no one has greater scorn than
you for the man who spends his life
with his lips at the chalice of the poppy"
"True, had forgotten them" She
rose abruptly. "Let us go back" she
said. 1T is better not to stay too long"
AS they walked down the canyon she
looked at him furtiveiy. The men Of her
race were almost all tall and finely pro-
portioned, but they did not suggest
strength as this man did. And his face
it was so grimly determined at times
that she shrank from it, then drew near,
fascinated. 1t had no beauty at all, but
it had subtle power, an absolute au-
dacity, an almost contemptuous fearless
ness in its bold, fine outline, a dominat-
ing intelligence in the keen, deeply set
eyes, and a hint of weakness, where and
what she could not determine, that mys-
titled and magnetized her.
al know you little better" she said,
'just lttle-enough 10 make my Curl
osity ache and jump. At the same time
know now what l did not before-that
might climb and mine and study and
watch, and you would always be beyond
me. There is something subtle and
evasive about you-something / seem to
be close to always, yet never can see or
grasp"
at is merely the barrier of sex. A man
can know a woman fairly well, because
, her life, consequently the interests which
mold her mind and conceive her
thoughts, are more or less simple. A
mans life is so complex, his nature so in
evitably the sum and work Of it-much
of it lies SO far outside of woman's sphere,
his mind spiked with thousand magnets,
each pointing to different possibility
that she would need divine wisdom to
comprehend him in his entirety, even il
he made her diagram Of every cell in
his brain-which he never would, out Of
consideration for both her and his own
vanity. But within certain restrictions
there can be a magnificent sense Of
comradeship."
"But woman, think, would never
be happy with that something in the
man always beyond her grasp-that
something which she could be nothing
to. She would be more jealous of that
independence Of her in man than In an
other woman"
"That was pure insight" he said. "You
could not know that"
"No," she said, II had not thought Of
It before"
had made martyr Of myself on a
three cornered stone at the entrance OF
the canyon waiting to duena them out.
"Never will do this again" / exclaimed,
with that virtue born of discomfort, as
they came in sight.
my dearest Eustaquia," said Diego,
kissing my hand gallantly, "thou hast
given me pleasure SO often, most charm
ing and clever of women; thou hast but
added one new art to thy overtlowing
store"
We mounted almost Immediately up
on returning, and was alone with Cho-
nita for q moment. "Do you realize
that you are playing with fireY said
warningly. "Estenega is a dangerous
man; the most successful man with
women have ever known"
~ do not deny his power" she said.
"But l am safe. for the many reasons
thou knowest of. And being safe why
should l deny myself the pleasure Of
talking to him' shall never meet his
like again. Let me live for little
while"
AYE, but do not live too hardl 1t
hurts down into the core and marrow"