The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-05-05
UNlD.,...- HR0MRN SINGER a.

voice at her elbOW-the very Sub-baSS
of all possible voices.
Keyork Arabian was beside her. In
her intense excitement she had not
heard him enter the room and he had
surprised her at once in the breaking
of their joint convention and in the
revelation of her secret. If Unorna
could be said to know the meaning of
the word fear in any degree whatso-
ever, it was in relation to Keyork Ar
abian, the mar who, during the last
few years had been her helper and as
sociate in the great experiment. OF
all men she had known in her life, he
was the only one whom she felt to be
beyond the influence of her powers,
the only one whom she felt that she
could not charm by word, Or touch,
or look.
The best thing you can do is to
put him to sleep at once" said the
little man ''You can be angry after
ward. and, l thank heaven, so can L
and SHALL"
Forget" said Unorna, once more
laying her hand upon the waxen
brow. 'Let it be as though l had
not spoken with you. Drink in your
sleep of the fountain of life; take new
strength into your body and new
blood into your heart. Live, and
when I next wake you be younger by
as many months as there shall pass
hours till then. Sleep
A low sigh trembled in the hoary
beard, and all vas still, save for the
soft and regular breathing.
1.-The united patience of the seven
~arch-angels. coupled with that of Job
and Simon Stylites, would not survive
your acquaintance for a day, observed
Keyork Arabian.
asked, turning to him and pointing to
the sleeper.
She was quite ready to face he1
companion after the first shock of his
unexpected appearance. His small
blue eyes sparkled angrily.
Il am not versed In the law con-
corning real estate in humankind in
the kingdom of Bohemia" he an
swered. You may have property in
a couple of hundred-weight, more or
less, of old bones rather than the
worse for the year and tear Of a
century, but l certainly have some
ownership in the life. Without me
you would have been the possessor of a
remarkably fine skeleton by this time
and of nothing more.
He is mine, Keyork Arabian, alive
or dead! If the experiment fails, and
he dies, the loss is mine. o yours.
Moreover, what l have done is done,
and l will neither submit to your re-
proaches nor listen to your upbraid-
fngs. Is that enough?"
''Of its kind, quite. l will build
an altar to ~Ingratitude, we will bury
our friend beneath the shrine, and
you shall serve in the temple. You
could defy all the cardinal sins if you
would only give your attention to the
subject, merely by the m~onstrously
imposing proportions you would know
how to give them. You dare to tell
me that if he dies you are the only
loser. Do so years of study count for
nothing? Look at me. | am an old
man, and unless / tind the secret OF
life here, in this very room, before
many years are over, | must die-die,
do you understand? Do you know
what it means to die? How can YOU
comprehend that word-you girl, you
child, you thing of five and twenty
summers. You moth. you butterfly,
you thread of floating gossamer! How
can you understand the i~ncalculable
value of Self-of that which is all to
me and nothing to you, or which,
being yours, is everything to you and
to me nothing?: You are so young.
you still believe in things, and good
and evil, and love and hate. What
were you doing here when | found
you playing with life and death, per-
haps with my life, for a gip's trick, in
the crazy delusion hat this old parcel
of humanity can see the shadows OF
things that are not yet? Why did he
hesitate and suffer- Because o
asked that to which he knew there
WIS 80 answer. And you torture ed
him With your will until his individu-
aIity fell into yours and spoke you1
" o DIS.
Unorna's head sunk a little and she
covered her eyes. The truth of what
he said flashed upon her suddenly and
unexpectedly. bringing with it the
doubt which had left her at the mo-
ment when the sleeper had spoken.
She could lot hide her discontinue,
an keyOrk Arabian saw his advan-
tagt.
And for WHAT he asked. begin.
ming TO pace the broad room. TO
know whether a mar VIII love you OF
not: Have you found a second Keyork
Arabian. over whom your eyes have
no nower-re.ther the one nor the
Othc":?'
j" laughed rather brutally at the
thor2ht of her greatest physical pc
~cIIiarity, but then suddenly stopped
shUrt.
They are certainly very remarka-
ble e. e-,' he said. mo e calmly. and
with Il certain uneasiness which
In rnl did not notice IT uondor