Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-04-20

partnership OF man with a purpose.
Her late lamented husband had pur.
pose, such as it was, but it failed to sat
isfy his youthful. bride. 1t consisted OF
well.directed effort to keep his wealth
intact with the least possible effort,
and sleep away as many hours of day
light as possible in order that he might
be in form to play whist in the even
Ing. But now she was to revel in a
husband with the burden of life work
ever wrenching at his vtals And when
this life work was sure to win him
| fame as a great writer-which she
| thoroughly believed would prove the
case with Grimes-she was ready to
place her entire fortune at his disposal
During their wedding journey Grimes
lived in heaven, for he poured the unin-
terrupted flow of his anticipated joys
of his life work into the sympathetic
ears of his bride and sealed it with
kisses.
How his heart swelled with JOY when
they returned 10 the mansion prepared
for them and entered, arm in arm. the
coy little library in which he was to
do his life work!
She sat down in his lap for few
minutes and told him how much she
expected of him. She promised not to
bother him, then kissed him and ran
away
Bnt she came back in just an hour to
peep in and see how his work was get
ting on. He had written sentence,
jotted down half-dozen catch words
and drawn curious scrolls and rect
angles about them. OF course, he had
to stop long enough to encircle her
waist and take another kiss
When she went out, the nebulous
idea that he had been grasping after
had vanished into space. Grossly pal
pable chairs, desk, paper and pens
were all that remained. He took down
a few books in the hope of bringing
back the elusive something which was
to be the initial of his life work 1t
didn't return.
After pacing the room for time, he
decided that only in the largeness and
freedom of out-ot-doors could his con.
ception come to him. Deep in the
bosom of nature his thoughts would
crystalline into the forms of art. To
the bosom of nature he would repair.
He took the electric car to the end OF
the line, then transferred to the horse
car A few rods beyond was charm.
ing wood, to which he walked
His trousers brushed against ma
ture burdock while climbing the fence
and he spent the next half hour III
picking the cookies from his garments
Then he stretched himself out under e
big maple and waited for the heavenly
vision to descend.
As it seemed little shy of approach
his thoughts drifted to wondering what
sort of u fellow was on his desk now
He pitied the miserable lot of the mar
who must slave instead of entering
upon the glories of life work.
brace of bloodthirsty flies of a va.
riety unknown in the newspaper office
opened their batteries upon MIN. He
rolled and lodged and struck. But
they held to the siege.
Hearing the tinkle of an approaching
horse car, he leaped up and ran t.
catch it before it should start on its re
turn trip.
When down town he felt more a
ease again.
IF could just drop into some quiet
place for minute believe | could ge
the clew to the whole thing and ther
work it out at my desk later"
He yielded and dropped into the clul
in fact, into the same soft, deer
chair by the broad and sunny from
window IN which his predecessor, al
the husband of his wife, had pursued
his dreamful life work.
The unusual physical exercise OF his
retreat into the bosom of nature haC
fatigued him aud the warm sunshin,
made him drowsy. His head dropped
back against the soft leather and h,
slept.
II will make him confess that hav,
been very good to him In letting hin
; alone all day, and I'll make him Civ,
me the whole evening as con-pensa