The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-18
News Novelties, No. 8.
ONE AND TWO.
By WALTER BESANT.

don't quite understand how, loglcaiiy
and naturally, anything else was possi-
BILE. I wanted, heavens knows. all the
intellect there was. You were, there
fore, bound to become tho Animal pure
and simple. Well, You see we are not
feally two, but one. Can't we hit upon
an agreement"
"What agreement"
"Some agreement. some modus vi.
vendi ] shall get, 1t Is true, some OF
the animal, you will get some OF the
intellectual, but we shall DO united
again, and after all''- He looked very
kindly upon himself and held out his
hand. So they stood with clasped hands
looking at each other.
81 found 1t out through Nell" the
intellectual half went on. "You went
70 see her every morning; went every
evening. You were always brimful OF
love for her; !, who knew this, was not
moved In the slightest degree by her.
Obi know that she is the best girl that
the world mt this moment has to show.
I am fully persuaded Of that. yet she
has ceased to move me. / think OF her
intellect which is certainly much lower
than my own, and cannot even admire
her. In other words, cannot be moved
by any woman. This terrifies me-"
"Why?'
''It threatens my future. Don't You
see? He who cannot be moved by woman
| Is no longer man. But man can only be
moved by brother man. IL / cannot
move men, my career Is at an end. What
they call magnetism belongs to the ami
NAL within us. When that is gone. /
now perceive, when the animal is
killed, the rest of the man has no longer
any charm, any attraction, any persua-
sion, any power Of leading, teaching.
compelling or guiding. His success,
whatever ne does, is all glitter-evan-
escent glitter. He may sit down and
hold his tongue, for he can do no more
good"
81 only half understand.
"Intellect, in short, my lower half,
Is of no use without human passion.
That is what it means We have gone
too far Let us end it"
"How? You despise the man who IL
only animal. F"
"No, no! The animal is part of man
I understand now. have done wrong
Brother Half, to separate myself 81
much from you. Only you carried it to-
far. You would not work-you woult
not even give me decent show. Sup
pose--I say suppose-we were unite'
once more Could count ON being al
lowed TO work?''
eyes, [" said the Animal, II have ha'
J q lesson too You shall work, he hesi
tated and shuddered, Gin reason, @
course--say all the morning, and IL 20
20 into the house all the evening.
"I would not he hard upon you
would let you have a reasonable amour
Of Incidence and rest. My success Wi
: be less rapid on your account but
, will be more solid. Do you think tha
! If we were to be lost again in each otf
! er should once more feel for that gil
as"
; "Why," said the Animal. 'you woul
: bone, and what I feel for her is,
assure You, overwhelming.
That evening Will Challice sat at tn
;. open window in the dark, Nelly's han
q in his. "My dear, ;" he murmured, tie
q me- do you love me more because hay
n realized soms Of our old dreamsT'
d "Will, how can tell you? / love yc
: NOT your success If you had not dol
T 30 well, it would have made no diffe
't ence Your success is only an accident
part Of you" Oh, the metaphysical
l. ''You are not your success. Yet
y course dent love you for your fine d
10 gree, you conceited boy. and yet 1t
g for yourself.
p He kissed her forehead ''The o
70 dreamtime was pleasant, wasn't it?
t. when we oaose to be archbishop OF Ca