The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-01-26

es! l shall not grudge the money-the
need of it is so patent-but it certainly
does not speak well for blood and fam
lily that these exemplars Of it should let
themselves thus supinely starve, owning
principality, land enough to make
fortunes for whole northern commu-
nifty"
Don't judge till we know tho story.
I am sure there is one behind all this, "
Bertram said, sitting down at the small
table and beginning to sharpen pencil
Tanning laughed again, saying:
"What it must be to have the newspa-
per imagination! Take my word for it,
when so much that is picturesque lies
on the surface, there is seldom any
thing below it. "
The other looked at him keenly.
MAY be you are right, h. said Then
alter little pause, Tiff we f i that
p3or woman Wit out a hi tory, ! hope
We are mon enough to e We Eor tnJ
Same way
What do you mean"' askei Fan
ming, with languid lift of brows.
Tie other burst out impetuously.
"Hang it all, you know well enough
Understand, old man, ] don't mean tC
preach or be impertinent-God knows
I've little enough room-lut somehow
can't forget who and what you are
what habit you have Of looking anC
acting unutterable things nor how wo
mems hearts seem to flutter to you a
the bird to the bough. | know you ar,
not deliberate trifer except whore tn
party Of the other part ; we'll able t.
take care of HERSELF
Excuse me-" Tanning broke in, :"
think l see your drift. My morals-m.
immorals event. do not defend, bu
il point of taste confess myself tTifl
tetchy. While in this sapless, whit
haired creature in the harlequin robe
see tremendous possibilities as a model
for anything else A shrug finishe
the sentence as no words could hav
done.
"Fastidiousnoss is a coed thing one
| in way" Dertram said sententiously
A low tap fell on the open door. Isaa
| stood framed in it, saying With his hes
Z
bow, Masters compliments ter 4
gentemens, an he be pleased fer ter Sc
um in his own room down STARS. "
Six weeks of sojourring under tn
same roof brought equal discoveries t
the guests and their entertainers. l.
the very briefest space the FIRE masonr
of gentle breeding set them at ease on
with the other. Even before that tn
intuition OF sympathy had made Be1
tram feel that the harlequin robe
was the outward and visible sign c
crownless martyrdom. With the weare
of it he was soon ON the friendliest foot
ing. She was, he found, full Of deli
cate intelligence, of more delicate rel
icence She spoke little of anything
of herself, her family, her surround
ings, nothing at all; yet as listene
was inspired, inspiring; her speakin
eyes, her mobile lips, tightening, darl
ening, quivering, smiling, as the tai
she heard was grave or gay.
1t was much the same with Majc
Lanier, though the strangers saw hin
more rarely, For days together til
agony of old wounds was such as
make heavy narcotic sleep his only rel
uge. Through the time of it his daugl
ter laid carefully aside her rotting sill
gown and went about in cotton, wor
and faded, but Of pristine FRESHNESS
compared with that woeful attire So
more wrath than womanlike, st
wrought at household tasks, away frol
yet within call OF her sleeping charge.
AT first she had sat painfully after
tive to each word of the newcomer
with always sort of dumb question
her eyes. BY and by, hearing from the
casual speech that Bertram had con
thither to fird out for gre 1t me 'ropo
itan newspaper the minel II ri hes ,
pyFerty of tie land; that 81 min can
vi oily of his uv'l va rant mpu o, h
folr, whatever its source, seerled
vanish quito away. She smiled east
laughed even sometimeF-at quiz
and cranks OF table talk or lost ierse
with pathetic delight in the SUNNI,
story books that the newcomers flung
her way.
81 have never before seen one Irinte
since the war" she said to Bertra
one day, then blushed deep over sue
, revelation. Long before he had note
that the bookcase held only Shakespear
Milton, The Spectator, and a fe
well thumbed volumes of earlier heroe
Each Of them Darragh lew by hea
: from cover 70 cover. She had read the
through how many times for how MAJ
years to tie blind man, whose hear
mind, life, lay wholly with what W
past. These, his sparse favoritos, 81
had kept, the feeble remnant of libral
despoiled. The wherefore of the despoi
ing, or rather the necessity of it, W
) TO Bertram a tempting mystery, one
whose solut on he was vowed.
TO be continued.