The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-02-28

though wished to ask the missionary
about his interview with Teddy Catty,
and had, of course, rational human mo-
tives for such an interest in the lad, one
puerile triviality after another preoccu-
pied me, so that had Just word with
him before the ships company parted
at Liverpool.
We were in the custom house. The
missionary's wife, thin, pale, shabby,
quietly executive and lady, kept or
der among her children in a corner of
the great, bare. overlighted, ugly place,
and beside her sat Teddy Catty, with
his hat pulled over his eyes.
felt that l could not speak to him
there. To do so would, it seemed, en-
phasize the cruel, bold publicity of tine
place So went to where the mission.
airy stood over his bags and boxes, a
queer lot, and asked him, if the worth.
lesspess of the words did not choke him,
to tell the boy goodby for us and to say
that we felt for him. ! stepped short,
shamed with the thought of how little
we felt, realizing for once not only the
powerlessness Of human sympathy, but
its painfully absurd deficiency in guam
tity, the unnecessary thickness OF our
wadding of stupidity. Then l reflected
as stood there that this whole little
episode of our acquaintance with the
missionary and the clown, so slight, yet
so dyed in the primary colors of life,
its grotesqueness and comedy and in
consequence, its mystery and tragedy,
was ending. or rather. as is the way Of
life, fading, passing, like cloud, into
something else, and that soon the
quaint pair would exist for me no more,
and rebelled against the mutability of
existence. said to the missionary: ~
shall be in London in week or two. /
don't suppose I'll ever be the least good
to You or to Teddy Catty, and there is
no reason in keeping up such an nc
quaintance as ours, but for no smaller
reason than that we are all human be-
ings'- The missionary's eyes respond
ed so adequately with humor and good
deal beside that for a MON, mt it did not
occur to me to finish my santenca. and
then concluded Let me come to see
you or your wife moment to hear how
thihfsS diN. ioh II pibbuuiy huOW sOllo-
thing of TEDDY Catty for as much as a
fortnight longer
Yes, he thought his friendship with
tho clown might survive all devouring
time so long, ard he said he would be
glad to see nc again.
Yet had been in London week and
had not locked up my fellow passen
gers, when one day as Amy and were
going through the amazingly crowded
rooms of the Royal academy whom
should we see but the little clown. He
was sitting on one Of the divans, dress.
ed in the conventional mourning of a
law loving Englishman, frock coat
and Grape banded silk hat Identifying
Teddy Catty's little figure We saw
him furtively wipe his eyes as he gazed
at the gilt and canvas covered wall be.
/ fore him. and we knew Emmy's picture
was there. We soon found it. 1t was a
little one. hung rather high, and like
several thousand others in that home of
English art it was of baby. and. again
like the majority Of them, it was poor
picture-dull, conventional. Whatever
had been in poor Emmy's heart when
she painted it was concealed under a
! false, frigid method faithfully carried
out
Concluded to morrotD.)