The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-27
ONE And TWO.
By WALTER BEsAET.

him with strangely softened face.
There was neither scorn nor hatred in
that face. ''Dimidinm Anime," he
said Half Of my soul, have some
thing to say as we'll Confess, however,
first of all, that was right Had it not /
been for this step-the most severe /
measure possible, l admit-nothing
would have been achieved, eh?''
Perhaps. You would work. You see.
"Yes. Well, have made discovery.
II is that have been too thorough
don't quite understand how, logically
and naturally, anything else was posi-
BILE. / wanted, heavens knows, all the
intellect there was. You were, there
fore, bound to become the Animal pure
and simple. Well, you see we are not
really two, but one. Can't we hit upon
an agreement
What agreement
Some agreement. some modus vi
yendi shall get, it 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 it out through Nell, )" the
intellectual half went on. "You went
to see her every morning; / went every
evening You were always brimful of
love for her; l, who knew this, was not
moved in the slightest degree by her.
Obi know that she is the best girl that
the world at this moment has to show.
| am fully persuaded of that, yet she
has ceased to move me. l 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. 3"
"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. If | 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 Ii
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 he does is all glitter-evan
= escent glitter He may sit down ant
y hold his tongue, for he can do no NOR
L good"
: : 81 only half understand.
a Intellect, in short, my lower half
"a =, - I'm
!, That is what it means We have gon
- too far. Let us end il"
! How? You despise the man who
l. only animal.
10 mo, no! The animal is part of mar
"A understand now. have done wrong
n Brother Half, to separate myself s
l. much from you. Only you carried it tc
far. You would not work-you woul
not even give me decent show. SUI
pose-I say suppose-we were unite
once more. Could count on being a
In lowed to work."
Eyes" said the Animal, 81 have hs
IL q lesson too. You shall work, " he hes
til tated and shuddered, in reason,
he course-say all the morning, and if "
Sc go into the house all the evening.
OK 81 would not be hard upon you.
ID, would let you have a reasonable amou
CHI of Incidence and rest. My success WI
rly be less rapid on your account, but
his will be more solid. Do you think tn
ng if we were to be lost again in each OF
rs, er / should once more feel for that g
M as'--
a "Why," said the Animal, "you won
oro be-me, and what l feel for her Is
90 assure you, overwhelming. "
,oh That evening Will Challice sat at
nst open window in the dark, Nelly's ha
q in his. my dear, " he murmured, IT
t,v me, do you love me more because l ha
49, realized some of our old dreams?"
49, "Will, how can l tell you? love
onr mot your success. If you had not dc
~ SO we'll, it would have made no diff
NC ence. Your success is only an atciden
1;s. part of you" oh, the metaphysical
tho "You are not your success. Yet
CSC course don't love you for your fine
lose gree, you conceited boy. and yet it
rer for yourself. +"
He kissed her forehead. 'The
r dreamtime was pleasant, wasn't II
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