The St. Johns herald., 1896-09-12
ONE IND TWO.
By WALTER BEsANT.


 There was neither scorn nor hatred in that face. ''Dimidium Anima,'' he said Half of my soul, have some thing to say as we'll Confess, however, first of all, that I 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. We'll, I have made discovery. It is that have been too thorough. I don't quite understand how, logically and naturally, anything else was possi- ble I wanted, heavens knows, all the intellect there was You were, there fore, bound to become the Animal pure and simple. We'll, you see we are not really two, but one. Can't we hit upon an agreement"
 What agreement?"
 "Some agreement, some modus vii yendi. 1 shall get it is true, some of the animal, you will get some of the intellectual, but we shall be 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.
 ''I 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; I, who knew this, was not moved in the slightest degree by her. OhI I know that she is the best girl that the world at this moment has to show. I am fully persuaded of that, yet she has ceased to move me. I think of her intellect, which is certainly much lower than my own, and cannot even admire her. In other words, I cannot be moved by any woman. This terrifes 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. If 1 cannot move men, my career is at an end. What they call magnetism belongs to the ami nal within us. When that is gone, 1 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 he does, is all glitter-evan- escent glitter. He may sit down and hold his tongue, for he can do no more good.
 ''I 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 is only animal. "
 ''No, no! The animal is part of man. understand now. I have done wrong, Brother Half, to separate myself so much from you. Only you carried it too far. You would not work-you would not even give me a decent show. Sup pose-I say suppose-we were united once more. Could I count on being al- lowed to work?"
 "Yes, <" said the Animal, ''I have had a lesson too You shall work" he hesi- tated and shuddered, fin reason, of course-say all the morning, and if you go into the house all the evening""
 ''I would not be hard upon you. I would let you have a reasonable amount of indolence and rest. My success will be less rapid on your account, but it will be more solid Do you think that if we were to be lost again ill each oth- CT should once more feel for that girl as''-
 "Why, said the Animal, "you would be-me, and what I feel for her is, assure you, overwhelming"
 That evening Will Challice sat at the open window in the dark, Nelly's hand in his. My dear" he murmured, "tell me, do you love me more because have realized some of our old dreams?"
 "Will, how can tell you? l love you mot your success. If you had not done so we'll, it would have made no differ ence. Your success is only an accidental part of you" Oh, the metaphysicianl "You are not your success Yet of course don't love you for your fine de- gree, you conceited boy, and yet it is for yourself.
 He kissed her forehead ''The old dreamtime was pleasant wasn't it?- when we chose to be archbishop of Can