Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-03-19

: you III pictures.
! Clarence groaned helplessly.
Great heavens, Miss Pearsonw he
/ exclaimed. What do you take me for,
( anyway I an no mind-reader.
didn't know you believed in such
stuff"
"Of course, you didn't know. That
/ was what I meant when I said you
didn't understand me as you should
I have dabbled in all the occult SCI
ences. I firmly believe in spiritualism.
hypnotism and theosophy-"
Socialism. syntax and prosody." he
interposed. viciously.
Don't interrupt me. please" she
turned, with an air of severity. Il
know that it is possible to read the
future in cards and in the stars and
l also know that minG-reading will in
time become as commonplace as con-
versing by means OF spoken and writ
ten words is now. To be sure. am
not such a stanch advocate OF idealism
as to assert that our bodies exist in
Imagination only, but do believe that
mind is far more powerful than mat
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to me, Mr.. Hay" she added, tentative
ly, that you should be so practical. I
have always supposed that an artist
should have an exceedingly vivid
imagination"
Il am not entirely devoid of it," he
retorted. bitterly; but I exercise COM
mon sense more than anything else.
Besides, am not a Raphael nor a Mu-
rillo. Perhaps if I were I should be
something of an anomaly with their
powers Of vision-seeing allied to my
decided practically. But I am only
commonplace illustrator, capable Of
earning a good salary, and I never ex-
pect to be anything else, because it
isn't in me. I'm too practical. But
am pretty true to nature, and I think,
Miss Pearson. that if you Will give
fellow a fair show I could illustrate
your story as well as any one"
But she was obdurate to all his ap-
peals.
Don't argue with me or try to
change my views" she said. This is
no mere whim. On the contrary, it is
a serious matter. I decided upon these
conditions years ago. If you cannot
do as l have suggested We are not ft-
ted for each other"
It was the most difficult problem
which Clarence Hays practical mind
had ever been called upon TO solve.
There we're times when he had serious
doubts of Miss PearsOu's sanity, and
had she been a less attractive woman
he would have abandoned all hope Of
winning her and left her to find some
body else to do her Illustrating. But
whenever ne began to consider that
course OF action the valves Of his
heart contracted with a sudden spasm
Of desolation, and he would once more
begin cudgeling his brain for posi-
BILE clew to the theme of her story. He
hunted up every old magazine and
newspaper in which she had ever had
published and read her work
carefully, in the hope Of thereby gain
ing some idea Of what might natural !
ly be expected of her. But she had /
written in many veins and he might |
in the stars as in the printed pages
she mirrored the state Of her
mind in the days gone by. Besides, in
none of them was there visible a trace
Of the belief in the supernatural that
had characterized their last conversa-
ton, and the theories then expressed
eft him more mystifed as to her prob
able subject than anything else could
lave done.
She had stipulated that at the end
If month he should have come to her
With his drawings. Then they were
o read her story and examine the pic
ures together. If each was the COM
Element of the other she would marry
lin as soon as he wished. Three
Teeks Of the allotted time had passed
way and Clarence Hay had fretted
nd fumed himself into a mere shadow
t his former robust self, but with all
is worrying and specializing no wan
from her high train OF
bought had pierced his obtuse brain.
lie studied out a plot every night in
is dreams, but they were all differ
1t, and when it came to selecting one L
ON such a heterogeneous mass of {
ncies his predicament was as woeful =
) though his slumber had been vision Z
SIS. He was about TO go to her and
,plain that as mind-reading was not .
5 forte his was a hopeless case, and =
at in the name of justice she ought y
be lenient and rescind her unreason- =
lie decree.
But just at that time he received an
spiratiOn.
On the last day OF the month he pre- q
nted himself before Miss Pearson ~
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