The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-04-23
. THE CHILLING OF
J LOREN ELLERY. I
He Made Love TO TWO Sisters, Who
Compared Notes - The Result
Was Unpleasant For Ellery.
BY JACK LONDON.
Copyright, 1899, by Jack London.
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Copyright, 1890, BY Jack London.

The bon Dieu, in his inscrutable wis.,
1om, had seen fit to place two women's
| souls within two fairly beautiful bodies
and to cause them to love each other
dearly. He had likewise deemed 1t dis
cretionary to create them sister and sis
ter. that this affection might bloom rich
and full nor fall prey to the deadly
germs ordinarily sown in the course of
feminine existence. Having done these
things, it is evident he rested from his
labors, leaving these two creatures to
the whirl of Chance.
Chance behaved sanely for a long
while; but, having permitted them to
gain womanhood in each others COM
partnership, it flung them apart by half
the girth of a western state and caused
them to dwell in separate places, one In
smoky metropolis by the seaboard and
one in great valley where minerals
were as common as pebbles in gravel
bank. Chance also brought many strange
things into their lives, and last of all
man. And this man came well recon-
mended, with moral probity, business in
tegrity, healthy bank books, unqualified
.'eur. anu in'iou"..'on anu
soou rooks. nc became great Ifiehas
the sea, and thought he thought much Of
her. After they had come to know each
other well Lutte, whom an imbecie an
cestor had classified as Luella and who
lived in the valley, came on visit to
n1i estei nfhestlhe' Anu .he man.
VIM may oe hnoWh us Loren I'eiy'
'"ne " Anow nei nAe".se. q,
anu VIA, 10 you 'h,nk Oh Lutef
i1ines.lne' VINO was Tue eiuer' asheu one
uhy al'ei hef SISTER ViS'. hau .efn'iha.'
eo IN climax OIL sisteriy love- KISSES ao-
A' "nl anu pi ,n,,
Nom' Hrna, Hi'eIs aiis"ereu.he haa
iohe since taken unto nimseil th's pre-
Tosa,Ne OF aduresS- us TINS way;
!.ule me s,fi; Ahere no niis'ahihs
II. que 10 pr,sht, soou ioohihg, WIN
WIN anu 20 ABOUT ner ana glorious
coior. bat hef brightness ID OF dlner-
ent oioer from yours US are ner LOOKS
ner ViVac'ty, Ief eonipieHion' iou un,
oerstanu' ene pretty htue wien anu
all tnat, put mere nc threw Tue
proper expression INTO MS eyes ana gaz-
ed upon MS ihterlocutor just the correct
number OF instants 10 De thoroughly et'
1ective ana resumed: but she never
conld pe 10 me What you are. IKE ner'
put III uiHereht way from you. 40.
'nire her' put not as lsadmire you.
can respect hef, ana mlsht nave loVed
her had you ana never met. AS It is
Ernestne said on" afterward' and
they both felt high satisfaction with
themselves, each other and things in
general ana particular.
AFTER some time Chance' with ms &C.
cnstomed arch manipulation OF MS hu-
man dice tossed man with mine
across Loren Eilerys pain. AND accord
ing 10 the alhnity which exists between
men possessing natural capital ana men
possessing industrial capital these two
roregathered Tor cooperative explolta-
tion ana mutual beneht. In the course
or the deal Loren Ellery, not desiring TO
be mulcted by the western gentle, hired
a mining expert and went to investigate
t he pretensions of the hole in the ground.
1t so happened that the mine lay among
the outJuttlng spurs OF the mountains
which frinsed the rim of the valley
where Lutte lived and moved.
Naturally, society being limited and
travellers rare, she and Ellery met, and
they saw much OF each other. 80 pleas
urable did he find her company that he
dallled day by day and postponed the
date OF his return. And as he took lib
critics with time, SO did his tongue with
him till he said to Lutte things which
he should not have said and which he
had said before
ITS something like this. Lutte" he
said one day as they drank iced tea on
her long, shaded piazza and thus strove
to adapt themselves more comfortably