The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-15
BY JAN. voN DIETRICH.
THEIR FIFTH ACT..

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 So they came back, she and the Pagan. silently. under cover of the early morn ing fog. symonds. the butler, let them in at the servants door and was glad hung upon the outcome of their return ing, It Was "extraordinary-most extra- orolnary, and as he smuggled them into tne oi9e room and went away to set the stage Tor the masters entrance he tram- 6le0 for both of them and for himself. nsa been singular honeymoon p.lmltve-a Dit from some old human sy s.0sy mat had got into their century of density and figures. She. a daughter of iron and steel millions. he, the boy from ! q provincial city, come up to town with a career to bo fashioned from nothine- absolutely nothing. To her the Lady rate mad dealt lands and ease with stud. csn,,m ,ss, with their accompaniments. not ex-
 insecure roof. hunger. work and yet more work and the skill in the thinking fin-
 From the ends of the social body they had come together with certainty that was as iniexible as 1t. vas blind. Until mat morning of their meeting her days town and country and seaside, dinner ana ball swirl, sultors. gowns and little tattle.' Never glimpse into the great in sound of her chamber window: neve,. an ihkiing of the world where real event 5 crowded ones very minutes, until that morning when the Pagan casting about on Her. - - ". .p Thc Pasan's year in town would have broken pro the heart of any but 2 country had added to thsir k re. but all his hopes nf beginning were successivery broken ny. the powers that rule the destinies of GT0NH ht8 oil gtudiNG intn n anr oiau 10 wait for the better time; office boys ln brsss buttons learned to know him at sight and turn him back from art deal CTS doors while the world of business. m Its own ways. signifed that it had ad- Nsft!sing illustrations in plenty ara would trouble him to abandon his cain dents When the last neWspaper edftn, had snapped out his positive "No' the ra&an. had found nook in the system cf S'e snyois ehe m,gna draw catalogue pictures !nantei clocks for a living. aaf,d had reso- futely set to work to solve his prohlern n selsasas snat nara Way. sThsn a yellow journal stt nal story and picture if they were os'ght ard timely and of it's circumscrib- So. npon the uo.ning appo,nted of tbe Lady Fete the Pagan had risen and he- thought himself of dozen likely stories sn1 s,in,p pictures settled upon a story and Pac.ure t peculiarly Hers and the yellow
 
 saIlied forth to the hunt
 10 nm they were but names, She and Her father, the iron and steel millions and the summer house in the little sea Vlhage-names and symbols that carried TO more weight than a hundred of their kind. He was not hardened, nor likely op,.6 Co become con so. but the yellow Journal thlnkinsiy. making no reck on how he hunted 90 that he brought home game me me Erana world was vague and remote, ana ne had never credited 10 with heart or capabilities because he had never found them in his probing. Heart? -IutI had It not been given a choice? Had it aSs nos eo,niy ras turned back at It's every want yellow journal by way of bread If 1t would insist upon cutting yellow capers ana upon paying him for nothing but danby wash drawings. why 70 he itN one must make war by the rules of war. and remain alive if possible
 By this loose philosophy !re lived in ing somehow and sleeping somewhere while he gathered bls facts. These were slender enouRh-the ieatings or doubt is iul story that concerned Her alone-but m hts deft finger and under the rules or yellow war tt would grow into much even sundays dinner. TaIkative Sy- inonds yielded hizn a quarter column and man and hostler gave him minute data Tor picture ot the town establishment II could have been no other than Lady Fate who set him hungering for a sketch of Her.. That was a queer detail in their story; they had often discussed 1t since He could have worked from photographs the yellow journals files were diabolI- caily eomplete-but the reasoning fingers itched to draw Her for the workman ship of the thing. so he loitered and was caught red-handed.
 The early dawn gave poor lighting back there In the shrubbery. but the sketch had force. even in It's rough outlines She had eye for such details and knew good work. There was swing and action In the handling of the blowzed hair and armfuI of ffowers-and She said so as She fanded 1t hack. Then. too. 1t was most natural that She should feel interest in the workman himself when he surrend- cred handful of torn paper-the draw ing and his notes for the story, By the rules Of yellow warfare he accounted for his presence in Her world carrying of ms outrageously worn coat aRd frayed collar with easy disregard of their exist ence. Not until he had outlined the story as it would have been printed did She realize the extent of his sacrifice And 1t was silly-silly-her offer of money It deserved his laifghter. When he had gone She knew how greatly she lay in his debt and how remote were the chances Of repaying him.
 ' It was winter when she saw him next. Then he turned up at A very awkward moment in a stunning tour and per suaded a half-crazed Italian that She was not answerabie for the inhuman system of things as they are. He wore a new overcoat, but the summer suit was un- derneath It. absolutely fraSed at seam and buttonhole. At first he bade fair to vanish as suddenly as he had at the former meeting, but She persuaded him to accompany Her to a cheap restauran mt in the neighborhood. His lecture was sensible and mertted. and She promised to dwell in Her world thereafter, leaving