Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-07

taste. He had a vile temper, wicked lit
tie eyes and an unregenerate habit of pune
tuating his remarks with his heels. 1t can
readily be seen. therefore, that social in
tercOurse with him was what the insurance
companies call extra hazardous His
one accomplishment was his voice. Some
times when respondent he would express
his melancholy in a dolOrOus sing-song
that quavered out over the country in:
No one to love. none to caress.
Wandering alone through this worlds
wilderness.
Some appre ciative person, noting Nc
Nultys long upper lip, his strong preju-
dices and his undying hatred of anything
that savored of law and OrGer, saw a strik-
Ing resemblance to one of the nations of
the earth, and dubbed him McNulty in a
flash.
On a certain afternoon McNulty, stroll
ing idly about his domain, observed that
Hendricks, whom, for considerations en-
tirely sentimental. he occasionally conde-
scended to serve, was unusually worried
and dOwncast. This melancholy tendency,
he had observed with pain had increased
Of late, and McNulty, himself perfectly care
free, could not in the least understand it.
He ambIed up to where Hendricks was sit
ting silently on the fence, and into his
downcast face murmured, at short range,
his fearsome wall:
No one to love. none to caress.
Wandering alone through This worlds
wilderness.
quit, said Hendricks, In alarm 80
McNulty strOlled off, taking his rebuff with
philosophical calmness and picking his
teeth with a blade of grass.
Presently the sound of wheels made him
prick up his ears, and he saw stout. red
faced man drive up and alight With the
quick intuition of the people with whom
he was strategically allied, McNulty de-
tected a landlord, and knew him for an
enemy instantly. With Characteristic in
science. therefore. he strolled over. and in
a most offensive manner planted himself
directly in the stout mans way. He, with
that sublime courage of ignorance and ut
ter disregard of consequences which is the
Americans heirloom, fiicked McNulty
smartly with his cane.
In flash McNulty wheeled-like a bat
terry going into action-and with irreproach-
able technique planted his foot just where
heavy gold watch chain, after laboriously
circumnavigating the fat mans prOtuber-
ance. was triumphantly clutching a vest
button. To McNulty'S intense chagrin he
saw that he had miscalculated his range
for the stricken one, instead of dying forth
with clasped himself frantically and sat
down on a barrel At this point Hendricks
came up, and more In sorrow than IN anger
drove him forth into the wide world while
he himself strove to hide wicked grin.
1t was dark before the stout man, casting
fearful glances about him. came out and
drove away. Hendricks. looking after him
from the doorway, saw black against the
rising full moon weird. writhing object
like sign of the zodiac.
oh Mac. Mac" he said. ruefully. why
didn't you kick his COMPOUNDED head OFF,
From over the mOonlit fields came faint
dolorous wall:
No one TO love. none to caress.
Wandering alone through this worlds will
derness.
'ife began almost with that hour. There
after he was caught mp and whirled into the
very vortex of those events which make
history. SO that he came to exercise
N Iyh on a fair M g1t<i ind
and write his name in imperisha BILE lines
upon the surface of the globe That act of
he great world drama In which he was
rast began 10 move with a swifter tempo
from the moment of his entrance upon the
stage
With the calm of philosopher McNulty
allowed Hendricks TO take leave of him
with warmth of affection which neither of
them could quite understand Nor did it
Worry him overmuch thereafter to find
himself under the nominal control of
various persons. His hour had not yet
come
Finally an army contractor, humble in
strument of fate. sent him, with others of
MS race. to South Africa. there to serve the
queen.
II is a well-known fact that the British
'rmy does not seek to encourage originality
among its humber members, and McNulty
began to suffer the grief of the mis-
understood. Even his voice, that priceless
reasure. as II welled up to the brilliant
african stars, threw whole regiments into
disorder and caused the tender-hearted to
weep.
II was on a certain morning just before
avn that having been troubled with bad
ireams. he sang his mournful ditty to the
Weakening camp:
70 one to love. none to caress,
Wandering alone through this worlds will
derness
The orderly who was busied about him
~crambled away. declaring that II was
uough to make you think all hell had
For this SfurrinQ
-IcNulty let drive little subcaliber kick at
him. The orderly, out of all patience fixed
bayonet upon a Lee-Metfor and holding
= at arms length. prodded that portion OF
TcNulty's anatomy which had given birth
10 the kick. A hind foot struck out vicious
". but he was ready for 1t. and caught IT
cquarely upon the point of the bayonet.
Wild with pain. McNulty went stark mad