The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27


round with the little brown man
and the brown mans children. You
will find that they are not the little
innocent dreams of darkness your
imagination and the newspapers have
led you to believe
The sulky man had drawn insensi-
bly, nearer. The speakers pessimis-
tic views coincided comfortably with
his own evil mood. The girl spoke
after a pause.
II shall expect to find my pupils dis
figured mentally and morally by the
degraded civilization that has been
forced upon them," she said.
"You will also expect to find in
them some trace of their man-eating
ancestors, won't you?" he Knocked.
lazily. LET me give you a piece of
advice. Don't go into this expecting
to combat only the evils of degrad-
ed civilization. The wild beast is in
them, too. No doubt those early CIV
ilizers were tough lot, but these is
landers were no saints. Christianiz-
ing a savage is a good deal like max
ing love to woman-be too gentle
and meek and you get despised for
your palms." -..-e>4
Don't you know" the girl said,
turning toward him confidentially, ''of
course, l wouldn't say 1t publicly, but
l have always thought that there was
a good deal more of the savage in a
woman than in the man. Look how
she admires the bloodiest kinds of
deeds, so they be bravely done. And
she has a hundred times the stoicism
that a man has. You know that Rus.
kin always said if it was not for the
women there would be no more wars.
Now, of course, he was inclined to
be severe with the sex-he had suf-
fered by it-but I sometimes wonder
on my soul if there is not good deal
of truth in that saying of his.''
The sullen man had ceased te, lis
ten. The other mans words filed his
ears: BE gentle and meek and you
get despised for your palms," He
moved away with the alacrity of hope.
He knew the number of her berth
and before night he would know more.
When she opened the door in re-
sponse to his knock she found him
standing upon the threshold with a
matter-of-course air.
"The sunset is fine. I want you to
come up on deck and enjoy it."
"Thank you, but have some study.
ing to do," she replied sedate1y.
"Oh, bother" he returned, with
careless masterfulness that astonished
her. "You have been doing nothing
but study for the last four days. l
began to think that you had gone back
on all your sea-bred principles and
were having an attack of NAL de
mer."
She smiled, more at his manner
than at his words.
"Come on" he urged, ''don't you
know that sunsets are catalogued
along with time and tide? Wait for
neither man nor woman. Besides,
you ought not to cut the acquaint-
ance of waters made famous by Drake
and Cavendish."
Still she hesitated. She had prom
ised her pride to avoid his society
during this long voyage, and pride,
like Shy1ock, is prone to demand the
fulfllment of her bond.
"You see, don't understand Span.
ish very well and will! have to study
it steadily during the voyage
"Then," he interrupted her, tIll
tell you what we can do. We can
practice speaking Spanish together
while we are admiring the sunset"
he laughed little exultingly.
"Haven't you found out now that
do not intend to take no for an an.
swer?" - 49, ~
'But the sunset must be gone by
this time,' she objected - j. +,
Probably it is, but there are still
the stars. Rest assured that as long
as life. lasts there will always be
something of interest for us to look
at z; - Ss1s.s s= S:{s;. rs {
"Yes," she agreed "the world ii in
itself q wonderful mystery = -....s 5s: .
AYE. but l meant they would be
interesting because va looked at them
together. = T6s11 1vorld sips itself m2yfbe