The San Francisco call., 1903-12-20
HERO VERSUS oENTLEMAN.

r there was any person that Miss
Fanny Glen especially detested and
70 whom she was determined she
would not submit ii was a master
tul man. And II there ever was-if ap-
-arances counted for anything-a
nssterful man on earth, certainly
Rhett Sempland, at that moment, was
he
, The contrast between the two was
amusing, or would have been had not
the atmosphere been so surcharged
with passionate feeling, for Rhett
Sempiand was six feet high If he was
81 iIch, hile Fanny Glen By q Pro-
crustean extension OF herself could Just
manage TO cover the five-foot mark:
yea such was the spirit permeating the
smaller figure that there seemed. TO be
up Sreat disparity. from the standpoint
o. ombatants- between them after all.
Rhett Sempiand was deeply in love
With Miss Fanny Glen. His full con-
seiOusness Of that fact shaded his at
tempted mastery by ever so little.
re was sure of the state Of his affec-
tions and by that knowledge the weak
or. for Fanny Glen was not at all sure
that she was in love with Rhett Semp-
land. That is TO say, she had not yet
realized it; perhaps better she had not
YET admitted the existence Of a recipro-
ca passion in her own breast TO that
she had long since learned had sprung
up in his. BY just that lack Of admis-
sion she was stronger than he for the
moment. When she discovered the un-
doubted fact that she did love Rhett
senpiand her views on the mastery OF
e1sn would probs bly, alter-at least for
q timei Love, IN its freshness, would
make her q willing slave; for how long
events only could determine. For some
=, women q lifetime, for others an hour
only can elapse before the chains turn
from sdorumentg 90 shackles.
-he anger that Miss Fanny Glen fel;
At this particular moment gave her a
temporary reinsurance as TO some ques-
tions which had agitated her-hoH
much she cared. after all. for Lieuten-
ant Rhett 6emplRnd, and did she like
him better than Major Harry Lacy!
Both questions were instantly decided
in the negative-for the time being
She hated Rhett Sempland, per contra
a. that moment, she loved Harry Lacy
For Harry Lacy was he about whom
She difference began. Rhett Sempland
confident Of his own affection and hope
ful as 70 hers, had attempted, with
masculine futility and obtuseness, Ia
prohibit the further attentions OF Har-
~ Lacy.
Just as good blood, au fond. ran IN
Harry Lacy's veins as IN Rhett Semp-
lands, but Lacy. following in the foot
steps Of his ancestors. had mixed his
with water that Is not water because
A. IS fire.
He crooked the pregnant hinges" OF
the elbow without cessation, many a
time and oft, and ali the vices-as they
usually do-followed en- train. One OF
the oldest names in the Carolinas had
b9en dragged in the dust by this latest
6Henerste scion thereof. Nay. in that
dust Lacy had wallowed-shameless
persistent. besst-lil1e.
q To Lacy, therefore, the Civil War
came as a godsend. as It had 70 many
another man in like circumstances. for
Il afforded another and more con-
genial outlet for the wild passion beat
fng out from his heart The war sang
70 him OF arms and men-sy. as war
has sung since TrOia's day, Of women.
toe.
He did not give over the habits OF a
lifetime, which, though short. had been
hard but he lesvened them. temporar-
fly obliterated them even, b. splendid
fests OF arms. Fortune was kind to
him. Opportunity smiled upon him.
Was IL running the blockade Oh
Charleston. or passing through the en-
eny's lines with dispatches IN Virginia,
OF. heading a desperate attack on Little
Round Top IN Pennsylvania, he always
won the plaudits OF men, often the love
OF women. And in Il all he seemed to
bear a charmed life.
When the people saw him intoxicated
on the streets OF Charleston that winter
OF SO they remembered that he was q
hero: when some OF his more fr1ghtful
trsnsgressions came 20 light, they re-
called some splendid feat OF arms and
condoned what before they had cen
auIHd.
Vow he happened TO be IN Charles
tor was because he had been shot 70
pieces at Gettysburg and had been
Heent down there TO die But die he
would not. AZ least not then. He would
not have cared much about living, for
BE- realized that when the war was