The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12

formed his manner of delivery. When he
chose TO word his emotions ii was still done
in a manner TO make the right-spoken
grieve. Thus, going back toward the road,
after reviewing his great plans for the fut-
ure, he spoke aloud: Il believe it's going TO
be a good game
When he became hungry he thought with
relief that he would not be compelled to seek
one of those ''hurry-up'' lunch places with
its clamor and crowd. What was the use OF
all that noise and crowding and piggish
hurry? a remark OF the Germans REQUIRED
to him:
'It is a happy man who has OWNED the
leisure of eternity, so he feels IL, like what
You say, in his bones"
When he came out on the road again he
thought regretfully of the pretty girl and
her flower bed. He would have liked to go
back and suggest that she sing TO the seeds
as she put them to sleep in their earth
cradle, TO make their awakening more
But he turned down the road that led
away from the girl. and when he came 60
''wheelman's rest he ate many sand
witches and drank much milk.
The face of the maid that served him had
been no heaven for the souls OF dead flowers.
Still she was a girl; and no girl could be
wholly without Importance on such day.
So he thought the things he would have said
to her if matters had been different.
When he had eaten he loafed on again
down the road. Through the long afternoon
he walked and LACED, turning into strange
lanes and by-roads, resting on grassy banks
and looking far up. He followed DIR. Won
space, reduced the earth, watching its little
continents and oceans roll toward him, and
viewing the antics of its queer inhabitants
in fancy as he had often in fact viewed a
populous little ant hill with its busy. seri-
Gus citizens. Then he would venture still
farther-away out into tiEeless space, be-
y0nd even the starry refuse of creation, and
insolently regard the universe as tiny
cloud of dust
When the shadows stretched I'm the dusky
languor of the spring evening. he began 10
hearings heard
the hum and clang of through chestnut
grove.
monitions of the city's unrest. He deter
mined TO stay out for the night. IL was rest
ful-his car would not arrive until late the
next afternoon-there was no reason why
he should not He found little wayside no.
tel whose weather-beaten sign. was ancient
enough to promise entertainment for man
and beast"
Just what I want" he declared. I'm
both of them-man and beast
Together they ate tirelessly OF young
chickens broiled and a green salad. and a
wonderful pie, with a bottle Of claret that
had stood back OF the dingy little bar 50
long that IT had attained. at least as 10 its
label, very. fair antiquity.
This time the girl was pretty again. and.
he at once discovered, not indisposed 10
light conversation. Yet she was shallow
creature, with little mind fOI the subtier
things of life and the springtime. Tie de-
cded she was much better 10 look at than
TO talk to. With just appreciation OF her
ally before an imaginary mirror, regaling
him and herself with new Pastures tossing
her brown head, curving her supple waist.
exploiting her thousand coquetries. lie was
panied to note. moreover, that she was more
than conscious of the. red-cheeked youth
who came in from the carriage shed. whist
ling.
When the man and the beast had been
appeased they sat out under a bOssomed
apple tree and smoked together in fine
spirit OF amity.
To xad xrb IN no q
he saw the red-cheeked youth with both
arms about the girl-n0r was he shocked at
detecting instantly that her struggles were
meant To be futile against her assaiiants
might The birds were mating, life was for
ward and nature loves 20 be economically
lavish with her choicest secrets Why not.
then, the blooming. full curved kitchen
maid and the red-cheeked boy-of-all-work?
He smoked and saw the night fall. The
dulled bronze jangle OF cowbells came
soothingly TO him. An owl called little way
of. Swallows flashed by in long graceful
fights. A bat circled near. indecisively. As
If with message il hesitated to give. Once
he heard the ffute-lixe warbe OF a sixylark-
He was under the clean, sharp stars OF a
moonless night His keen senses tasted the
pungent smoke and the softer feminine
fragrance of the apple blossoms His nerves
We're stilled to pleasant ease. except when
the laugh OF the girl fioated 10 him from The
grape arbor back of the house. That dis
tuTbed him TO fierce longingS-the clear.
high measure Of a womans laugh floating
To him in the night And once she sang-some
song common TO her class IL moved him as
her laugh did. making him vibrate 10 her.
as when a practiced hand hutterS the
strings OF a harp. He was glad without
knowing why when she stopped.
At 10 O'Clock he went in from under the
peering little stars and fell asleep In an an
cient four-poster. He dreamed that he had
the world a football. clasped % his breast
and was running down the field Tor a gain
OF hundred yards. Then. suddenly. in plaza
OF the world. IL was Axicc Milbrcy Ia his
grasp. ssrueglins franticaily 10 be FREE, aud
instead OF behaving ike gentleman h
flung both arms around her and kissed her
despite her struggles: Kissed her time after
time until she ceased 10 strive against hluzs
and lay painting helpless IN his arms.
ITO be Continued To-mouox1