The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12
TIL q SPEN DFRS
A TALE OF THE Third NATION
By Wilson



pathy at all. You won't understand it, but
We don't care so much for money in the
West-for the loss of it-not so much you
New Workers would Besides we can always
make plenty more
The situation was emphatically, not as
he had so often dreamed it when she should
marvel, perhaps regretfuily, over his SUI
perlority TO her husband as a money-maker.
HIS only relief was to beiittie the import
ance of his loss.
.'Of course we've lost everything. almost
but I've not been bit downcast about 1T.
There more where il came from, and no
end OF fun going after it. I'm looking for
ward to the adventures, 1 can tell YOU
And every one will be glad to see me there;
they won't think the less of me, / assure
you. because I've made a ffuke here!'
Surely, Mr.. Bines. no one. here could
think less of you. Indeed, / think more OF
you: think it's fine and big to go back with
such. courage. Do you know, [ wish l We're
a man-Id show themi
Really, Miss Milbrey-''
He looked over her shoulder again, and
saw that Shepler was waiting for her.
Il think your friends are inpatient
They can wait. Mr.. Bines, / wonder If
you have quite correct idea of all New
York people,
Probably not; I've met so few, you
kn a!We,,. Of corrss-,ut Of those voave
metz"
You can't know what my ideas are"
Il wish we might have talked more-Fm
Sure-when are you leaving?"
Il shall leave Tomorrow
land were leaving for the country our
selves Papa and mamma go tomorrow
and, Mr.. Bines, / should have liked another
talk with you'll wish we were dining at
the Oldakers' again.
He observed Shepler strolling toward
| them.
Il shall be staying with Aunt Cornelia a
| few days after Tomorrow"
Shepler came up.
And | shall be leaving tomorrow, Miss
All Bines, glad to see YOUR
| The accepted lover looked Miss Milbrey
over with rather a complacent air-with the
unruffied confidence of assured possession.
| Percival fancied there was look almost Of
regret in the girls eyes.
I'm afraid" said Shepler, 'your aunt
doesn't want to be kept waiting. And she's
already III a fever for fear you won't prefer
| fer
Tell Aunt Cornelia, please, that shall
| be along in just moment
| She's quite impatient, you know" urged
| Shepler
Percival extended his hand.
| Goodbye, Miss Milbrey. Don't let me de-
| tain you. Sorry L shall not see you again
| She gave him her hand uncertainty, as if
| she had still something to say, but could
| find no words for it,
Goodbye Mr.. Bines.''
Goodbye, young man." Shepler shook
| hands with him cordially, land the best of
luck to you out there. l shall hope to hear
| good reports from you. And mind, you're to
| look us UP when your in town again. We
shall always be glad to see you. Good byer"
| He led the girl back to the case where the
| largest diamonds reposed chastely on their
coucheS of royal velvet.
| Percival smiled as he resumed his walk
smiled with all that bitter cynicism which
| only youth may feel to it's full poignance.
| Yet, heartless she was, he recalled that
| while she talked to him he had imprinted
| an imaginary kiss deliberately upon her full
confess that, in spite of his very certain
| knowledge about her, he would actually pre-
fer to have communicated it through the
recognized physical media. He laughed
again, more cheerfully,
1.-The spring has got strangle-hold on my
! Judgment" he said to himself.
At dinner that night he had the COM
| pany of that estimable German savant, the
Herr DIR. Won Herzlich. He did not seek to
incur the experience, but the amiable doc
| tor was so effusve and interested that he
saw no way of avoiding it gracefully, Re
| turned from his archaeological expedition
to Central America, the doctor was now on
1 his way back to Marburg.
| Il pleasure much in your news" said the
cheerful man over his first glass of Rhine
wine with the olive in it. You shall now, if
/ have Inexperienced you not, develop a
| new StrongneSS of character
Percival resigned himself to listen. He
| was not unfamiliar with the lot Of one who
dimes with the learned Won Herzlich.
| Now he's off, he said to himself.
| ''Ach! 1t is but now that you shall begin
| to live. 1t is not that while you planned the
money-amassing you were deferring to live
| -ah, yes-until some day when you had so
| much more? Yes? common thought fall
| ure it is-a common failure of the to-take-
thoughtedness of life-its capacities and the
/ intentions of the scheme under which we
! survive Achi So few humans learn that this
| invitation to live specifies not the hours,
! like a 5-oclock. 1t says-so well as Father
Mother Nature has learned to write the
| words to unseeing eyes-'at once but
we ever put off the living We are invited to
| at once-until to-morrow-next day, next
| year-until this or that be done or won. So
now you will find this out. Before, you
| would have waited for time that never
| came-no matter the all-money you gath
| cred.
Nor yet. my young friend shall you take
| this matter to be of seriousness, to be sor-
| row. worthy. If you take of the courage, you
shall find the world to smile to your face,
and father-mother you. You recall what the
| English Huxley Says-Ah! what fine, dear
| man, the good Huxley-he says, yes, in the
| 'Genealogy of the Beasts 1T is a probable
| hypothesis that what the world is to organ
| isms in general, each organism is to the
molecules of which it is composed So you
laugh at the world the world it laugh back
hal ha. an-then-Soly-all your little
| molecules obediently respond-you thrill
with the happiness-with the power-the de-
| sire-the capacity--you out-go and achieve.
what it shall be unwise to fret of. 1t is
| funny to fret. Why? Why fret? Yet but
| the month last, they have excavated at Nip
pur, from the pre-Sargonic strata, a lady
4
What you say in New York-'a damned fine
| old family yes, is it not? 1 am read their
description, and seen of the photographs.
They have now the expressions of indiffer-
| ence-of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the prejudice
as If they say, .Ach! those troubles of ours,
| three thousand eight hundred years in the
b. C.-nearly come to six thousand years
| before now-Ach. those troubles says the
philoSophic-now lady and gentleman, of the
| House of Ptah of Babylonia-'such SILL
ness-those troubles and fretS; 1t was not
| the while-worth that we should ever have
! sorrowed, because the scheme Of time and
/ creation is suchly big; had we grasped but
| its bigness and the lttleness Of our span,
| should we have felt griefs? Nay, nay-nit,
| like the street youths say-would say the
| lady and gentleman now SO passonless as
| to have philosophers become. And you. 1t
should mean to you much. Humans are fun
NEST when they weep and tremble before,
| like you say, the facts in the case Ha! l
laugh to myself at them often when OBJ
serve. Their funniness of the boards and
| eyebrows, the bald head, of the dress, the
solemnities of manner, as it were they were
| persons of weight. All, they are of their in
/ significance so loftily unconscious. Was it
| not great skill--to compel the admiration of
| the love-worthiest scientist-to create a unit
| of a numberless mass OF units and then to
| enable il to feel each one the Importance
| of the whole. as if each part were big as the
whole? So you shall not fret say.
IF the fret invade you, you shall do well
| to lie out in the friendly space. and look at
| this small top-spinning of a world through
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