The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-05

twisted caressingy his finger hair
was sparkling fament of rudy gold and the curl
soft to the touch doves breast Breakspear laid it
against his lips and faint perfume which reminded him
of the exquisite white alba plana Of Italy to his
nostrils.
"a har' to himself beautiful
womans hair she must have been beautiful to have
hair like that What would she gold
curl gave somebody of
stranger? But perhaps she's dead and caring what
happens world"
He laid the coil copper threads mantepece and
which was still stuck fast in the enveop In an instant
more and it was out the off, and BrealSspears eyes
girl not yet woman but how beautiful
"There is like her-none!'
Those lovers words from Tennyson's Maud sprang
into Breakspears mind tho long since he had had
time to think poetry
It the OF face, young spoil
for other wther their beauty in his and
Breakspears soul upon picture.
AS he looked he began realize that the photograph
could not have been taken lately that
girls in big like that
some time agofour five perhaps. Somehow, this
discovery pleased him. The girl in the picture be
now--if beauty
as that could not die in the glory of its sweet youth
where at this those wonderful of hers
must be looking the world. the
world? Breakspear felt that ne would give he pos
sessed just to know thing Where she? How
she to be found? For find her unsatisfed She
worth going to the worlds end to
Until this moment Breakspear had not been quite
whether obtained good twenty
To be he to have broken into
of but if he did hold it
could key of what somebody elses
terry him? step aside the
monotony daily life that about all he had
been telling himself he unpacked the pormanteau and
robbed it of its by
suddenly if paid twenty
times twenty pounds still the thing would have been got
cheapy Simply to Know that there was such girl as TINS
in the world valuable possession, be parted with
involuntariy He suddenly for the who had
portmanteau with photograph lock
hair Then, top of sympathy, of jealousy,
overwhelming and sweeping out of sight the weaker emotion
Eagerly Jim recalled the features of the he had
named Eagleface. Surely that rival for lover to
fear?a of forty scarcely gentleman with the
hall dissipation well misfortune stamped
his personality Beakspear began to hope that
had been the Of the portmanteau It better to
think the rghtful the photograph
than of unknown perhaps perhaps
dangerous.
STILL women had unaccountabe sometimes
impossible to be that girl this might
not have cared for the who had shown such
scrupulous determination obtain the portmanteau
his wife; but this ntoerabe
thought put sacrleglous
had considered Viven Oakley pretty
he had ever met but vvens beauty meretricous
paltry beside up picture Oakley,
the charming who the fringe Of if not
of "smart socety"the lovely blonde
appeared before his
Never had he face with such possibilities in it
the photograph The great dark deep wells Of
light, dauness such the few>
herones of history have shown They the
of an ideal Joan delicate, spirited spoke
pride pure exquisite
told of the sincerity which
full lips with the naughty the
lip and the dent which cleft the firm grsh
limited at nature which some day would know how
to love- Of hung
the face in youthful fashion and the light falling from
above lit up semblance a
throat and part of the childish neck were and over
the simple white frock fell string of pearls al
in size and spendor. but partly hidden by
of lilies held in the wearer's hand.
thought into Breakspears mind that this might
picture of youthful princess. The girl seemed
proud wonderful for ordinary life One could imagine
of love and beauty in of old besow
knights who would have died
to a Nowadays, showed DISPOSE
womens smiles and Breakspear himself tho
susceptible certain point had
whose would have thought worth dying
world good place to live in Yet he
would be ready to die for who had
such photograph because
the DEAR brave soul of her that
thru beauty like light thru
gazed his fill at the photograph he it
hair into letter which he always
returned the thus enriched,
pocket, curious memoranda also reposed @
AS treasure, he asked himself whether
permitted peacefully in possession of the
black portmanteau its whether
tempts forcble seizure might be expected
his late experience to the latter opinion rather