Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-15


the best-that of bestowing
yourself and your money upon woman with
heart There was such being. Go IN Tor
what your newly acquired millions will bring you,
and when you marry choose woman who VIII
look we'll at receptions, and make reasonably
sensible mother for your children. Almost anyone
of those out there would serve
The speaker waved his hand lightly toward
group of women in the center of the room. and his
companion gazed at them with somber eyes.
He was handsome fellow this young millionaire,
and, money out of the question, might well have
been the desire of any womans heart, with his
sensitive mouth and straight grave brows.
Bridge Knight had listened to Cresseys con-
fdences in regard to marriage with the instincts
of vivisectionist. He. had diagnosed and labeled
the case, and now without emotion of any kind
except hard analytical interest, he was watching
for the turn of the disease with its accompanying
symptoms. He confidently expected the fever OF
Cresseys belief in humanity to die out and his
temperature to drop that of the ordinary moneyed
man of the world This dream of Cresseys had
been of value to Bridge Knight, whose occupation
that of romancer and playwright 1t had
stimulated his tagging imagination, and he made
a copy of it.
Cressey was young, handsome and rich Putting
aside false modesty as only really modest man
could have done, he owned himself matrimonial
prize and he meant in all honesty to bestow that
prize upon woman who deserved it.
Il shall not allow my personal feelings to play
boy For once woman shall be blessed, not be-
cause she is beautiful aristocratic already rich,
but for the that she deserves good for
tune If l find her begging in the street, so much
the better. When | know for certain that she
possesses the attribute which deem the most beau-
tful in the world shall lay my fortune at her feet
to do with she sees fit"
And the attributed"
'All the world should know without asking
said the boy. Paul named it charity. My wife
must have a tender heart for the suffering of the
world"
Knight could have laughed aloud at the boy
would have done so had he been an honester man.
But here was motif, and Knight had the artistic
temperament. 1t would make a splendid story:
a fanatic, a dreamer, in vain quest for
with a tender heart; his inevitable failure and
return to the conventional With the unities still
in mind he had melted the boy to go forth among
the people to search for his black Now that
the search was finished, Knight was eager for the
story.
But Cressey was gloomy and refused to talk
He only stood and gazed out at the group of women
in the center of the with gloomy eyes. The
truth was, he had failed disnally in carrying out
his idea He had promised himselfhad
boosted to this friend of his-that he meant to
make utterly mpersona disposition of his fortune
and incidentally of course of himself; then he had
gone out into the workaday world to put his plan
into execution.
1t was among the poor the enthusiastic poor, he
felt he might search with the greatest hope of success
He was attracted by plain little maiden in small
country town. She glasses, and combed
her hair fiat at the sides of her head, and prayed,
loud and fee1ingy in meeting; but Cressey soon
discovered that she had charity for anything
outside of her own particular church. When
other denominations were mentioned, her ewes