The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-17
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

recently / inherited what had been ac-
cumulated by relative whom [ never
knew. 1t seemed so incredible, SO
strange-well, it seems incredible and
ing to wake and find it all dream. In
deed, when you overlook me at this
spot where we now stand. I feared you
had come to tell me it was mistake;
to hurl me from the clouds to the hard
earth again.
"But it was just the reverse of that
he cried eagerly. Just the reverse.
remember. came to confirm your
dream, and you received from my hand
yes, she admitted, her eyes fixed
on the sidewalk.
Enthusiastically. II suppose you had
never drawn a check before.''
Never she conceded. .
p ,"And this was merely test. You
set up your dream against the hard
common sense of bank, which has no
dreams. You were to transform your
vision into the actnal, or find it vanish.
When the commonplace cashier. passed
forth the coin, their jingle said to you,
'.Fhe supposed phantasy is real but
the gold pieces themselves at that su-
preme moment meant no. more to you
than so many worthless counters, so
you turned your back upon them. --
She locked up at him, her eyes, tho
than the import Of his words The girl s
life heretofore had been as scant Of
kindness as, of cash, and there was a
deep sincerity in his voiceAwhich was
as refreshing. to her lonesome heart as
it was. new to her experience. This
man was not 50 stupid as he had pre-
tended to be. He had. accurately di-
vined the inner meaning, of what had
happened. She had forgotten the. neces
sity for. haste which had been SO i'm
Fortunate few minutes before.
, You must be mind-reader,' she
said. ..@..... FL =; - = -,
mo-. I am not at all a clever per-
son, he laughed, "Indeed, as told
you, am always laundering into trou-
BILE, and making things uncomfortable
for my friends. regret to say / am
rather under a cloud just now in the
service, and I have been called upon
to endure the frown Of my superiors. -
"Why, what has ,happened?' she
asked. After their temporary halt at
the corner where they had been over
taken, they now strolled along together
like old friends, her prohibition out of
mind - !. .--,-.. .. z
"Well, you see, I was temporarily in
command of the cruiser coming down
the Baltic, and passing an island rock
a few miles away, though it would.
be a good opportunity to test new gun
that had been put aboard when we left
England. The sea was very calm, and
the rock most temptsome: Of course I,
knew it, was Russian, territory, but who
could have imagined that such points
in space was inhabited by anything
else than seagulls.' .E"-
"What! - cried the girl, looking up.
at him with new interest. You don It
mean to say you are the officer that
Russia demanded from England, and
England refused to give up7"
"Oh, England could not give me up,
of course, but she apologized, and as
sured Russia she had no evil intent.
lists at work is frewned upon, and the
man who does an act which his govern
ment is forced to disclaim becomes un-
popular with his superiOrs.'
- HI read about it in the papers at, the
time. Didn't the rock fire back at
you9v -.
been more surprised than I when I saw
the answering puff of smoke
"How came a cannon to be there9'
!nNobody knows. I suppose that
rock in the Baltic is concealed fort,
with galleries and gunrooms cut in the
stone after the fashion of our defenses
at Gibraltar. I told the court. martial
that I had added a valuable bit Of in
formation to our naval knowledge, but
I don It suppose this contention exer-
cised any influence on the minds Of my
: Judges. also called their attention to
the fact that my shell had hit, while
the Russian shot fell half a mile short.
That remark nearly cost me my com
mission. A court-martial has no sense
OF. humor. - SSH
'tI suppose everything is satisfaction
lily settled nowg'
> ttWell, hardly that. You see, con-
tinental nations are extremely suspi-
cious of Britain's good intentions, as
indeed they are of the good intentions
of each other. No government likes to
have-well, what we might call a from
tier incident. happen, and even if a
country is quite in the right, it never
theless looks askance at any official of
its own who. thru his stupidity, brings
about an international complication.
AS concerns myself, am rather under a
o1o osT told xyor no cou RI io1