Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02


more-of what you so justly call derisive
curiosity In my mind 1t was quite wrong
of me- But may ask you question with
that touch left out, honestly left outF
why, of course, hundred, said he.
.sThen, why don't you proselytize? she
asked. IF you are convinced of the truth
of It all. isn't it your duty to spread it
Walter Cochran let his eyes wander from
her face over the hillside, fragrant with
heather and humming with bees. Then
they looked at her again, and for the hrst
time she saw that they were different to
any eyes she had ever seen in the face OF
woman or man, for they were the eyes OF
a child, with a childs terrible honesty and
dsarming frankness. -.y- ; -. $50.
81 You can spread a thing In many ways"
he said. But preaching was not the pri-
mary way He chose. He went about doing
good"
Maud felt suddenly that shyness which
is. instructive in most Angic-Saxons, when
religion" comes on the conversational
board. With many people. no doubt. reti-
cence on religion is due to the fact that
since they have none, there is nothing to
talk about. But 1t was not so with her;
religion formed very vital and essential
part Of her life, but 1t was not one to be
publicly trottede out. So, since the subject
had 30 Unexpectedly and profoundly deep
ened with this last remark, it was she VINO
changed 1t now.
II see," she said and then paused. but,
please, don't leave me the gaff. l should
immensely Hike, since you are SO kind, to
get another sea trout or two; but having
poached one salmon without your leave. l
really couldn't poach another. II l NOOK
another he shall break me- and so shall
present your river with fly and some gut
by way of amende"
Then the idea of offering hospitality,
which had occurred to and been rejected
by Thurso, occurred to her "And do come
and dine with tomorrow she said,
land eat some of your own fish. Thurso
and would be delighted. We are just
squatters in the lodge. you know-eat and
live in one room, and have a dreadful cook.
Oh, forgot: we are turning the house into
a typhoid hospital, and by the evening the
place will be full of patients Please say
mo- point blank, if you don't like the
thought 1 shall quite understand"
Walter Cochran gave her a swift, admir-
ing glance.
.'Why, that's just splendid of you," he
said; laid as for coming to dinner, shall
be charmed. We scientists are often told
we are inconsistent, but l guess were not
quite SO inconsistent as to mind coming to
house because a few poor souls think
they are ILL., So au revoir, Lady Maud, and
many thanks"
purpose, and in the ordinary way, when
she was out for a days fishing, the num-
Der of thoughts that came into her head
which did not bear directly on fish might
be counted on the fingers of the hand,
while even these were present to her
mind in only very far-off and indistinct
fashion But today, during the hours
fishing that she INDUCED in before lunch
her thoughts were perSiStently else
where and when eventually she made
herself a MINDLESS seat in the heather
overlooking the pool which she had just
fished even the brace of sea trout she had
already caught, and the prospective brace
or SO that she promised herself after
lunch, actually occupied a very small part
Of her reflections.
Christian Science" She had indeed a
and its philosophers, which was not en-
tirely founded on ignorance. Only last
year Alice Yardly, a friend of hers, had
Joined the church. and Maud had summed
always thought that Alice-though a
dear-was a fool, and now she knew it.
Certainly, however, Lady Yardly did not
in the least resemble Mr.. Cochran either
in the matter of folly. because it was i'm
possible to think of him as a fool, or Ia
the matter of proselytizing. For Lady
Yardly used to proselytize quite unsuc-
cessfully) by the hour, pouring out a per-
feet torrent of optimistic gable about
the non-existence of pain and sickness,
and be Frustrated next day by one of the
nervous headaches to which she was sub
ject. She would call this false claim
Ghough 1t was at least an admirable imi-
tation of the true), demonstrate over it,
which, being interpreted. meant assuring
herself that she could not have nervous
headache since there was no nervous head
ache IN QlV1no love, a1ter which Sne WOulU
20 to bed, and wake up next morning with
out any headache, convinced that her dem
onstration had banished 1t. But as these
headaches had never been known to las.
more than one day. its disappearance on
the following one did not appear to Maud
to be quite so triumphant an instance of
the truth Of Christian Science as she her.
self thought.
And then this dreadful delirium Of words,
texts torn up from their roots and made to
prove anything, the flying leaves In Mrs.
Eddy's key to the Scriptures" for para
graphs bearing on the point, all to con-
vince Maud, as far as she could see, Of
what she herself put differently when she
said that mind had great influence over
matter. But that proved to be an utter
mistake, and wouldn't do for Lady Yardly
at all. who insisted that there was no mat
ter, and never had been, except through
the error Of mortal mind. And then 1t
would be time for her to go and dress for
dinner, put on what was mistakenly be-
lieved to be a very smart white satin
gown, and cover her very pretty but en-
tirely unreal neck with a non-existent dog
collar Of purely imaginary diamonds. Last
winter, too, Alice Yardly had false claim
of influenza, and after week Of demon
strating over 1t and not taking ordinary
precautions it had developed into further
false claim Of congestion of the lungs.
Three weeks more demonstrating over con-
gestion of the lungs combined this time
with stopping in bed, though that had real
ly nothing to do with IT. had led to her