Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-09

or Indifferent that he did not haul out by the
heels and hold up to her Talk about persons
realizing his whole past existence in the moment
OF drowning! The experience couldn't be named
IN the same day with such self-revelation as
that
don't deny il must be something pretty inn
pressive TO perceive the entire events of a life
time fash themselves before you in single in
stant Of vivid consciousness, but it ismore so to
watch The lightning play upon a naked, quiyering
soul. % FaM
bad never believed that any man could be so
honest, even with himself Indeed, he was SO
brlitally frank that suspected he rather overdid
the business and that he was actually sfar bet
! ter fellow than he made out. Concerning his
marriage, he took the whole brunt upon his own
shoulders, admitting that he had sold himself for
a price enjoyment of whose substantial benefits
lad hitherto sufficiently reconced him to the
uncongenial society of the woman who had paid
| for it. t.l.t ( M
And then he made his confession of love to this
other woman-noty that he needed to confess a
TACT THAT rang in every syllable he uttered, that
shook and tortured his voice, and that must have
written itself large and deep on his face in the
white moonlight. And he begged her, he be-
sought her, he prayed her, to tell him what he
should do in order to possess her--how to break
the bonds he had forged upon his own wrists,
how. divorce himself from a woman with whom
| life hereafter must be, insupp
There must be some way out of il, he declared ;
there must+there should be. He was a young
man still thittytwo is young compared to three
score and teu-and he would not allow the cir
cullstapces which now ptihed his life completely
to Etrdhgletit Would she wait for him? Would
she give him time? Would she promise TO hold
herself free for him until he should be able to
dissolve 5his present marriage? And so on, and
so fo,th. For ten minutes he talked like boil
ing geyser. Then he came to abrupt halt, and
waited for her to~speak. .n Ia.
And she spoke fuenty and volubyr-that much
could divine from the low murmurings of her
voice, but SO softly and indistinctly that could
not catch word she said; only panied, pas
sionate, demonstrating ejaculation and again
from Hemingway made me think that her reply
was not wholly satisfactory to him.
And then, for my regulations sake, 1 am hap.
py to say I awoke to a sense of decency, and
moved away from the vicinity of the pair, SO that
I lost the conclusion of the interview. What
the outcome of it all had been, of course, ] had
no means of knowing; but as the two seemed as
devoted as ever the following morning, I in
ferred that the little woman had not wholly dis
couraged her already appropriated lover.
We are due at the dock according to the ships
reckoning at about haIf-past twelve, and the
morning was one Of more or Less bustle and ex-
citement; and when the tug sent down to meet
us was discovered approaching in the distance,
this excitement increased to a state of common
jubiation. Among the gay and radiant faces /
saw only one that seemed discontented with the
prospect at hand This was the face Of Beach
Hcmmingway. He looked as if he would have
welcomed any other possibility in the world more
joyfully than that Of landing.
From the moment the tug hove in sight there
was the usual crowding of eager passengers to the
rails to watch her come up to the ship, and it
happened that Mabel and | had hardly taken up
our positions before Mrs. Alleyn and Hemming-
way approached and established themselves along