Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01

nate sunshine on some windy spring day
chased each other across some azure sur
face, were reflected from the depths Of
those violet pools, and through the beauti-
full windows there looked out a beautiful
soul. Humor and an alert sense of the lu-
dicrous, so valuable weapon in that men
tai armory with which We have to repel
the assaults of adverse and annoying cir
cumstances, were there also, ready to set
the mouth smiling; intense and kindly in
terest in the spectacle of life shone there
and deep down In them you would say
that something not yet fully awake slept
and perhaps dreamed. in its twenty years
slumber. And man might find the breath
catch at the thought of awakening that
Like all the STATIONS. she was very fair
of complexion. but her hair was not of that
vague straw color which loosely passes for
gold, but of that tint touched and illumi-
mated by orange color. which made it CLEAN
as II the unlimited metal shone In II. 1t
grew low on her forehead and abundantly,
but not in those excessive quantities that
instantly make the observer think of the
ladies who stand all day with their backs
to the windows of popular thoroughfares in
order to display the riotous excess of capil-
larry covering which the use of some partic-
ular dressing for the head unfortunately
results in. Nor again was her mouth that
perfect "Cupid's bow which is so dear to
the creators of feminine perfection. 1t was
not indeed like a bowl at ALL 1t was rather
large. and rather full-lipped but, like her
eyes, or like aspen leaves in spring, 1t was
of the moment. Nor were her lips vermil-
lion hue that nature happily does not use
on the human mouth leaving its employ
ment to art, but they were of that yelled
blood tint that speaks of youth and vitality
as surely vermillion speaks only of the
desire to appear to be. the possessor of
these excellent gifts.
Thurso was naturally of extremely i'm
pressionable and imaginative mind, and the
day, spent as 1t had been in going from
house to house, finding wherever he went
the apparatus of illness, or the simpler and
grimmer apparatus of death, had been like
some real and hideous nightmare to him.
Clearly as Maud understood and sympa-
thized with his instinct of coming up here
himself. she found herself wondering
whether he had been right to come. Then,
too, he had tortured himself with hundred
pure suggestions. Was this epidemic in
any way his fault, In that he hao not had
the water supply more constantly tested?
Clearly, IL everything, drains, pipes, water
and what-not had been all in perfect order
typhoid could not have come. These were
his tenants; it was his business to see that
| the conditions under which they lived were
sanitary.
Now Thurso was perfect working model
| (as large as life) of the conscientious land
| lord, and these suggestions. though they
seemed terribly real and totally unanswer-
able to him ON his way back TO the house
| at this same hour last night were but Nor
| bid creations of his BRAIN since ali his Ne
| he had done all he could to insure the
| Oh lIlUsS WHO were dependent
| on him. and on these morbid creations
! Maud with her sweetness and gayety of
! spirit, had acted like a charm She knew
well that Thurso had never been neglectful
| or culpabie. and that being certain she
| had addressed herself not to combat his
| doubts and questionings, but to turn his
| attention resolutely away from them. just
| as a wise nurse will not try to convince a
| frightened child that the dark contains no
| bogeys, by letting the room continue dark,
| and prove by demonstration that no winged
| and nailed creature is born therefrom, but
will rather quiet its fears by bringing a
| light And as the nurse docs not reason to
| herself about the best t. eatment for child
| ish terror Maud did not reason to her
| self about the best treatment for unreason-
able scruples. She only saio to herself.
| Darling old Thurso is dreadfully down. So
| I'll distract his mind by being dreadfully
| fooHsh!'
| So foolish she had been. but yet with art,
so that It should not occur to him that she
was playing the part Of nurse and bringing
| a light because he was afraid Of the dark.
| And as when David played before Saul to
l exercise the evil spirit. so she had played