The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-01-10
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/ took her hand-almost tirntdly.
Anita said, q yoE s~rilr-disliks
81 do not-and shall not-love you...
she answered.. sBnt Won are--
:Mor endurable??' snggested, g 2
she hesitateds
LESS urenduTablen said with
raillery. Then she added. Less unen-
durable than profiting by a---creeping
up In the dark.
/ thought I understood her better
than she understood herself. And srd-
denly my passion melted ina er1der.
nesssI would have said was as foreign
to me as rain to desert. I noticed
that III a a haggard look.sYou are
very tired. child said /. Good night.
81 am q different man from what I was
when I came In here.
"And I a different woman" said n
a beauty shining from her that wa as
| far beyond her physical beauty as-aS
love is beyond passion.
IA nobler, better Wornan
claimed, kissing her hand.
She snatched It away.
.If YOU only knew!" she cried. 1T
seems to me, as / realize what sort OF
woman I am, that / am almost worthy
OF you'll, And she blazed a Q at mo
that left me rooted there, astounded.
But 1 went down the avenue with 9
light heart. Just like a woman" I
was saying to myself cheerfully, mot
to know her own mind
A few blocks, and | stopped n
laughed outright-at Langdon,s treach-
cry. at my own credulity. What an
ass I'VE been making Of myself said
I to myself. And / could see myself
as / really had been during those
months of social struggling-an ass,
braying and gamboling in a lions skin
to impress the ladies! 5 #s# ss5 +.
'But not wholly to no purpose" l
reflected, again all in a glow at thought
OF Anita.
XIX. y
A WINDFALL FROM GENTLEMAN
JOE
/ went to my rooms, purpostng 70 go
straight to bed, and get a good sleep.
/ did make a start toward undressing;
then i realized that / should only lie
awake with my brain wearing me out,
spinning crazy thoughts n schemes
hour after hour-fer my imagination
rarely lets 1t do any effective thinklng
after the lights are u and the Hmt-
tations of material things are wiped
i away by the darkness. / put on q
i dressing gown and seated myself to
smoke and to read.
When I was very young, new to New
/ YORK, III IWllt1 III 4lbliQGIi0lh SloWa Stir4
UP to all sorts of pranks, / once tried
opium smoking. / don't think I ever
heard Of anything in those days with
out giving 1t a try. Usually, ! believe,
opium makes the smoker Ill the first
time or two, but it had no such effect
on me, Q did it fill my mind with tan
tastic visions. On the contrary, IT made
everything around mo intensely real
that is, it enormously stimulated my
dominant characteristic of accurate OBJ
servation. / noticed the slightest de-
tails-such things as the slight differ
ence in the length Of the arms OF the
Chinaman who kept he Joint" the
number of buttons down the front OF
the waist of the. girl in the bunk OPP
posite mine, across the dingy, little
sweat-scented room. Nothing escaped
me, and also / was conscious of each
passing second, or, rather, fraction OF
a second.
AS g. rule, time n events, even when
one is quietest, go With such a rush
that one notes almost nothing of what
is passing. The opium seemed to COM
pei the kaleidoscope of life to turn more
slowly; In fact, it ~sharpened my senses
SO that they unconsciously took Inn
pressions many times more quickly ane
easily and accurately. As / sat there
that night after leaving Anita. forcing
my mind to follow the printed lines,
found I was in exactly the state IL
WHICH i ldu pG6U huIlIlS my OIt5 CSpCi-
iment with opium. 1t seemed to me
that as many days as there had beer
hours must nave elapsed since l got
the news OF the raised Textile divi-
dend. Days-yes, weeks, wen months
Of thought and action seemed to have
been compressed into those six hours
for, as l sat there, 1T was not yet Il
o'clock.
And then I realized that this notion
was not of the moment, but that / haG
been as if under the influence Of some
powerful nerve stimulant since my
brain began to recover, from the shock
of that thunderbolt. Only, where nerve
stimulants often make the mind pas
sive and disinclired to AXE part in thu
drama so wildly enacting before it
this opening of my reservoirs of re
serve ervou energy had multiplied
my power to act as well as my power tt
observe. II wonder how long it will
last" thought I. And it made M
uneasy, this unnatural alertness, unac.
~conpanied by any feverishness or sense
of strain. us this the way madness
begins"
Continued Next Weee.)
Where information Came High.
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