The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-22

says because anyone elderly party included, had
him say number of things nothing about my worl
Why he doesn't even know who 1 am 1 only mea
it's so delightful just sailing and sailing-by whic
she meant steaming and steaming-'that I'd just Xix
keep doing it and never the inside of
theater again." she says.
"You amt" says the elderly party going to fal
in love with that man, are you? My dear, how man.
times have warned you against marrying outside tn
profession, if have to marry at all, which hurt
your art awful" she says.
Love! good gracious I'm not going to fall il
love with anybody" says Suzanne and by the wa,
she laughed 1 believed her, and 1 guess the elderl,
party did, too, cause she settled back in her chair
with satisfied kind of grunt. Then they talked
lower, and didn't hear anything but word here
there.
But that name Suzanne" set me thinking knew
I'd it before.
Then all of sudden I remembered and I went
below and hunted up the magazine I'D been reading
when began the trip.
found it all right. 1t told about her successful
in New York, and how she going to Lon
don give show.
So she here! 1 going to tell the parson
right off, and then 1 thought it over a bit and de-
cided l wouldn't
Il guess I'll lay low and let him get wise himself
/ thought. :
But the parson stuck to his notion about nosing
into other peoples affairs. For all that, I didn't
have look hard to that thoughts of the young
lady occupied a good many of the minutes he was
awake.
when get back home" says the young lady, lean
ing back in her chair and laughing soft and azyike
I'm going to let my eight-day clock down"
What for?" says the parson
II realized before" she answers what a de-
lightful feeling eight-day clock have the
ninth day, when you have forgotten to wind Don't
you feel that way?"
The parson laughed little.
"Of course she goes on, you wouldn't want to
stay down and be just old junk There wouldn't
be any fun if you didn't know you'd have to be
up again.
Just os.' says the parson, you enjoy the
utes aft know you ought to get up in the
ing. r. der when was boy used to plan to
take extra nap Saturday morning"
And always woke hour earlier" the young
lady finishes for him. And don't you have same
experience Sundays now?" she goes ON.
Well" says the parson sort of slow 81 don't think
/ do have that experience Sunday"
MOP" she says. Then you should cultivate the
feeling just to keep in touch with your boyhood you
know You don't grow old so fast and it helps in-in
various ways
when boy at school I used to funk my
algebra pretty regularly says the parson every
and SO often now, dream that have neglected
it all the year and wake up in cold perspiration for
fear shall not my examination. Won't that do
for often keeping me in pretty close touch?"
You have that dream when you realize that you've
been neglectng unpleasant details of your pres
ent job she laughs
Doubtless you're right" he says. SOLDERING down
some. There are many unpleasant details. and it is
to devote ones time to the congenial duties to
the exclusion of those that distasteful"
Them was his words, and they sounded If he was
saying them from the pulpit
You mustn't think I'm trying to lecture you" she
comes back at him. AT least your duties the
shelf for the next few days. There's wireless
equipment aboard and you let business go
smash with the comfortable feeling that you can't do
anything to prevent it. With it's different. 1
ought to be working hard at the present moment"
and she gances in the direction Of the elderly
party, who was reading as steady cyclometer.
The parson looked at the young lady thoughtful
like and could see he'd taken off the Settlement
Worker" tag he'd put her and hadn't found an
other tag handy.
YES he says at last I'm taking the voyage Just
for rest and in order that distance may lend en-
chantment to number of people to whom it is some
times difficult to be cordial they expect-as they
have right to expect"
tits hard to make hit with a crowd like that"
she You feel they're dsagreeabe and cold and
that shrivels you and then you might well quit"
But" says the parson, although when human be-
ngs are the material of ones trade the worker
must have degree of tact patience required
by the man who adds column of fgures-the pleas
ure of the work makes up for the grated nerves."
"Oh yes" she says, "and most of them are nice
The trouble is, glum face stands out prominent
and if you set out to change that face-as usu
ally do-and it gets GUNNER and GUNNER, somehow
you feel that else thinks he isn't getting
square deal,' she said, and off she went
1t was on the fourth night of the trip that we had
the shpwreck We'd got through doing the usual
stunt of walk the deck and of had been abed
an hour I'd dropped dead asleep as soon as I'd
crawled in. The last 1 remembered was getting in
and the next knew was out again. and feeling for
the doorknob
I didn't through any preliminary wondering
what was the matter. knew that it was some sort
OF shipwreck. l didn't wonder if twas col
sion or fire or boiler let 60 knew twas wreck
any old kind of wreck would do 1 didn't feel
curious as to the exact kind. I didn't even try to
guess what time it how long I'd been asleep
got the doorknob pretty quick having been accus-
toned to get my bearings in the dark specially as to
The location Of doors that might be needed in hurry