The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-05
Tuesday, May 5.
~ 1903.

easy chairs. In the direction OF Lang
ley's sleeping cabin was litter of
: wood shavings and metal strips. Here
lathe was the principal article OF
furniture. out upon The walls were
ranged neat roys of bottles contain
Ing chemicals Of various kinds That
portion of the room which obviously
belonged to Strong was merely jun
BILE OF stout boots. tennis racquets.
and spare oars.
For since these oddly assorted
friends had come down from Oxford
they had lived the simple life in ex.
celsis
Langley lived II because he was &C.
Quainted with no other mode OF ex.
istence and was far too wrapped up
In the darling scheme OF his heart TO
trouble much about his material sur
roundings
Strong lived the unciyilized life In
the midst OF civilization because he
rather enjoyed its freedom. and IL was
the logical coroliary TO his friendship
with Joe.
Possessed OF an income sufficient to
enable him TO lounge gracefully
through life, with headquarters at the
Albany. Strong was far too lazy TO
adopt the busiest OF all roles--that OF
the man about town who does moth
ing.
Clubs bored him, dances bored him,
girls bored him; and the girls moth
ers terrified him.
He hated boiled shirts. he loathed
intricate food. he detested the neces-
sity OF always presenting an appear
ance suggestive OF the barber and the
m ~ nd nj ahn linz
ed the cult OF the tailor.
Just as he was too lazy to play on
the lines laid down by society, SO he
was infinitely too lazy to work on the
lines prescribed by business men or
the exigencies OF life In the colonies or
abroad
He was Unfortunately selfish. He
lived 10 loaf, and to loaf Is easy; and
SO IL had seemed TO him that there
was no spot more fitted for this en-
tirely self-centered mode OF existence
than the shanty-looking bungalow on
the banks OF the Thames In which
Langley was conducting his really mo.
mentous experiments.
When they had removed the bunga-
low from the charge OF an extremely
grateful house agent the year before.
Strong had sufficient faith In Lang.
ley's mechanical genius To register
vow that he would remain beside him
TIL his experiments were complete.
Langley was the only human being
for whom. till then, he had ever held
any regard. and Langley only ap-
pealed to him as a child would have
done, because OF his innocence of this
worlds ways. his entire ignorance Of
the vaccinations OF enemies which
were certain TO encompass him the
moment his secret became noised
abroad, and because his heart instruct
ed him 10 some extent TO take care OF
this silent, timorous and docile gawk
True, the entirely dog.like devotion
which Langley yielded to Strong I'm
some measure brought about the es
punishment or the queer bachelor men,
age. Strong had an Unsuitable crav.
Ing for the dependence OF other per-
sons upon his own extraordinary men.
: tai and physical strength. He knew
: perfectly well that should be care
l TO put forth that overpowering
strength OF his, the strongest men ne
met would have inevitably surrender
ed to his rule. But this was far too
much trouble. and SO Strong content.
ed himself with the silent and willing
worship OF his inventive friend
And the menage which they estab-
lished answered extremely well. Lang.
ley did NOT care where he laid his
!, lank bones so long as be could sleep.
y strong held delicate surroundings In
e adherence, and even the Camp bed
= that ne purchased for the bungalow
- seemed a ridiculous luxury.
u certain community OF spirit. too.
!, simplifed the matter OF diet Lang
cared In ha H.
Strong was in no way exacting. ex-
I, cept, In his passion for meat. In this
= respect he bordered very closely on
I. the animal. He ate beef for break
- fast, he ate beef for lunch. he ate beef
- for dinner--ate 1t half-raw, cooked oy
i IRE. over the little stove. Teahe looked
upon as essentially the attribute OF a
h. too nice, and too dainty. and too
womanish age. Beer--home -bre wed.
A beer--he regarded as at all time suffl
~ cient for the needs of man.
10 Thus these two men who were
i. shortly TO become the terror OF COM
a pick, and, as Strong held, too effefn-
ID mate generation. lived their selfab-
a. sorbed. though really blameless, lives
NJ besides the Thames.
N Then had come the arrival OF Mr.
Montgomery Jones. and all Strong3
v simple spirit mad risen In horror at
N the sight OF what he considered the
"a profiigate luxury Of the American mil
lionaire.
W But then there was the sight OF
Ia Diana--Diana the hayward and tho
frivolous; Diana the slangy and I'm
n. perious; Diana the perplexingly. the
II staggeringly beautiful, who was saved
at by sheer force OF character from be.
OF ing shallow; for Diana. though her
ID eyes were wells OF unfathomable and
Id mysterious beauty, was apparently
W, without soul. She was outwardly az
at gorgeous as her surroundings, and
to within, apparently just as sound,
though meaningless.
Diana had stood among the rho
dedendrons on the rivers bank when
a. Strong had gone by In his skiff.
When he had passed Strong be-
came suddenly conscious that a new
- thing had befaifeH him So he had
~ turned the skin about and pulled back.
Diana was still on the bank, her eyes
= shining and her lips smiling.
- Then a sudden impulse took hold u
= Strong. He put the boat to shore and
- stepped on to the bank, blissfully un-
: mindful OF the fact that he was tres
passing-and tresspassing without con-
sideration TOR the conyenances or