The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
AMan Built of Sentiment
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A glass bottle picked up on the
roast hear Atlantic City containing 4
message"
Big storm? ShipWreck? Vessel sink
ing: We are all lost:
More than that I've had lover
didn't know Of Read it," And she
landed him lit Of paper on which
we're scrawIed her full name and adj
dress and
In few minutes this vessel will carry
rs 81! to a watery grave. | wish you to
know that there has tbeen one who has.
unknown to you. loved you devotedly.
But he will die as he has lived without
revealing himself to you. Farewell.
We'll" said Joe after reading the
message. do You suppose it's genu-
ine:''
Something tells me it is
WHAT"
Il feel--I--somehow it seems to me
that had this man wooed me we would
have
Would have
What a noble. good man he must
have been to love me at distance"
Noble. good man. Ell? To love you
at distance! Will you kindly ex-
plain?"
Why. there must have been some
reason why he couldn't declare him
self His great heart bore the load
without permitting me to share it."
Then why didn't he keep on bear
ing it without mixing you UP in this
way"
He knew wOman'S nature. l wish
YOU knew it as well. A woman re-
love Of Il good man.
You mean a noble. good man. Don't
leave out the NOBLE
This man must have been a noble,
good. self sacrificing man."
Where does the self sacrifice come
In"
why. II he had told me Of his love
| would have loved him. We couldn't
marry and
How do YOU know you cOuldn't?"
why. what other reason would there
be for his not
lAOlS vi GILL. uc SudAVCS axe uC
was beneath you, probably some cab
driver who once drove you somewhere
Or
Joseph!
More likely common sailor, with
his arms and breast tattooed with an
chors''
You are simply showing your envy
Of one who was doubtless your SUI
perior'
AT any rate, Id have more sense
than to keep my love a secret till q
few minutes before | was to be launch
ed for kingdom come"
You haven't that nobility Of soul to
understand this mans nature. He
would not speak till what he said
would not make me suffer-till Ii
would be only sweet for a woman to
hear
Mobility Of soul. eh? l haven't no.
bility Of Soul. And this man-how do
you know he had a soul at all? How
do you know he isn't myth? Some.
body may have been playing joke
on YOU"
One WHO would play such a joke
would have as little soul as the myth
he created
Joseph looked sorely troubled
1T seems to me-" he said presently,
that rival has sprung up-a blood.
less. spiritual. heavenly, noble, good,
unSeltSh"
Heroic
Heroic. Any mOre?"
why DO yIu sheer at him"
I'm not sneering at him. He's sim
ply manufactured man, one who has
been built up out Of pure sentiment,
with sentimental arms, legs. head.
hands"
Who created him? Not l! 1 never
heard of lin till received his only
and last message"
Al any rate. he has replaced NE.
I'm going to say farewell. I'm going
TO give way 10 your ideal hero.'
You should strive to be like him."
Like him! Do you suppose I'd wish
to be like man of tissue paper, with
nothing inside Of him but gas? Ee
isn't even gas. He's vacuum
There's no substance. in the angels
There are different kinds of angels"
Il do believe you hate him"
Il! Hate him! I'm perfectly indifser-
eht to him. cOnfound him.
The girl burst into a merry laugh
She laughed for five minutes, holding
Lec sides. then tried to say something,
5u. She was interrupted by another in
voluntary peel Of laughter Finally
she controlled herself sufficiently to
tay:
Joe. this is
Its certainly no laughing matter"
Yes. it is. stupid
Stupid. It's well that stupid man
should give way to 4 little tin god"
Joe. the next time you send me a
message from the dead do have sense
enough to write it on paper that
won't recognize as your own"
The expression Of mingled fierceness
and misery on Joe's face gradually
faded away and gave place to one Of