The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-09-09
AMan Built of Sentiment


fancee what do you think received
by express today"
"Whatg'
"A glass bottle picked up GA the
coast near Atlantic City containing
message"
Big storm? shipwreck? Vessel sink
ing? We are all Iost?'
More than that. I've had lover
didn't know of. Read IT. And she
handed him a bit Of paper ON which
were sera wled her full name and adj
dress and
In Few minutes this vessel will carry
us MI TO a watsry grave. wish you to
know that there has been enc who has.
unknown to you. loved you devotedly.
But he vial die as he has lived without
revealing hinasslf to ysa. Farewell
ttWell." said Joe after reading the
message. do you suppose it's genu-
ane?"
Something tells me it is.''
"What?''
II feel-I-somehow it seems to me
that had this man woeed nae we would
have
would have
''What noble, coed man he must
have been to love me at aistaneer'
mobile. good man, Ell? To love you
at a 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 1t without mixing you up In this
way?"
He knew woman's nature. I wish
You knew it as well. a woman re-
eeives her greatest compliment in the
love of good man"
"You mean noble. good man. Don't
leave out the noble"
'This man must have been noble
good, self sacrificing man"
"Where does the self sacrifice come
in?"
ssWhy, II he had told me Of his love
/ would have loved him. We couldn't
marry and
"How do you know you couldn't?''
sWhy. what other reason would there
be for his not
"Lots Of 'em. The chances are he
was beneath you, probably some cab
driver who once drove you somewhere
orr ."..
"Joseph!' ..."
"More likely a common sailor, with
his arms and breast tattooed with an,
chors."
"You are simply showing your envy
Of one who was doubtless your su'
perior." "
"At any rate, I'd 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 te
understand this mans nature. He
would not speak till what he said
would not make me suffer-till i,
would be only sweet for woman te
hear
mobility of soul, Ell? I haven't no
bility of soul. And this man-how dc
you know he had soul at all? How
do you know he isn't myth? Some
body may have been playing q jocks
On you"
"One who would play such a joke
would have as little soul as the myth
he created."
Joseph looked sorely troubled
at seems to me-" he said presently
''that rival has sprung up-a blood
less, spiritual, heavenly, noble good
unselfsh"-
| "Heroic."
Heroic. Amy more?"
"Why do you sneer at him?"
"I'm not sneering at him. He's sim
| ply manufactured man, one who ha
been built up out Of pure sentiment
with sentimental arms, legs, head
/ hands"
"Who created him? Not Il neve
heard OF him till I received his onl.
and last message"
Eat any rate, he has replaced me
I'm going to say farewell I'm COINS
to give way to your ideal hero"
"You should strive to be like him.
Like him. Do you suppose I'd wisl
| to be like a man Of tissue paper, witt
| nothing inside Of him but gas? FL
isn't even gas. HE'S vacuum
"There's no substance in the angels.
"rhere are different kinds Of angels.
'I do believe you hate him"
81, Hate him! I'm perfectly indiffe'
emit to him, confound him."
The girl burst into merry laugh
She laughed for five minutes, .holdin
her sides. then tried to say something
but she was interrupted by another il
voluntary peel Of laughter. Finall
abe controlled herself sufficiently t
say:
"Joe. this isl
"It's certainly no laughing matter"
Eyes, it liz, stupid"
Stupid, It's well that stupid ma
should give way to a little tin god
"Joe, the next time You send me
message from the dead do have sens
| ananrh TO write it on paper that