The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-16

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ne that other monkish forms mad
gathered In the shadows, and that
the pla-e was like a .nonastry with
every light extinguished.
Do not 80 upstairs said the
hooded man "Ycl will no. like
what is being done here, A man
like you had fai better stay with
me.
DO you calmly propose. /
asked. that ! should stay in the
Underground forayer?"
Eyes. in the Underground, he
answered. I'VE OF the ancient
Church remained in he Under
ground, Ii the Catacomhs. For
l'what was done In the daylisht.was
7not good for good man T., see. n
Il will go up" | cried. pt1It is
open air, at any rate aeet
Consider it veil, heaanswered,
with curious calm We guard
ours elves with walls. We. grid our
selves with saakcloth But our
laughter and our leyity are with
in, But the new philosophers are
grit air round with gayety, and their
despair, Is in their hearth .ss
II will go apt" | cried, and
broke past him and ran upstairs.
Yet Il did ii with sucl swollen
ana expeotapt passions that ! took
1t for granted that should rush
out upon some enormous orgy, OBJ
vious and obscene In the, sunlight
And it was like the first crash into
colo water when iour.d myself
in an utterly empty street turned
aisaost white b. the moon
strobe up tht street., TURNED
two corners and stood before 81
Paui's Cathedral. 1t stooi up
quite ccld and colossal in the emp
Iaty might, like tie lost temple Of
come empty planet Only when !
stared little While | saw the fool
ish figure OF young man stra1-
ding on the III Eermosts teps as
If he owned the cathedral ag8g -
The instant that | bal started
to mount the Ups he waved at me
wildly and eri "a, Have YOU got a
new design"
AS ! paused irresoluta there pop
ped like rabbits out Of their holes
three pale men from between the
pillars peerins at me
The yoang men ran half way
down the steps and | saw that ne
had long wandering auburn hair
and an impudent smile. but his face
was whittier than a corpse's.
we have cleared the London
streets" he explained, of every
one who has not a design. These
three gentlemen have ali got new
designs. That one, be added. low
ering his Voice and pointing at one
man who had hairiessl head and
huge ears, that ofesS-sis Pyffer
himself"
And who is Pyffer?" asked.
staring at the man. whose horri-
BILE ears seemed to groy larger as
| stared.
You know TIE great oessimlst,
surely?" he asked an1iols,y But
you must not speak to him. He
never speaks.
had reached the top step, and
now saw the other two men more
clearly; one was a blonI- German
with watery eyes and wild mus
taehes. The otter was en- elderly
man with black whiskers ana green
spectacles. lie vas in the middle
of an Grafton when reached him.
1T Is merely" he said. a mat
ter of 'scleneeala matter fer experts.
What could be more absurd than
the present eonstTuotion Of the
thiug?f-A- hr-r t'-irl f'''
At this point the palsryo6hg man
who seemed 10 he. sort of a show
man whispered in my ear: "Dr.
Blood. he has n sde conduct sci
ence."
Or. Blood continued: What can
be more absurd architceturally. The
dome is curve. | am against
curves .5fH
Now you trust the expert" he
ssid III put this place right in
Two minutes"
Ire strose into the interior. and
then We heard three taps And the
next mouTcnt this dome that filled
the sky shook as in an earthquake.
and fell Sideways Nothing could
express the enormous unreason OF
that familiar scene silently gone
wrorg. rteiefsri
aVoke to hear the Eosrse voice
of the yswning man. speaking for
the Grst and last tine Ia nay ear.
DO yoa see. he Whispered. the
sis IL crooked Sc L. Chester
brook, IN the Loadon DLiIy NsNs.