Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-02-22
AMan Built of Sentiment

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| messngc."
big storm7 shlpwreck? Vessel sink.
ing7 we are nll lostf'
"More than that. I've had lover
didn't know OF. Read It." And she
handed him bit of paper on which
were scrawlcd her full name and nd
dress and
In q few minutes this vessel will carry
uB NIL 10 n watery grave. wish you to
know that there hen been one who has,
unknown to You. loved you dovotedly.
But lie Will die as nc has lived without
revealing himself to YOU. Farewell.
"Well." said Joe after reading the
message. do you suppose It's genu-
ineT'
Something tells me II is."
"Whati"
ri feci--I-somehow II seems 20 me
that had this man wooed me we would
have
Would have
"What noble. good man he must
have been to love me Mt dlstanccw
"Noble. good man. Ell? TO love you
ut a dlstancel VIII you kindly ex.
plaln:"
.'Why, there must have been some
I reason why he couldn't declare him.
self. His great heart bore the load
without permitting me TO share It."
"Thcu why didn't he keep on bear
Ing 1t without mixing you up In this
| way"
'He knew a womnn's nature. wish
You knew it MS well. A woman re.
celves her greatest compliment IN the
love OF u good man."
"Yon mem n noble. good man. Don't
leave out the noble"
This man must hnvc been a noble.
good, SELF sacrificing man."
where does the self sacrifice come
inf"
would have loved him. We couldn't
marry and
How 10 you know you couldn'tf"
| "Why. what other reason would there
be for bis not
Lots OF EN-. The chances are he
was beneath you, probably some cab
driver who once drove you somewhere
or
"Josephy
More likely common sailor. with
his arms and breast tattooed With nm
chors"
You arc simply showing your envy
OF one who was doubtless your su.
perior."
at any rate. I'd have more sense
than 10 keep my love n secret till \
few minutes before was to be launch
cd for kingdom Gomez
You haven't that nobility OF soul TO
understand this mans nature He
| would not speak TIL what he said
fwould not make me suffer-,.ll It
would he only sweet for n woman to
hear
Mobility Of soul. ch7 I haven't no.
bility OF soul And this man-how do
You know lie had soul ut aif How
do YOU know he isn't ii myth? Some.
body may have been playing joke
on you"
''one who would play such joke
would lave rs little soul rs the myth
ho created"
Joseph looked sorcly troubled.
at seems to me-" be said presently.
that rival has sprung up--a blood
less, spiritual. heavenly, noble, good,
unselilsh"---
Heroic"
"Hcroia. Any moret"
| "Why do YOU sneer ut hlm7"
I'm not sneering ut 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 1! L never
henrd OF him TIL received his only
and last message
/ lat any rate, he has replaced inc,
I'm going TO gay farewell. Pm going
to give way to your ideal hero"
You should strive to be like him"
Like him! Do you suppose I'd wish
TO be like n man OF tissue paper. with
nothing inside of him but gas? Ho
isn't even gas. Hos n vacuum
There's 10 substance in the angels"
"'rhcre are different kinds of angels"
II do believe you hate him"
az. Hate him. I'm perfectly indiffer-
'ent to him. confounl him"
[ Tho girl burst into merry laugh
She laughed FOR five minutes, holding
her sides, then tried to say something.
but she was interrupted by another In
voluntary peel OF laughter. Finally
she controlled herself sufficiently to
say:
"Ioe. this ls"-
ITS certainly no laughing matter"
"Tes. It Is. stupid"
stupid. It's we'll that stupid man
should give way TO little tin god"
| Joe, the next time you send me
message from the dead DO have sense
enough TO write it on paper that