The Washington herald., 1908-08-05

may divine its presence. even behind
h.ghIy-yarulshed doors and lace-curtained
windows.
As an object lesson 20 illustrate forcibIy
the sacrifice OF a large income and the
substitution OF a small one. Hugo Char
ter.s could hardly have found a better
place wherein 10 walk and think And
his was the eye OF the hunter trained 10
observe details which escape the vision Of
the average pilgrim More than once IN
his life. IN pursuit Of some rare species
of game. he had plunged deep into an
arid wilderness. knowing that II he fall
I'd TO ind water before iEht he must per
ish Diserably. And always he had pushed
B on irpelIed by tEa- strange force which
drives men 20 the accomplishment Of
/ seemingly unbelievable enterprises IN
Ike manner. he had braved again and
again hunger and the atrocious extremes
I of great heat and cold one cannot ac-
count for these things Turn over the
E hack numbers of the Alpine Journal Read
some vivid description OF the couCuerins
Il q virgin peak. -llat first awful ascent
II the Natterhorn. = you VIII. up which
We. Il We live long enough. may travel IN
a funlCUlar railway Nhy should strong
[ sane men risk their lives for admittedly y
no purpose other than the wish 70 place
their feet where no human foot has trod
/ hef0re2 II the days Of CharieUagDe no
man went D0untain-cllnbing as a pas
T tine. because. obviously. the wOrk-a-day
I lives OF gentle and simple were fun
enough OF adventure and danger And
nobody. to-day. leaps into lions dens 70
I rescue a la6y-s glove. but in every part
[ Of the globe just such unreasonable and
dangerous feats are being attempted by
| q few Of Us
Hugo happened 20 be one OF this small
minority. And now. upon the psychiCal
plane he was about 10 explore new
country probably arid certainly strange
/ because innate IN him a force greater
than himself was expanding and fr-cti-
Tying To remain g weed on "Lethe's
wharf had become impossible
I He passed a mechanic with a bag OF
tools in his hand. hUrrying from one job
I 20 another TEe mans face was grtued
with dirt and deep lines lay about the
mouth and eyes. although he was still
young Hugo marked the expression new
e. to be seen upon the faces Of the loung-
/ ers in PLccadIly and Hyde Park. the eX-
preston which may be said 70 be the
answer and justification Of the Yankee
I Injunction Root hos, or de The
bagrnan who repeated that honely saw
had the same look. the inexorahle deter
minatiOn 10 root and live.
F7ugo walked on. leaving the houses
behind. He found himself in q lane. be
tween high hedges Of thorn in which
sweetb-ier and honeysuckle mingled their
fraEranCe with the poisonous fOXglOve
and the acrid bryOny. He passed a
stream Even now in early June. its
clear but si0w-fOwing waters were being
cIozged with water lilies and crowfOot-
Presently he sat down upon stile, gaz-
Na--s- NJ 1Fer-
/ landscape teeming with life under the
summer sun Curious thoughts wandered
I IN and out Of his mind He recalled, with
/ seeming irrelevanCe. some extra ordinary
pictures by Gocuin- a French symbolist.
which he had seen in Paris about a year
before. Angela had admired them For
I his part he found them abominabie, be
cause the men ard women seemed to be
dead whereas so-called inanimate things
exhibited. OF rather suggested. a hideous
land monstrous llfe- One picture. IN par
ticular. had excited a nightmare horror
I n him. Two nude figures. a man and a
woman. with hvid skins and eyes eaten
I out by corruption. stood upon grass clG1
was red. amongst reptilian trees. environ
ed by Ioathsome tentacles Of branches.
while in the foreground. smorpkous
| forms Of rocks, scaled like dragons,
! spravIed and craWled- These two might
l AA4tllAAlE TIC AdSL lAa1AA anu NAAaaeh-
after having infected nature with the poi
( son that had destroyed them
/ For a Ions time he sat thus. seeing the
/ past and the present. staring with w
blinking gaze into the future. When he
I rose there was no indecision upon his
I face Coming. he had walked slowly, the
pace habituaI 70 the man OF leisure with
nothing 70 Kill except time; returning, he
swung along briskly. walking with clean.
I Ella site tread So the mechanic had strode
along 10 his work. And IN HUgO's eyes.
as n his. shone the same subtle fame
which Prometheus stole from heaven
He had made Up his mind to-rooti
I He persuaded Tisdaie TO become his &C
3 complics. and Tisdale consented not al
together from the highest motives He
knew that the death Of Charters might
remove the greatest obstacle between
himself and Joy Vennable- This consid-
( Grafton festered during the three DAYS
: which succeeded the sinking OF the Luna.
Hugo remained at his friends fiat, while
{ Tisdale bought clothes and made inQui-
ries. Within a week d steamer that car
1 ried few passengers was sailing for The