New-York tribune., 1909-10-24

,noent their ewes swept the ruin strewn inclosure
in silence; then Griscom said absently:
8" | am very glad that you came was getting
tired of waiting
Waiting?
What am l talking about? | meant to say that
| was becoming very lonely and depressed
..As a student of ancient history" answered the
girl slowly you ought 10 be in your element
Perhaps that was the trouble
What do YOU mean?
Il am too much in my element to be happy |
feel as if | back in an element from which L
had been graduated-like mosquito fallen into the
water" He smiled. Frankly, this place gets on
so it does on mine. Really, do you know, |
think that the Romans from the sixth to the ninth
centuries had the right idea when they used this place
as a quarry from which to get their building ma
terial
What
Il do 1t was buried and it should have stayed
buried. | don't believe in unearthlng old corPses,
whether of people or palaces Let the dead bury
their dead-and then let their descendants leave
them buried
But, my dear lady, think of the treasures of art,
we are constantly evolving our own art, and the
history make is much more important than that
we dig up.
is copied-or perhaps evolved would be better
word"
SO much the worse for usl' The girls voice
held fierce little ring. And so was a great deal of
our wiCkedness hate all of this, and if it mine
to say do you know what should do? | should
this rubbish to the ground, temples, Colosseum
hospitals and even theaters. What is the Colosseum
but gigantic monument to the cruelty the devil
ishness of mankind? 1t is a disgrace to the human
race!' She turned and looked at him with flushed
cheeks and quivering lips.
g But think of what owe
- But don't want to owe it! And think that the
importance given to ancient rubbishry is the great
humbug of our epoch. But | forget that | talk
ing to professor. | ask your pardon You see,
Professor GriscOm, | resent the influence the place
has upon me-.
Il am not crazy about it myself answered Girls
CON- smiling. 1t seems to belttle my present. |
feel as though | were living in echo"
That is it, cried the girl That is it precisely!
Living in echo An echo that repeats itself back
and fainter until it dies away and leaves you
nothingl"
HE nodded. " Last night | could not sleep did not
- want to. 1t was very warm, and the moon
shining into my | got up and closed the
Shutters but the moonlight came ftering through
and with it great many strange thin sounds faint
with distance and all in minor KEYS EVERYTHING
seemed elusive and distant in time we'll as space.
There were little shrling sounds,-what they were
i don't knOw,-and thin minor whistles, distant and
quavering, and people talking great way off and
and then the high pitched tnl1e of a bell. They
did not seem like living sounds; but ebbing and
swoonng, and like the ghosts of ancient noises
that had once been real"
Girls ON S voice had grown dreamy distracted as
if talking to himself. He turned his head to look at
the girl, and that her eyes were very wide with
dilated pupils and that her lips were trembling.
81 heard them" said She and exactly in that
way. Then had dreadful nightmare"
Wild beasts?"
She nodded.
81 have dreamed about our lion several times;
but we must not talk about that Miss Wellesley.
Tell me about yourself
SHE glanced at him quickly, and the color came
~ pouring into her face Very we'll" Her voice
was slightly breathleSS 'AS YOU were directly con-
Professor hat has