The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-25

In the other corner was the
log; and he shrank from explora-
ion in that direction. So,
through beds of dry phlox, iris
and tiger-lilies, he returned to
The long house, and stole across
20 the fourth side, where he found
\ door through the wall, tight
shut and impregnable. Back by
this last long wall he felt his
way, still baffled. A sense of dur
ance and Incarceration began to
overpower him. in the desperation
Of which he ventured back, even
to the barn again, thus having
circumnavigated both the garden
and the Cerberus guarding it. He
felt as he passed the kennel
much as Ulysses must have done
with the blinded and furious
feeling about the
cave for him; but on he stole,
only to make sure that there was
no way out. The very sternness
Of the architecture pointed to
this conclusion as a moral and
certainty. Only one course
to knock at the Dark
Tower at the rear and ask to be
let out; and from this he shrank.
He knew nothing of the place, its
people, or it's laws. Still, 1t was
and we'll along toward
the middle of the twentieth CEN
fury; and his punishment would
be endurable, he hoped, praying
that the laws of what
ever state it might be would not
make burglary of his offense,
which was entering" to be sure,
but not by "breaking'-unless
one counted the birch limbs and
the Northumberland which
quite lacked malice aforethought.
Calling up his scattered courage
by the drumming in his ears, he
went with some steadiness up to
the long veranda, and was about
to violate it's columned shades,
when a shrill whistle sounding
from the top of the porch in
stantly commanded his attention.
1t was one of those sharp. hiss
ing boys whistles, made with
the curved forefinger stuck into
one corner of the mouth and
out at the other-an enviable and
fiendish trick. 1t shrilled above
the blast like the signal to go
swimming. Theodore backed into
the open, and saw man on the
roof, just in the act of swinging
himself down over the cave.
"Get under here, old sport, I"
said the voice, land give liberty
loving classmate a leg down."
Theodore received on his shout
der a rather small shoe, reached
up and steadied a somewhat bony
leg, and was about to let his bur-
den down, when the liberty-loving
one collapsed In all his members,
and came down by the run, in all
ways, and. as it seemed, on all
sides at once of his helper.
Carson started forward to raise
the demoralized fugitive to his
feet; but he was already up and in
the darkness seemed to be bowling
and kissing his hand to an mag
mary audience, like a tumbler &C
applause.
"My celebrated Avernus act"
said he. Special gravitation ex-
pert to the crowned heads! But
hist! Let me greet thee! An We
be noble. salute my cheek; an We
be slob, receive my contemptuous
old sport?"
81 hope you aren't hurt" said
Carson.
may, that's past hoping!" an
swered the other. 81 am busted
in all ways! Compound. commin-
uted and stellated fractures are
now desirable, in view my worser
scath. / am sore shent, and !
fear I have torn my panties. But
have escaped" (here he spoke
into Carson's ear)-"A
doom that in another moment
would have topped the agonies Of
deepest hell raised to the Nth
power! But / am selfish! I talk
only of myself-and things. Let
us fuse our souls, reveal the Sc
crets of our beings. wot we are
kindred spirits, rectified, one hun
dred proof, aged in the wood and
bottled in bond-bottled tight!
Wottest thou not so, w'at?"
Unable to account for his affin-
lty's uncommon mode of address,
and quite as unable to escape, Car
son stood mute, alone with a pos
sible lunatic and a very probable
dog, in a walled garden into which
he had dropped from the night
sky, In an Alabama suit of clothes,
in a climate which in all likeli-
hood belonged to Illinois, but re-
minded one of Greenland. There
seemed to be nothing adequate to
say.
'If your being remains reticent
as to its inner springs of Joy and
SORROW" remarked the stranger,
as IL speaking of some foreign and
recalcitrant thing, the proper
treatment of which might present
a delicate problem. ''let me unlock
It's refractory atomic nature with
the ferment of my celebrated sys-
tenn of cross-examination, elabor-
ated in the case Of Gorrell vs.. Cor
reIl. IL in generalities thou wilt
not wilt. let us reverse the evo-
Iutionary process and proceed
from the abstract to the concrete,
from the general to the particu-
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