Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-13

fishing Co. !
If the tugboat which brought my
supplies had been due the next day.
this story must have ended very diff
ferently. | should then have explained
matters to the captain taken the girl
TO the mainland and advertised for her
friends. But the tug would not come
until the tenth day, and in the mean
while | became so charmed and fasci-
mated with the pupil and prOtGg6 that
had fallen to me from the skies that
committed the deliberate crime of let
ting the tug come and go without
knowledge of Ewes existence. You may
argue this as you will. 1t was crime.
deliberately committed, and with full
knowledge that it was crime. But |
excused myself in this way: Ewes
friends have already gone through the
anguish of losing her. And ii isn't
possible to undo that. II she is re-
turned now, they will have to endure
the added shock of learning that her
memory is completely gone; that she
is no longer the young woman they
helped 10 fashion, but a child whose
few words of language, even, take
their accent from a man utterly
stranger to them-and a man upon
whom are fastened the whole heart
and affections of her who was formerly
their Eve.
But sent letter by the captain of
the tugboat TO a friend in whom /
could trust And by this letter |
reuuisitioned a whole list of things APP
propriate to a girl on a camping trip,
not emitting tooth brushes and cold
cream. p And l begged my friend not
to misjudge me, or to draw any evil
conclusion from my commission.
When | come back 10 the world |
said. Il will come straight TO you with
an explanation. Meanwhile laugh If
YOU like, but don't talk or omit any
thing named in the inclosed list
The minute the tugbOat was under
way | began TO have misgivings. The
minute she was out of hail l was filled
with the most awful remOrse and
alarm. If Eve fell sick, cut off as we
we're from doctors, her death would
be at my door. | shouted after the
tug: | raised a coat upon a pole and
waved it from high ground. But no.
body saw me, think. And | sat down,
full Of agony and despair.
But nothing very awful happened.
Some phases of guardianship were
funny to deal with, and others embar-
RAISING. She caught a little cold for
instance, and hadn't the remOtest idea
how 10 blow her own nose. But the
pleasant phases of our companionship
far outweighed any others. Surely no
teacher ever had so apt a pupil, or
was so rewarded for patience. And
surely no pupil ever made such aston
ishing progress. This, of course, IS
neither especially creditable to her nor
to me. She was merely learning what
she had formerly known; and ! was
merely the medium through which this
renewment was accomplished. She
preserved, for instance. the mechanism
of speech in perfect order, and | had
but TO supply her with the words.
After little it was only necessary 10
give her a word once. She never for
got. But what I had the most amuse-
ment from was in teaching her deport
ment and table manners, and in cor
recting her greedy love of sweets. Dis
pleasure, fortunately, was all the pun
ishment she ever required. Certain
things really had to be corrected, but
| could never have brought myself to
the point OF shaking her or sending
her to bed without her supper.
It was at first not without misgiv-
ings that | turned the cabin over 10
her az night For there was no way
Of locking up the provisions. and to
hide them here and there about the
island was impracticable. But she soon
learned the meaning of being put
upon honor" and after one lapse, Wis
tied by me with scorn and Indifference
you could not have induced her tC
touch the jam or the brown sugar
without permission.
But when she had really begun 70
| grow up. il I may so express il. the
rulership of Trumpet Island passed
from my hands into hers. Indeed. il
| so happened that when she got TO be
about fifteen pursuant to the expires
| sion used above) | fell head over ears
| in love with her And forthwith she
| developed into a creature Of whims
| and moods and was no longer simple
| and like child. but complex and enig
| matte. Perhaps because there was nc
| one else. she was desperately fond Of
! NE. and looked up TO me as to won
| derful being-but one. however, whom
ii was incumbent upon her to tease
! and to ply with all sorts of FRANKS
from those suggested by an embarrass
ing and childlike affection to those
| born of that contradictoTiness which
! dwells in the hearts of all women.
had told her, for instance. that he
| ring was a thing Of value to bC
guarded carefully and not lost. On
day | found her, seated on a heapinl
of rocks that rose from deep water
fishing as I had taught her, and no
ticed that the ring was gone from he
hand
where's your ring. Eve?" said
| with a note of anxiety.
For answer she began to pull he
! line in. until could see the ring flash
/ ing just below the surface of the wa
ter, and just above the baited hook
She was using it as sinker.
81 was Just having a bite, too" sh'
said. letting her hook drop back int
the depths, but you spoiled that
/ took the line from her. and secur