The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-27

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cause he had to live, but he spent MS
nights searching the skies at the Cd
seryatory on Tower hill because ne
loved it. The scientists and attend
ants recognized the tall young man
with the shoulders of an athlete and
the bullying brow OF a student as one
of themselves, and he had the run
of the place.
Tower hill stood between the ocean
and the plain. 1t shot up into the ar
several hundred feet. Oak Haroor,
a city of considerable size. nestled
at it's base, spread over the plain ana
climbed ambitiously up its side. vines
liked TO sit on the hill, like an eagle
on his crag, and sweep the pageant sea
with a long, slim powerful TELESCOPES
that was his own property. Between
this telescope and the great barrel
which peered into the mysteries OF the
sky and was moved only by ponderous
machinery, he was perfectly happy.
One evening in early spring the SKY
was overcast so that no stars were
visible, and the sea was empty OF
ships. Wiles took his telescope to
Ioophole in the dome of the obserVa-
tory. adjusted it on it's tripod and sat
down to the eyepiece. The city OF
Oak Harbor was in front and beneath
him, pricked out by its hundred thou
sand lights.
Dividing the town into vast check
erboards were the electric street lamps
glowing white in the gloom. The llghts
in the homes were of a mellower and
less obtrusive tint They peered from
the open doors and windows and
twinkled shyly through the budding
trees. The great Office buildings, tier
on tier, illumined like the portfolios OF
undreamed Of ocean liners, thrust
themselves proudly aloft. The troll
leys, whose snoring hum came family
to him in his aerie were moving
streaks of fire. Motor cars flew width
er and thither like orderly firefles.
Seated thus at his telescope, Hoover
Wiles felt like one Of the 1mmortais-
He abode on his mountain, above hu-
mainly and it's petty, buglike emotions.
How aimless and useless seemed all
this fastening to and fro! What waste
of energy in trivial, blind pursuit OF
pleasure! Surely an ant hill, with its
misdirected activity, was a conserva-
tive and intellectual community beside
the city of Oak Harbor!
Thus musing, Wiles turned his tele-
scope slowly, like a long, moving I'M
ger. 1t showed the groups waiting for
cars on tht corners; occasionally 1t fol
lowed an automobile for block or
two. Then, as it swept far to the left,
the telescope seemed to stop Of its
own volition on a pretty scene.
A lighted kitchen window, surround
ed by vines newly green, filed its field.
Within the kitchen, small boy was
sitting at a table eating. A young
woman was waiting on him. She wore
a light dress, and had a profusion of
dark hair. Wiles felt that she was
pretty, though his instrument would
not bring out her face in detail. But
the air of beauty was about her.
In her passing to and fro, once she
stopped to tousle the youngsters hair.
The watcher could see the happy
smile on the lads face. Presently,
having finished his supper, he showed
back from the table. The girl, bub-
bling over with mirth and high spir-
its, began to dance about the kitchen.
The light, irregular steps were the
personifcation of grace. She swayed
back and forth across the space op-
posite the window. The boy clapped
his hands gleefully. Wiles watched
: the scene until the dance was over.
Then he leaned back, took a long
breath, and said:
81 shall find that girl and marry
her!"
Wiles had cause to regret not keep
ing his eye glued to the telescope; for
when he looked again, the lighted win
dow had vanished. Either the tele-
scope had moved or else the light in
the kitchen had been extinguished
For two hours he peered steadily into
the eyepiece, in the vain hope that the
dancing girl would again fit across
his field of vision But not another
lunctantly, he gave it up and went
home.
The next night he was early at his
post His heart beat with anticipa
ton as he sat down at the telescope
and watched the dusk close in anC
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being like jewels on velvet cloth
The glass was as he had left it the
night before.
Again he was disappointed In al
hour of painstaking peering he picked
I'D a score of kitchen windows; but IL
each something was lacking. This ont
had no vines about 1t; that one die
not have a table within the line O
vision: the third was lighted by cleo
trfcity instead of gas, and SO on. NJ
sight of the dancing girl" as ne haC
begun to call her, gladdened his heart
When the clocks in the city below
began booming the hour of II, Vile
admitted to himself that it was to-
late for small boys to be eating SUP
ner. and for pretty girls to be float
ing across a kitchen floor like thistle
down. So he turned his attention t.
the stars. 1t was a very wanderin!
attention, though; the stars could hav
skfDped from their courses and gam
boled together like lambs ere common
or censure would have been elictet
from Wiles.
For a week this continued. From
shortly after seven until eleven b
THEY ALL HAD COLD FEE