The evening world., 1911-12-29

with furtive glances In which.
~ hhe imagined, she detected a
- CLINT Of speculation. hut of
-. enc was not quite sure, for wh.a
."' p'uhtiy Questioned him concerning
MS moods no had Invariably given her
an evasive reply.
rearing that there might hav. b.sr
= recurrence OF the old trouble with ,h.
W. manager-about which he
" 'o'u heI dusag her FIRST days at the
~" ane NentufVd "a question.
lie mad grimly assured her tb,, n.
anticipated no further trouble in ina, Al.
rectlop. so. unable 10 get a direct r..
pis from him. she had decided that DEF.
n"ps nc would speak when the Tim.
came ana 80 she had ceased aues,ion.
ing. "Nesuon'
spite or his negligence r~egandinr ,hs
pony. she had not given IN her rId..
Nor had she neglected to give a mari A,
eaoh morning to the story.
me work OF gradually deveiouips h.,
noIos character had been an absorbins
a. '.es when she fingered ovsr the
p'se, VI mo story she found herself
wondering whether she had .ouna., 49,.
depths Of his nature. '"e
She know. at least, thar sbs h.h
MN attractive. for as no moved snors
her pages she-who should have besn
satiatcd with him because Of beins com.
PEELED 10 record his every word snd
movcment-found his magnetic p~er,on.i
NY anvil her applause. found mai hs
aunted her dreams. discovered ON. Az
mat her waking moments were mn
with thoughts OF him.
Blu OF late she had begun to suso.cs
that her interest In him was NOT ali cr
account OF The story: there were timss
when me sat long thinking Of him,
seeing ! m watching the lirhts AM
shadows OF oppression come ana no n
his face ~
somewhere between the real Fercusou
n the man who was im%personatins
MIN In her story was an invisible I'm
that could not trace. There ver,
lime whom she could not have told
whether the character abe admired be
Iongcd to the real or the unreal.
She ~ thinking much Of this 10
day while she o into the subduet
Light OF the cotton wood. Was she
absorbed In putting a real character
In her story. to confess hat her inters,
In him was not wholly the Interest o.
the artist h sees tho beauties and
virtues Of . model only long enouxs
to paint them into the plcture3 Tn.
bushes came when she suddenly real.
ICED that her Interest was not who'll
professional. that she had lately I'm.
gered long over her model. at times
when she had not been thinking Of tins
story at all.
Then. too. shs had considered her
friends In the East. What would they
say II they knew OF her friendship
with the Two diamond stray-mAnl
The standards OF Eastern civilization
were not elastic enough to include tn
man whom she had come to know ~
well. who had strobe as boldly into
her life as he had strobe into her
story. with his steady. serene eyes. hi,
picturesque rigging. and his two guns
their holsters tied 50 suggestiveiy AM
f~orebodingly down.
romance In him7 Would they be abb,
to estimate him according to IN,
standards OF the world In which N
lived. In which he moved 50 grace
fully?
She was aware that. measured n,
Eastern standards. Ferguson fell IA
short OF the average In those thing
that combine to produce the polished
gentleman.
As she ode through the cottonv,oI
into that deep solitude which bring
with II a mighty reverence for natur.
and q solemn desire for communion
with the soul-that solitude In whlcf
all arectation disappears and man 81
face 10 face with his Maker-sne trisi
to him OF Ferguson In an Eastern
drawing room. attempting a shan
courtesy. affecting mannsrIsms tina
more than once had brought her owr
soul into rebellion.
But she could not get him into the i'm
sglnary picture. lie did not belons
there: II seemed that she was trying /,
force a living figure into a company o
mechanical puppets. And 80 they wer'
puppets VINO answered 10 the pullini
OF strings of preccdcn, and established
convention.
But at the same time she knew tina
this society which she affected - de-
spigs would refuse 10 accept him; tina
II by any chance he should be gwen a
| place In II no would - an object o.
rldlcule. or at tho least passive con
tempt.
The world ia not want originality
would not welcome IN Us craving room
the free, unaffected child Of nature. No