The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-25

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 'ANp WHO THE DICKENS IS UTAMIp increasing the dislike Sheldon had taken to him. He went swimming with her, in point of rashness exceed ing her. and dynamited fish with her, diving among the hungry ground sharks and contesdng with them for possession of the stunned prey. until he earned the approval of the. whole Tahitian. crew. Arahu challenged him to tear a fish from sharks jaws. ieav- ing half to the shark and bringing the other half himself to the surface. and Tudor performed the feat flip from the sandpaper hide of the astonished shark scraping several inches of skin from his shoulder. And Joan was de lighted, while Sheldon. looking on. re- alized that here was the hero of her adventure dreams coming true. She did not care for love. but he felt that if ever she did love. it would be that sort of a man--''a man who exhibited. was his way of putting it.
 He felt himself handicapped in the presence of Tudor. who had the gift of making show of all his qualities Sheldon knew himself for brave man. wherefore he made no advertisement ,f the fact Life pulsed steadily and ieep in him. and it was not his nature aeedfessty to agitate the surface so that the world could see the splash he was making. And the effect of the ,ther's amazing exhibitions was to make him retreat more deeply within himself and wrap himself more thick y than ever in the flerveIesS, stoical :alm of his race.
 aYod are so stupid the last few days Joan complained to him. "You don't seem to have an idea in your head above black labor and eocoanuts. What s the mattery" Sheldon smiled and beat a further retreat within himself. listening the while to Joan and Tudor propounding ;he theory of the strong arm by which he white man ordered life among the lesser breeds. As he listened Sheldon ,eaizea. as by revelation. that that was precisely what he was doing While they philosophical about it he was living it. But why talk about it? It was sufficient to do it and be done with it.
 | He said as much. dryly and quietly. and found himself involved in a dis .ussion. with Joan and Tudor siding l against him.
 l 'The Yankees taIk lot about what | .hey do and have done." Tudor said. l and are looked down upon by the English as braggartst But the Yankee $ only child, He does not Know ef- | fectuaIly how to hrag. He talks about | It, you see But the Englishman goes Jim one better by not talking about it. The EngIishman's proverbiai lack of | oragging is a subtler form of brag. 1 liter alI"
 '1 never thought of it before" Joan cried. "Of course. An Englishman performs some terrificaily heroic ex- pso,t and is very modest and reserved refuses to talk about it at all, an6 the effect is that by his silence he as much as says: I do things like this every day. It is as easy as rolling of log. You ought to see the really heroic things l could do if they evel came my way Confess, Mir. Sheldon don't you feel proud down inside wheI you've done something daring or coura geousy
 Sheldon nodded
 Then." she pressed home the point isn't disguising that pride under { mask of careless indifference eQuiva lent to telling a lie?"
 "Yes. it is," he admitted. "But W, tell similar lies every day. It is a mat ter of training, and the English ar,
 better trained, that is all Your coun trynaen will be trained as well in time
 As Mir. Tudor said, the Yankees ar, young. Certainly we are proud insid,
 of the things we do and have done proud as Lucifer. yes. and prouder
 But we have grown up and no ionge talk about such things"
 "I surrender" Joan cried. "You ar, not so stupid after al.''
 "Yes. you have us there." Tudor ad
 nitted. But you wouldn't have hat
 us if you hadn't broken your Srainin.
 rules.'A
 "How do you meant"
 By talking about it."
 Joan ciapped her hands in approval
 Tudor lighted fresh cigarette, whil
 Sheldon sat on. imperturbably silent
 Joan was looking intently across th'
 compound. and out to sea. They fol
 lowed her gaze and saw green Ugh
 and the loom of a vessels sails.
 "I wonder if it's the Martha com
 back" Tudor hazarded
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