Arizona republican., 1912-03-17
A SPLE N D I'D
 PA w N
(copyrisht, 1910, by the Pearson
 Publishing co.)
By ELEANOR STUART.

GaivinS diplomatic opportunity came
 TO him after days of depression and temptation-not that depression is not always temptation. But Calvin, MD, could divide his state of mind down the middle and say: This much is depression-consequ upon climate
 and the dear girl l left behind me:
 and this much is temptation to quit Bustorah instantly-conseguen upon
 lust 10 be something better than a
 mediocre medical man under contract
 to British Government. rushed out 10
 green pool with scum on it. merely
 because clerk in the Foreign Offce
 happened to notice it's name on the
 map The place of the pool is called
 Madgeldar and gives on the wilderness.
 being policed by lions and furtively
 patrolled by flies who are dedicated 10
 the Devils secret service, spreading
 disease from eye to eye and mouth to
 mouth; they are sentinels of sorrow
 upon the bronze faces of Arab chil-
 dren. But one learns nothing of Mad
 geldar from the maps, except that il
 Is almost on the southern line of So maitland in East Africa; bar one map.
 printed al Milan, which says on it's ample margin, Mail service via Alden or Zanzibar"
 Calvin. MD, never anticipated mail: his whole trouble was that he never anticipated anything He was, extrin- sically, tragedy: ie. a first-rate mind with fifth-rate opportunities but it is ever Gods mercy that heads wins in such toss-ups with Destiny when alco- hol is not playing the game. Also it iS well n har hor rpho 1af- ;. tum as he disgorged Jonah. for it is hard TO keep good man down.
 The mail brought him. as a rule. a letter from Sybil Rae. who was the manager of the Alexandra Hat Shop. Every Ladys Every Wish Antici- pated." Bond Street. London. W. He kissed these letters when they came if his sly Somali servants weren't
 ooking-and when he had finished reading them he put his red, Scotch head in his hands and cursed with ar dor. Curses and prayers are twin brothers in simple natures like Gal wins. Within his mighty heart the ache of personal failure throbbed on. and always Sybil receded, home grew blurred even in the clear light of his lifes desire. The Arabs about him would have been surgical opportunities had not their religion forbidden the knife's healing uses, and sons of the wilderness know such a lot of pre- ventive medicine that other than surgi- cal emergencies do not arise except with women; and, bien eHteHda. these women of emergencies do not arise either, but die without doctors as priv acy dictates, and are buried in shallow graves.
 And he had never anticipated a mail less than on the day when his oppor- tunity arrived by it. Dawn had broken over the tangled green and waving palms, bent in a sand-laden breeze from the Somali desert. Day meant nothing but glare 10 him now as he | stood in his pajamas on the housetop 1 and looked into the swiftly. illumin- | ated emptiness. Cod he cried, in | his intolerable loneliness, If it breaks | me. I've got to get away!'
 As his eyes fell again 10 the heavy | steely sea whose breakers threw out | their own complaint on the shores | tawny strip, he caught sight of the BGrdiCd arrived unexpectedly from Mogdesha and dropped anchor with a rattle in the LaTboT he wished he had never seen.