Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-11-06

there was any romance in life, itGanIre
4ninvited, and if courted and sought
was9as0duicki 81 the 9WFfng as that erst-
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loridicul9u where TIERS VAS X6h4.o hPerras
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THOSE names; but it was too late now
to ADMIT Of this, and 4selesss since
ldB Would moi, have remedfed, the evil,
1ui Tones. hGiml4mned and haaWsed for d
I space. LAMBS he ANSWERED; 14Abut T
| was afraid he might otry9f6J live Gdfp1
Ito it, and moe Pefcival Agernon who
lived up to it could putlhisinose down
Ito a Shah Abbas- and tell how, many
knots it had to the square inch. III
start him in or. the job tomorrow ~"
Whereupon the mother sat back
I dreanily.L Now, where was the girl
Worthy of hero boy I? Moaumenta1 ques-
ton, besetting every mother, from Eve
down, Eve, whose trials in this direc-
ton must have been heartrending! 81
George left the cellar in due time,
and after that he went up the ladder.
in boundsg con his own Gnlerit5 Q mind.
1 you, sfor his father =snever] istirred a.
.ahands to boost hims He took the in
I terest in rugs that turns a buyer into
a collector; it became "a fascinating
! pleasure rather than a. business He
became Invaluable to the shouse, land
/ acquired some fame asa Judge and
'san appraiser, When the chief7bqyer
$ retired George, was given the position,
pwith~ an itinerary that carried him half
AWAY IOu11u IAt pldISI OnCG a ySdI, "
6Greeee, .sTmrkeyssiPe rsias Arabia, and
India, dthe landsueA the1gepii 1snd the.
bottles Of a~rabesques5 of temples and
! tombsa of dmanY7cQloreddl LttuurbbaarFSsr and.
Flowing robes and d~istfactifng tongues:
He Walked and always ii "a kind. Of
mental eehchafttt1me4nt e1sa 'Hsqs A7s7
r The suave ahdi1qelu nOHeaeaB
with, his sharp practices, found his
match inEd4f6tRs5 pleasant young man,
Who, Knew the history Of III very
woods and c6ttohts and 7siiksi woven
; In a 4adfg or ocarpet.g So George PROS
Q peredj Y became Shown linz strange.
placespBS stranger peoplesS and saw
oremapee, s. light of foot land ieager5ofi
neye, bpasss and repasse learned that
romance did not essentially mean fall
ing in love or .rescuing maidens from
burning houses and wrecks; that on
the contrary, true romance was kaTei-
doscopieohaEing more brilliant facets
than, "a, diamond and that the man
who begins with nothing and ends
something is more wonderful,
than any excursion recounted by Sin
bad d. any tale' BY Scheherazade. But
he still hoped that the iridescent god
sdess MOuldlsonle1 day touch his lshouPi
der and lead him into that maze Iof
romance so peculiar to his gownofancy.
,a4 And then into this little world of
! business, and pleasure came death
and death again, leaving him alone
and with a twisted heart. Riches
imattered llittleg and the sounding title
Of Yiee7president still less. ItBMasf
with a distinct shock that he realized
] the mother and the father had been.
with him SO long that he had forgot
/. ten to make other friends. From
one thing to another he. turned in
hope to sooth9 the smart, to heal the
wound? andJaafter a time hGHdTifted,,
as all hy,9intelligent and imaginative
men driftaWho are ~f.iendIess, into the
Z silent and intimate c0mradeship Of in
& animate things, such as jewels, iYories,
! old metals, are woods and ancient
3 embroideries, and perhaps more COM
fQrting than all these, good books.4gs
The proper tale of how the afore-
said %iridescent goddess -jostled for it
scarce may be said that she led him
into a romance lacking neither com
edy nor tragedy, now Begins with a
trifiing bit Of retrospection. One Of
those women who Wereanot good and
who looked into theScleari pool Of the
boys mind saw the harmless longing
there's and made note, hoping to- find
profit by her knowledge when the per-
btinent day arrived She was a woman
/ so .D1easing. so hands0noe co adrOit
that many a man, 0id9r3 ana Wiser
than George, fodhd her mesh too
strong for him. Her plan smatured,
suddenly and brilliantly, as projects
of men and women of her class and
] lcaliber without variation do. 9'5o p"
aHLate one December Afternoon TO
be preciseJ 19O99,i George sat on the
I tea-verandas ofnthe Hotel Semiramisz
in Cairox9 Aobookl lay idly upon his
knees 1t wasnene of those tsyarns
in which something. was happening.
every other minute. AS. adventures