The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-22

exploring every hidden canyon, sur
mounting every inaccessible peak nc
storm, no snow, no condition OF wind
or weather daunted him or stopped
him. He had no human companion
ship by which to try his mettle, but
nevertheless over the world OF the
material which lay about him he was
a master as he WAS 4 man
He found some oceua'ion, too, in
the following Of Oil A&m's inherit
ance, during the pleasant months Of
summer he made such garden as he
could. His profession of mining en-
glneer gave him other employment
Round about him lay treasures ines
Unable precious metals aholnded in
the hills He had located them, tested,
analysed. estimated the wealth that
was his for the taking-it was as val.
ueless to him as the doubloons and
golden guneaS were to Selkirk on his
island. Yet the knowledge that it was
there gave him an energi2ing sense OF
potential power, unconsciously enorm-
ously tlattering to his sel-eSteem
Sometimes he wandered to the ex-
IRENE verge Of the range and on clear
days saw far beneath him the smoke
of great cities of the plains. He
could be master among men as he was
a master among mountains, il he
chose On such occasions he laughed
cynically, scornfully. yet rarely did
he ever give way to such emotions
A great and terrible sorrow was
upon him; cherishing great passion
he had withdrawn himself from the
common lot to dwell upon II. From
a perverted sense of eXpiation, in a
madness of GRIEF, horror and despair,
he had made himself prisoner to his
Ideas in the desert of the mountains.
Back to his cabin he would hasten
and there surrounded by his living
memories-death'eSS. yet of the dead,
he would recreate the past until de-
lection drove him abroad on the hills
to meet God if not manor woman.
Night-day, sunshine-shadow heat.cold.
storm-calm; these were his life.
Having disburdened his faithful AMI.
mails of their packs and having seen
them safely bestowed for the winter
in the corral he had built near the
base of the cliff upon. which his rude
home was situated, he took his rife
one morning for one OF those lonely
walks across the mountains from
which he drew such comfort because
he fancied the absence of man con-
duced to the nearness Of God. 1t was
a delnSion as old nearly as the Chris.
tian religion Many had made them.
selves hermits in the past in remorse
for sin and for love toward God; this
man had buried himself in the wilder.
ness In part for the first OF these
causes, in other part for the love n,
woman. In the days of swift and sud.
den change he had | cen constant 10 A
remembrance, and abiding in his de.
termination for five swift moving
years. The world for him had STONED
Its progress in one brief moment five
years back-the rest was silence
What had happened since then out
yonder where people were mated he
did not know and he did not greatly
care.
In his visits to the settlements hs
asked no questions, he bought no pa.
pers, he manifested no interes, IN
the world; some things in him had
died In one fell moment, and there
had been, as yet. no resurrection. Ye,
life, here, and ambition do not die
they are indeed eternal. Resurgamr
Life vith is tre@1crGous activities
its awful anxietias, its wearing strains
its rare t.t2mrA- SIS croortpnitias
for ac'i vc.Nsv., 'or s,ysice; hone
With its : ,--.ea''r.s l. eason~a~a.
'aen;s. SIS 5s, -t4,'a,s ambition
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