Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1913-02-19

United Romance and Adventure COM
pany:' and that for a specified sum OF
money. one could have any adventure
| one pleased"
Did you ever hear OF such a
thingr cried the mother merrily. For
| tune searched her face keenly. The
United Romance and Adventure Com
pany! He must have been joking.
What did you say his name is?'
"Ryanne- Joking Is my idea exact
ly." George agreed. THE scheme is
| to plunge the stockholder into a real
live adventure. and then let him pull
himself out the best way he can.
Sounds good. He ADDED that this rug
business was an instance OF the sue
cess OF the concern. There goes the
music. Do you dance. Miss Ched-
soye?"
"a little" Fortune was preoccu-
pied. She was wondering what lay
behind Mr.. Ryanne's amiable Jest.
Go along. both OF you" said Mrs.
Chedsoye. Il am too old to dance. /
, prefer watching people" She sat
down and arranged herself comfort
ably. She was always arranging her
self comfortably; It was one of the Sc
! crets OF her perennial youth. She
was very lovely. but George had eyes
for the daughter only. Mra. Ched-
soye saw this. bVt was not in the least
| chagrined.
1T is 80 many years since tripped
the light fantastic toe" George con-
| fessed. reluctantly and nervously, now
that he had bravely committed him
self. 1T is quite possible that the
accent will DO primarily upon the
| trip"
Perhaps. thep.' replied the girl.
| who truthfully was out of tune. per
haps I had bettsr get my wraps and
we'll go outside The night Is glori-
GUS"
She couldn't have suggested any
thing more to his liking. And 80.
after little husrying about. the two
young people wont outside and began
to promenade slowly up and down the
mole Their conversation was desul-
tory. George. had dropped back into
his she'll and the girl was not equal
TO the task or drawing him out
Once he stumbled over a sleeping
| not caught him by the arm.
Thanks. I'm clumsy"
It's rather difficult to see them In
the moonlight; their rags match the
pavements
The Egyptian night. that sapphirine
darkness which the flexible magma.
ton peoples with lovely and terrible
| shades, or floods with mystery and ro-
nance and wonder, lay softly upon
this strip OF yerdure aslant the des-
ert's face. the Valley of the Nile The
moon, round. brilliant, strangely near.
| suffused the SCARED old visage of the
| world with phantom silver; the stones
| OF the parapet glowed duly. the pave
| ment glistened whitley, all things It
touched with gentleness, lavishing
beauty upon beauty, mellowing ugli-
! ness or effacing IT, The deep blue
Nile. beribboned with the glancing
lights from the silent feluccas. curling
unsteady along the sides OF the frost
like dahabeahs and steamers, rolled
on TO the sea. and the bue-white
arc-lamps. spanning the Great Nile
bridge. took the semblance OF a pearl
| necklace. From time to time a cara
van trOoped across the bridge into
Cairo
DO you care for poetry. Mr.. Jones?"
~ | used TO write IT,"
And you aren't afraid TO admit i,?"
Well. | shouldn't confess the deed
TO every one" ne answered frankly.
We all write poetry at one time or
another; but It's generally not consti-
/ tutiOnal and we recover"
Il do not see why any one should be
ashamed OF writing poetry"
All. but there is poetry and poetry.
Ny kind and Byrons is born OF kin.
drcd souls. but he was an active
genius. whereas, ! wasn't even pas
slVe one. In all great poets 0nd my
own rejected thoughts. as Emerson
says; and that's enough for my slen-
der needs. Poets are rather uucom-
Portable chaps to have round They
are capricious. irritable. temperament
nj, selfish. and usually demand all the
attention"
The little vocal stream died I'D
again, and once more they listened to
the magic sounds OF the night. She
stopped abruptly to look over the para
pet. and his shoulder met hers; aftcr
that the world to him was never IN.
ing 20 be the same again.
Moonlight and poetry. not the
safest channels to sail unchafted. The
girl was lonely. and George was lone.
Is. too. His longing had now assumed
a definite form; hers moved from this
10 that, still ind efnitely. The quick.
ness with which this definition had
come 70 George rather startled him.
His lrst sight Of Fortune Chedsoye
had been hut yesterday; yet. here be
was. not desperately but consciously
In love with her. The situation bore
against all precepts; II ripped I'D bis
! Dreconceived ideas OF romance "A a