Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14
By GOuUer,1eur Morris

trip to town to engage suite of room. on tho
hurricane deck. second when the ship had
reached port to look the make "a nete
OF anything lacking to promote Alce's during
the voyage.
by a miracle the day sunny and bright even in
town. felt better and hammer than no had all
winter AND 80 used had he become o Of an
eiopenent that he longer regarded il as either
wrong or unusual He made early start. that he
might return to the ranch the day report to
Ahce This was The next TO the last day February
ihey We're to come TO town together the LIST o;
March and the ship with them was to sail
carry IN the afternoon. There be commotion
No bother about trunks. Alice made several trims
TO town to buy outfit trunks to mack If in
For this purpose kept room in the Palace Hotel
Mason had made his preparations in a similar manner
There would be little Paradise Ranch was little
visited, and its inhabitants known. Mason
was glad for himself very sorry for Stanley that
all.
He boarded the steamer. and was shown to the suit.
"nich he mad engaged 1t capacious and comfort
ape Two bedrooms. big bathroom, and a pleasant
loungng room containing writing desk and various
easy cnairs Mason spent little apart.
nen'' nAns Its geography and possibilities
60 as to describe them correctly Alice He mado nm
his mind which of the bedrooms should be hers and
which his Then he tried easy-chairs In the oung
ing room ono after another He had thousand pleas
ant dreams TO tho minute He very happy At
length having completed his list things needed fruit
wine, books. writing materials Ito whom could they
write. prayD. etc.. he CO. Before doing so he
permitted himself last look the room which
Alice was to occupy lie pulled aside the curtain tthe
door was hooked back and thought moment that
O
the deck 1t was momentary hallucination
Tor there was the fold-up basin. the bottles
TOT drinking water and glasses from. or to
mold toothbrushes: there the brown carpet whose
pattern had struck his fancy. swinging lamp the
hooks upon which to hang Clothes and there was the
brass bedstead with its of sheets
folded back a rose-coored counterpane embrod-
cred with the companys monogram.
looked Mason stepped suddenly the
ssty SOLID IT, and s,d not. as he had
p. 4 - sIy
But he laughed nervously and went ashore %"
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s s.d osa Ct
ouSs Sqt tine ong gray rain that falls thin
Of making strata 81 the n
and res foss
ser Rss
fancy fsi. , Ssssms
kind Of bedroom which he because the newly
h a'o ears
psn the t' to .
saa been n % S t. s he
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and III the doors structure SO as to reach
ss Mason s st =
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H. 4 ea rcaa ss .S ,ss the his
s1sh wssthsr He would wait unti the
s 1ss .iIss 1S''ss
'hs price ice ss9Pss into to
crossed the street to his draw check Al
t. 4. % ia sss
he had forgotten name. 1t took him two days and
t Ts0 :tr ashf !. q tn hard
toward I the When he had
R.ss. "s
S aso hsa sxsf n.Ifssa
% sns he ws
to block the ' w a4y
Familiarity which Mason did not proposes s
f. is' a.. +.
. Tsr same sns ,S day he went Nevada
ess ss s S,as He left a at ono for
ons hng Safsn 10 s, Oa e
to tell them TO S IN out Of ss ra @ r
tn te that aa Of e. hn
And why in the devi there mighty chorus
70 be seen? i clear o after While that {
'ss to 90 if s rain didn't
ehsnss But high the a Plains 1 Of
G int long eaS 9s nS Ha from 3as them
@ al s of s0t
S9 5 sqy BY sh Wolfe had
sweet intolerabe singing frogs
As he thought OF Wolfe's immortal the lines
OF Emmanuel Masons face smoothed themselves he
smiled He must ascend. If there under
clouds, there IL surely blue sky above
fore he would have offered his soul devil q
sight OF blue sky in spite of the fact that although the
devil has been trying for years to make u
souls sight of blue sky is the price which he
pays. But there need Of that He
ascend above the clouds and the devil nothing.
From the Plains Abraham the of Madison
Square Tower is but step for active man, whose
stride used to be compared to that OF tiger.
elevation he still the ptiless clouds,
and the beautiful naked Diana from whom the wet
dripped potent retain him. He FASTENED
Paris (cursng delay, for 1T took him nearly
hour get there) and nimbly the steps OF
reached the platform. But
still the clouds and from them
long gray rain always the pace, always
perpendicular the earth. 'God.' he thought
only parallel a moment-just q
He turned and began YEARLY to descend the steps
Suddenly stopped and began to with laughter
You foo gu cried, and resumed the
descent a the Reaching the foot of tower
doubts began again TO assa him. and for the second
time he course ne said, Ito high
enough, l go up In balloon but takes the
devil Of a while o make one-and / can't
Emmanuel wait Because, If he ts-i
he waits another rnnute-this rain will
He took out watch and contemplated the second
hand during revolution .
well I'm mad yet he said, put
va tch n his pocket Perhaps 1 hold