The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-23

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and risk the happiness of some Lowell,
creature on trust, az It were. knowing
absolutely nothing of the new conditions
and pens vsr OF n6t the ba e Dsfor
an apprenticeship before he gets H.
cense. and yet we are allowed to take
just as great risks, and only because We
, want TO take them. It's awful. and it'E
ali wrong
well, I don't see what one Is going
to do about ~" commented youne
That road ia always OPEN
Sloane was starting the next morning
for the Somai country, In Abyssinia- tc
shoot rhInoceros. and his interest II
slight.
'It isn't the fear OF the responsibilities
that keeps Stuart. nor any one OF US
[ back" said weimer. contemptuously
Its because we're selfish That's the
whole truth OF the matter, We love our
work. o, our pleasure, or to knock about
the world. better than We do any par
TO love. the woman best. his COINCIDENCE
won't trouble him long about the re-
sponsloilities OF marrying her"
sincere; I maintain that there should be
can't be. and It's absurd to think OF It,
but i To"d saG SSve sedon o of d1y sSen
you've invented a way to prevent mar
riage from being a lottery. let me know.
w y9T? aev He stood o So up and smiled
US tonight?' he asked,
That's So" exclaimed Weimer. Il for
got, It's the FIRST night Of "A Fool and
His Money isn't It? OF course, we're
Il told them to put bog away for
tnued, Don't expect much. It's q
I'm very bad in 1t. You must come
around TO supper, and tell me where I'm
bad In it. and we will talk It over You
coming, Stuart2"
proachfuiy. "or course 1 am. I've had
my seats for the last three weeks. Do
you suppose ! could miss hearing you
nispTonounces all the Hindostanee I've
well good night. then" said the ac-
tor' b waving his hand d. to his friends as
Ing up his glass, 'To the Fool and His
Money" he laughed. He turned to the
table again. and sounded the bell for the
waiter. Now. let's send him tele,
gram and wish him success, and all
sign it, he said, ''and don't you fel-
lows tell him that wasn't in, front to-
Travellers club is giving me" There
was protesting chorus OF remonstrance.
"Oh, don't like II any better than you
do, said Sloane, but. I'll get away
over. No one in the Travellers club, you
see. has ever Travelled farther from New
York than London or the Riviera, and
SO when a member starts for Abyssinia
they give him a dinner, and he has to
take himself very seriously indeed. and
cry with Seldom, i. who a I'm about to die,
salute you II that man there was any
use. he added interrupting himself and
pointing with his glass at Stuart, 'he'd
pack up. MS things tonight and come
HCh aon,, ,,roo bt,, - r...,t5
Weimer WHO had travelled all over the
world In Imagination, with the aid OF
globes and maps, but never had got any
farther from home than Montreal I'VE
and Invent preliminary marriage tate,
so that If he finds he doesn't like a girl,
he can leave her before 1t is too late"
You sail at seven. I believe. and from
Iioboken. don't you?'' asked Stuart un-
disturbed. IF you'll start Mt eleven
from the New York side. I think I'll go
and then You see-I know what dangers
lurk in Aoysslnie, but who could tell
what might happen TO him in Hobokep?"
When stuart returned to his room. he
armchair and enveloped by many wrap
pings; but the handwriting on the outside
told him at once from whom 1t came and
what II might be, and he pouuced upon
II eagerly and tore 1t from It's covers.
The photograph was a very large one, and
the likeness TO the original so admirable
that the face seemed to smile and radiate
with all the loveliness and beauty OF Miss
Delamar herself. Stuart beamed upon It
with genuine surprise and pleasure. and
exclaimed .delightedly TO himself. There
was a living quality about the picture
which made him almost speak to 1t. and
thank Miss Delamar through It for the
PLEASURE she had given him and the hon
or she had bestowed He was proud,
flattered. and triumphant, and while he
walked about the room deciding where he
would place it, and holding the picture
respectfully before him. he smiled upon
IL with pra teful satisGa ction.
lie decided against his dressing table
ss being too intimate a place for IL, and
so carried the picture on from his bed
room to the dining room beyond. where
he set It among his silver on the side
board. But so little OF his time was
spent in this room that he concluded ne
would derive but little pleasure from 1t
library, Where there were many other
photographs and portraits. and where TO
other ewes than his own It would be less
conspicuous.
He tried 1t first in one place and then
In another: but in each position the pic
ture pre1onnated and asserted Itself so
markedly that Stuart gave UP the idea
OF keeping II inconspicuous: and placed II
prominently over the fireplace. where 1t
reigned supreme above every other object
in the room. 1t was not only the most
object there. but the living
quality which II possessed IN so marked
a degree, and which wac due 10 IT'S nat
uralness OF pose and the excellence OF
the likeness. made II .permeate the place
like q presence and with the Individuality
OF a real person. Stuart observed this ef-
feet with amused interest, and noted also
that the photographs Of other women had
become commonplace In comparison like
Autographs Ip a shop window. and that
the more masculine accessories OF a bach
elor's apartment had grown suddenly ag-
gressive and out OF keeping. The liquor
case and the racks OF arms and of bar
baroue weapons which he had collected
with such pride seemed TO nave lost their
former value and meaning. and no In
stinctively began 70 gather UP the mass
OF books and maps and photographs and
pipes and gloves which lay scattered upon
the table. and TO put them In their proper
place. or 70 shove them out OF sight al
together. IL I'm to live up TO that pic
ture." ne thought II must see that
George keeps this room IN better order
and ] must stop wandering round here IN
nv bathrobe.v
His mind continued on the picture
while he was dressing. and he was so
absorbed IN II and In analvzne the ef-
feet IL had had upon him that his servant
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