The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01


ardent temperament and the heart of a
dove" as he himself had expressed it.
had corralled a wife in Worship and ten
Jcrucss within his house.
The first had been the love of his
chldhuud. the woong of the second had
lasted hut six weeks; that of the third
hut three. He rejoiced in the fact that he
had been a good husband to three good
women. He lamented that all were dead.
Now and then he squirmed his bull
head around on his bull body and glanced
across the aisle at the SNOWY woman
who was daintily picking chicken wing.
lie himself was not toying with beef
steak. boiled eggs, mashed potatoes
caNihower, lima and string beans lie
was eating them. Each time he looked
at he lady he muttered something to
his heart OF a dove:
Eighty Too slight. Stuck on her
self Pin head" &c.
with his food Saterlee was not pa
ticnt He dispensed with mastication.
Neither was he patient of other peoples
matrimonial ventures. And. in particu-
lar that contemplated and threatened
10y his son and heir was moving him
across 300 miles of inundated country
as fast as a train could carry him. His
son hdd written:
DEAREST DAD--Tve found Dorothy again.
she's at Carcasonne. They thought her
lungs were bad. but they aren't We're
going to he married a week from to-day
next Friday-at A. NJ
This marriage is going to take place.
Daddy dear. You can't prevent IT,
write this SOS to be on the square I'm
inviting YOU to the wedding. I'll be hurt
IL YOU don't show up.
What II Dorothy's mother is an actress
and has been divorced twice? You've been
q marrying man yourself. Dad Dorothy
j. all darling from head to foot. But
love you too, Daddy, and II YOU can't
see it my way why. God bless and keep
you just the same. jim.
I can't deny that Marcus Antonius
Satcrlee was touched by his sons epistle.
But he was not moved out of reason.
THE girls mother" he said to him
self. lis painted. divorced jlde." And
ne thought with pleasure of the faith,
patience and reCtitude of the three gem
tie companions whom he had success
sively married and buried. There was
never any divorce in the Saterlee blood"
he had prided himself. Man or woman,
we suck by our choice till he or she"
che was usually precise) turned up his
or her toes. Not till then do we think
81 anybody else. But then we do be-
cally in small community in southern
California"
He glanced once more at the snowy
lady across the aisle. She had finished
her chicken wing. and was dipping her
fingers in a finger bowl. thus displaying
Ia sparkling advantage a number of
handsome rings.
MY boys girls mother a painted
actress" he muttered as he looked
Not If | know it." And then he NUT
tered: You'd look like an actress il
YOU were painted"
Though the words cannot have been
dlstinguishable the sounds were audi
BILE.
sir" said the lady stifly but cour-
trously.
Nothing ma'am." muttered Mark
Anthony much abashed. I'm sur
prised to see so much water in this arid
corner Of the world, where have often
suffered for want of it, I must have
been talking to myself TO that effect.
hope you will excuse me-"
The lady looked out of the window
not hers, but Saterlee's.
1T does look" she said. las II the
waters had divorced themselves from
the bed of ocean"
She delivered This in a quick hut tell
ng voice. Saterlec was shocked at the
comparison
Il suppose" she continued we may
attribute those constant and tedious de-
lays to which we have been subjected
all day TO the premature melting Of
NOW in the Businesses of the Sierras?"
This phrase did not shock Saterlee.
lie was amazed by the power of memory
which it proved. For three hours
earlier he had read "A close paraphrase
Of 1t in a copy of the Tomb city
picdUuHc, which he had bought at that
city.
The rain ran slower and slower, and
out onto a shallow cmbankment.
"Do YOU think we shall ever get any
where" quered the lady.
Not when We expect 70, ma am" said
Sterlee. He began To scrub his strong
mouth with his napkin lest he should
return to the smoker with stains o
ho!led egg upon him
The train gave jolt. And then. very
quietly, the dining car rolled over on its
>de down the embankment There was
subdued smashing Of china and glass
\ clergyman at one of the rear iab!es
quietly remarked "Washout" and Safer
lee, who had not forgotten the days
Whcn ne mad learned 10 ran from
hucliing bronco, relaxed his great mus
cles and swore round!y generously and
AT great length
The car came to rest at the bottom
If the embankment, less on its side thai
on its top. For a moment-or so !
secmed-all was perfectly quiet. Then
40 one and the same moment, a lady
in the extreme front of the diner wal
heard eXclaiming family You're pinch
ing me-" and out Of the tail of his eye
SatcrIee saw the SNOWY lady across thu
aisle descending upon him through th'
air She was accompanied by the hool
ana leg table upon which she had made
her delicate meal and all its appurte
uauccs. including ice water and wild
open jar Of very thin mustard.