The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-05-28

to formulate plans for reducing all
men TO dead level. We will always
have our millionaires and our pau
pers. We can never set all intellects
and all abilities to the same clock.
,scn ,s sssrsm'; r.. s nNwsysr are
tempt to keep men within their
rights-they want to make them con-
form to petty standard of medi-
ocrity set by themselves. One would
prevent me from accommodating
money to crafty my tastes, another
would have mo eat no meat, yet an
other would bar me from amusing
myself at q pleasant game played
with harmless bits Of pasteboard be-
with them. The principle in the last
case IL as II you said to me: The
dove In a wicked bird; men wager
how fur and how fast It can ny"
Mary. who had been on lone ex-
petition. came tripping up the beach
with her arms filled with flowers, lilies
and wild roses.
what are you talking about7" she
asked.
I'VE are discussing questions Of
state. Lady Mary" Douglass replied.
Really! Well, I've decided that
hand"
INDEED! Then I'll make war on
you as soon as my standing army re-
turns from clearing the trail"
"Splendid He can chop down the
portctillis and scale the battlements
and rescue me from the ogre. Father.
you will have to he the ogre" she
cried, sitting on his knee and rum
ping his hear until II hung abou, his
eyes. -
Harrison said:
"Why have you decided not to give
King Douglass your hands"
"He must do some gallant deed
hrst; what have you ever done to
earn such q rewardf" she said &c
Douglass.
well, I killed two ducks. and I
spilled you out OF the boat. Can't
we pretend that the two ducks were
enemies and that I rescued you from
watery grave?"
She laughed merrily and nung her
truant locks back from her eyes.
mo, that won't do. even for n
-believs. You must do some
thing tremendous. or course" she
said musing, "the ogre might lock
mel couldn't help II II you stole
me-" she said archl!.
"Well, I'll leave you tu discuss your
plans" Harrison said. rising. "I've
got some work to do. warn you
not to steal her, King Douglass; she
II no end Of little shrsw."
When he was gone, Mary sat look
Ing smilinsiy at Douglass for a time.
then she said suddenly:
How old are your"
"Forty."
"Oh. dear!" she sighed thought
fully, and despite the little tug at his
ringing laugh.
you're always laughing at me-
she cried: you're an ogre, too:
don't believe you're fofty;,yoti act just
like a big overgrown boy" Then
stepping quickly behind HIM. she
rumpled his hair as she had her
fathers AID ran laughing to the cabin
George returned that night and re.
"rve found . short cut" he said
"There's q creek that you can pu'
into about half way across. ! cut
path to II from the main trail"
"How lons will II take IN to go iny
zone day. II we leave here early
We will be at Lost Lake for supper,
Douglass reflected. He was loatt
TO 20: ne realized tndt ne Wanteu !.
J be near these people-that he cared
more for them both already than M
did for any one back there In tn
world. He was beginning TO EMO,
} life keenly. and he saw that II was
partly because ne was with congenia
people. He was better satisfied with
, himself than he had ever been before
The selfish grind OF his old lifo dill
. not appeal 10 him.
As for the whiskey. he had come u
realize that II had no part In hi
new existence. He wondered II th'
craving for II would return when n
went back to town. He knew III
= would 70 back some day, but ther'
: was no hurrv--he would not go unit
ne tired Of tho woods. He turned 4
, H0~rlson:
81 believe I'll build a cabin OF