Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-02-05

morning he said simply, af he Of
fered every dollar he has in the world.
Mr.. Wallace and I sat up talking II
over until two o'clock this morning. I
told him everything you said, and went
over the whole situation with him I
promised to take his advice, and he's
convinced me that the right thing to
do is t stick right here and put up a
fight for these people, the same as my
uncle did,
Her reserve quite vanished; as is
the way OF women, she took credit for
an intuition which her previous nan
ner had not indicated. Where she had
been suspicious ola reason for sus-
picion. she became enthusiastic over
reason for enthusiasm.
Il knew you WouId!' she cried. q
knew knew you would!"
She had not known he would; she
had feared, had half believed that he
would not; but that now made not the
slightest difference with her firm be-
lief that she had known he would. Nor
had the fact that Broadway, a short
minute before, had suspected, with
good reason, that she seriously doubt
ed him, any influence whatever on his
deep pleasure when he discovered that
she did not-did not because she could
not, not because she would not.
Men do not think clear to the bottom
of these things. They take what wom-.
en- give them, when they give them
anything, and are humbly grateful and
surprised because they get a smile.
when they deserve one, rather than a.
brick when they do not deserve one..
Nothing which the world has ever Of
fered to the gaze of the philosopher
has been one-half so pitiful as the as
tonished gratitude Of the r~ight-minded
male when he finds that the one fe-.
male for whom he has begun, con-
sciously or without his knowledge, to-
live his life and do his Deeds does not
utterly condemn him when he has
done his level best and that best has
been worthy. Men are the worlds nat,
ural f'come-ons,'' women the worlds
natural vendors of psychological, SEN
timental and often very raw gold
bricks.
So when Josie soulfully declared
that she had known he would, Broad
way did not let it pass with an unap-
preciative, "Of course you did, but
looked at her with gratitude alight in
his pleased face and humbIy Queried,
did your"
For a moment the fact that she de-
clared that she had known he would be
decent and not Yillainously selfish SO
completely overwhelmed him (anG
please do not forget that she, within 3
minute, had admitted that she thought
him capable of basest selfshness) that
he could not find words with which to
proceed conversationally. All men are
that way.
But presently he recovered self-pos-
session and continued:
Now, I don't know anything about
business, and I don't know anything
about money. / never did a days work
in my life for the simple reason that I
never had to-"
He looked at her with q shamed
smile, the first evidence that he had
aver shown of anything but pride in
his ability to live idly with enormous
n successful EFFORT.
''The only trial of skill into which I
have entered since / went from Jones'
vile to New York has been a general,
endless contest with the world at large
to see which could stay up the latest.
/ have generally won-won in a walk"
She was listening intently. AL wom-
en- are intent to breathlessness when
they + hearing any man tell his un-
w~orthiness: if there is a hint Of a con
fession of real wickedness in his dec1a-
ration they will listen with an absorb
ton which approaches a hypnotic
trance.
I've never done anything good, be-
cause I've never had anything good to