The daily Alaskan., 1914-06-11
WoOiing DeSdcnlOna
With a Moving Picture
 Climax
By CLARENCE LINDNER .uryrgat by Frank A. Munsey Co.

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 Tongues in trees, sang the bard books in the running brooks, sermons tu stoucs-uud by the same token, rgaaure in finger nails.
 The fdca is not so absurd. Stella will .uwuborate me
 Drop into Bwtscher's tonsorlal par 'oas some day.
 G1 ri4ht through into the little room rurtajund oT at the rear.
 Seated at q table, with bowls of warm water jars of red paste and various Gc.lcate instruments set out u..r~. .ar. you will find Stella pIacidIy umr.h..- caram,Is.
 N~ you enter she will look you over ...yr~m.0y. Sigh if you are tall and dark a.I s0turuine or smile sadly, but kindly. if you are-what you are; say rwa-a.n- original that she has heard uNeua, times a day for three years and gIe. her your fingers to refine.
 v-r.. -n. has massaged them for a ..w minutes and you think that your s.rt cnu.cs have Quickened the beat #- of har heart, ask her about this rwHu.n business.
 >nn will gaze silently at you for ra.r.ur uf minute.
 Tuau a pearly tear will hasten from beneath a quivering eyelid. She will swallow a sob with her caramel.
 And if you age not tall and dark and -atrruinp Shn may tell you the story. r isn't much Of a story as stories go. Eat tufgr of it for yourself:
 His entrance was soundless. Stella WI, ror aware of him until his shadow fell across the page of her book. She started urryous,y and looked up to find him seated opposite, gazing at her rraveIy. Her heart dumped violently as she looked into his eyes. She urrsaul Her glance fell. She sighed.
 Without looking up again she began to operate on the hand which he Of- f-rpi for her miuistratlOn. Her fingers trembIei. Twice she almost stuck him with the cuticie scissors.
 Sue never could recall with what re- mark he broke the awful silence. For the first time in memory she was pow er.esS t1 inject the element Of lOquacity into a situation.
 She knew before he spoke just what would bc the tOnal quality of his voice; knew ir would be soft and low and compelling. At his first word her gaze was drawn to his. She peered into his black eyes timidy, fearfully, en. uarrod.
 Naybap it was hours he talked, may hap only minutes. "fu Madrid" hn murmuTcd ubseutly 'umr the Plaza de Toros, lives Q sOf, eyed maiden whom you remind me of muen."
 He nincayd as the scissors point pen. erareI a tender spot. But she was far away from curicle and scissors. 1 And once in Delhi, as the regiment marched ont. ] saw you waving ne -oodby from the gate of the town 1 From land to land he skipped. He l balanced the south pole on the tip Oi ! his tongue. derided the hemiSpheres l twisted the equator in a knot and dipped tGe top off Mont Blanc. Ht 1 monpcd up the Pacific ocean with his left hand and with his right taught . 1ockgummou to an Eskimo In Green ' lmd
 Time and distance were exploded myths to him. He was a citizen OI l the universe, address anywhere.
 You must know pretty nearly every one" Stella whispered admlringly.
 He considered a moment while ht adjusted tho green Jade pin in his uecktie
 Not quite" was his modest, ,admis sion.
 l She sighed and applied the nail buf fer with feverish assidulg.
 When he had gone she wept softly and tried to recall what he had looked . like. He was tall, she remembered and slender and dark.
 That night she cried herself to sleeI 1 md dreamed she was Madylaine, thl heroine Of Loves Last Word" ! He came again many times. 1 There were more tales-taIes Of hai . raising adventures in the Crannies O the world. The heroes Of them all Wer