The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-04-12

queried snort while after.
We'll, consider henceforth that
l smile internally. with my soul.
IL you please, my soul. Consider
that ] am smiling now"
And for the space of several
minutes he lay there. quiet, in
dulging his grotesque fancy.
The man of him was not
changed. 1t was the old, indom-
liable, terrible Wolf Larsen, i'm
prisoned somewhere within that
flesh which had once been SO in
vincible and splendid. Now it
bound him with insentient fet-
tiers, walling his soul in darkness
and silence, blocking it from the
world which to him had been a
riot of action. No more would
he conjugate the verb Ito do" in
every mood and tense. ITO be"
was all that remained to him
to be, as he had defined death
| without movement: to will. but
not to execute; to think and rea-
son and in the spirit of him to be
as alive as ever, but in the
flesh to be dead, quite dead.
| And yet, though | even re-
moved the handouts, we could
not adjust ourselves to his con-
dition. Our minds revolted. To
us he was full of potentiality
! We knew not what to expect OF
him next, what fearful thing, ris-
ing above the flesh, he might
break out and do. Our expert
ence warranted this state of mind
and We went about our work with
anxiety always upon us.
| had solved the problem
which had arisen through the
shortness of the shears. BY
means of the watch-tackle, Q hat
: made a new one), | heaved the
butt of the foremost across the
rail and then lowered 1t to the
deck Next, by means of the
shears, ! hoisted the main boon
on board. Its forty feet of length
, would supply the height neces
sary properly to swing the mast
By means of secondary tackle
had attached to the shears.
SWING the boom to nearly per
pendfcular position, then lowere,
. the butt to the deck, where, I,
: prevent slipping, | spiked grea
;. cleats around it. The singl,
: block. of my original shears-taekl
: 4 had: attached to the end of tn
boom. Thus, by carrying thi
t tackle to the windlass, coul,
e raise and lower the end Of tn
Ibopm at will, the butt always re
u 1q8lning stationary, and, by mean
r {fks guys, could swing the boor
u ffbm side to side. To the end Q
the boom l had likwise rugged
n hosting tackle; and when tn
whole arrangement was CON
d pleted | could not but be startle
by the power and latitude it CAV
: me.
I'll OF course, two days work wa
o required for the accomplishment
' of this part of my task and it wa
r not till the morning of the thir
:, day that / swung the foremas
|. from the deck and proceeded :
S square its butt to fit the steI
Here / was especially awkward
r / sawed and chopped and chisele
Q the weathered wood till il had tn
appearance of having been gnaw
;. ed by some gigantic mouse. Blu
IS II fitted.
ut will work, l know it wi
work. / cried.
Is DO you know DR.. Jordan
ri final test of TRUTH" Maud asked
q II shook my head and paused !
r. the act of dislodging the shaving
l. Which had drifted down my necl
d "'Can we make 1t work? Ca
vi we trust our lives to it?' is tn
p,l test"
e Gle is a favorite of yours
said.
when | dismantled my oil
Pantheon and cast out Napoleo
le and Caesar and their fellows,
3, straightway erected a new Par
4, theon,'' she answered gravel.
g "and the first l installed was d
L Jordan"
II "a modern hero"
e. land greater because moo
| ern" she added. How can I'll
n