Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-24
SIXTH EPISODE.

why, Celestial, ne SAID. uoh | ueHS !!
that you've some mysterious power over |
people, and that if you keep on as you |
are going Nou'n end up by making a |
great, loud noise in the world. But sup |
pose YOU do get what you want? Sup
pose that even in time you do elect |
congress, senate and president; sup |
pose you do get the states to amend the
constitutions. suppose you do succeed in
changing the whole country into gil
gantic trust, what of it? Can't you see
that you will be hurting the people in
stead of helping them? Can't you see
that the meh who run your great trust.
my respected father among them, will
become the. greatest autocrats the world
has ever known? Can't you see that YOU
would simply. be playing into the hands
of capital?"
Celestia simply smiled on him and
shook her head.
Il can convince anybody but you" she
said. Il can't convince you, and don't
know why"
That's too easy" said Tommy You
don't convince anybody by logic or argu-
ment. They just naturally believe you
You've got some way of making them
believe you. 1 think you're a sort of
witch. ] think you are way up in magic.
But you can't hypnotic me, young lady,
and you know 1t, and it annoys you. Do
you know why you can't? I do. If there
was any part of my heart and soul that
didn't love you faithful and true, you'd
have power over me. just as you have
over Freddie the Ferret and old man
Douglas. But there isn't-not the least
smallest fraction OF a square inch. You
can't hypnotic the man that truly loves
YOU any more than you could hypnotic
the man you truly love. That's we'll
known law"
Tommy was half in earnest, half jok-
ing.
Il don't know what you are talking
about" said Celestia, land 1t doesn't
matter. And now"
Please don't send me away" said
&Tommy. It's the first time we've been
alone II, ages, end I've got millions OF
things to tell you and millions Of other
things towel, 10 look at you. Celestia
do you know you are more beautifully
dressed like a working girl than you
were dressed as an angel? It's quite
impossible, Of course. but it's absolutely
true. You are the most beautiful thins
in the world, and probably the most
obstinate. BY George, | wish l could
hypnotic you and convert you to my
doctrines"
Tommy" said Celestia, you talk
more nonsense than any one in the world
l don't believe you've any brain at all
But if you've really got million things
to say TO me. you'll have to say then
walking. I'm going 10 the shop wher'
Nelly works TO talk with the girls"
They don't vote" said Tommy
sHrk. ~, 4g,
and 50 am going to tell them TO be o.
good heart. for they shan't always b,
poor end unhappy"
We'll, it'll be treat for them TO lool
At you and hear your voice, And can
conner"
You can come as far as the building
lur YOU can't come in"
Can 1 wait till you come out ant
fetch you homer
Nelly worked on the fifth floor OF al
oId-fashioned firetrap belonging TO III
Octagon Shirt Manufacturing company
The business was not making a gres
dea! Of money and the building wa
heavily insured. Celestia parted fror
Tommy IN the street
Won't there be a row." he asked. Il
you interrupt work 10 make a speech Q
can you make yourself heard above tn
sewing machines and the smell OF patch
Gull? Or do you go from girl to girl an
whisper in each ones carr
Il have to pay for a chance TO spea
10 them" said Celestia, 80 a minute fC
ten minutes"
Look here" said Tommy. where d
you get all your money!"
From people who think l can use
tetter than they can-from people VIII
believe In NE. Tommy"
She smiled on him as upon a child. an
he saw her running lightly up the firl
Digit OF narrow. wooden stairs, until sh
was lost in the squalid darkness OF n
place.
Tommy paced the narrow sidewalk Tx
sentinel on duty. Now and then h
hooked upward at tho long line OF fln
floor windows and thought how high the