Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-07-08
1.-THE CODDESS!"
BY Charles Goddard and GOuverneur
Morris.
Novelized from the photoplay OF the
same name produced by the VITA
GRAPH COMPANY.
copyrighted, 1915, by The Star Co.

4 l.
copyrighted, 1915, by The Star Co.
NoTE-"THE GODDESS" viii be
published as q serial story in THE
| EVENING CAPITAL. The pictures
VIII be shown at THE PALACE THE.
ATRE every Fridsy.
Continued from Saturdays Capital.)
~See anything SuImter called up
70 the Indian.
'No see a d thing" answered the
Indian without changing his express
| sion. AS a matter of fact. by mir
acle of optics. he had just discovered
Tommy helping Celestia ashore on the
island
Smells-good dismounted the tree and
stood shaking his head.
mo see any d thing, he said
Dog no good. SmeIls-good he think
little. Think up where um mos likely
to 60"
The old faker. He seated himself
upon his heels, filed and lighted his
pipe. and closed his eyes as if in
deep thought.
Stilliter began to show signs OF
impatience, but one Of the guides
said: Better leave him alone; he's
| got a hunch like as not"
Not until he had finished his pipe
did Old Man Smells-good give any
sign of what had been going on in
his head. When he rose to his feet,
he said simply: Me find um soon,"
and he started of in the direction of
the lake
Fifteen minutes later he knelt sud
denly and appeared 10 bury his long.
| booked nose in the ground. He rose
after a moments shifting and said:
ME got um, sure" Then he ordered
one Of the guides to remain behind
with the dogs.
And then he went forward, pretend.
| ing to follow a trail, pointing to
| marks, which the other couldn't see,
for the simple fact that they didn't
exist, listening, pretending to hear
sounds that couldn't be heard, shifting.
kneeling and poking his long nose into
| the ground. Once he poked 1t into a
| ground hornets nest and had a narrow
and undignihed escape from being
badly stung.
He led them to the shores Of the
lake and pointed quietly across at the
island. Even Stilliter could see a pale
column OF blush smoke coming from
among the trees.
"Bimeby, swim over," said Old Man
Smells-good, "for two dollars. Fetch
/ dugout. Better wait till dark"
And they waited till dark. Then
Old Man Smells-good, having been def
initely promised an extra two dollars
for the wetting, stepped forth stark
naked, except for a newly filed pipe,
and slipped quietly into the lake.
Meanwhile, with Tommy and Celes-
tia all had gone well. Tommy's old
camp was less dilapidated than he ex.
/ pected. A few balsam boughs had made
the rotten roof sound above and sweet
beneath. Celestia had had long rest
and then she had followed Tommy
along the shores Of the island, while
he fished. Finally Tommy's long casts
were rewarded. He hooked a fine
trout and began to draw him strongly
toward the beach. In her excitement
and eagerness to help, Celestia ran into
the shallow water, stepped in a deep
hole and, falling forward, was for the
moment completely submerged.
Laughing and scolding, Tommy
pulled her out and literally ran her
back to the fire. Steam was soon ris-
ing from her wet, cIinging robe, but
since the fire could only warm one side
of her at time, and since the chill
of evening had begun to set in, she
shivered, and now and then her teeth
knocked together.
"Celestia," said Tommy, you better
take that dress off and let me dry it"
To the young mans horror, he had
hardly finished speaking before Celes-
tia had slipped the robe from her
shoulders and was on the point Of let
ting it drop to the ground.
Hold oni Dont!" he cried. For
he had seen quite enough to realize
that underneath that robe there was
nothing whatever-but Celestia. She
looked at him, puzzled and wonder
ing.
Don't be in such a rush." he said.
"You wait"
He went into the little hut and
brought out the buffalo robe, which he
had left there. 1t was very much the
worse for wear, but huge and warm.
Now" he said, "you take that of
and put this on"
Then he turned his back and walked
swiftly away.
you sing out" he called back to
her, when you've changed" And he
walked at a distance, frowning and
laughing, until he heard her calling to
him.
"Are you angry?" she said. What
did / do?"
Nothing" said Tommy, but you
see, on earth young ladies don't take
of their clothes when young gentle
men are looking at them. It's Just the
custom, that's all. It's considered
very bad luck. OF course, I've never
| been in heaven"
But Celestia did not encourage him
: to speak lightly Of heaven. And he
dried her theatrical white dress and
made shift to iron it with a smooth
. hot stone, and watched her from the
corner Of his eye, and thought how