Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-08-31
Continued from Saturdays Capital.)
CHAPTER XXI.

A certain scientific gentleman (of
fiction). having constructed a very
large monster. in the image of man,
brought IL TO lfe-and IL got away
from him and raised all kinds of Cain.
Celestia was no Frankenstein; but
Professor Stilliter no longer found in
her the apt and docile pupil of earlier
days. He found il harder and harder
to control her. More and more she
thought for herself II Stilliter could
have been entirely eliminated from
her life, her life at least for q time
must have gone on very much as il
was going on. She believed firmly in
What she preached. She believed that
she came from heaven. and that she
had come to make the world better,
safer TO live in, cleaner and happier
Tommy argued with her so inces.
sanity and often so intolerantly that
II she hadn't been in love with the
mere sound Of his voice she couldn't
have stood It,
Late one afternoon she came home
to her little city OF tents, very tired,
=
shady tree to rest. In spite OF her
celestial origin, Celestia was very hu-
man, and just as attractive to a sticky
house fly as any other human being.
Such a house fly made dead set for
her, and she found It impossible to
rest. She went into the headquarters
tent which was the biggest and cool
est, and the days work being over and
the secretaries gone, tried to rest
there. And couldn't. She was tired
and discouraged. She was tired be-
cause she had been doing too much,
and she was discouraged because she
was tired. Tommy had an uncanny
faculty for dropping in upor her when
she was in those moods. Possibly
Freddie, the Ferret, had something to
do with this faculty, for he worshipped
Tommy. Be that as 1t may, Freddie
was about the tents when Celestia
came in, tired. He vanished present
ly, and q little later Tommy appeared,
looking very brown and manly and re-
freshing
Celestia heard his voice and called
out to him. a little petulantly perhaps.
Tommy polked his head in through the
door of the big tent and greeted her
loudly and joyously The moment she
saw him she felt little rested.
Meanwhile Professor StilIiter, in
his tent, reading a deep and thick book
on "The Psychology OF Government"
heard the two voices-and couldn't
read another word.
'Celestia." said Tommy, you look
so little and helpless and unprotected,
curled among those curtains, that Pm
tempted to pick you up, put you in my
pocket and take you somewhere where
you can't get into any more mischief"
II dare you to try!" exclaimed
Celestla.
Then they both laughed and Tommy
advanced into the tent.
So much articulate speech Profes-
sor Stilliter overheard, but no more
After that there came to him only the
murmurs of one voice or the other,
sounds which to a jealous man were
more provocative of impotent rage
than actual words would have been.
He stared at the book in which he
was no longer able TO read word
and "ate his heart out" as the say
ing is.
zone of these days." he thought,
she'll say yes to that meddling fool
and leave all my fine schemes high
and dry. II really thought that, and
sometimes / really do think IL. I'd
I'd"
Now the professor took off his eye
glasses and thought very hard indeed
and looked very horrid and blind and
evil. Every now and then he mur-
INJURED to himself: my God, whyfnot?"
$50 you dare me to try, do you?"
said Tommy
Her eyes sparkled now; she was
feeling very much rested.
''Yes. do"
Quick as any cat the young man
leaned over and picked her up from
the midst of the curtains as easily as
If she had been a kitten, and so held
her almost at the level OF his chin.
And now Celestia felt completely rest
ed. It was as If she had received re-
freshing strength from Tommy's
strong arms.
"oh." he said. "If a deluded nation
could behold you nowi"
Put me down." she exclaimed,
somebody might see u.s."
cot course they might comforted
Tommy. "The tent flaps are wide
open. But l don't care If I never
put you down"
Tommy" she exclaimed.
Il should worryl" said Tommy. but
when she began to struggle he put her
down.
"And what did you mean," she asked.
her great eyes flashing, but not with
anger. and her cheeks flaming, "by a
deluded nation"
You don't look as IL you could"
said he. "but you've deluded several
million people out of a hundred mil
lion, and it looks as IL you we're go
ing to delude the rest. But you'll be
sorry enough for yourself when they
find out they've been deluded! Celes-
tia, I'VE the most love for you that
anybody in the world has for anybody
Isn't that enough7 You love me, don't
you?'
yes, do"
you ought TO trust the man you
love. You ought to trust his judg-
ment."
Il do about love. But"