The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-09-09

which lay before us!
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To me, used to exact habit of thought
in all things and accustomed to be
governed by trained reason alone. it
! was never enough to say that a thing
| was partly done, or we'll enough done
to pass; only the best possible way
had any appeal to me. brought my
reason to bear on every situation in
life. Thus studied an investment
carefully. and before going into it |
knew what the result would be. My
investments therefore always have
prospered, because they were not bas-
ed on guess or chance, as nine-tenths
Of all the public's business ventures
are. In the same way | had gone de-
liberately about the matter of winning
the regard Of the only woman | ever
saw who seemed to me much worth
while. argued and reasoned with
Helena Emory that she should marry
me, proving to her by every rule of
logic that not only was she the most
lovable woman in all the records of
the world, but also that love such as
mine never had before been known in
the world. Sometimes, as | logically
proved the fitness Of our union and
grew warm at my own accuracy, she
wavered, relented. warmed. And then
again, forgetting my argument. she
would relapse into womanlike frivolity
y,onp tn, re
this as l sat in the shade with Partial
1t cost me much in self respect, irritat-
ed me.
But. having studied sport and out
door living deliberately as l had
studied the law and business and
grounding on life in the open, for l
had read every authority obtainable.
whereas my young associates had read
none. So cautiously, now and then,
suggested little things to them. as
that the fire need not be so large. and
would do better if confined between
two green side logs. taught them
how to boil the kettle quickly, how
to make tea. and also, more difficult.
how to make coffee; how to cook bacon
just enough, and how to cook 6sh--for
| had taken few trout earlier in the
day-and how to make toast without
charring it to cinders. Again, | de
lighted them by telling them of little
camping devices, and quite won their
hearts when l found among Hiro
shimi's packages a small camp grid
die with folding legs, of my own de-
wishing. 1t was quite clean and new.
but it performed as l felt quite sure
it would. In fact, reason will govern
all things-except woman.
l could see-and l noted it with
much gratifcation-that l was rising
IN the estimation of my pirates 1t
pleased me not at all to show that |
knew more than they of these things.
for I was older and my mind was long
my trained servant, but l had mon
strous delight in seeing myself &C.
cepted as one fit to associate with
them.
We sat by our Preside, before our
little tent, after pleasant meal which
l know was we'll cooked because l
cooked it myself-trout. a young squir-
rel. and toast, and real coffee-and
Partial was close at my knee, having
obviously adopted me. We We're fifteen
or twenty miles from my house. nearly
twice that from their homes. but the
world. itself, seemed very remote from
us. We reveled in a new luxurious
world of rare deeds, rare dreams all
our own. l was conjuring up some
new argument to put before Helena
should | ever see her again-as of
course never should-when LATTE
rolled over on the grass and looked
up at us.
1--WE was just saying" he remarked,
that you didn't have no name"
'That is true. l have not told you
my name nor have you asked it. Had
you been impolite you might have
learned it by prying about my place"
Ispoke gravely and with approval.
"No; we didn't know who you was"
LET it be so. Let me be a man of
no name. A name is Of no conse-
4uence, and neither am l."
'Sho, now. that amt so. never
seen a better-now. l never SEEM
Jean Lafitte's reticence in friendship
again was getting the better of him.
$50 we said we'd call you Black
Bart" added L'Olonnois.
THAT is most excellent name,'
said after some thought. AT present
can find no objection to it except
that / wear no beard at all and would
have red or brown one if did and
that Black Bart was rather pirate OF
the land than of the sea-"
WAS he?" queried L'Olonnois
Wasn't he pirate. too, never?"
There was famous pirate chief
known as Bluebeard or Blackboard
and It may be sometimes they called