The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-26
Two Kinds of
RoughDianond
By :. A. NIT 'iE.


the characters Of his Imagination. AS q
Punch and Judy Snowman sits under
his mimic stage working bis puppets.
when a card was sent up to him bear.
ing the name John Remington.
Now. John Remington was the name
the author had used in bis last novel
He knew no real person of that name.
for he had found the name in . tele-
phone directory. Why had this person
called to see hint he was curious to
learn. He directed that he be shown
into his study.
The imaginary John Remington. hero
Of IAN Uncut Diamond" was q blun
but honest cOuntryman who had mar.
ried the daughter Of a farmer. They
had quarreled soon after the wedding.
and the wife had left her husband to
60 to the city to mako her own living.
When the real John Remington en-.
tered he appeared to the novelist to be
Of that class from which the character
had been taken
I'm not gOin' to take up your time.
SIR" said the man. "or beat about the
bush. It's no concern Of mine how
you got hold Of my story or what III
Huenced you as to the version you
gave Of 1t In your novel You made
nae out brute. and I suppose am
one. It's my misfortune to have
been made that way. What I want
to know Is where can find my wife, ="
The novelist gathered that to a CO
incidence In name and another In hav.
ing hit on an actual story Tor some
thing like IT. for the subject matter of
his novel this mans call was due.
"You say that | have pictured you
as a brute. Wherein. may ask, have
l made you brutalT'
"Well, first Of, should have give in
az soon rs got married There's no
use Of a husband trym' to have his
way with his wife. It's not in reason. -
why sol"
"'Cause there's no reason In . wo-
man. She amt made that way"
"How Is she nader"
"Why, jest as you made Peggy. Only
since you didn't get the whole story
there's lots O. things you left out"
Name some Of them"
well. Peg never could learn that II
a little thing annoyed me ahs'd better
let 1t alone. She'd keep on dom 1t Jest
the same as II hadn't shown her q
dozen times that u annoyed me- Then
she'd give up to me in a heap O. small
things that ! didn't 81 store BY. then
come down on me for one big thing
that was mighty important When l
baked she would throw up at me all
the sacrifices she had made for me.
mentionin' things hadn't wanted"
why, then. do you constier your
self brutal In having objected to this
courseT'
why. because Peg was made that
way. All women are"
And weren't you made your wayr
you mean brute, OF course I
was What does brute need but q
tanner? What does a ship need but q
rudder? Don't you suppose that II q
ship had life u 1t 1t would object to
bein' turned this way and that way by
that contemplate little thing at its
stern? But where would the ship 60
without the rudderf On the rocks. Of
course. That's where I've gone"
How have you gone on the rocksr
why. I've got SO cOufOunded muce
of my way that don't know what to
do with II"
And you wish to find your wife to
ask her to come back and tyrannfze
over you some m0ref
That's my job"
And you propose to knucke oown
and give her her own way 10 ever
thingf-
"You bet"
The novelist paused IN bis questions
and w. very tboughtfuA BE hed
written a novel Of 100000 vosdb to
sbOw What a fne fellow hs Line s1na<y
roach diamond was, and the rsA
| ..rh diam.ad bad knocked rhe stntue
he had bulk ~ OF its pedestal n q
few minutes
-R,-kDn yon amt got wtfeT' con-
tiulp-,l Mr. l...tnii..I'.n
-S-,, | haven't
u rtstu;i y0a ha'.a L
why -o?> s,--.u.
-ysaI Peg did ~ o things 10
your nuk thai she never dbl Ia hs1.e'