The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-16

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bred innocent pleasures that bring M
pain or remorse, devotion to TIT
right that will never swerve. q simple
religion empty of all bigotry. full Of
trust and hope and love-and to such
philosophy this world will give up al
the empty joy it has"
meditated over this also, applying
these tests to my own life. All. no"
saw why my foot was ever restless
why | sought always new scenes
Where was my quiet home. the vines
of my own planting? Would ! fee
from that to every corner of the world
Not if it held the woman of my choice
Would she thus roam restless If she
held the heart Of her chosen and II
they had home?
did not hear Jimmy when he came
in, and when he spoke Jumped, star
tied.
"Black Bart!' said Jimmy. Say.
we have held a council"
"Who has?"
"Why, me and Jean LATTE and the
heartless Jade. l told her you sent us
to her to bid her seek your presence"
Jimmy! What on earth do you
mean? That's precisely the last thing
| would have DONE l haven't done it.
On the contrary
II told her" he resumed calmly,
that when Black Bart, the pirut
spoke, he spoke to be obeyed. She
said, I can't CO. and said, You gotta
60"
You yourself may now 60 and tell
her that there has been a very bad
mistake. Jimmy. and that she need not
come"
And make her cry worse? I amt
going to do it!''
"Sir, this is mutiny! But did she
cry. JIMMY"
"Yes. awful She said she was
homesick. She amt. l don't know
what really is the matter. asst Jean
LATTE, and he said maybe you'd know.
We thought maybe it was something
about yon varlet. Do you known"
mo, / do not, Jimmy"
Don't you just jolly well awfully
love the fair captive. yon heartless
jade-my Auntie Helen? Don't you.
Black Bart?"
made no answer. but frowned very
much at his presumption.
Because everybody else does. She's
nice. should think you would. !
do, know mighty WELL"
"She is-she is-she's very estima-
BILE young woman, Jimmy" said l, COL
oring. Il think may say that with
out compromising myself"
'"Then why do you hurt her feelings
the way you do when she's plumb
gone on you the way she is?'
sprang toward him to clap a hand
over his garrulous mouth, but he evad-
ed me and spoke from behind the bath.
room door. "Well. she is! Don't l
hear her sticking up for you all the
time? Didn't hear her and Aunde
Lucinda having a regular row over It
again? I don't care IL he hasn't got a
cent! says She"
but yon varlet is rich," said l.
"She didn't mean yon varlet. She
meant you, I'm pretty sure, Black
Bart. And she's been feeding Partial
all the afternoon. Say. he's the shape
of sausage"
"She is heartless, Jimmy! Little do
you know the ways of a heartless jade.
She wants to win away from me the
last thing on earth l have-even my
dog. That's all. Now. Jimmy, you
must CO."
But he emerged only in part from his
shelter. $50 Jean Laf1tte and me, we
looked it up in the book, and it says
where the heartless jade is brought be-
fore the pirut chief. How now, fair
one? says he, and he bends on her the
piercing gaze O his iggle eye. How
now-would'sts purn me suit?' The fair
captive she bends her head and stands
before him unable to encounter his
piercing gaze, and for some moments q
deep silence prevails"