New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-15

Of course IN Tune 1t all might come
out In time Helena would know that
this yacht which she supposed to be
Davidson's was my own: that the
farm was supposed to have rented
really was handsome estate that
owned; that many covert deeds in
finance had been my own 1t was only
my silence and my absence in many
parts Of the world which had prevent
ed her, also much a traveller. from
knowing the truth about me long ago.
and the truth was l was not poor
man. but rich one
l took up another book at another
marked page: Let us learn to be con-
tent with what we have. Let us get
rid of our false estimates, set up all
the higher ideals-a quiet home, vines
Of our own planting, few books full
of the inspiration of genius, a few
friends worthy of being loved. hun
dred innocent pleasures that bring no
pain or remorse, q devotion to the
right that will never swerve. q simple
religion empty of all bigotry. full of
trust and hope and love-and to such a
philosophy this world will give up all
the empty Joy it has"
l meditated over this also. applying
these tests to my own life. All, now
saw why my foot was ever restless.
why sought always new scenes.
Where was my quiet home, the vines
Of my own planting? Would dee
from that to every corner Of the world /
Not II It held the woman Of my choice.
Would she thus roam restless II she
held the heart Of her chosen and II
they had homer - g.
I did not hear Jimmy when he came
IN and when be spoke I Jumped. scar.
tied. 81
BLACK Bartg' said Jimmy. Say.
We have held . council"
who has7''
why. me and Jean LATTE and the
heartless Jade. I told her you sent ~
TO her to bid her seek your presence
RS Jimmy! What ON earth do you.
meant That's precisely the last thing
I would have done. I haven't done It.
On the contrary
II told her," he resumed calmly,
that when Black Bart, the pirut,
spoke. be spoke to be obeyed. She
safd. Il can't CO. and said, You gotta
CO."
You yourself may now 60 and tell
her that there has been q 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"
Eyes. awful She said she was
homesick. She amt. don't know
what really is the matter. last Jean
LATTE. and he said maybe you'd know.
We thought maybe it was something
about yon varlet. Do you know?"
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?'
I made no answer. but frowned very
much at his presumption.
Because every body else does. She's
nice. should think you would
do. ! know mighty WELL"
"She is-she is-she's a, very estima-
BILE young woman, Jimmy" said l. col
oring. ~ think l 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
hear her sticking up for you all the
time? Didn't 1 hear her and Auntie
Lucinda having regular row over it
again? 4 don't care if he hasn't got
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
"a IAS a. lCAAOOu. Odys uc > Tic shape
of q sausage"
"She is heartless, Jimmy! Little do
you know the ways of 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. SO Jean LATTE 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
oneY 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 h1s
piercing gaze, and for some moments a
deep silence prevails
CHAPTER XIII.
In Which 10 an Armistice With Fate.