The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-01-21

dNOTaDIH.
full feeling of relief. 1t was not so
hard to say to myself that Lord Am
berdale was welcome to her, but It
was very, very difficult TO refrain
from adding the nnamiaoie words:
damn him"
This rigid, %puritanieal principle. Of
mine. however, did not declare against
the unrighteousness of falling in love
with a divorce.
CHAPTER Xxx.
Change Garden Spots.
If i have, by any chance, announced
earlier in this narrative that the VAL
ley of the Donau is the garden spot
of the world, I must now ask you
to excuse the ebullience of spirit that
prompted the declaration. The Warm
Springs Valley of Virginia is. infinitely
more attractive to me, and ! make
haste to rectify any erroneous impress
sion | may have given, while under
modesty forbids me to describe.
If you happen not to kno the Warm
Springs Valley. permit me to say that
you are missing a great deal: 1t is
upon, a subject that is SO aptly
handled by the gentlemen who supply
railway folders with descriptive. ma
terial and who will tell you in SO
many NOFuS Una IOu 5 HODleSI Wolh
was done in the green hills and Wales
of fair Virginia? Any railway folder
will ~acquaint you with all this and
save me a great deal of time and
trouble, besides giving you a sensible
and adequate idea Of how to get there
and where to stop when you reach
your journeys end, together with the
price of Pullman tickets and the ma
ture of the ailments you are supposed
to have If you take the waters. 1t is
onlE necessary for me 10 saw that 1t
is a garden spot and that you don't
have to change cars If you take the
right train out of New YORK. City, a
condition which does not obtain il
you happen to approach from the OPP
posite direction.
arrived there early one bright No
vember morning, three days after
landing in New York. You will be
nouncement that l left Mr.. Poopen-
dyke behind. He preferred to visit an
aunt at New Rochelle and I felt that
he deserved a vacation. Br1tton, OF
course, accompanied me. He is indis-
pensable, and. so far as | know. hasn't
the f~aintest notion of what a vacation
means unless he considers employ
ment with me in some such light. AT
relation in need of a visit from him.
Before leaving New York l had. a
rather unpleasant encounter with my
publishers. 1t was in the nature of a
1uncheon at Wnlcn ] was leo 10 DeiieNe
that they still expected me TO supply
them with the manuscript of a novel
at a verys early date, They seemed
considerably. put out when ! blandly
informed them that l had got no
farther along than the second chapter.
We have been counting on this
book of yours for January publics-
ton said they.
tried to explain that the muse had
abandoned me in a most heartless
fashion.
But the public demands a story
from YOU" said they. What have you
been doing all Summer"
"Romancing," said /.
/ don't know Just how it came about,
but the suggestion was made that. l
put into narrative form the lively his
tory of my s~ojourn on the banks of
the Danube. trusting implicitly to the
/; Imagination yet leaving nothing to it.
! But it's all such blithering rot"
+ said T.
/, umphantly-even eagerly.
Il do not suppose that YOU as pub
fishers, can appreciate the fact that an
i, author may have a soul above skit-
. ties said l indignantly. Il cannot,
!, will not write a line about myself.
| gentlemen. Not that consider the
: n;s sW f : as erlSd t iWs Junior npnNrecI mfm9 ,hs
! delicacy o~f-er-your feelings, Mr.:
/, smart, Dul l nave an luta-a Splenulu
I idea. 1t solves the whole question.
! You secretary is a most competent,
! capable young man and a genius after
= a fashion. I propose that he write
!, the story. Well pay him a lump sum
!, for the work, put your name on tbs
:. cover, and there you are, All you will
{ have to do is to edit his material
- How's that?"
l And so it came TO pass that | took
: myself off that evening for Hot Springs
+" secure in the thought that Poopendykt
!, would attend to my literary estate fa1
u more canahly h | could do it my
'; self. and that my labors later on would
, be pleasantly devoted 10 the lazy tasl
l. Of editing, revising and deleting a talk
- already told.
n If you are lucky enough to Obtain
=; rooms in the Homestead. looking on
= over the golf course, with the wonder
u fui November colorings in the hills an,
d gaps beyond; over the casino, the tenni
+ courts and the lower levels of the fash
- ionable~ playground, you may well say t
- yourself that all the world is brigh
~ and sweet and full of hope. From m,
Iee windows | could see far down the his
ne torie valley in the direction of War;
e. Springs. Il haZy blue panorama wrappe,
= in the air of an indian Summer an,
- redolent with the incense of Autumn
~ Britton reminded me that il was
~ grand morning for golf, and ! was a
y, u once reminded that Britton is an ex
I, cellent chap, whose opinions are al
10 x-c worth Cnnsidpripg