The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-24

the village 6sPausankee q judged they could hare come no greater distance, senle Sfzz4fve or. fi fteen miles, bd1t they dp. not serye. for so long q Journey a lies betWeens Pausaukee and the Span ssh. main.
 They rose as I dids and we passed beyond the clump of tall birchess Thus nfesently we saw the blue smoke ris- ing aboTe h7y< lodge betokenIl1g to me that my 5a panese factoturn, Hlrosh mi, now had my dinner under way. Hiro- 5 sllluat opened tIle screen door before us, Showing no surprise or interest in my ge comp anions. Thus we made easy conauestsof our castle
 M 1Y . Ilfrate eompa nions suddenly grown. shy, stood silent for moment, for the lime rhther at a loss to carry on the play which had been easier in the open heard Jimmy draw long breath. He was first to remove his hat. But his companion was quicker ta regain his poise, although for mo ment he forgot his pirate speech sGee.s said he. sAIn't this greafl
 doubt i f any praise I ever heard in my life pleased me more than this frank commen 1t for this that lay about me was what | had chosen for my life today had preferred this to the career into which my fathers restless ambition had plunged me almost as soon as Ishad emerged from my college and my flaw school-a career which my own restless ambition had found suffi- cient until that final break with Helena Emory, which occurred soon after the time when nay father died. when the news went out that his heir, was left with but shrunken fortune and with nlany debts b pay, news which myself had promulgated for reasons of my CIVIL After that I had retired to this lodge in the wilderness Here, grown suddenly resentfnI Of life hitherto wasted ln money getting alone, had resolved to spend the remainder os my days as beseemed a student and philosopher Having read N-eininger and other philosophers, was eonzsinc- ed that woman was the lowest and most unworthy thing in the scale of created things. a asthing quite beneath the attention of a thinking man.
 have said that was scarce beyond thirty years of age. Even sol found myself already old, and. like any true Ehilosop her, I resolved to make myself ng45 As hitherto had had no boy hood T. determined to- achieve a boy hood for myself. Studying myself, I
  discovered that I had rarely smiled. so l resolved to find somewhat to make me smiless .sz
 A boy I had never been-nay, nor even youths, had always been old 9Et1es lilse others of my station. I had owned my auto cars, my matched teams-owned them now indeed-but 1 had never owned q dog. So when I came hither with ample leisure per laps my chief ambition was 2 deliber- ate purpose to encompass my deferred Foghood.s Thus had built this house of logs VI hIeh iloH-witll q surprised and gratifying fhrob of my heart I learned 5tz-appeaIed to the souls of real boys It WAS the castle where EEeanleds and now it was the palace of fsloir dreams also I felt at least that had succeeded. My heart throbped fa new way. very foolish. yet for some reason suddenly enjoyable
 Many InaIl had called my father, sseEn and ma steff fuI man that lie was, robber q thief. pirate. in great nart, suspect, in envy that they kaeanselzes had moi attained a like