The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-12-16

II lost n somewhere" she ~
knowledged; then as she colored d.
vinely: "You didn't find it, did youfs
she demanded. "You didn't read those
foolish things|
cit wasn't foolishness,'" I quoted.
There was destiny in it." and then
I made full confession.
I'm glad you wrote It," I added. Z
owe that diary something and I want
all my debt to be to you"
For a moment she was silent, then
she looked up again and confronted
M n more with a charge Of stupid.
ity.
"And you read that, and knew whae
football game it was, and yet you
v recognized yourself! What AZ
your brains made of, anyway"
How could a man reply to such. .
sublime absurdity a. that? I groansd.
'In the diary you wrote of an apothp
costs" I confessed. How in the name
of all that is logical could I connect
myself with this admirable, imposst
BILE superman? You failed to give tho
name" ss.1
She looked at mo and laughed. y,
1.-THE name is also modest" she d.
served. Then she supplemented:
didn't know your NAME"
"Of course" I demurred; "it's grea4
to see you treading the clouds with
ideals for your playmates. Moreovse.
it's appropriate, but I'm down here.
you know, earth-bound and extremely
mortal. II We are to walk together
you must come down and join me-"
"I1l take you up with me-" she hoo'
pitably asserted, and though since
then she must have discovered many
times that she had draped her cloth q
gold upon a lay figure and had made
a plumed and mailed knight Of q fati
ure and an inconseQuent, yet she has.
with gallant stubbornness, refused %
admit it.
Dearest" I said very humbly, I
must have seemed inconceivably .boor.
ish when we met before. How coulA
you bring yourself to forgive it,"
Because" she answered, q" an Q
woman-and inquisitive. I knew how
you felt, and I wanted to find out Why
you acted SO horribly"
II was trying very hard not to tell
you how I felt" I admitted.
"You don't have to tell me-h
words" she laughed. "You told me IN
a hundred other ways, that were just
as plain"
"Then the only part of my story
said, a little crestfallen, (which h
new to you is the information that
you were a goddess and I a high
priest out there in the South Seas?"
ooh, that wasn't new at ALL" she
1uthlessly enlightened ; II knew that,
too"
SIS there anything you don't known"
I incurred. "What gift of prophetic
vision"
"There wasn't any vision about it,"
she interrupted. 81 got a letter from
Mrs. Keller the day before you reach
ed Kentucky. l guess when you get
back to New York you'll find one from
the captain. His wife wrote to tell
| me YOU were coming. That was why
I got a headache and stayed at home
to have a look at you; I didn't know
till l saw you that you were the man
I had seer play football"
She laid her hand on my forearm.
NV sleeves were uprolled to the ell
bows.
Dearest" she exclaimed in sud-
den anxiety, you're cold!"
I suppose I was, but l had not known
It..
It had been some time now since ]
have written in the diary which had
it's birth under such strange circum-
| stances. The narrative went into q
| pigeonhole because I have been too
busy living to think of rejecting upon
| life. 1t was a device for moments OF
| emptiness, and in later times also for
moments of extraordinary jubilation;
but since the last pages were scrtb-
bled almost two years ago there has
been enough of celebration In merely
living out the days.
Yet now l must add a postscript to
that some time he may have the full
record before him. He is my little
son.
He is teaching me a great many
| things and finding in me a willing
pupil.
When I first walked out into tho
public ways after his entrance to the
stage whereupon I hope he will be cast
in a worthy part, I walked differently.
I walked with the pride of an emperor.
Not the pride of arrogance. needed
no car of bronze and ivory with cap
| tives fettered at the wheel. I needed
no slave whispering into my ear: Re
member, Caesar, thou art but a man"
I was filled with a new graciousness
and wished to be generously courteous
to all men, yet that desire was born of
a n of vast superiority. I had found