Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-09

"NIacduff had stopped to sharpen his claymore
on the flags"
That treasured him and took some o, the bounce
out OF Macduf. He equally successful the next
time and the next. He became elated At last
his pride in his charmed life the better OF his
prudence. He told Macduh that he losing his
labor, and told him why. The effect exactly
the contrary OF what he had anticipated. CLEAN OF
savage delight came into Macduffs eyes What did
it mean?
Macbeth left long in doubt. He stood
pctrihed while tale poured from Macduffs lips such
as had never before blasted the Of mortal man.
1t cannot be repeated here-there is such thing
the library censorship Let it suffice that it
tale of the rude but efficient ohsteric of those
ancient times and that it established beyond all ques
ton the fact that Macduff had never been born.
After that. Macbeth felt that he simply could
fight with him. Ii not that he afraid.
now. Nor it that he utterly disguised at the
way the witches had let him down again. He Just
could bring himself at a
not natural 1t like trying to eat cat. He
fatty refused further combat.
or course, Macduf called him coward He did not
mind that so much; for he had given his proofs. aud
reasonable man expect him to fight unborn
adversary. Macdun limited at unbearable things
At defeat disgrace the pillory, even
surge Of wrath went through Macbeth. He
above all things, country gentleman; and that
out acquiring any rights nfuratcd him lie became
reckless Brnam Wood--hs Woodland been taken
10 Dunsinane! Was that thing he could be
pcctcd To stand?
What though Macduff had not been properly born'
Was it not all the more likely that he had weak
constitution and could not stick it out if he
pressed hard in the fight" Anyhow, Macbeth would
fully thrust his shield under the chin Of his adj
versary and cried. Lay on Macdun!''
He could not have chosen unfortunate form
of defiance When the news had come to Macduff Of
the slaughter of his wife and boy. he had asonished
chickens and their dam at fell swoop.' Ac.
cnstonrd from his earliest youth to deaf with horses
wOmans business. When he used the word dam"
properly applicable only to mare, in referring to a
hen. Malcolm, though deeply moved by his distress.
had Il narrow escape from fit OF Mysteries for the
innocent blundcr gave him impulse unmey
laughter
The had been repeated; and something OF 1t
had come to Macduns lie highly strung
cXQusitcy sensitive ridiculc. Since that
time. the slightest auson chickens had driven him
10 transports OF fury. Az tho words, Lay on he
red. Macbeth, from the instant those fatal
passed his lips. had dogs chance.
In case, he would have been ready to meet
a sudden attack. All his life he had been subject to
strange RESPONSIVENESS which sent his mind wander
ing TO the landscape and to the fauna and fora OF
the district al the most exciting crises of his fate.
When he meant TO tell Gruach that he had ar.
ranged 10 have iianquo killed. he had said her
the rocky wood" And his attention had stravod to
the wood-pGcon when Macdnfs yell OF fury split his
ears. and. At the same moment he felt his foes teeth
close through his nose and his foes dirk drive through
his ribs.
Nhcn Malcolm arrived, there little left OF
Macbeth but pile Of nincc. Macduf was painting
THAT will teach him he said and stopped cx-
suficatc.
They laid Macbeth beside Gruacl in Gods quiet
acre in the little churchyard OF Dunsnane. Malcolm
erected handsome tomb there. credit Of tho
institution of kingship: and the epitaph all things
considered. was not unhandsome. There was no re.
preach in II. no vain bitterness 1t said he had
succeeded Duncan"
The birds still singing on Dunsinanc The
w1od-pseon sin coos about the coos and Malcolm
takes them frankly and generously. for 10
to judge him or 10 Judge Macbeth Macbeth was
born before his time Men call him villain
had the press existed in his time a very rifug
pecuniary sacrifice his part would have made :,
hero OF him. And TO do him justice, he never
stingy
Well! Well.
THE END.
Thcrc That IS What is called nOvc.writnC, I
raise no idle question TO whether il is or not
l|ut that sort of thing write by the hundred
thousand words my head. believe that if {
turned my attention 10 mechanics for a month or
two, could make u typewriter attachment that would
do it, like the calculating attachment that has lately
como into use The odd thing is that people seem
to like IT, They swallow ii in doses OF three hundred
pages AT a time, and they all keen on
Shakespeare Decidedly, when my faculties decay a
little further, snail so back noyel-writing And
Arnold Bennett can so back TO writing plays.