The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-08-17

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could hear him grooming. God! God!
Cod" Not that he was calling y q
God II vas a mere cxplctive. but II
canC from his soul.
Al dinner he asked the hunters for
q remedy tor headache, and nv eve
ming strong man that he was. he was
half blind and roolinc about the cabin
I've never been sick In my life
Hump. hc gaid as | guided him &C.
his room. Nor did ever have a
hcadach" except the time my head
was healing after having been laii
open for six inches by a capstan bar
For three days this binding head
ache lasted. and he suffered us wild
animals suffer, NJ II seemed the way
on ship to suffer, without plant. with
out sympathy, utterly alone.
THIS morning however, on entering
his stateroom to make the bed and
put things In order. | found him wcll
and hard at work. Table and bunk
were Uttered with designs and calcu
iaions. On a large, transparent sheet.
compass and square In hand. he was
copying what appeared TO be a scale
of ONE sort or other.
Hello, Hump" he greeted me gen
tally. I'm Just finishing the finishing
touches. Want TO see Il work."
But what Is IT." ! asked
a laborsaying device for mariners
navigation reduced to kindergarten
simplicity" tie answered gayly.
There was a rIne OF triumph IN his
voice. and his eyes. clear blue this
morning as the sea. were sparkling
! with light
You must, be we'll up In mathcmat
ics,' | said. Where did you so TO
SCHOOL,"
Never saw the inside OF one, worse
luck" was the answer. Il had to dig
Il out for myself"
And why DO yoG think have made
this thing? ." he demanded abruptly.
Dreaming to leave footprints on the
sands OF time lie laughed one OF
his horrible. knocking laughs. Not at
all. To get Il patented { make
money from Il. to revel IN piggishness
with all night In while other men do
the work. That's my purpose. Also.
have enjoyed working II out"
The creative Joy" | murmured.
II guess that's what Il ought TO be
called. Which is another way OF ex.
pressing tho Joy Of life In that II Is
alive, the triumph Of movement over
matter, Of the quick over the dead, the
pride OF the yeast because il IS yeast
and crawls.'
threw up my hands with helpless
llsarproyal of his luyotcrlte matori
a,ism and went ahogt making the bed
BE continued copying lines and figures
upon a." transparent scale. II vas a
task requiring the utmost nicely and
precision, and | could not but admire
the way he tempered his strength to
the ancnoss and d~clicacy Of the need
when had finished the bed. I
caught myself looking at him in =
fascinated sort OF way lie was Ger
taluly a handsome man-beautiill In
the masculine sense. And again. with
n~ever.failing wonder, | remarked the
total lack % @yicIousness or wicked
. lfEa VI EAlAAAAA'hF " us ldAFE " Il
was he? What was he? How had he
happened 10 be? All powers seemed
his. all potcntialities-why. then. was
he no more than the obscure master OF
n seal hunting schooner with a rcpu
'ation for frIghtful brutality among
the men who hunted seals?
NJ curiosity burst from me IN a
hood OF speech
Why Is II that you have not done
great things IN this world? with the
govar that Is yours you might have
risen TO any height. Cnposscseed OF
conscience or moral instinct, you
might have mastered the world. bro.
ken Il TO your hand, And yet here you
are, al the top Of your life. where 81.
m%lnishing and dying begin, living an
obscure and sordid existence. hunt.
ing sea animals for the satisfaction
or wOman'B vanity and love OF deco
ration revealing In a piRgisbnrss 70
lse your own words, which IL n
thing aud everything except splendid
/, Why, with all that wonderful strength
have you not done something? There
4 WI ''NH'tt w hANb ''Nr H'AhNhb N'o'
| could stop you. What was wrong
DID you lack ambivonH Did you talI
under temptation? What was the mat
, ter? What was the matter? ?"
He had lifted his eyes 10 me at ths
y commencement Of my outburst, and
, followed me complacently until | had
done and stood before him broathles'
I and dismaycd He waited a moment
as though seeking where TO begin, anC
then said:
Hump, do you know the parable
= N tae who went forth to SOW
q you will remember, some ot thu
y seed fell upon stony places, WHERE
, there was o much earth, aud forth
4 With they sprung up because they hat
9 no dcopness Of earth, And when tn,
9 sun was up they wero scorchcd. an,
g because they had no DOT they with
I cred away And sOme fell amonI
thorns and the thorns sprung up an,
clicked them"
'Well?" said.
aNgaIIg 90 ha ,,.,xtod ka1S ...I...t.