White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-05

lures rising before hln, the one least
blurred being of himself on horseback,
sweeping between Flopit and a racing
automobile. Aud then. having restored
the little animal to It's mistress, Viii
liam sat carelessly In the saddle Che
had the guardsman's seat while the
perfectly trained steed wheeled about,
forelegs in the air. preparing to 90.
But shall / not see you again to thank
you more PROPERTY" she cried. plead
ing. "Some other day-perhaps," he
answered and left her in a cloud of
dust.
"Oh, Win-eel"
Thus a shrill voice. TO his ears hid
eously different from that other, inter.
rupted and dispersed his visions. Lit
tie Jane, his ten-year-old sister. stood
upon the front porch. the door open
behind her, and in her hand she held
a large slab of bread and butter COW
cred with apple sauce and powdered
sugar. Evidence that she bad sam
Piled this compound was upon her
cheeks, and TO her brother she was a
repulsive sight.
"wfl-eel" she shrilled. Look
GoOdr And to emphasize the adjec-
tive she indelicately patted the region
of her body In which she believed her
stomach to be- located. There's a slice
for you on the dining room table, b
informed him joyously.
Outraged, he entered the house with
out a word to her and. proceeding to
the dining room. laid hands upon the
slice she had mentioned, but declined
to eat IL In James company. He was
In an exalted mood, and, though In no
condition of mind or body would he re-
fuse food Of almost any kind. JAM
was an intrusion he could not suffer
at this time.
He carried the rejection TO his own
room and, locking the door, sat down
to eat, while, V as he ate, the spell
that was upon him deepened In In
tensity.
"Oh. eyes" he whispered softly In
that cool privacy and shelter from the
world. "Oh, eyes Of blue"
The mirror of a dressing table sent
him the reflection Of his own eyes,
which also were blue. and he gazed
upon them and upon the rest OF his
image the while he ate his bread and
butter and apple and sugar.
Finally he rose and approached the
dressing table to study himself at
! greater advantage.
Beyond doubt he was acting a little
scene Of Indifference. Other symbolic
dramas followed, though In invisible
observer might have been puzzled for
n key to some of them. One, however.
would have proved easily Ineligible.
His expression having altered to a look
of pity and contrltion, he turned from
the mirror and, walking slowly TO a
| chair across the room. used his right
hand In a peculiar manner, seeming TO
stroke the air ut "A point about ten
inches above the back of the chair.
There, there. little girl" he said in a
low, gentle voice. II didn't know you
cared"
Then, with a rather abrupt dismissal
| Of this theme. he returned to the mir
ror and, after a questioning scrutiny,
nodded solemnly, forming with his lips
the words, 1.-THE real thing-the real
thing at last!'
He meant that, after many limitations
had imposed upon him, Loye-the real
| thing-had come to him In the end.
| And as he turned away he murmured.
lad even her name-unknown!"
Seating himself at a small writing
table by the window, he proceeded to
express his personality I'm something he
considered a poem.
Three-quarters Of an hour having
suficed for its completion, he solemnly
signed It and then read 1t several times
In n state of hushed establishment. lie
had never dreamed that he could do
anything like this