Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-09-27

The. Web
of Destiny
BY J. v. GIESY q J. 3. SMITH
Authors of Semi-Dual Stories
Copyright.
The Frank A. Munsey Co.
The Frank A. Munsey Co.

up the street, looking idly into the
Andows of the shops and saying little
OF nothing. Dual had taken place be-
side Reich and Sheldon, and that left
me with Lucille.
She nodded at Semi's back.
How does he do it," she whis.
perea. How did he know that we
you'd meet that woman In that place?
Why did he say we had gone too far.
and then say this was the placef
What told him."
His SOUL" said /.
Don't" she laughed shortly, put
ting hand on my arm. Il am like
Reich. So many of Mr.. DuaPs re-
marks have a possible double mean
Ing. Please, Mr.. Glace, don't you be-
Tin to speak in riddles"
"Pm not" l protested. 81 mean
just that If you don't like the word
soul, call it the subjective self. You
noticed DuaPs expression while you
walked beside him this evening. saw
you study his face Didn't you realize
that you were walking beside a man
whose objective intelligence was for
the time asleep?"
"Mericiful Heavens" cried Miss
Foote. do you mean that he was
making his subjective mind lead him
to the place where that woman would
Gomez"
Precisely, Miss Foote.'
But how could his subjective mind
known"
THAT / can't tell you, save that
Dual says that from the subliminal
self nothing is hidden"
/ censed that she trembled.
Are you cold?" l questioned, be-
cause the fog had thickened and drip
ped from the awnings at times as we
passed.
For moment she made no answer,
then:
"No-unless it is my subjective self
that shivered. The idea you expressed
made me feel oddly that was ALL"
Again she laughed nervously.
Af,Do you know, this whole affair is
having an odd effect on me, Mr.. Glace.
Some way l feel as if We were all
moving in the midst OF such a fog as
lies over the city tonight and that,
after all, Mr.. Dual was the only one
among us who saw clearly where We
were going. All, little one!"
She paused and glanced down at
beady-eyed baby which had toddled
across the pavement and thrown itself
against her, clasping her limb in its
pudgy arms and gazing up toward her
face.
She stopped and drew its pudgy
hands into hers and all the time it
never winked from its stare. Back of
it in the door of shop a man sat
smoking pipe.
He looked on and smiled slightly.
Lucille shook gravelyI one of the
little hands, as she glanced at the
man.
"How'ye do, baby? Your baby?"
she asked.
The Chinaman nodded.
"Yeh," he replied Withdrawing the
stem of his pipe and smiling in s4st
of sheepish friendliness of manner.
Him wan be friendly - say how
do. ALA time him do allie same that
way"
He broke off and spoke in Chinese
TO the child.
Very gravely it extended its hand
again TO Lucille. She laughed, shook
it and fumbled in her purse for coin,
pressing it into the warm, little palm.
We turned away.
"Good-b said the man.
4 Cute little tyke," Lucille spoke to
IS'Do you like babies?" l ques-
toned.
Love EN-" she smiled. Being a
police woman, without any home, /
naturally would"
Dual, Sheldon, and Reich turned
back to retrace our steps.
We fell in behind them once more,
and so again we passed the door OF
the shop and saw the yellow baby
cuddled in its fathers arms, under his
long-stemmed pipe. He saw u.s. nod
ded and smiled.
we Wdlhcu OL, bdSh eOWdio ehc
gaudy lanterns of the restaurant, be-
hind which Greek Annie, and the po-
lice agent lurked. Again as all along,
we were waiting. 1t seemed to me as
we walked down that fog-dampened
street that throughout all the days we
had laited, and that our progress had
BEEN rather a species of drifting upon
a slow current than one of volitional
advance.
And all about us, as we drifted,
other strange currents of purpose had
flowed with us, crossing and twisting
and weaving about us, to bring US at
last to this strange street of foreign
quarter where still other currents had
seized us and swept us along.
And there had been times when l
had glimpsed some of those other cur
rents. There was the something in
the life of the woman beside me which
(vhispered of tragedy untold; there
WAS Reich's constant and almost in
vsane outbursts which had threatened
TO throw us upon the shoals of unsuc-
cess; there was Semi Duals speech to
mo which told mo that he acted alona