The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-02-22
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BY R. Knorr
BY R. Knorr
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[ConYriKSt 1a17 Western Newsnaper Irnion.l


(CopyrigAt. 1917. Western Newspaper Union.)
'What a fine sunset - Harry Still
we'll pointed to the red and orange
western sky. His companion sighed,
but said nothing, as with his back to
the window he was carefully putting
away his engraver's tools.
poor fellow, l forgot he's color
blind" Harry muttered, then contin-
ued louder: But, say, Ed. don't you
see any of the colors out there?'
Edward Dalton shook his head.
life Is to me one long gray day. OF
course, | don't know just how you nor
mal-eyed people see things. | distin-
guish what you call blue, such as the
sky on clear sunny day, and flowers
like the violet and bluebell, and l also
perceive what You call yellow. But
all the other colors you speak of are
to me only so many variations of gray,
more or less luminous. What you call
color, / call degrees of light and
shade"
Sand there you have the immense
advantage over us in our profession"
said Stillwell, to smooth away his
thoughtless question that had panied
his friend. "When in engraving We
don't know whether color should
come out light or dark, you see the
right tone at once. Are you going to
Maud Lenders dance this EVENING"
He had abruptly changed the subject.
"She asked me to come, so l suppose
/ must" answered Dalton, with little
eagerness to go.
The two young men left the studio
together. For the length of whole
block Stillwell dilated ON the charms
of Miss Leander, limiting that he was
the preferred sutton to the hand of the
neiress. Dalton listened in silence !;
but at the first corner he turned down
a by-street to escape from his loqua-
cious companion.
Edward Dalton, the congenial color
blind, spoke truth when he said that
life was to him one long gray day
Morbidly sensitive to his visual defect
he was becoming moody and unsocin
BILE. He imagined that he lost more
of the joys of life than he perhaps
really did. And he found scant com
pensaton in the fact that his eyes wer
exquisitely alive to form, to the lumi
Mostly of the colors he did not see an
hence to gradations of light and shad
, imperceptible to his many friends. TIL
| latter gift, characteristic Of the colol
, blind, made him invaluable to his en-
} ployer and had won him fine pos
, ton. And yet his hours away from hi
work were more than ever given owe
to gloomy thoughts. For he felt hin
| self handicapped in striving for tn
prize of life. And the fairest of thes
was at that very moment an objec
OF rivalry among his friends.
Maud Leander was the prettiest cir
In town and an heiress besides. !
, handsome fortune had been left her b,
; an eccentric maiden aunt on condition
, that she be engaged on her twenty-fiftl
birthday. Otherwise the money was t,
revert to some charity. An cas-.
enough condition to fulfill, one woult
And, indeed, sultors were not lacking
Many of them were merely fortune
hunters. Annoyed by the persistence
of these Maud had grown to dislike
them all, and had vowed not to MARI,
any one among them.
There was only one young man II
town Maud cared to think of as he
future husband. But Edward DaltO
kept aloof. The sense of his infirmtt
hung over him. And, moreover, tn
thought of her money kept him bacl
He detested fortune-hunting. Had sh
been poor as he was he might hav
asked her to share his growing pros
poets. The heiress could not ask. Ye
, he loved Maud and was miserable bs
! cause he would not tell her so.
: Maud OWNED his feelings from tn
shy Difference with which he AZ
, preached her, In grateful contrast
the tongue worship of her suitors. Sh
therefore made up her mind either
marry him or to let the money go an
3 remain a bachelormaid. But he woul
a not speak, and she dared not, for fea
a of seeming unmaidenly in his eye
a while the fatal birthday was fast al
e preaching. and score of young me
hung on her decision.
Dalton went unwillingly to tn
dance. 1t tormented him to see he
surrounded by that throng of flatterer
all unworthy of her, one of whol
= would soon carry off the prize.
/ never occurred to him that he stoo
a better chance than any of them.
2 AS he entered the room Maud WI
l. chatting with Stillwell. But she disei
l. gagged herself Immediately and bee
< oned to him.
l. TN so glad you've come" she sal
q cordially. "This first dance belongs
YOU" and off she went with him, lea
ing Stillwell to gaze after her as If h
rightful property had been snatcht
II from him. His frowns promised not
Is ing good to his friend. AS he watcht