The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-05-30

out like Don Quixote and search for
vague adventures?'
Because you are a mani" she an
swered swiftly. "You have brain and I
soul too big for your life here. You |
eat and drink, and physically you -four
ish, but part of you sleeps because it |
is shut away from the world of real |
things. Don't you sometimes feel it |
in your very heart that life, as we were
meant to live it, can only be lived
among your fellow menu"
He looked over his shoulder, at the
little cluster of farm buildings and cot
tages, and the gray stone church.
SIT seems to me-" he declared simply,
"that the man who tries to live more
| than one life fails in both. There is
little cycle of life here, among our
thirty or forty souls, which reyOlves
around my brother and myself. A
passer-by may glance upward from the
road at our little hamlet, and wonder
what can ever happen in such an out
/ Of-the-way corner. l think the answer
\ is just what have told you. Love and
marriage, birth and death happen.
( THESE things make lire.
Her curiosity now had become
merged in an immense interest. She
laid her fingers lightly upon his arm.
'You speak for your people," she
said. "That is well. But you your
self?"
81 am one of them" he answered.
ga necessary part of them"
slow you deceive yourselfi The
time will come, before very long, when
you will come out into the world and
the sooner the better, think, Mr.. John
Strangewey, or you will grow like your
brother here among your granite hills"
He moved little uneasily. All the
time she was watching him. 1t seemed
to her that she could read the thoughts
which We're stirring in his brain.
"You would like to say, wouldn't
you" she went on, that this is use
full and an upright life? SO it may be,
but it is not wide enough or great
enough. Some day you will feel the
desire to climb. Promise me, will you.
that when you feel the impulse you
won't use all that obstinate will power
of yours to crush it? You will destroy
the best part of yourself, if you do.
You will give it a chance? Promise y
She held out her hand with a little
impulsive gesture. He took it in his
own, and held it steadfastly.
81 will remember" he promised.
Along the narrow streak of road,
from the southwark, they both watched
! the rapid approach of a large motor
D-t. &c,
, the front seat and one passenger
man-inside. 1t swung into the level
stretch beneath them, a fantasy of
gray and silver in the reflected sun
shine.
5 Louise had been leaning forward, her
head supported upon her hands. As
| the car slackened speed, she rose very
t slowly to her feet.
1.-THE chariot of deliverance!" she
murmured.
r at is the prince of Seyre," John re
marked, gazing down with a slight
$ frown upon his forehead.
: She nodded. They had started the
9 descent and she was walking in very
S leisurely fashion.
''The prince is a great friend Of
e NINE" she said. 81 had promised t.
spend last night, or, at any rate, some
portion of the evening, at Raynhan
Il castle on my way to London"
J. He summoned up courage TO ask he
S the question which had been on his lip
n more than once.
e "As your stay with us is so nearl!
Y over. won't you abandon your incog
u nito?"
e ''In the absence of your brother" sh
n answered, 81 will risk it. My name i
e Louise Maurel."
e 'Louise Maurel, the actress?" he re
,e peated wonderingly.
81 am She" Louise confessed. "Woul
l. your brother" she added, with it'll
l. grimace, "feel that he had given me
nights lodging under false pretenses.
lie John made no immediate reply. TIL
n world had turned topsyturvy with hin
" Louise Maurel, and a great friend o
1t the prince of Seyre! He walked o
mechanically until she turned an
lie looked at him.
TX "Well?"
lie ''I am sorry" he declared bluntly.
Mt "Why?" she asked, little startle
e. at his candor.
n. 81 am sorry, first of all, that you ar
is a friend of the prince of Seyre."
% 'And again, whyF
Because of his reputation in thes
a. parts.'
ne 'sWhat does that mean?" she aske'
I st am not a scandalmonger," job
e. replied dryly. 81 speak only of what
IN know. His estates near here are sy'
rs tematically neglected. He is the wor:
r. landlord in the country, and the mo:
INSCRIPTIONS. His tenants, both her
~ and in Westmoreland. have to wor
d, themselves to death TO provide hi
It's with the means of living disreputabl
ut life.'