The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-10-09

haps, II It should be the gentleman who
was with her-the gentleman with the
Quick dark eyes and the lazy voice who
had called him a Dante? But NOT
Even that was unthinkable! He must
see her alone. Already he knew how
to wait for what he wanted. He would
wait a day, two days, a week, but he
would see her as he wished.
When he emerged from the old Cen
tral station that morning he knew tho
weather was playing for him Surely
such a day as this must bring out even
the children of this cold haunted city!
He walked the crowded streets with
a pleasure he had not anticipated, be-
ing still of the difference in
any place whether one sees it hungry
or full fed. He looked at the shops,
the hotels, the passersby with an agree
able sens of equality with them all.
Once he was halted by a row of peo-
pie standing in stolid patience, a hui
man line that reached across the side
walk into the lobby Of a theater, where
1t coiled upon itself to accommodate
more people who moved in slow pro-
gression toward the ticket office. G1anc-
ing up at the wall, David saw it waa
covered by an immense poster dis,
playing the one word: "Vasili." The
isolated name brought back to him
vague recollections. 1t had covered
walls and fences beneath which he had
found shelter before he went away
from the city on the Maya Girl His
companions Of the streets had picked
up the name with gamin facility; he
remembered they had said vasih was
the greatest dancer living.
Matinee today?" he asked of a man
near him 1t enchanted his boyish van
ity to think that he was able to buy.
a ticket II he chose.
The other nodded.
Last appearance before he salts for
Europe" he said, with q vicarious red
ish Of SO much celebrity. They're
paying $40 a seat, I heard, and IS for
standing Dom He's giving a new bal
let written for him. Oriental piece!"
David turned back to gaze at tho
waiting people. He respected every
one who had succeeded magniflcentfy;
as he himself meant to succeed!
There was q portrait poster tn the
lobby, of which he could just glimpse
the genera effect from where he stood.
And suddenly he was seized with n
Of those vivid reco1lectons Of trifes
which are SO strangely impressed upon
childhood He remembered that there
had been such a poster upon the door
Of the wretched tenement in whose
cellar he had contuved a refuge for
himself: The portrait Of a. slender,
straight man wrapped in a richly
furred overcoat The little David Noel,
had p~assionately env1ed him the pos
session Of that coat-not the great;
| vasili's fame OF wealth, but his scoat!.
q anything could have Intensified.
hts gratitude to the baby Constance.
it would have been that remembrance
OF past misery. David, sobered beyond
thoughts Of vanity OF theatera, hu1-
ried IN hts way.
Opposite the house on Madison ave-
nue he took his stand beside one of
the few trees progress had left The
house looked just tine same; Just as
immaculate and correct with It's pol
ished window paIes that always ap-
peared to have just been washed, its
cleaning o fittings. its steps and
rails upon which CRIME never seemed.
to settle.
He noticed here a quality apart from,
cv, hA<,pa&4~f4 1p~1,rrv ~~@ vo@~kNlI-
added a requisite to his plans: cleanli-'
ness and sumptuosness were not
enough, q house must also possess or
der within and without He was glad
to have seen that fact SO early. :
The aquarium was stiil in the win
low; the so!ac:;A e..4e-.nsea and fam
tastically tailed, moved like flashes Of
sun through their submarine groves of
delicate green David, who a seen,
1.-The marvellous hues and forms Of tropi-l
cal under sea life, eyed, the captives,
with lofty contempt They were hers,
no doubt He remembered her 2dmira-
ton Of them. He must harpe fountains
when he built his house.
He leaned there against the tree an
hour, watching the life Of the avenue,
and the windows Of the house. Surely
i she must come out some time!
But she did not; she came in. About
2 o'clock a carriage trotted up to the
curb and halted. The footman de-.
scended, opened the coupe door. and a
little figure sprang out David start
| ed forward. The carriage drove on at
once to his relief, leaving him all he
desired. She was running up h steps
when he boldly stopped her.
Excuse me-" he said. I have to
tell you something. Do, you remember
me?"
The little girl studied him. arrested
in her dancing flight upward. Five
years may be a long space, or a very
short one, and surely the five years
from IL to 16 are longer years than
those from 5. to To- At 16 a boy may
have become a man. but a child Of
10 is surely a child. There was little
RI recoli mo hovr of five vaar hofore