Gunnison news-champion., 1921-05-27

Einr .H 'Esr .--4--l bJ the aGTid
~ b.. RI f.r ...l .re Here Vas a
Eat a'.-5 She. a.- -fa one survivor
f. -...a aa had been. as the
Caz.~. Rad been Dr q croau.us
er-.7.-a. ot ~. Alameda fIIs. over.
lCc-.-F san Francisco Bay Van
Va. fa. ln.' vast s.mmcr pal
acs l' aae .-r-.-atad b. a park Of
= thousand arr.s Whal he plague
bruS. ugt Van Warden sent her there
Armed guards patrullcd the bourdar.
ies of The park and nothing entered
in th. aay o' provisions or even mail
matter that VAS not lrat fum.Fatrd
And jet did the pIaFg" enter. ELuE
the guards AT their pgsts tho sew
ants at their tasks aas....r aaay
the " EoI" army ~ r,'..a.r. .-. at
least all ,.ria ah hp d.a arr ... o. die
elsez here So o. zas that E,-'a
found hsrr.H 'h" -..r ..as G.-aou
In II" palace that Bad h..,mr char
mel house
"Eov 'h" Chauffeur bad been one
OF th' r'r.aG's that ran away Re
turn.ur ,aD m.uihs a,'era ard he dis
covered |,sta IN a u,,le summer pa,
yillon y here there had been no
deaths and ah'r~ she had established
hersef ~" aas brute She was
afraid and she ran away and hid
among tho trees. That .sht. on foot.
she foa INTO the mountalns-she.
whose tender feet and delicate body
had never known the hruise OF stones
nor tho scratch OF brcrs He fol-
lowed and that night he caught her.
He s'ruCk her. Do you understand!
He b"a, her with those terrible asts
OF his and made her his slave 1t
was sh" Hhu had to gather tho fire.
WOOD. build the fires, cook and do
all the degrading camp labor-ahe.
who had never performed menlal
act IN her life. These things he com
PEELED her 10 do, while he, a proper
savage. elected to lie around camp
and look on He did nothing. abso-
lutely nothing. except on occasion TO
hunt meat or catch FISH"
Good for Chauffeur" Hare-Lip com
mentcd in an undergone TO the other
boys. Il remember him before he died.
Ilo was a Corker. But he did things.
and he made things 20. You know, dad
married his daughter. an you ought
TO see the way he knocked the spots
outa dad The Chauffeur was 4 son
OF gun. He made US Kids stand
around. Even when he was croakin'
he reached out for me once an laid
my head open with that long stick he
kept always beside him"
Hare-Lip rubbed his bullet head
reminiscently. and the boys returned
to the old man. who was maundcring
ecstaiically about Vesta, the squaw Of
the founder OF the Chauffeur tribe
, And SO say to you that you can
not understand the awfulness Of the
situation. The Chauffeur was 4 serv-
ant, understand. servant And he
cringed. with bowed head TO such as
she. She was n lord OF life. both by
birth and by marriage, The destinies
of millions such as he she carried In
the hollow of her pink-white hand. And.
in the days before the plague. the
slightest contact with such as he
would have been pollution. oh. have
seen IL Once, | remember there was
n Mrs. Goldwin. wife OF one OF the
great magnates. 1t was on landing
stage. just as she was ernbarking in
her private dirigible, that she dropped
her parasol. a servant picked It up
and made the mistake OF handing II to
her-to her. one of the greatest royal
ladies of the land, She shrank back,
as though he were a leper. and indi-
Gated her secretary to receive it. Also.
she ordered her secretary to ascertain
the creatures name and to see that
he was Immediately discharged from
service. And such a woman was Vesta
Van Warden. And her the Chauffeur
beat and made his slave.
"-Bill-that was Il: Bill. the Chauf-
feur. That was his name. He. was
wretched. primitive man, wholly de-
void of the finer instincts and chival-
rous promptings of cultured soul. No.
there is no absolute justice, for to him
fell that wonder OF womanhood. yesta
Van Warden. The grievousness of
this you will never understand, my
grandsons; for you are yourselves
primitive little savages. unaware OF
aught else but savagery. Why should
Vesta not have been mine? I was q
man OF culture and refinement, q pro-
0essor In q great university. Even SO.
In the time before the plague. such
was her exalted position, she would
not have deigned to know that ex-
listed. Mark. then, the abysmal degra-
dation to which she fell at the hands
OF the Chauffeur. Nothing less than
the destruction Of all mankind had
made It possible that should know
her. look In her eyes. converse with
her. touch her hand-aye. and love her
and know thatGher feelings toward me
were very kindly. l have reason to
believe that she. even she. would have
loved me. there being no other man
IN the world except the Chauffeur.
Why. when It destroyed eight billions