The daily Alaskan., 1921-07-28
Illustrated by IRWIN MYERS Copyright by George H. Dorau Co.

ne NH.%..tEaEe- H-l MaFA WI N'---N back. I'll need you just as before"
 Isohe' said:
 "Good-by. John. Re at the landing when We return. YouW be the first person ! want to see"
 ! ought not 10 have been so discon- so'ate. These were fair Porents, but a n0rtent does little to console a loss. stood on the little dock and watched the yachT % down the river. And when it had disappeared below the point Of land south Of The pool, all the world was sod and life had no pros poets to give it value
 Charles drove me to the city. I was a bit of human drifrwood for a week. l. did not matter that they were com Ing back. They were gone; that was the disaster. It was in the present; the future is too ambiguous to- couso- latfnn or comfort
 J went through a winter Of ersa-'c distress. trying to be efficient in my discharge of professional dutIes for Doctor Er0wDeu and Co he profess. on- ally composed in aspect and mind had an anrutshed delight In my eZperl- ercos. Ny loneliness was my most acute pain and my most cherished comfort I did not want 10 profane The emotional solemnity Of so much unIaunfDcSs by suh5cctIng it frequent Iy 70 -he haual touch of soc3ahle life in tha ordinary. Ic was a joy to be profoundly unhappy,
 ! had letters from the enchanted party In the South. Mrs. Sidney wrote twice week wfrh great affection. MT. Sidney once a week dictated t0 Jed a letter. cordial and jocuIar, for me Oc- cas.nraIIy Jed added sheet for him self, kindly or rasDInE as he mood had l.m at the time.
 ISohcI also wrote. bur with the great c~. ccce1rciry. While they were at Palm Beach l had a letter a day from her for four days. Then I had none for two weeks, although they remained at Palm Beach. She made che post man a t-aEaGian for me.
 In one letter this vi-CinaI imp wrote as # ] were her lover. and that letter was as the song of the meadow lark from a snow-Cove-ed field iB March, as the oaor Of llacS on a warm night h May.
 The SIdncys went Co the Bahamas but did not remain there. They wrote ma that NIT. Sidney was well Doctor Browne. was convinced that an were the better. himself included. for rhelt experiment and that Mir. Stdney's con. 5.r0n would permit a longer voyage ID his pleasant circumstances. Conse Quau,Ey they were going on to South America. AIr. Sidney wanted to revisit Ngateyt6co.
 From Montoviaeo ! had a letter from -ad t- a different tone from his sarcas- rc banter and haunting. ] thought it was tho letter Of a man who had sui re~a5 a shock. I could not say why ] thought SD. but ! thought something had disturbed him. i gathered the idea .nar something had changed Jed's v.aw Of life.
 Early .u March came letters saying ,ha. .y folks shortly would be on thelr way home. t0 arrive after our unce- tain spring had resolved itself securely info weather safe for a feeble man who had accustomed himself 70 luxurious temperatures. ! then felt lnvo-orted as by a promise Jn March or hcPatiCa My winter was breaking up.
 met an oId-ume aCquaintancA a don.ts, who had been several years h Sar.h America His name was AIcott Henry A.not-
 A-r.t and ] never had been Intimate OF .~g...am.re. hu, We greeted each o'..- with .-'.r. was lonesome. Al cnrr ..g r.ve hccn There IS a lone sm.....-s associated w.,h a return tO a n.... which has forgotten you and receives you 0s a1 alien.
 We had dinner together and enjoyed ou~ meeting. There was furtfvely, at dinner reminiscent amatIveneSs in his conversation. It suggested that he wo> Smrk.aG over exploits which he might relate lf his restraints were broken down
 He had a talent for merely CarDa' stories. They gained additional car- na#-y .0 his telling Of them. must have heoa gwen the record of half the amwarg experiences or SouJh America for TWO years. Alcort told them with guSro The one that fascinated me he did not emphasize more than the oth- CTS. As hn told these stories he was trying to y.uyey the charm or seT-ad- venture iu Latin America thins he wanted. by other instances, to suggest