Evening star., 1922-01-29

He wouldn't let her speak. He
rushed on precipitateiy.
I'VE are first going up to the house
to get your typewriting machine. and
we will bring 1t back here and hurl
it as far as we can of this cltf. I
want to see the splash! l want to
hear it smash when it hits that rock.
1t has been my worst enemy. You
have been it's slave: now I am going
to be your slave. You have only to
rub the lamp ,and things will happen.
And because I've told you nothing
about myself. you mustn't think that
the money that helps to make them
happen is tainted 1t isn't. Nor am
nor my father nor my fathers
father. ! am asking you to marry a
perfectly respectable young man. And
when you do
Again he rushed on inpetuously:
I'VE will sail away across that ocean
to wherever you will take me. To
Ceylon and Toxic and San Francisco,
to Naples and New York, to Greece
and Athens. They are all near. They
are all yours. Will you accept them
and me-" He smiled appealingly, but
most miserably. For in her eyes he
had read, even as he spoke. her re-
fusal of himself. When he ceased
speaking the girl answered.:
IF l say that what you tell me
makes me proud. am saying too lit
tie. But what you ask-what you
suggest-is impossible"
You don't like me?" said Heming-
way.
Il like you very much." returned
the girl. "and IL don't seem unhappy
that it can't be 1t is because always
have known it can't bel cannot tell
you the reason" she said, because
it does not concern myself"
else," pleaded Hemingway. that does
not frighten me at all. For you." he
boasted, "I would go down into the
grave as deep as any man. ! know
what 1 offer. know I love y,u as
no other man"
The girl backed away from him as
though he had struck her. "Tol must
not say that" she commanded. 1T is
final! I cannot marry-you or any one
IL nave promised. I am not Free"
Nothing in the world is final" re-
turned Hemingway sharply, Except
DEATH" He raised his hat, and, as
though to leave her. moved away. He
felt that for the present to continue
might lose him the chance to fight
again. But to deliver an ultimatum
he turned back.
"As long as you are alive and am
alive" he told her, "all things are
possible. I didn't give up hope. I
don't give up you"
The girl exclaimed with a gesture
Of despair:
you won't understand that I am
speaking the truth. You are right
that things can change in the future,
but nothing can change the past.
Can't you understand that?"
What do I care for the past cried
the young man scornfully. y know
only one thing two things-that I
love you, and that, until you love me,
1 am going to make your life hell!'
For an instant she let him clasp
, her hands in both Of his.
Something in her face caused his
heart to leap. But he was too wise
to speak.
"She is engaged to Fearing" he
told himself "She has promised to
marry Fearing. She thinks that 1t is
too late to consider another mani.
The prospect Of fight for the woman
he loved thrilled him greatly.
"I'll show her it's not too late" he
promised himself. "I'll show her
which of US is the man to make her
happy. And II am not the man TIL
take the first outbound steamer and
trouble them no more. But before
that happens" he also promised him
self, Fearing must show he is the
better man."
HEMINGwAY At the sunset hour
IL betook himself to the consulate.
At that hour it had become his Gus.
tom, to visit his fellow -countryman
and with him share the gossip Of the
day and such a. cocktail as only a
fellow -countryman could compose.
Later he was to dine at the house OF
the Ivory Company, and, as his heart
never ceased telling him, Mrs. Adair