Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-03
Go on With the Gtcry

ltIlous' 10 you know sometimes
I've seen drift like that, and I'VE felt
Oh, | don't know But I've put out a
stick and drawn in piece Of wood
Just as the stuff was moving or Just
to save 1t being carried away into.
well, into that, you know"
Have you, NOna?'
She answered. "Du you think that's
what life is, Marko?"
IT'S not unlike" ne said And he
added. Except about someone com.
ing along with a site, and drawing
bit into safety. I'm not sure about
that Perhaps that's what were all
looking for"
lie suddenly realized that ne was
pack precisely at the thoughts his.
mind had taken up on the morning
he had met her, But with a degree
more OF Illumination Two feelings
came into HRS mind. the second hard
upon the other and overriding il. 40
a fierce horseman might catch and
override one pursued. He said. ITS
rather Jolly to have someone that
can see ideas like that" And then
the overrding, and he said with as.
tonishing roughness, But YOU Won
aren't fotsam! How can you be not.
sam-the life you've takon?"
And, 10, if he had struck hcr. ana
she been bound, defcnscloss, aad
with her eyes cntreatng not to be
struck again, she could not deeper
nave entreated him than in the glance
she ileetcd from her eyes, the culver
of her lids that first released. then
veilcd It.
1t stopped his words. 1t caught his
throat
He got up quickly Il say. Mona
never mind about thinking. I'll tell
YOU what's been doing Rotten. Han.
pehed gust after | met you The other
day"
THE dust on these roads" She
SAID. She touched her eyes with her
handkerchief "What, Marko?"
Wei, old Fortune promised to take
me into partnership about an ace
ago"
Mako, he ought to have done i'll
an age ago. What's there rotten
about that Her voice and hor air
were as gay as when she had entered
The rotten thing is that he's
turned it down. At least practically
has He He told her of the
Twyning and Fortune incident
Pretty rotten Of old Fortune. don't
YOU Think"
odd fiend," said Mona, "Old trout
SABRE laughed. Good work. trout.
The men here all say he's like
whale. They call him JONAH" and
he told her why.
She laughed gaily "Marko, How
disgusting you are! But I'm sorry, 7
am Poor old Marko or course
1t doesn't matter "A h0rsnradisb what
an old trout like that thinks about
your work. but it does matter. doesn't
it? know how YOU feel.
She was at the shelves, scanning
the books. Her fond her almost
teider sympathy made him, too. feel
mat 1t was rather fine. Her lipht
verbs in her high, clear tone voiced
exactly his feelings towards the
books, Talking with her was. IN tho
reception and return Of his thoughts.
nearer to reading book that de.
hshted MIN than to anything eles
with which he could COMPARE if
Ihere was the same INTERCHANGE or
IDEAS, not necessarily expressed. the
same creation ftnd play of fIcy,
imagined, not stated.
".
She sat briskly forward in the big
armchair in which she faced him.
making of the motion q movement an
though throwing aside turn the con.
versation bad taken. "Wen. go on.
Marko. I'm not going to let you stog
talking yet. ! love that about how
people get success noWadaG. It's Jolly
true | never thought of il before.
Yes, you're still terribly thinky ner.
son, Marko. Go on. Think some more.
Out loud"
Caressing drawing him on-iust as
of old
He said thoughtfully, Il tell you a
thing ] often think lot about,
Mona, You being here like this puts
1t in my mind. Conversations"
She smiled teasingly. "Ah, poor Mar
ko | knew you'd simply hate it, my
coming like this. Does it seem ter
rtbly unconventional, improper. to you
shut up with me in your Officer"
He shook his head 1T seems very
nice. That's all it seems. Look here.
Mona, this really is rather interest.
ing"
Yes" she said. yes"
Just 50 he used to bring ideas to
her; just so, with "Yes-yes," she
used to receive them.
Rut bo uaut StXIrl,,.
ton, You know it's the most mysteri-
GUS, extraordinary thing. It's a code
society has built up to protect itself
and to govern itself, and when YOU go
into it It's the most marvellous code
: that ever was invented All sorts of
things that the law doesn't give. and
couldn't give. our conventions shOSp
in on us in the most amazing way.
And all probably originated by lot