The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-03
Of Uinter Comes
BY A. S. M. HUTCHINSON


would be an open secret. but nothing
would be said | should be received
everywhere. But I'm thought 20
have brought ono woman into my
house and I'm banned. I'm unapeak.
able. Forty. flagrantly. outside, and
I'm still a received member OF so.
eiety. People are SORRY for my wife.
or pretend TO be, but I'm stln all
right. a bit OF n rake. you know. but
decent enough chap. lgpt l take
pity ON one poor girl because she
clings TO her motherhood altho she's
unmarried. and I'm beyond tho pale,
I'm unspcakable. AmaEing. DO you
say It's not absolutely astoundingf
Hapgood. look hcre. It's this
This Is what I've found You can
do the shocking things. and II can
be known you do the snocising things
But you mustn't be seen doing. them.
You can beat your wifc. and u can
be known among your friends that
you beat your wife. But you mustn't
be seen beating her. You mustn't
beat her In the street or in your
neighbor's garden. You can drink.
and II can be known you drink. but
You mustn't be seen drunk.
"'Do YOU see. Hapgoodf DO you
sect Tho conventions are all right.
moral. sound. excellent. admirable.
but TO save their own face there's
a blind side TO them. n shuteye side.
Keep that side OF them and you're
all right. They'll let yeu alone.
They'll pretend they don't SEQ you
But come out and stand In front OF
them and they'll devour you. They'll
smash and grind and devour you.
Hapgood. They're devouring me.
That's where they've got me In
their Jaws, Hapgood. and where
they've got Effic In their Jaws ~
Just precisely again on a blind. shut.
sge side. They're Nightly based
they're absolutely just. you can't
gainsay them. but 60 save their face.
again. they're indomitably blind and
deaf TO the hidcous crucities In their
application. They mean well. They
cause the most frtEhtfui suffering.
the most frightful tragedies. but they
won't look at them. they won't think
OF them. they won't speak Of them;
they mean well =
"Oid Sabre put his head In his
hands. He might have been praying
lie looked 10 me sort OF physically
wrestling with what no called tho
Jaws that had got him and had go,
her. lie looked up at me and he
said. Hapgood this L. whore Nv. got
60. This Is where I am. Hspsood.
lies all wrong. stupid. cruel. blum
derinx. but ~ means wrli. We've
shaped II 20 Fit us al we think We
ought 90 live and II means we'll
Means weii' My God. Hapgood. the
most terrible. the most lamentable
seif.confcnsion that ears can hear
Il meant We'll" Some frightful blum.
der committed. some irr-rarnble
harm Inflicted. and that pi,eous.
heart.broken. heart.breaking. mad.
dening. infurlating excuse. Il meant
we'll I meant we'll. Why didn't some
one tell mer' Life means well. Hap
good. IL does mean well. IL only
wants some one 20 tell II where it's
wrong. where it's biundering. where
us just missing. and why it's just
missing. all u means 10 do
with that no went back 10 ali
that stuff told you he told me when
I was down with him last month
that stuff about the need for a new
revelation suited 20 mems minds TO
day. tho need for new light. can't
tell you all that--lt's not in my linz,
that sort OF talk. Hut he said. his
face all pink under his skin. he said.
'Hapgood. III tell you a thing. I've
got the secret. I've got the key to
IN. riddle that's been ptfzxilng mo all
my life. Two got the new revelation
In terms good enough for me 20 un-
ders,and. Light. more Hight. Here
II Is: God ls--love- Not this. that.
nor tho other that tn. intelligence
revolts at. and puts aside. and goes
away. and goes on hunEsring. hun
gering and unsatisfied. nothing like
that; but just this; plain for child.
clear as daylight for grown intelii-
gcnec: God l---iove. Listen 20 this.
Hapgood: He that dwclleth In love
dwelleth in God and God in him: for
God Is love" Ecstasy. Hapxood. &C
etasyl II explains everything TO me.
can fFItCt MI 'tUe ufyHffIffe 10
terms Of that One OF these daya.
perhaps one Of thesc days. III be
able TO write u and tell people
Il tell you. old man. you can think
vha; you like about II. but old Sabre.
when he was telling me that. was a
pretty flrst-class advertisement for
his own revelation. He'd found II
all right. The look on him was
nearer the divine than anything Two
ever come near seeing. II certainly
was
go you rec that was the morning
part Of this that I'm telling you.
what I called the first part. and u
was not too bad. He'd been thru. he
was going thru some pretty fierce
things. but he was holding up under
them. on. some pretty fierce things.
I haven't told you half. One thing
that hit him hard az he could bear
was that that old pal Of his. Fungus
or Fargus. Fargus AZ matter Of
fact. that old chap fell dying and did
die--knooked out by pneumonia spe-
cial constabiing - and those dashed
ramplng great daughters OF his