The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-19

'owl'rhet-Neyer. Sleeps however
flth her very we'll You might make
a point OF u, And II you are interest.
cd IN the occult seiencc1, perhaps YOU
might explain 10 mo how. when she
was n pappooso, her parents could
understand her character and nature
well enough TO giyo her mamie that
ti's her 10 perfectly l notice the
same thing happens again and again
thru these Northern tribes Hut I'm
wandering off the point sndy. you
must know, speaks English and Is
second In command, What nhe says
goes, Get up aud do Il ON the jump.
You'll bo interested 60 know that
YOU are on one OF the supposedly un-
inhabited Islands Of the Skopiu group.
other island are grouped all around
you, making one big snow field when
tho ice closes down IN winter. I
could Give you almost your exact
longitude position. but Il wouldn't be
tho least good TO YOU. The popula.
tion consists OF US five people-aud
various bear, caribou. and such like.
Tho principal industry. as you will
ind out later. Is furs.
There Il no need 60 tell IN detail
how and why | came here-unlike
Calihan. ! am not native OF the
place. | hope you arc not no def.
clcnt "a 10 have failed 20 read Temp.
est ! find quite an analogy 20 our
present condition. Shakespeare Is a
sreRt delight on wintry nights. he
remains real, when most OF my other
slim stock 81 authors fades into air,
! Ike Merry Wives the best OF the
comedies. tho-becauSo Nc have such
rne fun with Fals,aff. OF the trng-
cdies ! like Macbeth the best aud
Lear. by far the worsti and It's a
curious paradox that didn't like the
ending OF the first and did like the
second, Macbeth and his lady
shouldn't have fallen. They were
people with purpose, and purpose
should be allowed 10 Triumph In art
as well as In life, In life. Macbeth
would have shipped of Maedutrs
head and left a distinguished line.
Lear, old and foolish. got Just what
was coming to hlm-only Il shouls.5s. =
have been dragged over five aeta
but l really must set down 10 es-
scntiAls, It's 10 long since I've talked
10 the outside world that I can't help
being EarrulouA To begin With
came here some years ago. not en-
ffratxs 80 t,,ss ,,,.s.. nHalaa ar ..a...zs.
no, even the devil comes to such a
he'll as this from his own choice.
There's always pressure from above
He paused again. hardly aware OF
tho Mortified gaze with which his
hearers regarded him. A startling
change had come over him when he
spoke again. His eyes looked red as
A weasels IN the shadowcd room: the
,anes OF hts voice were more sub
dued, yet throbhinE with passion.
II REMAINDER gray walls. long ago.
In Siberia" no went on slowly and
gravciy. II was not much more than
a boy. student at a great unlver
slty--and then there were gray wallis
Ia a Eray. snowHwep, land. and gray
cells with barred doors. aud men
standing ever on watch with loaded
rifles. and thousands os human cat
To In prison gaFh. IL wan almost
straight west of here. far beyond
Barring Sea: and sometimes ,nspsc-
Tors would come, stylish people like
yourselves. except that they were
bearded men Of PetroRrad and look
~ us thru the bars "a az animals IN
roo, but they never lnterfcrcd with
The way things were rum How
,ane here doesn't matter: what did.
and what didn't do. There found
but how much toll the human back
ian stand without breaking. one day
ike another. years without end !
knew what u was 10 havs task
master stand over me with n whip
a whip with many tails. with a aho,
and wire twisted into each. / can
show you my hack nov IL you don't
believe me. found out all these
Ihings. and right then there came a
Iesire to teach them TO some one else.
I was an enemy OF society. they said
SO I became an enemy Of society
IN reality. Right then learned