Evening star., 1923-03-27

propose is this: [ have a house up
town. It's nothing much in the way
of house, but it will do. The people
who occupy it have been waiting &c
move into an apartment and will give
IL up on short notice. ] can arrange
TO have them out in six weeks if you
say the word. The rent is not large
only SO month-and You needn't
bother about paying me until you're
ready. I've got enough"
couldn't let you do this-I
Il shall consider your acquiescence
The measure of our friendship" he
cut in gravely.
e Where you give all and I give
nothing?' she murmured.
He laughed softly. You can't meas
There are things that can't be bought
or sold. They're prizes only won by
deserving effort. ! attract your at
tention by falling from i horse but L
only hold it by getting on Again.
You see. if hadn't broken my arm
j should never have known how sorry
YOU could he. That was really worth
discovering. but it wasn't information
that l could have bought, except at
the cost of my broken arm and youT'
own lacerated feelings. These are
prices rather higher than the dollar
mark. because they have 20 do with
the things OF the spirit"
As she was still silent he comnuned
WIKI his pipe for Il moment. IF YOU
care for my friendship enough 70 test
rs value, now is your time. You are, l
think. the one girl friend l have ever
hau in my life. When I first met YOU
! was headed straight for the oblivion
o. scientific distractions. At the age
al thirty ! was already a kind of soul
less thinking machine. absorbed in the
history of the material and intellectual
development Of man, quite foreetfuI
mat there might be some interest-a
SClenuf1c as Well as n personal interest
in the results of that development.
You aroused my curiosity. You puzzled
me- ana Yet, somehow l couldn't believe
mat any one so vital as you were could
be unlmportant in the cosmic scheme,
rCutnStances nave confirmed that i'm
1,reSslon. L think I disliked you a great
oeal at first. You confronted me with
Ii paced superiority of worldiness which
made my mental attainments Of no ac-
count whateNtr---"
please. RameseS-"
David Sangree laugh, j.
lF You don't mind Cherry-it gives
Nc a pleasure to recall the carly.
stages OF our strange acquaintance-
Nheh YOU unwrapped the bandages
from RameseS the Second. took him
"Ht Of his SarcophaguS, ard restored
h'm TO life. That's the sort of a re-
INCARNATION that's really worth while
Jon | YOU recognize Your handiwork y
- you didn't think I'd grown into a
more or less human sort Of a creature
YOU wouldn't have dreamed Of giving
~" your condolences. am human
ouVe made me SO. I feel your trou-
hleS as though they We're NV own T
now youll succeed. but YOU need n
heiping hand right now through the
worst OF q mess. and I'm going TO
CIV" It to YOU. 1t isn't as though I
were denying myself anything in help
ing you. I'm not. I've never spent NV
7ncnme-except this winter when | went
ABOUT a !lttle-and you know how lit
tie that means 10 me, I've got every
thing j want-everything. And it
VIII make me very happy to feel that
M doing something for YOU The
money is rottlng in a bank. Nobody
need know where YOU get it Come
row. Cherry, say YOU Will, won't YOU?
foull make me very Happy
He paused and stared al her, for a
slight sound had come from her bent
head. and. as he looked. single tear
glinted in the lamplight. He took a
pace forward and bent over her awk-
Nardly
Cherry" he muttered. don't"
1t startled him u little that his offer
should have had this effect upon her.
= IT of mattar-Of-fact which should set
her at her ease. He knew that what
he proposed was unusual. but then so
was the quality Of their friendship,
which, upon his own part had never
given her the slightest suggestion of
The sentimental He Knew as though
~he had told him. that had she thought
him in the least degree in love with
her she would have hesitated long
before paying this visit at night to
his bachelor apartment, where she
had emptied her heart to him of its
troubles. He was diSmayed at the
thought that she might have read his
mind. for this discovery, as he knew.
would bring an end to the frankness
Of her regard. Had she not told him
many times that she liked to be with
him because he was of the sort that
lowering over her bent figure, his fin
her shoulder for fear that something
in their touch which hadn't been in
his voice would warn her of the depth
of his emotion. Her position, too,
here alone with him in his rooms, was
delicate enough without the hazard
of undue sentiment. So he straight
ened and knocked his pipe out on the
1learth, while his voice, with no effort,
found it's most dispassionate tones.
"Oh, say, Cherry don't cry, please.
There's nothing to cry about, you
know"
Il didn't come here for th-that t
kind of help, Rameses," she gasped.
IL Just came because / had to tell
somebody. II just wanted you to
say wh-what you did say--about not
marrying John Chichester-that was