The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-15
TRENT
tContluued Prom Yesterday
A Novel by w. l. George
oppyrtght. 1891. By Harper Bro,hsTa


you huntr'
Yea now and then, 80 down 20
stow-on tho Void Tor a run with tho
ueythrop"
"po YOU ! faid. eHcitsdly Per
hapa | know your frirndHy' Then l
hluahed I oughtnt 20 have said that
Maybe. 1 stay with Jack Hun
bury a. a rule. Perhaps you know
his wifoT''
NO Two heard the nAmo-
"Ohl Sometimes when they can't
have mo, ! put up AZ tho Spotted
PiE.'-
We talked about hunting for a nt-
he time Il was no nice. l felt like
20 long aso, But after time
thought the subject too risky. /
didn't want him 10 talk about mo
down there. and deliver another blow
at poor mamma 90 l tried 10 get
on 10 his own topic. which generally
gets men on nll others "How do you
find time 10 hunt7 LIANT AN archl-
toct tied up IN town."
y escape now qnd then. Mind you.
when I say escape I don't mean
don't like my work"
Must be Hwtully exciting
Il don't know. Ono makes some
thing That's good enough
How DO you mean, good enough ,"
lie looked family hostile. a. n an
noyed az not being understood.
Making something" DO said
Wen. that's an ones got 10 DO Ia
the world SEQ what I mtan1~
saw lie was rather interesting.
this family rough man lie went on
talking l found that no had been 10
Cambridge, that hs had had part.
ner. then set w on his own. because
h couldn't agree with another man.
But We grow intimate only when We
discovered mutual friend Rattor-
thwuito II seemed that Alec BrouEh
had planned several picture houses
Tor tho old man
"Of course, don't know him
really" A. he said that no looked
IKE a horFn that's going 10 shy. He
must have felt that. for be explained:
"one meets a lot OF people In my
trade. People are queer And one
needn't bother about them"
you mean you Two your own
| uteT"
well. yea One doesn't want %
take up with people. They distract
one" Then ho grew silent. and l
found great difficulty IN making him
explain | gathered In mBnglcd sen.
fences that BrouKh thought that n
man could DO good work only u be
remained lonely. "All this sort OF
thing he said. Jerking his head
toward tho sound Of Eramophone
In some room. 10 sort OF dihaIpatea
| you You know"
TIN afraid don't All my life Il
dissipation. suppose
May b. tho best way for you
/ Kidding himself % tho sheep dog
which he placed upon lts back 20 tina,
be could tickle It's chest You like
doEaT-
don't know why. but somshov
the presence Of Alec BrouEh provided
me that day and the noxt with a csr.
tain reinsurance. He had the volc,
OF university and tho manners ot
plowboyi tho contrast was rather
pleasing That afternoon. after tea
10 eamo siding up 20 mo and un,
Eraciously remarked that II liked
he'd show mo his plans 20 secure IN,
north wing, II I thought ! could uu,
dsrsthnd them 80. ncttlcd. went q
the Workshop hs had set up In th'
damaged quarter. and was showr
those wearisoms plans that no WON
an In the world can grasp, or wants
70 grasp.
| He embarked into fluctuations tina
slucidstsd nothing. He summed up
Mira guin, you might havo mad
an architect
From architecture We went on 4
art in general. He knew many thing
I'd never heard Of. but be WINS queer
m II afraid 20 boast On my remark
Ing that he seemed 20 know nil tn
foreign literature. he almost snRrlcd
lot course don't and don't want 10
haven't time to be stirred up. Tho,
talk Of Russian revolutions comlni
out Of tho pnoplel Revolutions comt
ont Of books, All tho French Tlbcr
allsm Of IS. you1l ind It In stondha
20 years before" Then no Erinned
But I'm not suro that tho blEgcs
revolution wasn't the invention OF tn
bathroom. People talk Of kings. an
socialism. and all that, but ! ga,
baths and hrmor-bright stoves
That's how you change the mentallt.
OF people"
He must have felt that I under
stood that. for again in the evening
he singled me out. while Lord Alfre,
and three others played bridge, AM
Julian and Dick" larkcd in tho cor
ridors- AZ we played billiards.
think became more woman TO him
for found his eyes resting upoi
me seriously while no chalkcd hi
cue. He opened HIS mouth to speal,
changed his mind. He disturbed me-
and ] began TO think him rRthc
| rr,od -Innktnty fpr HIN nycs yyere ate /, a,