The Glenwood post., 1924-02-28

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pans servttors endure upon earth.
where they who were once lords Of the
Vendish have now no power remaining
save to creep humbly as Insects; the
use Of their wings Is denied them, the
charmed stone holds them immutably.
Ohio. but wife, there is a cantrap
which would free them, a cantrap
which nobody has as yet discovered,
and to their releaser will be granted
whatever his will may DESIRE"
"This is some more Of your stuff and
nonsense, out Of old fairy tales, where
everybody gets three wishes, and no
good out Of any Of them"
mo, my love, because shall put
them to quite practical uses. For you
must know that when / have found
out the cantrap which will release the
bees of Toupan-"
Gisele showed plainly that his fool
ishness did not concern her. She
sighed, and hung the sword In its ac-
customed place. "Oh, but I am weary
Of this endless wizardryr
"Then, wife," says Miramon, ''then
why are you perpetually meddling
with what you do not understandr'
II think" said Ninzian, at once, for
this demon. too, was married, II think
that had best be going"
But Gisele's attention was reserved
for her husband. 81 meddle, as you SO
very politely call it, because you have
no sense of what is right and proper,
and no sense of morals, and no sense
of expediency, and in fact, no sense
at ALL"
Miramon said, Now, dearest-i
Sir Ninzian was hastily picking up his
hat. But Gisele continued, with that
resistless and devastating onflow which
is peculiar to tidal waves and the
tongue of her who speaks for her hus-
bands own good.
"Women everywhere have hard
time of it, but in particular do 1 pity
the woman that is married to one of
you moonstruck artists. She has not
half husband, she has but the tend
ing Of baby with long legs"
"It Is so much later than thought,
that really now" observed Ninzian,
ineffectively.
And 1 might have had an earl,
or well-thought-of-baron, who would
have had the decency to remember our
anniversary and my birthday, and in
any event would never have been In
the house twentyfour hours a day.
Instead here l am tied to muddle-
head who fritters away his time con-
triving dreams that nobody cares about
one way or the other. Yet If only you
iness could put up with the inconven-
ience Of having you underfoot every
moment. People need dreams to help
them through the night, and nobody
enjoys really good dream more than
II do when / have time for 1t, with the
million and one things that are put
upon me. But dreams ought to be
wholesome, they ought to point an up
lifting moral, and certainly they ought
not to be about incomprehenslble thin
nonsense that nobody can halfway un-
derstand. They ought, In other words.
to make you feel that the world Is
pretty good sort Of place after all
"But, wife, 1 am sure that 1t is,"
says Miramon, mildly.
'Then the more shame to you and
the very least you can do is to keep
such morbid notions to yourself, and
not be upsetting other peoples repose
with them"
II employ my natural gift, l express
myself and none other. The rosebush
does not put forth wheat, nor fax
either" returned the wizard, with a
tired shrug. "In fine, what would you
havew
"Oh, great deal 1t means to you
what l preferl But II I had my wish
your silly dream making would be
taken away from you SO that we might
live sensibly."
Now as she spoke Gisele slapped
viclously at the black cross. And a
thing happened to behold which would
have astonished the magi and the en-
chanters who had given over centuries
to searching for the cantrap which
would release the bees Of Toupan. For
now without any exercise Of magic
the securing rag swept from the stone
one Of these insects. Koshchei, who
made all things as they are. had de-
creed, they report, that these bright
perils could be freed only in the most
obvious way, because he knew this
would be the last method attempted
by any learned persons.
Now for an instant the walls Of the
ivory tower were a-quiver like blown
wells. And the bee passed giitteringly
to the window, and through the clear
glass Of the closed window, leaving a
small round hole there a. the creature
went to Join its seven fellows In the
Pleiades.
Toupan, afloat in the void. Enclosed
his ancient unappeasable eyes; and
Jacy returned to his aforetime estate
in the moon. and all plants and trees
everywhere were withered, and the
sea also lost its greenness and there
were no more emeralds. And the High