The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-06
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> SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOrIE
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you IS crying gu, for heroic express.
sion. Now. when you described the
W!Ean coal explosion last month.
could you not have gone down and
helped those people. In spite Of the
choke-damp1''
Il did"
You never said So
There was nothing worth buck
ing about"
Il didn't know" She looked at me
with rather more interest. That was
brave OF you"
II had TO- n you want 10 writo
good copy. you must be where tho
things are"
what prosaic motivci II seems
to take all tho romance out OF H.
But stiil. whatever your motive. I
am glad that you went down that
mine" sho gave me her hand. but
with such sweetness and dignity that
I could only stoop and kiss H. II
dare say am merely foolish
woman with a young girls faneieE,
And yet II is so real with me. 70
entirely part Of my very sell. that 7
cannot help acting upon IT, IL 7
marry. do want to marry famous
mani
WHY should you not7" cried. 1T
IS women like you who brace men
up. Give me chance. and SEQ II
will take IT. Besides. as YOU say.
men ought TO make their own
chances and not wait until they are
given. Look at cIive--just n clerk
and he conquered India! BY George!
I'll do something in the world YETI
She laughed at my sudden Irish
efferverscsnce. why not?" she said.
you have everything o man could
have youth, health, strength. cduca
ton, energy. / was sorry you spoke.
And now am glad 80 glad-if IL
wakeus these thoughts in you!'
And II I do
Her dear hand rested Ike warm
velvet upon my lips. Not another
word. sir! You should have been at
/ the office for evening duty half an
I hour ago; only hadn't tho heart TO
remind you. Some day, perhaps,
when you have won your place In tho
I world, we shall talk u over again"
And so II was that found my
/ self that foggy November evening
pursuing the Camberwell train with
my heart glowing within me, and
with the eager determination that not
another day should clapso before
I should find some deed which was
worthy Of my lady. But who-who
/ I'm all this wide world could ever have
I imagined the incredible shape which
I that deed was to take. or the strange
steps by which was led to the doing
OF III
And. after all. this opening chapter
I will seem TO tho reader to have moth
| ing 10 do with my narrative; and yet
there would have been no narrative
without II. for It is only when n mar
goes out into the world with tho
Thought that there arc herolBms nj
| round him. and with the desire al
alive in his heart TO follow any which
may come within sight Of him, that
| he breaks away as ] did from the liff
he knows. and ventures forth into
the wonderful mystic twilight lane
where lie the great adventures hnt
the great rewards. Behold me, then
Mt the office OF the Daily Gazette, or
the staff Of which I was u most In
| significant unit. with the settled dc
| termination that very night, II pos
sible. TO find tho quest which SHOULD
DO worthy OF my Glndysl Was II
hardness. was It selfishness, that sh'
should ask mo TO risk my life for hei
own Rlorificatloh7 Such thoughts
may come TO msddlc age; but nove'
10 ardent three-and.twenty In the
fever OF his first love.
Continued In Our Next lssuc)