Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-22
BIZ J.JEFFERsoN FARJEoN

plete with him." he said, 1T. of
~course-if the damn skunk Is dead
the business will have 20 be COM
pleted in another world. Good eve
ming, sir"
And the stranger turned and de-
parted. And was never seen in
Byford Moor again.
And. not long ~afterward. Brown
left Byford Moor himself. The To-
cal excitement that might have
held him in Byford Moor continued
for several days. Can earthquake Is
not an ordinary sort OF experience,
especially when It's victims number
an old man found beneath a house,
a tramp found in a ditch, and a
couple Of horsy looking strangers
found &C the foot OF q steep hill.)
Brown refused to be lured. also. by
certain other events Of u qrieter
nature that contributed to make the
sleepy village interesting. A stout
young man, for instance. made bla-
tant love to the daughter or a pro-
lessor in whose house ne was re-
operating from a wounded leg. The
professor, himself. spent consider
able time in meditation and in de-
stroying certain papers which, al
though they possessed financial
value, had grown suddenly distaste-
full to him, and had appeared In
his new philosophy better out of
the world than in 1t. And two
other young people, fellow guests
at the yellow Stag, took suspicious
" long tramps owe the moors. and
returned home In the evenings sus-
~piciously happy.
Yes, there were many things to
interest Brown in Byford Moor
after the military looking foreigner
had departed from IL, but Brown
resisted them. Perhaps he felt that
Byford Moor was no longer inter-
ested. In him. Perhaps he felt that
reality could be too exhausting, and
too sparing-in Its fruitS-and that
dreams. after all, were the only de-
pendable things for a lonely, hum
BILE man. Or perhaps he felt he
could not risk losing his Job.
Whatever his reasons, he left By
ford Moor deliberately and abrupt
", and only or two people in
the neiehbcrhood remembered that
he had ever been there. But Brown
remembered. And ne still reniem-
bers. Once q week he goes to q
restaurant in Kings Cross and or
ders a poached egg on toast. And.
while ne eats 1t. pertty eyes watch
him through soft mist5, and he ex-
periences the thrill or the unattain-
able. He watches covertly for adj
venture. too. VIII It. return one
day? It has not returned yet.
Maybe that is because, while
Brown eats his pcached egg on
toast. there l. no longer a poor
lab0rer to keep him company, three
hundred miles away. with bread
and cheese.
For some, imagination: for 9TH
ers, the reality. Two days after
the so-called earthquake. Joscelyn
Mariowe and Rupert Blake sat in
the garden OF Moor view-where,
with Charlie Ca-fax. they were in
stalled as temporary guests-talk-
ing for the hundredth time over
the amazing adventures that had
thrown them together. And. for
the hundredth time. Rupert found
himself on the brink Of a topic
that was even more amazing still.
or seemed 50. For when our Rf-
fections are engaged. we are always
amazed mt ourselves. forgetting
that we are merely responding To
the dictates OF normal nature.
And now its al over" Joscelyn
was saying. "we shall return to our
prossic pursuits. + suppose, and be-
come ordinary human beings
again.
Rotten prospect" murmured Ru-
rnr& NT1nrtf uras think xn1n