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THAT ARE I
I Br V. H. LANCASTER |
(Uopyi'lO it. 1001. by D.illy Story fub. Cu.)
MADISON, coming ill abruptly, had
asked Daisy lor a title and whin
hue pointed silently to tue last lines ol
lewis" "Highway" he snapped on his
glasses, frowning slightly as he read:
"But he our haven near or far we put
our trust in things that are."
"The things that are," she repeated,
Significantly.
"You have been thinking it over! To
be a deep thing or whimsical?"
"Rather deep—earnest, at any rate."
"To pivot on a mail or a woman?"
"Woman. But you had better pivot it
on a man.for you don't know a thing
xi the world about v.omen."
"Nothing; except that there i.s no
telling from what point of view a woman
will approach an issue."
"The things that are. are. hard on a
woman," ho muttered, thoughtfully.
"Hut a man has greater reverence for
them."
Madison studied the poem, by his
expression neither accepting nor reject
ing her assertion. He looked tired - and
lie was. But, Indian like, had taken up
♦ tiis additional task to convince his flag
ging energies that they were not so near
ly spent as they seemed to be. Had
taken it up and carried it across the hali
to Daisy Dunbar's den. Being wont to
come to her because she had enough
common sense to take a man in his
mood. Not many women had that much,
he fancied. Also he had on several oc- .
ea.-ions found this practical young per-;
son a very present help in a rush. Pros- !
ent!y hesuiil; hi:; lean jaws into his lean ,
palms and said, .-till staring at the poem |
out before him: "1 need not only J
« title, but a fir-t line and a last line, j
and a plot ."
"You have your !a.-t line in the quota
tion."
"Possibly VVe pul cur trust in things
thai arc.' Yes."
"You have your first line in the (imita
tion."
Madison looked dubious, his tired
mind not yet reaching to the spring of
hers.
"Why, of course yon have. 'A first
line should cuteh the attention.' What
more strikingly beautiful, or beauti
fully striking than And slowly
she read the lines upside down:
"Co, pipe your song arid dream your j
dream.
And feed your soul on things that seem; j
But be our haven near or far,
'We put our trust in things that are.' "
"Oh, yes; that way. Perhaps."
"And you have your plot in the quo
tation."
"How?"
"In its pathetic perversity isn't it the
ever-heard cry of the human bearing
witness to the well-night futility of
Heaven's lust plained pleasures for
man? If you pivot your story on a man :
—strike out in a few of your strong
strokes a hero gifted beyond the ken of
most men, and throw across his path the
unusual woman—the woman who can
comprehend him in all his moods and
phases, then against the high, white
ll'-ht of his lo\e for her paint the story
o r !,is struggle against the ascendancy
of (he things that are, flashing across
the gloom of il the fitful flares of a man's
inborn horror of ridicule, his abject
terror of doing (he unusual; and sir.k
liim at last to the sullen commonplace
of the tangible. Marry him tothe widow
who wore violets in her bonnet and
mourning of the type most approved of
man. There's your plot."
Madison had been staring steadily at
the poem from under bent brows. When
Daisy made an end he pulled out, and
shoved toward her without speaking,
the editor's instructions: "You will un
derstand that we want something with a
touch of t(v-day In' It: natural and real."
"There is no touch of to-day in what,
you have been saying," lie grumbled.
"Nothing natural, nothing real."
And instead of being exasperated b>
his disgruntled ingratitude, Daisy only
replied in a tone of thoughtful convic
tion:
"Well, yen, there rre several touches,"
Hi"! lay lia' i. i'i her chair contentedly
studying the contrasting Shanes of the
blue blotter on the green baise while
Madison hulked because the sub! le
:t logics o 1 her sharpened perception
w re but as blurs !o his fagged out
faculties.
"You have been plotting the thing to
pivot on a woman." he broke out.frac
tiously. "A man has no such horror of the
unusual as jou Imagine. In the natural
sequence of things he would marry the
woman he loved and let the widow and
her proper mourning goto the bow
wows. It is only the weak that fear
criticism."
"Most men arc weak," Daisy mur
mured, abstractedly. With a sea reel 5
perceptible n.overcfi.t she turned on a
tiny gap jel at. /;■ r eibow, lit a cigarette
turned >.ff the flame, and fell to smok
ing a quiet continuity of cigarettes that
h-tokeued abstraction, certainly. but ir
re> wise hlnti'd at impatience, disap
pointment or i!i 1 in. Her poise pro
voked M.uii on There was enough
Adarn in Dins to reset.t apparent com
fort i:i others when be himself «in
cornfortabiix He pushed the literarj
litter about with impatient fingers and
cn> Into th" pe;. ; c! of her sixth < i>:aiett<
•with wantonly displayed disgust:
"Do you believe that smoking 1b £u .
for a woman?"
Daisy shool her bent head: "I have
no cigarette creed." She (ir. w the sev
enth deeply and asked courteous!\:
"Why, are any of your friends thirkiuy
of adopting the practice?"'
"They would not be my friends verj
loni; if t hey did."
And still her great patience rested
unshaken in its depth and against Jte
quietude Madison san' tfrow, with slow j
shame, the si/.e ol his uncalled-for cut. J
He got up, thrust his hands into his j
trousers pockets and went whistling !
around her typewriter with its loaded i
copy holder, the work his entrance j
had interrupted.
"What have you tot on to-day?" he I
asked, genially.
She replied promptly and pleasantly: j
"Nothing of any consequence."
At this reply he turned toward her j
surprised. Heretofore she hail ever been
eager to talk to him about her work or I
his. And he had enjoyed these talks not
a little, rather proud of the coinprc- \
hension that enabled him to cover her j
skips and understand where most men
would have been utterly at fault. Had 1
enjoyed this next, to the ready sympathy
that comforted all his bothers. So ha
looked at her carefully as she lay back i
in her swivel chair, her hands inert i
upon the arms of it, a cigarette drooping j
from one corner of her well-made |
mouth, the serenity of her brow, the i
lire of her soul-lit eyes, the grim courage
of her chin, and asked kindly: "Tired?" j
Daisy roused instantly. "Why, dirt,
you want anything?"
Madison was too inured to the doc- 1
trine that a woman should always be >
ready to serve a man's purpose to notice (
the unconscious sarcasm of her re
sponse. Besides, h ? did want something.
It had occurred to him many times ;
that il would be well for his work and
well for him if Daisy Dunbar should 1
come to be a counterpart of his life, a
hand-maiden to keep trimmed and
tended the lamps of his genius. But
while he craved her comprehension he
shrank from the thought of marrying a
woman who made such scant sacrifices i
to the gods of his templc-s. He shud
dered at the thought of introducing as
his wife a woman he could not control. :
A woman who would say what she SEW
tit to say. and <lo what she saw fit to do,
whether the powers that lie approved
or disapproved. Hitherto he had
counted Daisy Dunbar a hard-headed
woman. But her present.patienceunder >
the first reproof he had ever adminls- j
tend quickened Madison to sweeter
dreams. If she loved him she would be
eager to bow her high head beneath his j
caressing hand: to forego her cigarettes ;
for the deep kisses of a man's great love;
to j ield her splendid spirit to his mould- :
ing. He would be ever so patient and
gentle, he promised himself in a glov
of tenderness. He would make submis
sion swec't t.o her. He would condone 1
her had breaks and forgive them, fie
would not expect her tochange instantly
| from the untamed thing to the tamed.
But he would teach her —ah. how ten- j
j derly. A pleasant moisture welled to
| his lids. His lips trembled. He took his
; hands nervously from his trouser
! pockets and turned to her. She was still
I absorbed in that study of green and blue. |
and the tenth hung half-forgotten from
her fingers.
"What are you thinking of?" he asked.
! tenderly.
"Of the deep joys of moving."
"Moving! You are not going to
move?"
Daisy bethought herself of the cigar
ette and coaxed it gently. "Aye," she
I said through the smoke, "I move out
J to-morrow."
"But Daisy, you mustn't do that."
"Kxcusc me. Mr. Madison, but when
I did I give you the right to my first
j name?"
"Won't you give me the right to your
! first name if I give you the right to nty
1 last one? Won't that he a. l'air trade?
Dear, did it never occur to you that you
; and I were made for each other?"
"Why, yes. In a way, we are."
"Don't you think we would be very
; happy if we belonged to one another?"
"Do you think it would be pleasant
j to belong to somebody else?"
■ "I think it would be very pleasant to
j belong to you, dear."
"Do you? Do you know what'beloncr
| ing' means? To be bridled and bitted, to
j come at a call and go at a toit< h. If you
; belonged to me I should require you to
| do as 1 did; to accept my judgments and
; bow to my decisions. Do you think that
would be so pleasant?"
"But, dear, I used the term in a deeper,
more sacred sense."
' Bather, you used it in a more fem
inine sense, I fancy, it was I that was
to do most of the belonging, wasn't it?"
She pot tip. negligently dusting the ashes
i from her long tie and smiling at him in
j good-natured amusement. Too strong
i for bitterness; too fearless for falsity;
her words came quiet to gentleness:
j "Well, dear sir. the chances are that 24
—or even one hotu ago, I should have
j been glad and proud to do the belong
ing—'l've dreamed my dream and fed
mv soul on things that eeemed,' for quite
an infatuated while. Luckily your
wanton insult waked me from my < ream
ing; and albeit the waking was rather
rude. 1 thank you for it in that it was
so timely. So I fancy now. that I will
as I said, move out to-morrow —lier-
after pin my faith tothe things that are."
Madison forgot how he was to teach
her in all tenderness and with great
j RtnUeiie.-s. His voice rang rude with
; impatience:
| "But, Daisy
"Miss Dunbar, you mean?"
Whereupon Madison whirled upon
| his heel anil went out, slamming the
! (ioor after the senseless, explosive
| mann.:r of men. "If she was so dead
set on the things that are she might
I have them 011 broken hinges for all he
j carecl."
But lie never knew that it was In
| deed thus she had them. That because
lof his weak indulgence In a silly
spleen a strong woman's life swung
, ill hung through all the incomings and
| outgoings of her after years
Much Worse Then.
| The British museum has a love let
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i and inscribed on a brick. The Ohio
State Journal remarks that it must
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I a married man to have hid old !o*e le<-
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MEETS WITH APPROVAL.
Mukden, Oct. 27. —The appointment
of (Jen. Kuropatkin a.s commander in
chief was received with universal ap
proval. It will greatly facilitate the
military operations. A Japanese at
tack is expected shortly. Otherwise
all is quiet. The Japanese dead re
cently found showed by their warm
clothing that the Japanese are prepar
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JAPANESE FORTIFYING.
Mukden, Oct. 28. —There was a
reconnaissance in force Wednesday
night by the Russian western flank,
and desultory firing continued till 2
a. m. The Japanese were discovered
to be hurriedly fortifying along the
whole line, but this does not, of
course, preclude the possibility of an
attack by them. It is the general opin
ion here that serious events will not
develop for some days, but judging by
the hurried manner in which the Chi
nese are settling their money affairs
in Mukden, they are of a different
opinion.
Every precaution has been taken by
the Russians to deal geiuvously with
Chinese who have suffered through
the fighting in their territory. Not
only has a special commission been
created for the purpose of paying fo.*
all food and forage seized, but com
pensation is awarded for houses in vil
lager destroyed.
A GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
Shanghai, Oct. 29.- -A private letter
from Port Arthur dated October 21
received here yetserday says:
"(leu. Stoessel wired the Russian
emperor recently: 'I now bid you
good-bye forever. I'ort Arthur is my
grave.'
"The Japanese shells are inflicting
great damage to the Russian fleet in
the harbor and to the fortifications.
The arsenal with its contents of am
munition anil small arms has been d ■
stroved and preparations are being
made for the last deadly struggle at
close quarters. The water supply
having been cut off. wells arc being
sunk. Provisions are scarce. Only
tinned meats being left the soldiers
hold gala, feasts on horses killed by
the shells.
"The field and naval hospitals are
crowded and hygienic conditions are
becoming desperate. The bombard
ment at times is so incessant that it
is impossible to bury the dead to any
depth. Over half of the original gar
rison is dead, wounded or sick.
"The besiegers are pressing closer
daily and it is hard to say how long
we can hold out. When the end comes
there will be a desperate fight, and
surprise. Thousands of the enemy
will perish, as everything is mined."
Tokio, Oct. 29. —It is reported that
the Japanese opened a desperate at
tack on the eastern forts of the Keek
wan group, north of Port Arthur, din
ing the morning of October 20 and
silenced the Russian batteries.
Simultaneously the Japanese a;,
tacked the forts on Rililung mountain
and Sungaohowian mountain, silenc
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and o -eupied the forts in front of
these mountains.
On the night of October 2t> there
was a conflagration in old Port Ar
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Russian battleship Sevastopol and
two Russian steamers were sunk.
The main Russian and Japanese
forces which confront each other
south of Mukden have not yet become
engaged, although small affairs con
tinue.
NO DANGER OF WAR NOW.
Court of Inquiry Will Decide the
Anglo-Russian Controversy.
London, Oct. 29. —All danger of war
between Russia ancl Great Britain has
been averted and the settlement of
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Premier Balfour, speaking at South
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Essopus, N. Y.. Oct. 29. -Judge
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