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Show OGDEN, UTAH, TIIE MORNING EXAMINER MONDAY MORNING, 3, IOOI UCrUBETT. The Story of a Woman Who Wa Poverless to Steal And of a Man Who In Spite of Himself Was Made So LUCKY STONE Bd HOWARD FIELDING 1M ANNIE JOHNSON. rlUMc mutton la Ilf la (root of a wash luk. had km off peat" II da. Bha had lh tub mad hud i.H out to fi'l OIBt A a a I had monry it tiled tight hours and SO rtn.a. raiatd had an afltrnuun at tha end uf aia It tha ovra mr. Tha city had batn toft Inwm uvrr-dana litllo too king that year; it It had bey tin la anirll buraod. Tha ronlrvt tonkins laut that Annie had aam during tha day traa a high atuop houaa on tha ahady auto uf tha alrart. Bha her-at- lf was upon tha funny alda Iwwua aht had burn tso noth occupied with prahlama to tunildtr tha advlaa-tulli- y Bha atarad at tha high of I wonder loop houat, and aba aaid. hliaa ("ullwrt be hark from lha tuuntry yet?" npmklng aloud, for aha had raarhad (hit dngrM of narvnua tan null wnara tha mfaly valva of unintend-- d uttaranua glvaa lu warning of dangar. Miaa Oolbart waa an antrfan who had playad la tha rlty nrarly all of tha prt tlaua wintar. and Annla had haan htr anndraa. Annla aim.) a thought of her In tha auptrlatlva drgraa. Mho wan tha Lund vuaUiOMr. aha waa tha hardest to nit, aha waa tha moat rarafuf and tha wst caraleos rrratura that over llvsd ; ha would muni her handkorrhlufa thrao inw and iaava dlamonda lying on I ho Hour; aha waa lha moat boaiillfut and tha ucklaot woman in tha tmrkl : aho waa tha fnnheat abova Annla l)unnvan. and aha pad taught tha paor girt a naw pain tha pain of purs aavy. It la yoMlIua to anvy I person for this or that poaaoaalon. but ha unadulterated artkla. the unrharkad wish to bo that perauu, la quits another alter. Mum ttnlhart had mid aha would eoma ha-la tha tint week In Beptemliar and that aha would bavt tha aama room. Bha waa to send Annie a pualal card by way if notitkwlliin, and aha hadnt aunt It. Vet aha might have returned, and in that raaa alia would probably have a lot of wort to do. ''Bha would glva mi a llttlo anoiithla' In advaneu. aaid Aania, but of course aha Isn't hera." Ilowavar, bslng at bar wits' and for very small aum of money. Annla ornooed the si mat and mng tha hall at tha baaa-medoor of lha high stoop houao. No body anaworad, and aa tha door waa ajar Annla anterad tha lawar hall, railing to find a servant, aha ascended tha alalra to tha first floor, and aa aha thus cams directly at tha door af tha larga room at tha roar of tha houaa, Mlaa foibarta room. It aeemed aimpleat to knock. It waa alwaya hard la hoar a knock or call Id eoma In at thla door, for It opan-a- d upon a amall yeallhula and thara waa a portiere at tha other and of It. Ipoa this occasion It la probable that Annla experienced g genuine hallucination; aha ana ao anxloua to hear Mlaa Colbart a voire that aha heard ll, though tha waa not theta, aad Annla anferad an amply room. ' Tha vary Aral glimpse uf It, before aha traa a war that aha waa alons, gava her an almost painful aanaa of ralluf. Mlaa Calbert'a pictures, hooka and myriad bright trifles for lha adornment of bar abode struck sharply upon Annle'a vlaw. Even the disorder of tha room waa distinctively Mlaa Colbert's; nobody alaa could hava arromplluhed It Annla put her hand suddenly upon tha reylou of I ho of her atumarh and gava a foolish Jilt If a much desired laugh. It waa friend had startled her with n rudo greet- u a; And Bha a cornin' right back Annie. l ie aha dropped weakly upuu a chair, all right: I'm all right." calculations Then aha began to make Bha had baaa snaking them nil dav and had not reached an answer, though she was rather good at figures. A might hava baen stile to explain to her that her prohtom Involved two unknown quantities and no equation at all, aa that It waa evaeiitlully insoluble liy auy method yet dusuvared. He might have staled It fnr bar In tin form: A young woman who supports herself and two of her dead aiater'a children has the aum uf So niiq and tha Installment man will taka away tha beat pari if her furniture unless aha pays him ! thla afternoon; required to And (If how much Ires than M tha Inatalhnant man ran be Induced to taka sod (1) how much more than li rests lha young woman can raise. Annlffe aya fall upon sums uf Miss Colbert's summer guwaa spread upoa a Annie couch; they were wonderful walked slowly across tha room, staring at them, and whan aha waa near enough aha touched ana of them softly. Tha Instinct uf personal adurnmant la at leaat a million years old. It may hava beaun about Ilia time whan our ancestors were learning to breaths with lunga Inal rad of gills; when they were crawling aut of tha wator Into tha sunlight. And matln-ms-ttria- i wln-du- It's a wonder aha wouldn't set 'em out In tha bark yard!" aha oonllnued. I never aaw the like of bur. Anybody could climb In here." It waa an unfortunate notion. Da It remembered thal Annia had spent the preceding portion nf the day In a nearly Insane effort ta think of soma way to obtain 8 he had asked fur that which money. was dua her. and It had been refused. Buck Inaldenta have a tendency to aaclln resentment and to nonfuaa one's Idnala af honesty. In a world where boom people won't pay their laundry blllu, while others leave duubla handfuls of diamonds on p lairs before open windows. Ilka crumbs fur tha birds, la it any wonder that tha waak yield to temptation? Annla took up a Jeweled crescent which, beneiiao of tbs osoilad state of bar Imagination, seemed, lo bo about tha slsa of tha rolls of that form which aha bought from Ilia baker whea aha could afford such luxuries. Bha touched It timidly, as If It might ha sparkling with actual fire. Kariler la the day aha had taken an old coat to a pawnbroker, aad ha hod refused ta loan her anything upoa It, even quarter of dollar. What would ha glva her for that crescent pin? Bha had ao little confidence In tha pawnbroker's honesty that U never occurred to her that ha might refuse such an article offered by a poor girl who certainly must hava stolen It. To her tha pin repreeented an incalculable aum of raady money. Bha laid It down and slowly ahuok her haad. Net me." aha aaid. I couldn't. Then aha aat down upon tha cushioned window seat and began to encourage blt-tthought! with a miserable deliberateness. If aha were not ao honest shed get along batter. It wasn't honesty; it waa a mixture af fear and foolishness. Upon reflection, howavtr. aha waa forced to admit that she was not afraid. Nobody knew that aha was In tha house; most probably nobody would sea bar going aut of It. Tha opportunity waa perfect. Then why didnt aha do It? Unwilling In thla mood to admit any good of herself, aha decided that If lha crime were not aggravated by tha fleet that Mlaa Colbert had been good to her aha could commit It With positive relief aha thought of tha woman who had refused to pay tha laundry bill, and In Imagination aha reveled In rnhhtng that woman of aa many diamonds aa there wars In thla plate live times aa many. Indeed aha waa vary liberal In endowing tha victim with Jawals. On tha edge of tha plate there waa a loose atone about tha also nf an average pen. In comparison with the others It looked very small, and Annia was nf tha opinion that ll could ha removed without Mlaa Colbert's miming It, This, then, represented tha extrema of prudence and rolled Annie forbearance. tha atone around In tha palm of her hand. It may hava kata jtarasliaUon which dull art the ar aa houaa BHE BAT DOWN UPON THE CUSH' ION JED WINDOW BEAT. unnoun tad multitudes of females have dona thatr beat lo fasten tha burden of thla deelra upon their sex. Bo It waa almost aa natural fnr Annla Johnson to rravo thoas draaaaa aa It waa for her to Inhala tha vital air; no natural. Indeed, that aha waa not truly awars of It. Dimly, of course, and yet with far more appreciation than anything In her own narrow Ufa could account for, Annie understood gnnd clot hen. 8he underalnud so extraordinary la them to a girl of her rendition that aha never-- ataaid tain! tad ta jwaha bar own draaaaa -- SELR1YPN0TISM BY ol avTcn-litiuel- Kited In. Upon the walls, whlrh are red, are idrturw an-- l illuMtratlous from the author's stories, and nil sorts rtf Inirlcnf nautical knots hang almm. seemingly lo be mtaVlied to the rigging, tiie purpose of whi h is nirf. always appnrrnt. In this place Mr. Roberlsnn spins hie sea yarns. He has a home and a wife on Wash-teuto- n Heights by way of refuge when the fever of omposltlon r.oois. The fiber day he lay 'lOrlsomel upon the comb In this dn with a long cherry pipe hreween his teeth. A visitor entering, he ruse lung enough to extend tbw proper hosptialli iee. then resumed his previous altitude. It Is a little. a'Mirt. rhuiiLr mau. very bald, and very mighty about the chvet a an A.B. should be. He was asked If M didn't happen to have aume special Jcsas to proclaim on the endless question of the O.sking of Moriea how. when and whnt to snake em. . . Dunt make em, he said, concise so much tribute to proceeded: When I wee n boy my father found me n place on n ahtp to keep me from running away and finding a worsa place for myself on sums other ship. I served n king time before the mast, and during that service gut kicked end cuffed Into me such deep respect for authority that I can never meet n Mg brute of n second mate to this day never meet anything that to labeled ship's oncer but I went to say to him, 'Aye, sir.1 and stand around for him. I gut to be e mete aiysrtf, but the habit had got ground Into me long before that and It slicks. Aad I wu not naturally too respectful of authority, either. Even now, after twenty years away from the ace, soon an I step cm a ship I feel abject. 1 criuge before anyI body with the voire of command. tried to ehuw n party of friends over my first ship unce. She was lying at the Atlantic docks, end wa ware a nuial rieganily arrayed party silk Imts white ties, frock coats. I felt very Jaunty till I got aboard. There was nobody on her but the ships husband, a husky old fellow with a seaweed beard. I asked him vary meekly If we might look nt Hie ship, lie gate tde a ort of contemptuous assent and I steered the uiliers around, Imt wawu't lit to talk' to m and explniu thinks, which 1 had raiher figured on duing In some style. The ship and the ship's huiband reduced me to tiie mental condition of a common seam.-i- aa lung aa I was aboard. Aa a matter of fact. It waa several daya before I got back my u cf Mr. Robertaou explained Hint he was a diamond setter in those laya, and sore diamonds himaelf, lie aides other splendor of raiment. When I quii the sen. bo said, after leo years of ll a sailor learn to do a miscellaneous lut of things; they have to be done aboard skip and there's nobody else to do 'em -- and I used to be handy enough with a phrenologist told me I had a head fur mechanics. He wu kind enough to say J could du anything in that line from tinkering pans to building bridges. Aa there didn't aeera to be any bridge building not fur me 1 learuud the lo do trade of watchmaker. I tramped about from one Jersey town to another mending clocks. By degree I rose in the profusion and got to be a diamond g setter, yon've seen, but in my dais I met queer jieopie. 1 u big and bright, end they looked him through nod through. Thru this la our finish, Tom, she I never knew you before, it said. would 'a' been Just like me to nuke a mistake that would 's' done for ina forever. I gueaa thla la my lucky day. I don't tod much aa If it waa but i hers clock-endin- I your mental steering gear. You roach a ooodltloa whore you are a bond slave to tha power of suggestloa coming from outside of yourself and ready to used lo fraternize with organ grind- give your orders Just ee I feel like ers. I feel a nearer kinship to organ dning to any sort nf ruffian in thu grinder now that I'm a story writer shape of n ships officer. "for instance, my landlord and 1 and no longer hobnob with auuh vagrant in the flesh. When I wu tlnkp have different theories about the rent wring with watches and clocks I wu Hla idea le to have it paid on the first I say I'll pay ewhen I doing something useful. Aa a (lory of the month; writer 1 aoem to stand level with the please. I haw rather, made a ha hit of organ grinder. I'm no better than poytug when I please, but latterly I hail those old train pa troubadours. I be- paid fnr several successive months lieve you call 'em that need to skulk pramirtly on the first Then It happened I let the third around from place to place and be A thankful for a bite to eat end a sip to come around without paying. drink, and a seat In the cursor by the friend of mice was staying In this fire In the houses of their betters. To place at the time. Ho slept here, and be sure, we do use a ty pa writer in- ceme and went a the notion took him. stead of a harp, and I doubt our singi- On the third In question I cams In here the and did not find my friend. Howergp, ng; voices ere out of order-b- ut I did find upon my desk a Mt of paper principle Is the saeie. 011 up Mr. Robertson inclined his heed re- with a message like thin: That Is my landlord's spectfully toward the typewriting ma- xys Gramrrcy. 1 wee angry. 1 sall chine lu the corner aud refilled his phone number. to myself I'd be most particularly pipe. Then he resumed: damned If I called up anything, My notion of story writing is that j I threw the message haughtily up-- ; You've on the floor and it to a sort of Mt down to work. beIdea to got get hypnotized by your I couldnt work, but I madu a Muff at can fore you gut enough above your- it all and till lute at night Then self iu write enythiuK at all worth I w ntday to bed. i,ut 1 couldn't sleep. I r dau-goprinting and there's alwaya the gat up In the morning, and atlll In that sort of thing of goiug loo ciuililut 1 poi up In th mornfar going so far you cant ad back. ing. and still couldnt work. So I 1 1 got middling fnr myself before tuned ui x4 I ; rau. err y. VYiiat 1 sai l saw where 1 was going end pulled tip was that I'd be around presently with -t- hat Is. I stopped work and took the money il. xi is, as soon as 1 got hraiu food. I was then in fine trim. 1 sinie money I na expecting. Then am confident, to go stark mad. I wruta I xei to work and everything went as one story ta that condition or pre- j! smoothly as you plem-e. Ail auggea-l- i carious sanity. It was csllod 'Sinful n. V ' had mo be reck. I used to walk tip and down I hair. I wasn't myself 1 wasn'tby mas-- i this room In a sort of ecstasy, then of my will till I had Siuis-fle- d hammer out a sentence, then walk xys Qranirrcy. 1 wee MuI found till again furiously, collie ;t'o has a fin Agair. lily ting Into the furniture at both ends, dog uptown. If a haudxomc dob. hut and thla yawing 1 don't barking my shins, like dog. My wife dojs. b way aud that like a rudderless ship. I has (old m- - several Iw-- s thal I wasn't drunk, cither. ought lo take iha dog for afternoon That went on for several days. I walks. I've said I'd walk with the dog till my wife got alarmed at my if she thought It neceakary, hut that continued absence and came down t I didn't enjoy !i. I made It verr clear see what wa op. She found me cruls-in- q that 1 was opposed to having her put about here in the aimlese fashion walking the dog on the programme of I have described. 'Here,' says she, protry habitual relaxations. Now, the ducing the money, 'get out of this and other day 1 got a note from my wife. I had a .notion this The note deni? with sundry domestic gu lo the rountry. whs coming aud laid by for It accordmatters of rn moment in the present Bill stt he end she wrote; ilincussion. ingly. lining lu a state entirely hyp1 notic naturally did exactly what I If you are not doing anything when 1 was told. I didn't at all knosr why you Kt this, come up and walk the did It ur see any reason for It: my ibff. Now. 1 wasn't duiug anything ai faculties were nut at work. Bui the mluuie iLat is. 1 wasn't mnuliy I went, and by going no doubt sard poundlLg tt typewriting machine: I life and reasou. For I had it fixed la was trying to think out. or, rather, my head that I mast finish that story, dream out, a sioiy I'd begun. I know, of course, my wifr's definition of and. bearing tha providential Interposition r tbs wife, was going mad in the work, l'nder that (ieftuiricn I was not tiroes doing anything.' So I thought I must ). e. ies-soui- This slavery to suggestion reached such a point that if I were walking along Broadway in all sons of n hurry and an acquaintance spoke to me and Mid Stand by,' I'd stand by and then- - I'd stick till be told me to go. 1 couldnt get under way again myself. I wm growing le be n common bore; people began to avoid me like the plague- - Usually, whea people do that ort of thing you pnt em down for soft fools. 1 am not naturally soft and I wasn't born n fool. Iva been aom tblffg of n man among men (In the days when Cs.wl11olghtShcond5eBA daya before I was n story writer) elM r I couldi't have been n first mats I was 21. So when I had lucid momenta and caught myself at such tricks I knew something was wrong. I put It down to fatigued brain, atrophied will power, 1 due to overdriving machinery. hadnt used it Ml before I entered my My Jest present cycle of existence. cycle was seafaring; In the second 1 wm a mechanic. In either of them did I use my brain overmuch. In thle pro. cent cycle I'm using my brain after a peculiarly exhausting fashion I'm a story writer. Already 1 grow tired. I do not know whnt the next turn of the wlicol will bring. Thla, by the way. What I'm getting at ia that tha state of mind Ive been illustrating ia nothing more or leas tban the that comes of story writing' and the necessary preliminary process of story dreaming. For you must dream your sliirlrs, or at least I must dream mine. My i.lea Is that of the people who try it on only some few keep themselves approximately sane; the As to rrst end in the madhouse. fireainiug stories? My own practice is about this: Over night I think hard on a story. I go to bed full of It. lu ike morning 1 try to take as long a time as possible to wake up to runaln in a state half way between, neither truly steeping nor really waking. In aui-an intermediate and Indeterminate condition, whit I take to lie the him thing in me that the psyiholn-gist- e call 'subliminal consciousness' gets in touch wilh the matter of the story at my brain folly awakes would never get In touch with It. I do not believe In haunting If the spirit. a of the dead, holding communication with 'be living, but I am convinced that In the particular stale of mind l m talking nlmut I do aomehoa, hr some eon of telepathic process, catch sunithirg from living non present perrons whose minds are burr with the sama idea For insance, my heal has lately been full of submarines. I've studied submarines thoroughly In order to make stories about them, aad, being be-fo- gtu-xt- .! i Mania Colhert was atanio,, doorway, a vision of tovelluJ. ' ayes of poor Annie. "I hadn't ought to have cum . aid tha girl, "but I knwk uk, . I ! voh-your thought An; 1 gut In waited bwiiu Lnaaae- Wall. I'm mighty iad yuu dirH Min Colbert. 'Tv aom -- about a dray load. I sbuuld don t know how you carry tnein- Bha removed a gold ch. from her neck. It had supported a lituTu which was ao full of money ihat i. open when It waa dropped upon th Beholding the display of grvn notes nie passed Into a spertea of iranr waa ao long contiuutd that it attra-I Misa Colbert's attenijon. I've Just drawn aume money r doilies," said she. Had to hive It. nie. I've got to buy costumes tn a rlble hurry, and I hadn't a cent Bo .kC could tha pour manager do?" Intensity uf thought wrinkled aad twin, ed Annie's brow. Bha was engud in uH high grads Intellectual labor of . cation and comparison. You don't need any costumtw to when you waah clothes," the said at wu, "and you don't have any manager " lux hIJsa Colbert looked at lur siexdn. till a broadening smile. How much do you need?" she very kindly, and then, handing Anni ail. live dollar bill, "Will that help you outr The tears cam Into Annie's eyes. "1 aaid to myself that If you was host I'd ha all right," aaid ahe, somewhat ta. relevantly. Well, if you'd come yesterday Misa Colbert, "you'd have found aa poor aa yourself. I rsme mighty at pawning tnf one poor little diamond, thi only ana 1 ever had." Bha turned a pretty ring backward anl forward upon the third linger of Ur Mt hand. Thata my engagement ring, Annie aid aha, and the dear boy who gave It to me la many miles away. F'. t nevw mind, he's coming soon, and 1 Vouldnt want him to find hla ring In pawn." '. Tha only one you ever owned, nil Annie In a hushed and solemn tons How about them? How about all then beautiful ones in that plats? Ain't they yours? "They're aa glassy 1as the plate, reguess they wen plied Mlaa Colbert. made In the aama factory. That's stmt Soma It la pretty goad Annie. uf Jewelry. of its kind, and Ive Just been cleaning It up, ao that It shines right smart, but Dm whole lot Isn't worth aa much aa my Utile ring." 'Talnt real!" as Id Annie under hrr Blcased mother, think of tt! breath. Taln't real! Bha picked up the loom atone with which ahe dimly perceived that ahe hid tested both herself and the man win might hava wrecked her life. You've alwaya been good to me. in aid, "an I'm after takln' your money today whan I ain't got any right to it. You must think queer o' me. an' you think queerer it I ask you to give m thla." That?" exclaimed Marcia. "Why, N Isn't worth 4 ceats. - What. could yoq do with that? Yon caslf wear it." ; Annie waa very red. She stood there upon her awkward Kgs, with her this shoulders working up and down nervousl- COLBERT WAS STANDING IN THE DOORWAY. 1XARCIA can't ba any better luck fur a girl than to And out her mistake before aha makes it." Ha loaned In from the window sill, thrusting hla face aa near to bars aa possible. "Are you guln' to slang In my way? ha whispered. Me stand "Me?" ahe aold confusedly. In your way?" goln to hava those dt'monda," aaid ha It'a for you to say whether you'll on mo or keep stMl." quasi His voles sounded sharp and hard. Ha waa In deadly earnest. Annla waa frightened, heart broken and angry ail together. "Dont count on me, Tom, ahe aaid. Thla la our flniah. I'va said that once before, an' I mean It. I'm dona." Ha gathered himself up In the window, watching her with dire Intontiwaa"You can get out o' here," ha aaid. Thera's nobody In tha lower part o' tha houao. You needn't know anything about thla. (to. Kow'a your chance. Don't fool yourself," aha retorted anI'm stayin' right here. grily. Hla tecs took on a peculiar expression. Bha saw that hla lower lip waa between hla teeth, and suddenly there waa blood upon it The next Instant he sprang at her. Ha had made hla plan upon tha assumption that aha would try to run away, and perhaps thla error accounts for tha surprising sequel. Annla did not run; Tha collision between aha advanced. them occurred very much earlier than Mr. Wilaon anticipated; ha waa overbalanced; ha lost tha battle slid vanished from the scene of of It. There waa a horrible crash of tha atepladder. and Wilson lay for a few seconds quite still amid Its ruins, while Annie, weak with fright, hung over tha window Bill. Bha had not Intended to push Tom out of the window; he had merely accepted , combat with Tn . .. hrd j0 $ y- I Jud dunno.'t aaid aha faintly. all.. I think there's luck In It." Of course you can have It, Ifarelt said, and I hope It will bring you luck. Tha love of a good man la the best luck there to, Annie. I hope you'll hava that An' the love of a bad man's US worst, said Annie, tying up the Mt of Mar Frufb glass In her handkerchief, dunce preserve all women from that Amen. sold Marcia. 1 want it, that's true courses. of a mechanical turn and the sea still holding me pretty hard, Ive got interested In submarines for themselves. So I've got obsessed with an Idea to Invent a periscope. That, aa you know, Is the tube mnd series of lenaea which enable the commander of a submarine while the boat is under water to take a view of the seascape and dlscovty the near presence of the enemy. "The trouble with lha preiscope at present is that it can only look in ons direction at once, it does not gather in the whole horizon into one picture. You have to revolve the machine this way and that. Now, the idea which baa me by the hair ia that of Invent ing thla moat desirable and it has me gripped so strongly that lm convinced tom of thoas submarine inventor fellows are busy day and night with the same ides. By dint of dwelling upon submarines I hava caught the obsesaion telepathics!-Ir- . I was ao sure of the thing that a I started a letter just now to representative to Inquire If Mr. Holland waa not inventing. some such periscope. So when Joseph Conrad dreams about a haunted, blind devil of a sea captain holding madly to hla Job and bluudering about with hla ship In the somehow Malay seas, ha catches across the void of space the echo'of the very wracked feelings of menu who are living somewhere somewhat tha same horror that Conrad is dreaming. "Whence it coi:.es that aa you read the yarn he writes out of tbe stuff he kas dreamed ll grips you by the vitals. In the same way Kipling dreams stories, and all the others dream stories, end all tha others dream stories that none of them could do wide awake. They are hypnotized by the men and women who are suffering the reality though they may noi know at all who these men and women are. So Victor Hugo got the stuff for his tales of horror, and so do all who do any creative work get their staff, or some of it. And each and every one risks losing his individuality In the process. Ordinarily mechanical brain work adding up figures r composing English lire ,he brsinfl tn be sure, but does not bypotlze it as creative work does does not uncouple ll. as it were, from your own identity. Mr. Roheri son's sffiidi! remarks on ghosts seemed to put needless bounds to a theory So magnificent. His inter-locuttried to get the expounder of the theory to admit ghosts Into the goodly ooutypany of his inspirations. He suggested thst Mr. Maurice Hewlett lately. In his Queer.' Q iair, had professedly, tn recreating his character o? Mary Queen of Scots, sought to soak himself In the idea nf her (ill. in a fashion, he got Into the heart of the woman and ao wrote her from the vantage ground, as it were, of her own inner coflaclousnst. Tha process employed by Mr. Hewlett (and with admitted such success) seemed, though Hewlett makes no mention of dreams, to ausner perfectly to that e, iiol-land'- I . A voice from above cried. Foh da lub I did my bent ta sea If I couldn't pinch o' heaven! And Annie, looking upward, that llttla bit of n dl mond, aha continusaw I couldn't. ed. an' the ebony countenance of Mra he cried and Baoth'a cook. By goodness, I can. Tom climbed up on the ladder to apeak olutchsd at It. but aha eluded him. Bha stepped book from tha window and to me," aaid tha girt. "Tom, you ain't Mia land trembling, pallor struggling with hurt? Bay you ain't hurt." Wilaon ant upon tha ground and glared tha flush of tha heat upon her thin rheeka and ahlulng tomplca Her blue eyes warn up at her. That matter of my dorilitjr In going go and walk that dog. I took my hat to the country at my wife's bidding, and weal seven miles by train up to aeaman after once Washington Heights Just to walk paraued the more refilling his pipe- leads to a disthat dog. I found ujr wife nt home. cussion of one of the most conspicuous Rhe sold she was Joking about the effects of story writing on the mind of dog. I came back, angry with myself the writer. You get to such a state and a little with hor though it wasnt or I gut to such a slate from dreaming her fault. The fault was in me. I out stories that you lose control of simply had to obey the suggestion. q 11 I Plata I'to no such liar aa thxt, with unconscious humor. It waa passing tha gama waa ui tiun was the onl; that he was luck gird to his feet clnthea At this voice behind her. X ii.If - It appaarn that U organ Robertson, ly, end having paid tea atortoa rather well and tha higher wisdom, has Utterly taken the eubntnrine for hie pw'ulinr province, le n person o( notions moreover. These notions deal somewhat with the manner of written Morten, but more with the effect of story writing upon tha entry writer aa to which Mr. Robert aon hoe n distinct theory founded, aa he nays, upon hie own experience. . in brief, he thlnka madness lies that way, end that nu contributor to the tnagwrlnm has nil he ran do to keep himself measurably sane. Anrordhic to Mr. Robertauu the state of the story writer In the fover of invention le one of end there le always a tendency for this hypnotic state to bacons chmlr. It le Rond fnr the stories, but bed for the man. It indicates a ifrnd brain, and therefore, one of the antidotes Is brain fond. Mr. Robertson himself eats phnnphaiea In vast quantities. The ordinary diet of men, be eoyq mi desicned by nature for the animal support of tbs brain only. It dose not provide the worker with what he needs tn keep his well mental machinery bright and oiled. This, however. Incidentally, Robertson, who was born In Oswego In lMl. was an able seaman before he wee rightly a mu end flratninte at the age of XI. Now he ramps In n little den a sort of combined ship's cabin and etudio In West Twenty-fourt- h street, with tnokcseea and canary birds n and and n typewriting; machine "phone and u gxs Move and a refrigerator end a huge bathtub, ell wrong man whan they got me. An they took a drop to themselves after awhile an let me go. I wasn't triad. Indictment dismissed you know what that means." It means that they couldn't prove It, replied Annla. "No, Tom, that ain't flair, I won't any 1L You wasn't guilty thal'a tha truth an' I've always believed it. You thought I done It, aaid Tom, Bo did everywith gloomy decision. body etas that knew anything about It. It'a tha same with every man; let him get run In foe otcalln' the clock .off' a tha city hall, an' all his friends will put up o holler agin him. even if they pass tha clock twlct a day an see that It'a still up there. IT you suppose, he added, lowering hla voice at III more, that I'd ha bock her workln for Mrs. Booth If aha knew where I'd spent tha summer? . Mot on your life! There ain't many that knows shout It. Thnt'a my good luck. Bee?" Wheres Mrs. Booth now? said Atuiie, to chunga a painful auhjact. "Bha' a gone nut, ha replied, an the girls are upstairs. I'va baen cleanin up the yard." A sudden resolution seemed to seise upon him. He turned lha ladder about and mounted to the tup of H, coming almost to a levsl with Annia at tha window. I told Mra. Booth that I'd been down to Mexico, he aaid hurriedly, almost In n whisper, uf now I'm gum' for fair, an' you're gain' with me." What d'you mean? demanded Aur.iq frightened by hla manner. What do we wont to be aa poor for? aall he. white with excitement. Look nt them diamonds! I aaw 'am from ocroaa lha yard. I saw her tryln' soma of 'em in her hsinan lookin at 'am la tha sun. What d'ye think that outfit's worth? Well, well! 1 guess wa wouldn't do n thing with that money down In Mexico." retonad Annla. luu'ra dreamln', Who told you I'd go with you, even If wan the money yours?" You aa good aa told asa that ones, said ha with tierce inte.isity, and tha next Instant, exercising an sgllily of which he would have been Incapable In a calmer moment, ha tranafarred hlmsalf from Ua ladder to the window, where he perched h his feet hanging out. I ever told you that, aaid Annte, it was when I toon you for on honest man." I'm that today. ha replied. I never stole nothin'. I'll swear to that. But I'va been behind the bars for three months. I'va had my mcdiclnn, on' now" rt with n dry throat, and, being Her unable iu proceed, ha made hla meaning clear by extending n band toward the plats. Annla caught him by tha wrist. You Don't do that, Tom. aha cried. con t get nothin' that way In this world nothin' that's worth havin'. It ain't the way to gel me that's certain. I wouldn't go with you if you had as many of 'am as would All n keg o' beer unless they waa youra, Tha reaaon 1 wouldn't have you n year ago was because 1 waa afraid. You wan talkin' reckless an' goln' round wnh hard crowd. But If you'll Mraightrn up" llow long would It take yon an' me to earn enough money to buy one o' them An how tunes? he asked angrily. much work has Bha ever dona to get 'em all? Mea give em to her. Dudta send em round to tha slugs door with mash notes, I know all about It." flhe'u a good girl. said Annie, with at least aa much vigor aa aha would hava renlrd an attack upon her own reputation. She works hard. I've seen her la the dead o' winter, with both these windows open, walkin' up an down thla room with the sweat runnin off of her fac. I've aeon her alt down on the floor an' aob till It near shook her to pieces because alia couldn't apeak her words the way that aha wanted to. Sha earned those dlamonda; aha gets big pay, an' aha baa to hava 'em to wear on tha singe." I don't cere how she got 'em," ha I know how you an' me can broke in. get 'em. Thera'!! never be another chance like thla Tom, she pleaded, "I do honestly cars a lot about you. If you cars anything about me now's your lime ta show it. Don't aar another word like you've been Bayin'. W hat's tha use? Wad both ba mis' ruble. We ain't thlevaa. neither cna of ua If there'd been any thief about ms you wouldn't hava had much show with your atepladder, Tom. I'd 's' had a big start o' you. Wilson drew In a bard breath Ilka a long gasp. You don't earn nothin about mo," ha aid. "You never did. I didn't hava any money; I couldn't taka you out. An' you waa alwaya tied to tha houaa anyway. That's tha way with women. They" Tom," aaid aha, youre talkin' craay. X never took any pains to fool you about It. You could see how X felt All I ever asked o you won that you should go to work toady an' not hong around at odd Jobs a day's work for Mra Booth an' a day somewhere else next week. If you want me you know how to get mo-ev-en now, after thla Why, Tom, there ain't anything in steelin'; there ain't anything Into It at all. An' I know because I've tried. Ijnnk at thla" Bha picked tha amall atone out of tha ex-ab- le STORY WRITERS who writes poa-acm- .. nt ing. OKa'a aaniawhara in lha mental. The gowns upon tha couch revealed themselves ta Annia: In imagination aha put them bn Mias Colburt osa by one, and It was a happy dream founded upon Messed memories, for aha had helped Misa Colbert tn drew two or three limes during tha loot wintar and had beta pm load for her deftness and good taste. Thinh o' that now!" aaid Annlo to Tin gaud herself la sweet rrmlnlsnanoe. taels o' the likes o' mo! Him turned away fiom ttao gowns with sigh whlrh changed lo a queer little L'pon a choking cry of anionlshment. table near tha window there waa a glass waa It with and Jewels heaped high plate, Tha light of the fervid day surged la and beat upon them, and they daalied it back In a thousand sparkling sprays. aaid Annlo aoTHy. "Heel Wouldn't that Jar you? Bha glanced fearfully Inward tha glitter of the atone or the phenomenon may have bad aa espianauon wlihla the domain of morals, but ms simple fart is that the cam a light faded and ua attraction died. A sale laid It bock upon tha pUl at last, wltk a feint sensei loo of nausea. The touchstone had revealed her weakness; aha lacked the power to Meal. There waa a noise under tlie window, and Annia looked out upon the top of a man's haad and upon a long atepladder which ha waa bringing out of tha base Bint Into the yard. Ha glanced upward, and than his mouth and Annie's fell opes simultaneously, and Iheir eyes became round. Tha atepladder clattered In tha flaggiac of tha yard and stood upright by the merest accident, the bfngad brace swinging Into puaittuii aa if It had intelligence. Tha man leaned weakly against the ladder and put hla lift band upun the Isick of hla head as ir ha had a pain there. wkece'd Tom Wilson. said Annla, you come Iromr' Mr. Wilson, for sums atranga reason. Ik'ked hla lips Lefore mplvmg. aaid ha. I'm vorkia for Mrs. Yeu wasn't tha last time I heard nf you,'' aaid aha, with a woman's cruelty toward tha man ahr favors. "Thafa right," aaid Tom In a cautious tone. I waa In tha Turn ha. That's wharn I waa, an I navar done it. They got lha of Mr. Roberison save in the psr tlcular thal unlucky Mary S:uurt hsi been dead these hundreds of yeas and Mr. Robertson had barred ghos'-- t He listened to tho plea. I dont pretend to say. be re plied, that the people are nrong vbo think that a thing once alive lives even after the change cslM death. I only say that my own perience of this curious subconscW ness, so called telepathic source of b formation, or raiher of feelings d which one has had no actual exp-- ) ence, extends only to what may va be credited to auch are are our in the flesh. As to tM matter of dead and gone Mary of or there must be Marys enough-women enough like Mary livini now. Well auppoae, for the sake or gnment, that Mr. Hewlett caught ha sense of the reality from these tnodtfi Marya and put It into tha historic 14 he had taken as hla subject The ture of 'men and women ha ad changed, and thlnga m strsnga, si horrid, as bloody and M passional as any of those we read about an going on now, with variations of da tall, to he sure, bnt variations wt are not essentia. Thus Mr. Robertson held at one t hla theory and to hla exclusion of tM lingering spirits of dead heroes heroines from a personal part ia tM writing of modern stories purports! to deni with their character and tunes. 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