Show T THE E BOOK 0 onu IN WOMANS WOMAN as LOOKS by U 8 ml by daily story g for ten years mr G homing magnu magnus of philadelphia bad had been a writer tor for the lesser magAZ magazines ICelL he ile wrote abort short stories and essay and sept zept them to the editors editor aa lu the hopes they would b t accepted his ills tamp stamp bill was urge large still perseverance a mild intention and knowledge dug arm arm the will tell in time hie ills accepted manuscripts increased in number this perked him up he lie started a bank account of moderate dimension gothing lyo thing makes a man so brave aa as a bank account he was a blenderman lender man with drooping shoulders shou mild blue eyce eyes and a bandy sandy vandyke beard when men he usell to twist thia this beard into a sharp point and stab himself upon his narrow shirt wrt front though hia his legs were wobbly and his fact large hils heart was in ila the be right place thi be knew from the fact that when R 1 by a sudden suddon noise it beat t fantl and suck like a madman on a dreu A boisterous bolste roua doctor came up behind him clapped slapped him on an the shoulder and howled acm led maggy old mi u lowre the brutal editor men the heart which was in the right place began thumping magnus wheeled and faced him wrath in bis his pale pals eyes 1 I do so hate to be called kiy he snapped it really Is bot my name then lils thin delle alp hand went to his left side its all right magnus the doctor said beg pardon you Yot looked overworked take a bit of at free advice go away somewhere and rest it was early summer and tie the members of the literary clubs the fashion ables and the preachers were flitting the bank account was healthy magnus looked over the papers among a thousand advertisements of places with all the comforts of home houle bis his eye was c caught aught by a mention of harpers ferry virginia he ile asked about it and wae was told it was a good country with pure air farm foods trout fishing and anti cheapness that seemed to suit next afternoon he alighted from a dilapidated buggy in front of farmhouse shadows lay la y deep on the alley the potomac rolled grandly to the south gouth looking from his window over the sweeping river magnus eald said here Is rest I 1 do not want human A cultivated mind needs only itself surrounded by these eternal hills bills amid which dwell a elm aim magnus wheeled and faced him wrath in his pale eye DIP ido people solitude should bring hap Pla pinas avs ways are not my ways their ric arla Is are halt half but we need not clash he ile fell readily into the habits oi of tile household it consisted of mrs ira loudoun a silver sliver haired widow her grand daughter amanda loudoun a brown eyed girl of eighteen with a delido figure a mass at 01 brown hair bair and a frank smile end and min win of all work tho ate isly find said never a 41 40 it f 4 u word the two women gave him no confidences tor for which he as grateful he ile was forced to admit that their manners were perfect but met this down to innate female refinement they make no effort at all to entertain him ho lie paid hia his moderate bills and kept himself to himself lie dis covered a boat in a small house shirb stood by the river and used to pull laboriously a half mile up the stream ot of then float lazily down in two week weeks however be he realized i that a cultivated mind needs some K f A potomac rose thing more than itself he waa was bored furthermore his conscience oppressed him ile told himself that he was ungenerous in withholding himself from these two to lonely women who knew ar nothing of books society cities or the great world without he lie waa was not conscious of a deairy to alleviate tho th loneliness of mrs airs loudoun Lon doun but he thought the cirl would improve mightily by converse with a man of his cult cultivated hated abilities and esperi encis she was plump and her weight in the boat made the rowing more dif ficula but he endured abe extra labor I for or the pleasure of watching her intellect expand like a flower she listened to bla hil talk of books with every appearance appe aranco of interest he lie found all her comments apt and some of them shrewd he lie felt the unconscious charm of her innocence one au ci chenin enin three weeke weeks after the beginning of their friendship she assumed guidance of the conversation it was done in a arru of mischief but the eyes of 0 homing magnus did not a it he ile lacked the perceptive faculty jhc a astonished him much by a bound sound it not brilliant monologue upon the elizabethan poets as compared with those of 0 the earlier era and la a a mild wild dt dl aslon of the reputed autho authorship ship c 0 the Shakes Shake play plays worsted him badly she said they were the work of sir walter raleigh lartig his eighteen years of con in the tower of london next day she invited him into a part of the house he bd not visited tn in produced trod him to it silting groom room fur nihed b hed plainly but in perfect taste seated herself at an old but tuneful alaio and played for him with feeling alzi g and force sel reactions actions fron beethoven mozart mendelssohn chopin chapin verdi donizetti wagner do koven sullivan and dave bra br hatm the dimly recognized that thit be ho might 1 have been becil guilty of underestimating the almi 11 0 farming family A little later ho be began begar to hold her in his thoughts and 0 1 speak of her when on hia rambles as a potomac rose thip this waa wm a bad sign in all hia big thirty years he lis 12 had ad seen no ons like her eo so simple so unaffected so beautiful so 0 o sympathetic he lie mea measured suied this was a worse sign mentally the height ol 01 his bank ao a count and found it sufficient this woe was the worst sign of all it was lato late in the Ben of 1891 0 4 ibo o wae was a slight chill la in ahn air too tae girl N rapped lu it jomn fleecy light stuff pt sait as waa was her custom la the tern stern of at the little boat which made po sound as it drifted in the moonlight hr h brown yea eyes looked like jewels nut not a word had bee beet spoken for half hour 0 eleming magnus a eald said miss london laudon when I 1 came here I 1 thought you ignorant country folk I 1 know now what a fool too I 1 was I 1 must go tomorrow to morrow and it make makei i me ead zad I 1 cant hear bear to that I 1 will never cover see ou again I 1 have never told you that I 1 love you but I 1 do sincerely you must have seen it will you marry me she did not answer she had bad grown nud suddenly denly pale and was staring intently at the landing then not a hundred yards aw aa a suddenly pl re e clasped hr her hani and a wave of clingon c rose rage to her face A happy is ille tile curved her lips then ebe she gazed earnestly at her companion 1 I have not seen it sho she said gravely forgia 3 me mr air Al magnus agnus but t can not marr you in hence silence bj he picked up the oare oara the prow of the boat grated upon the tile chort 1 aa As tho the girl stepped lightly to land shi nna taken into the arms of at a tall yount fellow ID in khaki uniform she staid there a full fire five minutes while magnus stood awkwardly by then ele turned saying thia this in 1 mr landon lie ile has been at santiago we have been engaged for two years next spring 0 homing hewing magnus wrote a book which ts Is in its thousand ilia ills heart has gone into it IL its name lif queen rose of a rosebud garden |