The Landloper

of sight and for some moments surveyed the nick i

r possessor had been pummeling the wretch. He had beaten the m

nd looked at the clothin

cided on combat. "If I should stop to argue the matter with myself just now I should find myself flattering his good judgment. I have robbed a poor devil for a whim. Thank God, I

llowing the course of a tiny stream of water. This stream led him to a pool. It was tree-bordered, it was a center gem in a d

attered articles he dumped from the coat pocket. He kneeled on the brink of the pool, leaned over and shaved himself carefully, u

ings were comments on his appearance, they must have been admiring comments. The man's skin was white and he was lithe and tense and muscular. Breeding showed in him as it shows in the muscles and c

of the judge had provided complete equipment for a man. In the breast pockets of the

once more. He flirted out the handkerchief, holding it by one corner,

ead and leaned over the pool and

ersist in the folly. The man Chick's tin suit cannot bring as much trouble to him as this garb of resp

s discarded garments and to stow his few po

f a sudden. I have ranted to a tramp. Now I rant at myself.

wed his eyes and surveyed it as it lay in his palm, and then made as if to toss it into the pool. But he checked the gest

ehind her which called me, even if she did not mean it as a call-and so, on I fare in a lunatic's dream. Own up! I have dreamed that some day I will see her again. And down in the depths of me stirs that impulse of the male whi

hen he strolled away leisurely, and when he as in the wider stretches of the wood whe

His eyes happened to find this p

d with beauty, with curses and the like. It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a vesture; which indeed they are: the time vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents spirit to spirit, is properly a clothing, a suit of raiment, put on

e looked down upon

erry party and he saw picnickers, men and women, gathered about hampers. Automo

and disheveled and was resisting a young man who had pushed aside her veil and was kissing her with ardor. She beat hi

" he insisted. "Why shouldn't

her arms rigidly and held her head away, not with

an't keep my hands off you. You can't handle a man as you'r

not endure this

ice-water lover. You set me

s grasp and faced him, her f

. He stopped. The girl was the girl

, Richard, is the one my mother has fairly forced from me. I am try

say to a man who loves you as

me again as you would pull and haul a girl of th

what love-making is? They don't sing serenades under windows these days. They don't kiss finger-tips and

e had left them attention only for each other. He knew that if he started away whi

the leaves of his book and

te by accident. Please suspend conversation on

ouched him so strangely when he had seen her first on the broad highway. His face was white under the tan. His hands t

looking him up and down with increasing curiosity and dawning recognition, and when her escort called to her impatiently,

sullenly on her trail, with only a

ts love-making manners," remarked Farr, his lips trembling and his emotion still in his eyes

apped himself ar

an who shoots off low-down sneers at me. Here! You co

on his way, o

you again-" blu

t turning his head. "Instinct of the purely animal sort tells me that if

his pocket and found the withered rose. H

ced his steps and hunted in the bushes for a long time on h

ket he could find in his newly acquired