Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1930, Page 38

THE EVEN One of World Famous Works of Literature. ; Two Buckets in a Well. BY NATHANIEL P. WILLIS. athaniel Parker Willls, 1806-1867, was ARl P nd Jouthalist, author of $ le I Have Met," etc.). You cannot lower two buckets in the #ame well at the same time. That was why pretty Fanny Bellairs failed to marry Philip Ballister. He was set on ®eing a painter, and had already shown considerable talent, when, afraid to face verty (as perhaps she might have g:d to do as' his wife), she persuaded him to burn his brushes and enter busi- ness, in partnership with his brother. That meant delaying their marriage five years, most of which he would have to spend abroad—but it meant a pretty fair chance of prosperity. And Fanny said she’'d had enough of the pinch of want in her own childhood, without putting up with it longer, and without possibly forcing their children to put up with it. “So Philip Ballister put his small in- Reritance into business—and - he. did prosper. He spent the five years abroad and came back on the appointed day, & comparatively well-to-do young man of N dy to marry Fanny, who had become a ravishingly beautiful young woman of 23. Fanny, when she saw the suave gentleman that he had be- come, fell in love with him tempestu- ously—and timidly. But she went ahead with her plans, building their home, furnishing it and all. She even reproduced his old studio and furnished it exactly as it was when he had left 4¢ after renouncing.art as his life work. The night before their wedding Fan- my led Philip to his room, where she left him alone with his thoughts. Her hts were tumultuous with love; so when he did not appear next morning she sought his room with alarm. The bachelor bed had not been slept in, Philip was gone, and she found this letter: “I have followed, up to this hour, my fair girl, in the path you have marked out for me. It has brought me back, in this chamber, to the point from which I started under your guidance, and if #t had brought me back unchanged—if 1t had restored me my energy, my hope and my prospect of fante, I should pray Heaven that it would also give me back my love and be content—more than eontent—if it gave me back also my poverty. *“The sight of my easel and of the surroundings of my boyish dreams of gl‘ury have made my heart bitter. They ve given form and voice to & vague unhappiness, which has haunted me through all these absent years—years | of degrading pursuits and wasted pow- ers—and it now impels me from you, kind and lovely as you are, with an aversion I cannot control. “I cannot forgive you. You have thwarted my destiny. You have extin- d with sordid cares a lamp with- me that might by this time have sahone through the world. And what am I since your wishes are accol plished? Enriched in pocket and bank- rupt in happiness and self-respect. ith & heart sick and a brain ach. for distinction, I have come to nored standstill at 30! I am successful business man, and in _this character I shall probably die. Could 1 begin to be a painter now, say you? Alas, my knowledge of the art is too !!-l for patience with the slow hand. oould not draw a line without ir. The pliant fingers and the plastic mind raust keep pace to make progress in art. ‘The tide ebbed from me at the accursed bumlnf of my pencils and brushes, by 'wr pitiless hand, and from that hour have felt hnn receding. “Could I be happy with you, stranded ‘here in ble idleness, and owing to | you the loss of my whole venture of ? No, Fanny, surely no! woul T am sensible of your affection and ‘constancy. planation unwisely till the time piace make it seem more cruel. That not be unnecessarily harsh. I have deferred this ex- and You | NG STORY are this very moment, I well know, awake in your chamber, devoting to me the vigils of & heart overflowing with|DOt share my slow progress toward a tenderness. And I would—if it were possible—1if it were not utterly beyond my powers of self-sacrifice and con- cealment—I would affect a devotion I cannot feel and carry out this error through a life of artifice and monowny.l “But here, again, the work is your own, and my feelings revert bitterly to|am mad and inexcusable, and look upon your interference. If there were mno! other obstacle to my marrying you were not associated repulsively with the dark cloud on my life, you are not the woman * could now enthrone in my bosom. ‘separation which I pleaded against and which you commanded. “I need for my idolatry now a crea- ture to whom the sordid cares you have sacrificed me to are utterly unknown— a woman born and educated in circum- stances where want is never feared and where calculations never enter. I must lavish my wealth, if I fulfill my desire, on one who accepts it like the air she breathes and who knows the value of nothing. beyond love—a bird with a human soul and form, believing herself free of all the world is rich in, and UNION BUS DEPOT 1336 New York Ave. N.W. Phone: Metropolitan 1512-3-4 PEOPLE s Right-Out-of-The-Ocean ng home with s load of cod. ROUGHT fresh to your table! That indescrib- ably delicious flavor of fish that is fresh caught, ish at its very best. The flavor sealed in! 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Where I stop, interdicted by the stain of trade, the su 1 artist is free to enter. You have stamped me plebeian, you would higher sphere, and you have disquali- fled me for attaining it alone. In your mercenary and immovable will, and in that only, lles the secret of our two- fold unhappiness. “I leave you to return to Europe. My brother and my friends will tell you I you as & victim, They will say that to career that I might mark out for my ambition, if ambition I must have, in politics. ~ Politics in a country where/ “But I could not live here. It is my misfortune that my tastes are so modi- fled by that long and compulsory exile that life here would be & perpetual| penance. This unmixed air of mer-| chandise suffocates me. Our own home is_tinctured black with it. You | self in this rural paradi conjured up move in it like a cloud. ‘The counting house rings in your voice, calculation draws together your brows, you look on everything as a means and know its cost, and the calm and means- forgetting fruition which farms the charm and dignity of superior life is utterly unknown to you. “What would be my happiness with such a wife? What would be yours with such a husband? Yet I consider the incompatibility between us as no advantage on my part—on the con-| trary, a punishment, and of your in- flicting. What shali I be, anywhere, but a Tantalus—a fastidious connois- seur, with a thirst for the inaccessible burning in my bosom continually! “I pray you, let us avoid another meeting before my departure. Though I cannot forgive you as a lover, I can think of you with pleasure as a friend, and I give you as your due (‘damages,’ the law would phrase it) the portion of myself which you thought most im- portant when 1 offered you my all. You would not take me without the fortune, but perhaps you will be con- tent with the fortune without me. I shall immediately take steps to convey to you this property you have acquired, for our interest, for yours alone, with an income sufficient” to maintain it, 7 When things look \.\ blacke N S0S 4 LV No extra Soap to bother with just wet the pad and rub! SO.S OFn-Ax. sax. 18, w18 MAGIC SCOURING PADS ! Pots and Par and I trust soon to hear that you have found & husband better worthy of you than your friend— ‘PHILIP BALLISTER."” DRIVE ON MORO OUTLAWS Filipino Constabulary Launches Campaign in Mindanao Island. MANILA, May 15 (#)—The Philip- pine constabulary Tuesday planned s general drive against Moro outlaws on Mindanao Island who recently killed 4 of the constabulary and wounded 10 others. The Moro bombproof fort in the mountains of the Lanao Province was destroyed, but Sultan Mamur has es- tablished a new stronghold. 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