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John Beatty realized that as, attired in a stiff shirt, which gave him a sensation of im- pending asphyxia, and a suit of eve- ning clothes, which made him feel likke a waiter, he stood moodily be- side the door and watched his flancee moving among her guests. He had returned from the west af- ter a three years’ absence. He had gone to make his fortune in the mines, and Molly had said she would ! be true to him. He had made the for- tune and Molly had been true, but ! . ... Well, this' was not the simple, pretty country girl whom he had left three years before. There*was incense in the air, and Beatty llked the incense of - whole- some oxygen. There were three poets present. John' did not mind poets," but these had long, greasy hair and ditry finger-nails. And he positively loathed the black man in the turban, who was holding forth a rapt audi- ence—Molly included—upon the mysteries of Yoga. *“To attain the infinite?”.he was say- ing with a supercilious smile. “It is easy, ladies. Concentrate! Concen- trate, and repeat without cessation the magicsyllable ‘Om.’ Then breathe in lightly through the left nostril, con- centrate all feelings in the center of the spine, and exhale through the al- ternate nostril, meanwhile repeating the magic syllable ‘Om.’'” After that came a lecture upon Eso- teric Buddhism, as set forth by the great seer and sage Patanjall, several hundred centuries before Molly had opened.her pretty eyes in Binghamp- ton, N. Y. After the guests had gone John Beatty stood facing Molly alone. He “Night and Day, Forever, | Dream of You> was sick at heart and angry words rose to his lips. “Don't you see, Molly, this {sn't real?” he was saying. “It isn’t whole- some. That black man—" “You mean Mr. Ramsammy Chun. dra Ghee?” inquired Molly, with omin- ous calm, “I do,” sald Beatty. “I don’t like to see you mixed up with a crowd of fakers like those, dear. If he wants to concentrate on the infinite let him do his breathing exercises in some good gymnasium. Why, Molly, there {sn't a real man or woman among all that crowd. You seem to have changed—" “Yes, 1 have changed, John,” an- swered Molly. “I have found myself. And you haven't changed. You have lost yourself in the whirl of warldly interests. It isn’t any use, John. We could never be happy together. I want to live in the soul, to have my apiritual freedom. We could never be happy together.” “You want to break our engage- ment?” asked Beatty coldly. She looked at him, half in terror. Ia ithe strong lineaments of his face she remembered the man who had won her love, of whom she had dreamed during the first of those three years that had elapsed since their passionate farewell—before she ‘had fallen into the ways and habits of her new friends. She put out her hands, “John—* she breathed. John clasped her in his arms. “God bless you, Molly,” he sald. “But it isa't any use. Only if you grow tired—if you want me at any time, anywhepe, you'll let me know, won't you?” Then he was gone, and Molly was slone in the imcense-scented room with the idol of Buddha in one corner and the Japanese screen in the other, and the barbaric, Oriental couch cover and Turkish pillows and all the other paraphernalia of the mise-en-scene. Her thoughts went back to those first days when she had come to New York- She bad met John in a com- monplace boarding house where there was no Ramsammy Ghee and nobody bhad heard of Buddha, and they ate steak smothered in onions and breathed through both nostrils simultaneously and never thought of their spines. And yet those had been days of perfect happiness. Now— wape . . - G2 o . A ring at the bell aroused her from her reverie. She glanced at the clock. « It was nearly midnight. Who could want her at such an hour? Perhaps it was John! Her face hardened. Her wavering mood impelled her thoughts to bitterness. She would send him about his business. She opened the door. The Indian was standing upon the | threshold. At the sight of him her face softened. “You left something, 'Mr. Rame sammy Ghee?” she asked. Ramsammy entered after her and closed the door behind him. He turned toward her and held out his arms, “Yes,” he whispered hoarsely. *I left you, my moonflower, my perfect pearl. I could not go home wuntil I had told you that I love you. leht! and day, forever I dream of you. With you beside me I would seat myself 1.11)-| on my peacock throne in my own land and dream away blisstul hours, im- mersed in the creative principle of the sixth sphere, my bride, my seraph.” Molly recofled in horror. She had always associated Ramsammy with | unearthly detachment and philosophie serenity, with the mystic Om and all that it denoted. And here he, was talking like—a lover? No, like & drunkard. There was a quite unmis takable smell upon his breath, and all at once she understood why Ramsammy was 80 very partial to in- cense, “Will you come with me and be my bride, lotos-flower ™ inquired the black man eagerly. And without waiting for the lotos-flower to answer he clasped her in his arms. And Molly, over come with aversion, screamed as vul garly as any ordinary maiden. “Oh, I hate you! Go away!” she cried, “Johm! John!" The answer was immediate, With a crash the door came off its hinges, and Mr. John Beatty stood in the en- trance. His stocky figure, in evening dress, the total absence of anything esthetic or esoteric, had never seemed more welcome, With a leap he was upon the black man, and before he quite knew what had occurred Ramsammy was recejve | Ing a long deferred and long needed trouncing., John Beatty did not strike | } POST 33, 6. A. B. too hard. He propelled the black man toward the door with a series of welldirected kicks, got him®into the passage, thrust him into the street, and, with a parting hoist, de- posited him upon the sidewalk. Then he turned back into the apartment. Molly was weeping pititully as she crouched on the Turkish lounge. “I—1 saw that black skunk turn back, Molly, and I suspected some- thing,” John explained. “So I waited outside to make sure that it was all right. You aren't angry with me, dear?” “Angry, John?” she answered, look- ing up. “Oh, John, can you ever for- give me?” John sat down beside her and took her hand in his. “Molly, dear,” he sald, “I guess you didn't understand—that's all. When a man’s knocked about the world he somehow feels things. I knew that fel- low was & cur, and yet I couldn't put it into words. Molly, it you'll marry me, you shall have a different poet every night to supper, as long as his hands are clean. But I guess we'll let¢ Ramsammy do his breathing stunts elsewhere. What do you say?” “All right, John,” answered Molly. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) Dowdy and Unsympathetic. “Broadly speaking,” declares a prominent English woman, “New York women gre dowdy. ¢ Limply. hanging skirts and badly fitting coats are as common as blackberries among the poorer sections, while the taste of the wealthier women often is excrable. Freak fashions from which a French woman would recoil in horror are ac- cepted with complacency by the moneyed matrons of New York. Here and there in the mad medley of color one sees an example of exquisite taste, and it is these rare exceptions, no doubt, which have given the Américan woman the reputation she possesses for smartness and chie. “When a New York woman is beau- tiful she 18 very beautiful, but she lacks poetry and sympathy. She has not suffered enough. There i8 no sug- gestion of softness or subtlety about her. Her lips are too thin and her eyes too hard.” Convivial Clerk. Rev. H. P. Ditchfield tells in the June Treasury some more stories abeut parish clerks. His own little church at Barkham was many years ago the scene of a deplorable episode. It was not unknown that the clerk on occasions used to patronize the village inn, which was kept by a parish wor thy, Mrs. Collyer. One Sunday after noon, when the weather was warm, and the sermon long, the clerk slept and dreamed. He imagined himself the center of an admiring company at the village inn. Hence, when the ser moa was ended and the ascription said, and he was expected to utter a loud and sonorous “Amen,” he startled | - the congregation by shouting “Fill 'em again, Mrs. Collyer; fill 'em again.” The congregation naturallv was some- what scandalized.—Westminster Ga- zette. ’ ' An Afterthought. “I have just been reading another list of rules for living a hundred) years.” “Stuff and nonsensel” “Maybe you are tight. 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