The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. [18], Ed. 1 Friday, June 2, 1893 Page: 2 of 6
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CHAPTER V.
A NATAL CCNqCEST,
It was the habit of the doctor anfl the
admiral to accompany each other upon •
morning ramble between breakfast and
lunch. The dwellers in those quiet tree
lined roods were accustomed to see the
two figures—the long, thin, austere sea-
man and the short, bustling, tweed clad
physician—pass and repass with such
regularity that a stopped clock has been
reset by them. The admiral took two
steps to Ms companion’s three, but the
younger man was the quicker, and both
were eqttifl to a good 44 miles an hour.
It wsa a i<>vely summer day which fob
lowed the events which have been de-
scribed. The sky was of the deepest
blue, with a few white fleecy clouds
drifting busily across it, and the air was
filled with the low drone of insects or
with a sudden sharper note as bee or
bine fly shot post with its quivering long
drawn hum, like an insect tuning fork.
As the Mends topped each rise which
.eads up to the Crystal palace they
could see the dtia clouds of London
stretching along the northern sky line,
with spire or dome breaking through tho
low lying base. The dtttire] was in high
spirits, for the morning post had brought
good news of his son.
“It is wonderful. Walker,” he was say-
ing, “positively wonderful, the way that
boy of mine has gone ahead during the
last three years. We heard from Pear-
son today. Pearson is the senior part-
ner. you know, and my boy the junior—
Pearson A Denver the firm. Canning
old dog is Pearson, as cute and as greedy
as a Rio shark. Yet he goes off for a
fortnight’s leave and puts my boy in fnll
charge, with all that immense buainees
in his hands, and a free hand to do what
he likes with It. How’s that for confi-
dence. and he only three years noon
chahger
"Anyone would confide in him. Hit
face is a surety," said the doctor.
“Co on, Walker." The admiral dug
hia elbow at him. "You know my weak
side. Still it’s truth all the <«« I’ve
been blessed with a good wife and a good
son, and maybe I relish them the more
for having been cut off from them so
long. I have much to be thankful for."
“And so have L The best two girle
that ever stepped. There’s Clam, who
hhs learned as much medicine as would
give her the L. & A., simply in order
that she may sympathize with me in my
work But. hullo, what is this coming
along?"
“All drawing and the wind astern!"
cried the admiral. “Fourteen knots if
it’s one. Why. by George, it ia that
woman T
A rolling cloud of yellow dust had
streamed round the carve of the road,
and from the heart of it had emerged a
high tandem tHcyde flying along at a
breakneck pace. In front sat Mrs. West
maoott clad In aheather tweed pea Jacket,
a skirt which just passed her kneee and
a pair of thick gaiters of the same ma-
terial. She had a great bundle of rod
I tapers under lur arm, while Charles,
who sat behind her clad in Norfolk
jacket and knickerbockers, bore a simi-
lar role protruding from either pocket.
Even as they watched, the pair eased np,
the lady sprang off, impaled one of her
bills upon the garden railing of an empty
house, and then jumping on to her seat
again was about to hurry onward when
her nephew called her attention to th<
two gentlemen upon the footpath.
“Oh, now, really I didn't notice you,"
said she, taking a few turns of the treadle
and steering the machine across to them.
“Is it not a beautiful morning?"
“Lovely," answered the doctor. “You
seem to be very busy."
“I am very busy." She pointed to the
colored paper which still fluttered from
the railing. “We have been pushing our
propaganda, you see. Charles and I have
been at it since 7 o’clock. It is about
our meeting. I wish it to be a great suc-
cess. See!” She smoothed out one of
the bills, and the doctor read his own
name in (Teat black letters across the
bottom.
“We don’t forget onr chairman, yon
see. Everybody is coming. Those two
dear little old maids opposite, the Wil-
liamses, held out some time, but I have
their promise now. Admiral. I am sure
that yon wish us well."
“Hum! I wish you no harm, ma’am."
“You will come on the platform?"
“Ill be—. No.I don’t think I can do
that."
" j'o oar meeting, then?"
“No, ma’am. I don’t go out after din-
- “Qh, m you will come. I will call
In If I may and chat it oror with you
when yon oome heme. We have not
breakfasted yet Woodbyl" There wot
n wWt of wheels, and the yellow cloud
rolled away down the rood again. By
some legerdemain the admiral found that
he was clutching in his right hand ons
of the obnoxious bills. He crumpled it
up and threw it Into the roadway.
“HI be hanged If I go, Walker," said
he aa he resumed his walk. ’Tve never
been hustled into doing a thing yet,
whether by woman or man.”
"I’m not a betting man,” answered the
doctor, “bet I rather think that the odds
are in favor of your going.”
The admiral hod hardly got hn«ut and
bad just seated himself In his dining
room when the attack upon him was re-
newed. He was slowly and lovingly un-
folding The Times preparatory to the
long read which led up to luncheon, and
had even got so far as to fasten his gold-
en pince-nez on to his thin, high bridged
noee, when he heard a scrunching of
gravel, and looking over the top pf his
paper saw Mrs. Westmacott coming up
the garden walk. 8be was still dressed
in the singular costume which offended
the sailor's old. fashioned notions of pro-
priety, but he could not deny os he
looked at her that she was a very fine
woman, in many ciimee he had looked
upon women of all shade* and' ogee,
but never upon a more clear cut, hand-
some face, nor a more erect, supple
and womanly figure. He ceased to'
glower as he gazed upon her, and tho \
frown was smoothed away from his
ragged brow.
“May I oome in?" said she, framing
herself in the open window, with a back-
ground of greensward and bine sky. “I
feel like an invader deep in an enemy's
country."
“It isa very welcome Invasion, ma'am,"
said he, clearing bis throat and palling at
his collar. "Try this garden chair. What
ia there that 1 can do for you? Ht»«n {
ring and let Mrs. Denver know that yon
are barer
“Pray do not trouble, admiral. 1 only
looked in with reference to our little chat
this morning. I wish that you would
give os your powerful support at our
coming meeting for the improvement of
the condition of woman."
“No. ma’am. 1 oeu’t do'that," He
pursed up his lips and shook his grizzled
head.
some little ray of bop», some ohonoe,
howerar distant, of something better
we are told by chivalrous gentlemen that
it is against their principles to help."
The admiral winced, but shook his
head in dissent.
“Thereare banking, the law, veterinary
surgery, government offices, the civil
service, all those at least should be thrown
frtely open to women if they have brains
enough so compete successfully for them.
Then If woman were unsuccessful it
would be her own fault, and the major-
ity of the population of this oonntry
could no longer complain that they live
under a different law from tljo minority,
and that they are held down in poverty
and serfdom, with every road to inde-
pendence sealed to them.”
“What would you propose to do,
ma’am?"
"To aet the more obvious injustices
right, and so to pav* the way for a re-
form. Now, look at that man digging in
the Held. I know him. He can neither
read nor write, he ia steeped In whisky,
and he has as much intelligence as the
potatoes that he is digging. Yet the mat.
A Question
A Greet Record
For You
Oood Advice
has n vote, can possibly turn the scale of
an election and may help to decide tho
policy of this empire. Now, to take the
nearest example, here ur. 1, a woman
who haa had apme education, who has
traveled, and who haa seen and studied
the institutions of many countries, f
hold considerable property, and I pay
more in imperial taxes than that man
spends in whisky, which ia laying n
great deal, mod yet I have no more direct
influence upon the disposal of the money
which l pay than that fly which creeps
along the wall Is that right? Is it
fairT Cr
The admiral moved uneasily in his
chair. “Yours is an exceptional cafe."
said he.
“But no woman has a voice. Consider
that the women are a majority in the na-
tion Yet tf -’here was a question of leg-
islation upon which alt the women were
agreed upon one side and all the men
upon the other, it would appear that f-hs
matter was settled unanimously when
more than half the population were op-
posed to it Ia that right?*'
Agnii. .he admiral wriggled, ft was
vary awkward tor the gallant seaman to
have a handsome woman opposite to
him bombarding him with questions to
none of which he could find an answer.
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D. J. Moevjtt
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ioue or wrii cd tie couiu find w
'Couldn't even get the Kompic
ia gums," aa be explained the
"But. hullo, u.VU j* this coming alorujT’
"•'And why not?" ,
“Against my principles, ma’am.”
“But why?"
“Becauae woman has her dutiea. and
man has hia I may be old fashioned,
but that ia my view. Why, what ia the
world coming to? i was saying to Dr.
Walker only laot night that we shall
have a woman wanting to command the
Channel fleet next"
“That la one of the few profewdons
which cannot be improved,” said Mm
Westmacott, with her sweetest smile.
“Poor woman most still look to man for
protection."
“I don’t like those new fangled Ideas,
ma'am. I tell yon honestly that I don’t
I like discipline, and I think every one is
the better for it Women have got a
great deal which they had not ia the
daya of our fathers. They have univer-
sities all for themselves, I am told, and
there are women doctors, I hear. Surety
they should rest contented. What more
can they want?"
‘"You are a sailor, and sailor are al-
ways chivalrous. If yon could see bow
things really, are yon would change your
opinion. What are the poor things to
do? There are so many of them and so
few things to which they can turn thet-
ilands. Governesses? But there are
hardly any situationa Music and draw-
ing? There is not one in fifty who has
any special talent In that direction. Med-
icine? It io still surrounded with diffi-
culties for women, and it taken many
years and a small fortune to qualify.
Nursing? It is hard work ill paid, and
none bnt the strongest can stand it
What would you have them do then,
admiral? Sit down and starve?”
“Tut, tutt It is not so bad aa that."
“The pressure is terrible. Advertise
for a lady companion at 10 shillings a
week, which ia ieaa than a cook’s wage,
and, see how many answers you get
" is no hope, no outlook, for these
ling thousands. Life is a dull,
iggle, leading down to k cheer-
hiaguue,__
the doctor that evening.
“Now. those aw really tiro points that
we shall lay stress upon at the meeting.
The free and complete opening of tbe pro-
fessions. the final abolition of thesenana,
1 coil it, and the franchise to all women
who pay queen's taxes above a certain
sum. Barely there i* nothing unreason-
able in that—nothing which conk) offend
your principles. We shall have medi-
cine, law and tbe church, all rallying
that night for the protection of woman.
Is the navy to be the one profession ab-
sent?"
Tbe admiral jumped out of his chair
with an evit word in his throat ’There,
there, ma'am." he cried. “Drop it for a
tiroa. 1 have heard enough. You've
turned me a-point or two. I won’t denv
It Bnt let it stand at that I will think
it qrvr.”
CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE.
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