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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Loveliness, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
+Illustrated by Sarah S. Stilwell
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+Title: Loveliness
+       A Story
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+Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
+
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+Release Date: April 25, 2011  [eBook #35966]
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+Language: English
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+[Illustration: LOVELINESS]
+
+
+LOVELINESS
+
+A Story
+
+by
+
+ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS
+
+
+
+  "Be my benediction said,
+   With my hand upon thy head,
+     Gentle fellow-creature!"
+            E. B. BROWNING.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Boston and New York
+Houghton, Mifflin and Company
+The Riverside Press, Cambridge
+1900
+
+The Illustrations Are by Sarah S. Stilwell
+
+Copyright, 1899, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
+and Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
+All Rights Reserved
+
+
+
+
+_For the smoke of their torment ascendeth._
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+                                                       PAGE
+
+    LOVELINESS                              _Frontispiece_
+
+    THE MAID STOOD LOOKING IDLY ABOUT                   14
+
+    "TILL LOVELINESS COMES HOME"                        20
+
+    THROUGH THE BENDING SHRUBBERY                       40
+
+
+
+
+LOVELINESS.
+
+
+Loveliness sat on an eider-down cushion embroidered with cherry-colored
+puppies on a pearl satin cover. The puppies had gold eyes. They were
+drinking a saucer of green milk. Loveliness wore a new necktie, of
+cherry, a shade or two brighter than the puppies, and a pearl-gray, or
+one might call it a silver-gray jacket. He was sitting in the broad
+window sill, with his head tipped a little, thoughtfully, towards the
+left side, as the heads of nervous people are said to incline. He was
+dreamily watching the street, looking for any one of a few friends of
+his who might pass by, and for the letter-carrier, who was somewhat
+late.
+
+Loveliness had dark, brilliant eyes, remarkably alert, but reflective
+when in repose. Part of their charm lay in the fact that one must watch
+for their best expression; for Loveliness wore bangs. He had a small and
+delicate nose, not guiltless of an aristocratic tip, with a suspicion of
+a sniff at the inferior orders of society. In truth, Loveliness was an
+aristocrat to the end of his tongue, which curled daintily against his
+opalescent teeth. At this moment it lay between his teeth, and hung
+forward as if he held a roseleaf in his lips; and this was the final
+evidence of his birth and breeding.
+
+For Loveliness was a little dog; a silver Yorkshire, blue of blood and
+delicately reared,--a tiny creature, the essence of tenderness; set,
+soul and body, to one only tune. To love and to be beloved,--that was
+his life. He knew no other, nor up to this time could he conceive of any
+other; for he was as devotedly beloved as he was passionately loving.
+His brain was in his heart. In saying this one does not question the
+quality of the brain, any more than one does in saying a similar thing
+of a woman. Indeed, considered as an intellect, his was of the highest
+order known to his race. Loveliness would have been interesting as a
+psychological study, had he not been absorbing as an affectional
+occupation. His family and friends often said, "How clever!" but not
+until after they had said, "How dear he is!" The order of precedence in
+this summary of character is the most enviable that can be experienced
+by human beings. But the dog took it as a matter of course.
+
+This little creature loved a number of people on a sliding scale of
+intimacy, carefully guarded, as the intimacies of the high-born usually
+are; but one he loved first, most, best of all, and profoundly. I have
+called him Loveliness because it was the pet name, the "little name,"
+given to him by this person. In point of fact, he answered to a variety
+of appellations, more or less recognized by society; of these the most
+lawful and the least agreeable to himself was Mop. It was a disputed
+point whether this were an ancestral name, or whether he had received it
+from the dog store, whence he had emerged at the beginning of
+history,--the shaggiest, scrubbiest, raggedest, wildest little terrier
+that ever boasted of a high descent.
+
+People of a low type, those whose imagination was bounded by menial
+similes, or persons of that too ready inclination to the humorous which
+fails to consider the possible injustice or unkindness that it may
+involve, had in Mop's infancy found a base pleasure in attaching to him
+such epithets as window-washer, scrubbing-brush, feather-duster, and
+footmuff. But these had not adhered. Loveliness had. It bade fair, at
+the time of our story, to outlive every other name.
+
+The little dog had both friends and acquaintances on the street where
+the professor lived; and he watched for them from his cushion in the
+window, hours at a time. There was the cabman, the academic-looking
+cabman, who was the favorite of the faculty, and who hurrahed and
+snapped his whip at the Yorkshire as he passed by; there was the newsboy
+who brought the Sunday papers, and who whistled at Loveliness, and made
+faces, and called him Mop.
+
+To-day there was a dark-faced man, a stranger, standing across the
+street, and regarding the professor's house with the unpleasant look of
+the foreign and ill-natured. This man had eyebrows that met in a
+straight, black line upon his forehead, and he wore a yellow jersey. The
+dog threw back his supercilious little head and barked at the yellow
+jersey severely. But at that moment he saw the carrier, who ran up the
+steps laughing, and brought a gumdrop in a sealed envelope addressed to
+Loveliness. There was a large mail that afternoon, including a pile of
+pamphlets and circulars of the varied description that haunts
+professors' houses. Kathleen, the parlor maid,--another particular
+friend of the terrier's--took the mail up to the study, but dropped one
+of the pamphlets on the stairs. The dog rebuked her carelessness (after
+he had given his attention to the carrier's gumdrop) by picking the
+pamphlet up and bringing it back to the window seat, where he opened
+and dog-eared it with a literary manner for a while, until suddenly
+he forgot it altogether, and dropped it on the floor, and sprang,
+bounding. For the dearest person in the world had called him in a
+whisper,--"Love-li-ness!" And the dearest face in the world appeared
+above him and melted into laughing tenderness. "Loveliness! Where's my
+_Love_-li-ness?"
+
+A little girl had come into the room, a girl of between five and six
+years, but so small that one would scarcely have guessed her to be
+four,--a beautiful child, but transparent of coloring, and bearing in
+her delicate face the pathetic patience which only sick children, of all
+human creatures, ever show. She was exquisitely formed, but one little
+foot halted and stepped weakly on the thick carpet. Her organs of speech
+were perfect in mechanism, but often she did not speak quite aloud.
+Sometimes, on her weaker days, she carried a small crutch. They called
+her Adah.
+
+She came in without her crutch that afternoon; she was feeling quite
+strong and happy. The little dog sprang to her heart, and she crooned
+over him, sitting beside him on the window seat and whispering in her
+plaintive voice: "Love-li-ness! I can't live wivout you anover _min_ute,
+Loveliness! I can't _live_ wivout you!"
+
+She put her head down on the pearl-gray satin pillow with the cherry
+puppies, and the dog put his face beside hers. He was kept as sweet and
+clean as his little mistress, and he had no playfellow except herself,
+and never went away from home unless at the end of a gray satin ribbon
+leash. At all events, the two _would_ occupy the same pillow, and all
+idle effort to struggle with this fact had ceased in the household.
+Loveliness sighed one of the long sighs of perfect content recognized by
+all owners and lovers of dogs as one of the happiest sounds in this sad
+world, and laid his cheek to hers quietly. He asked nothing more of
+life. He had forgotten the world and all that was therein. He looked no
+longer for the cabman, the newsboy, or the carrier, and the man with the
+eyebrows had gone away. The universe did not exist; he and she were
+together. Heaven had happened. The dog glanced through half-closed,
+blissful eyes at the yellow hair--"eighteen carats fine"--that fell
+against his silver bangs. His short ecstatic breath mingled with the
+gentle breathing of the child. She talked to him in broken rhapsodies. She
+called him quaint, pet names of her own,--"Dearness" and "Daintiness,"
+"Mopsiness" and "Preciousness," and "Dearest-in-the-World," and who knew
+what besides? Only the angels who are admitted to the souls of children
+and the hearts of little dogs could have understood that interview.
+
+No member of the professor's household ever interfered with the
+attachment between the child and the dog, which was set apart as one of
+the higher facts in the family life. Indeed, it had its own page of
+sacred history, which read on this wise:--
+
+When Adah was a walking baby, two and a half years before the time of
+which we tell, the terrier was in the first proud flush of enthusiasm
+which an intelligent dog feels in the mastery of little feats and
+tricks. Of these he had a varied and interesting repertoire. His
+vocabulary, too, was large. At the date of our story it had reached one
+hundred and thirty words. It was juvenile and more limited at the time
+when the sacred page was written, but still beyond the average canine
+proficiency. Loveliness had always shown a genius for the English
+language. He could not speak it, but he tried harder than any other dog
+I ever knew to do so; and he grew to understand with ease an incredibly
+large part of the usual conversation of the family. It could never be
+proved that he followed--or did not follow--the professor of psychology
+in a discussion on the Critique of Pure Reason; but his mental grasp of
+ordinary topics was alert and logical. He sneezed when he was cold and
+wanted a window shut, and barked twice when his delicate china water-cup
+was empty. When the fire department rang by, or a stove in the house was
+left on draught too long, and he wished to call attention to the
+circumstance, he barked four times. Besides the commonplace
+accomplishments of turning somersaults, being a dead dog, sitting up to
+beg for things, and shaking hands, Loveliness had some attainments
+peculiar to himself.
+
+One of these was in itself scientifically interesting. This luxurious,
+daintily fed little creature, who had never known an hour's want nor any
+deprivation that he could remember, led by the blind instinct of
+starving, savage ancestors skulking in forests where the claw and tooth
+of every living thing were against every other, conscientiously sought
+to bury, against future exigencies, any kind of food for which he had no
+appetite. The remnants of his dog biscuit, his saucer of weak tea, an
+unpalatable dinner, alike received the treatment given to the bare bone
+of his forefathers when it was driven into the ground.
+
+Anything served the purpose of the earth,--the rough, wild earth of
+whose real nature the house pet knew so little. A newspaper, a glove, a
+handkerchief, a sheet of the professor's manuscript, a hearth brush, or
+a rug would answer. Drag these laboriously, and push them perseveringly
+to their places! Cover the saucer or the plate from sight with a solemn
+persistence that the starving, howling ancestor would have respected!
+Thus Loveliness recognized the laws of heredity. But the corners of rugs
+were, and remained, the favorite burying sod.
+
+On that black day when the baby girl had used her white apron by way of
+blowers before the reluctant nursery fire, the little dog was alone in
+the room with her. It had so happened.
+
+Suddenly, through the busy house resounded four shrill, staccato barks.
+In the vocabulary of Loveliness this meant, "Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!"
+Borne with them came the terrible cries of the child. When the mother
+and the nursemaid got to the spot, the baby was ablaze from her white
+apron to her yellow hair. She was writhing on the floor. The terrier,
+his own silver locks scorching, and his paws in the flame, was trying to
+cover his young mistress with the big Persian rug, in itself a load for
+a collie. He had so far succeeded that the progress of the flames had
+been checked.
+
+For years the professor speculated on the problems raised by this
+tremendous incident. Whether the Yorkshire regarded the fire as a
+superfluity, like a dinner one does not want,--but that was far-fetched.
+Whether he knew that wool puts out fire,--but that was incredible.
+Whether this, that, or the other, no man could say, or ever has. Perhaps
+the intellect of the dog, roused to its utmost by the demand upon his
+heart, blindly leaped to its most difficult exertion. It was always hard
+to cover things with rugs. In this extremity one must do the hardest. Or
+did sheer love teach him to choose, in a moment that might have made a
+fool or a lunatic of a man, the only one or two of several processes
+which could by any means reach the emergency?
+
+At all events, the dog saved the child. And she became henceforth the
+saint and idol of the family, and he its totem and its hero. The two
+stood together in one niche above the household altar. It was impossible
+to separate them. But after that terrible hour little Adah was as she
+was: frail, uncertain of step, scarred on the pearl of her neck and the
+rose of her cheek; not with full command of her voice; more nervously
+deficient than organically defective,--but a perfect being marred. Her
+father said, "She goeth lame and lovely."
+
+On the afternoon when our story began, the child and the Yorkshire sat
+cuddled together in the broad window seat for a long time. Blessedness
+sat with them. Adah talked in low love tones, using a language as
+incomprehensible to other people as the tongue in which the dog replied
+to her. They carried on long conversations, broken only by caresses, and
+by barks of bliss or jets of laughter. The child tired herself with
+laughing and loving, and the dog watched her; he did not sleep; he
+silently lapped the fingers of her little hand that lay like a cameo
+upon the silken cushion.
+
+Some one came in and said in a low voice: "She is tired out. She must
+have her supper and be put to bed."
+
+Afterwards it was remembered that she clung to Loveliness and cried a
+little, foolishly; fretting that she did not want her supper, and
+demanding that the dog should go up to bed with her and be put at once
+into his basket by her side. This was gently refused.
+
+"You shall see him in the morning," they told her. Kathleen put the
+little dog down forcibly from the arms of the child, who wailed at the
+separation. She called back over the balusters: "_Love_-li-ness!
+Good-by, Loveliness! When we're grown up, we'll _al_ways be togever,
+Loveliness!"
+
+The dog barked rebelliously for a few minutes; then sighed, and accepted
+the situation. He ran back and picked up the pamphlet which Kathleen had
+dropped, and carried it upstairs to the professor's study, where he laid
+it on the lowest shelf of the revolving bookcase. The professor glanced
+at the dog-eared pages and smiled. The pamphlet was one of the
+innumerable throng issued by some philanthropic society devoted to
+improving the condition of animals.
+
+When Kathleen came downstairs she found the dog standing at the front
+door, patiently asking that it might be opened for him. She went down
+the steps; for it was the rule of the house never to allow the most
+helpless member of the family at liberty unguarded. The evening was
+soft, and the maid stood looking idly about. A man in a yellow jersey,
+and with straight, black eyebrows, was on the other side of the street;
+but he did not look over. The suburban town was still and pleasant;
+advancing spring was in the air; no one was passing; only a negro boy
+lolled on the old-fashioned fence, and shouted: "Hi! Yi! Yi! Look a' dem
+crows carryin' off a b'iled pertater 'n' a piecer squushed pie!"
+
+[Illustration: THE MAID STOOD LOOKING IDLY ABOUT]
+
+Kathleen, for very vacuity of mind, turned to look. Neither potatoes nor
+squash pie were to be seen careering through the skies; nor, in fact,
+were there any crows.
+
+"I'll have yez arrested for sarse and slander!" cried Kathleen
+vigorously.
+
+But the negro boy had disappeared. So had the man in the yellow jersey.
+
+"Where's me dog?" muttered Kathleen. It was dipping dusk; it was
+deepening to dark. She called. Loveliness was an obedient little fellow
+always; but he did not reply. The maid called again; she examined the
+front yard and the premises,--slowly, for she was afraid to go in and
+tell. With the imbecility of the timid and the erring, she took too much
+time in a fruitless and unintelligent search before she went, trembling,
+into the house. Kathleen felt that this was the greatest emergency that
+had occurred since the baby was burned. She went straight to the
+master's door.
+
+"God have mercy on me, but I've lost the little dog, sir!"
+
+The professor wheeled around in his study chair.
+
+"There was a nigger and a squashed crow--but indeed I never left the
+little dog, as you bid me, sir--I never left him for the space of me
+breath between me lips--and when I draws it in the little dog warn't
+nowhere.... Oh, whatever'll _she_ say? Whatever'll _she_ do? Mother of
+God, forgive me soul! Who'll tell _her_?"
+
+Who indeed?
+
+The professor of psychology turned as pale as the paper on which he was
+about to write his next famous and inexplicable lecture. He pushed by
+Kathleen and sprang for his hat.
+
+But the child's mother had already run out, bareheaded, into the street,
+calling the dog as she ran. Nora, the cook, left the dinner to burn, and
+followed. Kathleen softly shut the nursery door, "So _she_ won't hear,"
+and, sobbing, crept downstairs. The family gathered as if under the
+black wing of an unspeakable tragedy. They scoured the premises and the
+street, while the professor rang in the police call. But Loveliness was
+not to be found.
+
+The carrier came by, on his way home after his day's work was over.
+
+"Great Scott!" he cried. "I'd rather have lost a month's pay. Does _she_
+know?"
+
+The newsboy trotted up, and stopped whistling.
+
+"Hully gee!" he said. "What'll the little _gell_ dew?"
+
+The popular cabman came by; he was driving the president, who let down
+the window and asked what had happened. The driver uttered a mild and
+academic oath.
+
+"Me 'n' my horse, we're at your disposal as soon as me and the president
+have got to faculty meeting."
+
+But the president of the University of St. George put his long legs out
+of the carriage, and bowed the professor into it.
+
+"The cab is at your service now," he said anxiously, "and so am I. They
+can get along without us for a while, to-night. Anything that I can do
+to help you, Professor Premice, in this--real calamity--How does the
+child bear it?"
+
+"Poor little kid!" muttered the cabman. "And to think how I used to snap
+my whip at 'em in the window!"
+
+"An' how I used to bring him candy, contrary to the postal laws!" sighed
+the carrier. The cab driver and the postman spoke as if the dog and the
+child were both already dead.
+
+The group broke slowly and sadly at last. The mother and the maids crept
+tearfully into the house. The professor, the carrier, the newsboy, and
+the president threw themselves into the matter as if they had been
+hunting for a lost child. The president deferred his engagement at the
+faculty meeting for two hours,--which gave about time for a faculty
+meeting to get under way. The professor and the cab driver and the
+police ransacked the town till nearly dawn. It began to rain, and the
+night grew chilly. The carrier went home, looking like a man in the
+shade of a public calamity. The newsboy ran around in the storm,
+shadowing all the negro boys he met, and whistling for Loveliness in
+dark places where low-bred curs answered him, and yellow mongrels
+snarled at his soaked heels. But the professor had the worst of it; for
+when he came in, drenched and tired, in the early morning, a little
+figure in a lace-trimmed nightgown stood at the head of the stairs,
+waiting for him.
+
+The professor gave one glance at the child's face, and instinctively
+covered his own. He could not bear to look at her.
+
+"Papa," said Adah, limping down the stairs, "where is Loveliness? I
+can't find him! Oh, I _can_not find him! And nobody will tell me where
+he's gone to. Papa? I arxpect _you_ to tell me 'e trufe. WHERE is my
+Loveliness?"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Her mother could not comfort or control her. She clung to her father's
+heart the remainder of the night; moaning at intervals, then unnaturally
+and piteously still. The rain dashed on the windows, for the storm
+increased; the child shrank and shivered.
+
+"He's _never_ been out in 'e rain, Papa! He will be wet--and frightened.
+Papa, who will give him his little baxet, and cover him up warm? Papa!
+Papa! who will be _kind_ to Loveliness?"
+
+In the broad daylight Adah fell into a short sleep. She woke with a
+start and a cry, and asked for the dog. "He'll come home to breakfust,"
+she said, with quivering lip. "Tell Nora to have some sugar on his mush
+when he comes home."
+
+But Loveliness did not come home to breakfast. The child refused to eat
+her own. She hurried down and crept to the broad window seat, to watch
+the street. When she saw the empty gray satin cushion, she flung herself
+face down with a heart-rending cry.
+
+"Papa! Papa! Papa! I never had a 'fliction before. Oh, Papa, my heart
+will break itself apart. Papa, can't you know enough to comfort you
+little girl? I can't _live_ wivout my Loveliness. Oh, Papa! Papa!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This was in the decline of March. The winds went down, and the rains
+came on. The snow slid from the streets of the university town, and
+withdrew into dingy patches about the roots of trees and fences, and in
+the shady sides of cold back yards. The mud yawned ankle-deep, and
+dried, and was not, and was dust beneath the foot. Crocuses blazed in
+the gardens of the faculty,--royal purple, gold, and wax-white lamps
+set in the young and vivid grass. The sun let down his mask and looked
+abroad, and it was April. The newsboy, the carrier and the cab-driver
+laughed for very joy of living. But when they passed the professor's
+house they did not laugh. It came on to be the heart and glory of the
+spring, and the warm days melted into May. But the little dog had not
+been found.
+
+The professor had exhausted hope and ingenuity in the dreary quest. The
+State, one might say without exaggeration, had been dragged for that
+tiny dumb thing,--seven pounds' weight of life and tenderness. Money had
+been poured like love upon the vain endeavor. Rewards of reckless
+proportion appealed from public places and from public columns to the
+blank eyes that could not or did not read. The great detective force,
+whose name is familiar from sea to sea, had supplemented the useless
+search of the local police and of the city press. And all had equally
+failed. The "dog banditti" had done their work too well.
+
+Loveliness had sunk out of sight like forgotten suffering in a scene of
+joy.
+
+In the window seat, propped with white pillows, "lame and lovely," Adah
+sat. The empty embroidered gray cushion lay beside her. Sometimes she
+patted the red puppies softly with one thin little hand; she allowed no
+one else to touch the cushion.
+
+"Till Loveliness comes home," she said. In the window, silent, pale, and
+seeing everything, she watched. But Loveliness did not come home.
+
+[Illustration: "TILL LOVELINESS COMES HOME"]
+
+The pitiful thing was that the child herself was so changed. She had
+wasted to a little wraith. For some time she had not walked without her
+crutch. Now she scarcely walked at all. At the first she had sobbed a
+good deal, in downright childish fashion; then she wept silently; but
+now she did not cry any more,--she did but watch. Her sight had grown
+unnaturally keen, like that of pilots; she gazed out of great eyes,
+bright, and dry, and solemn. Already she had taken on the look of
+children whose span of time is to be short. She weakened visibly.
+
+At first, her father took her out with him in the cab, so she should
+feel that she was conducting the search herself. But she had grown too
+feeble for this exertion. Sometimes, on such drives, she saw cruel
+sights,--animals suffering at the black tempers of men or the
+diabolic jests of boys; and she was hurried home, shivering and sobbing.
+When night came she would ask for the Yorkshire's bed to be put beside
+her own, and with trembling fingers would draw up the crimson blankets
+over the crimson mattress, as if the dog had been between them. Then she
+would ask the question that haunted her most:--
+
+"Mamma, who will put Loveliness into a little baxet to sleep, and cover
+him up? Papa, Papa, will they be _kind_ to Loveliness?"
+
+Stormy nights and days were always the hardest.
+
+"Will Loveliness be out and get wet? Will he shiver like 'e black dog I
+saw to-day? Will he have warm milk for his supper? Is there anybody to
+rub him dry and cuddle my Loveliness?"
+
+To divert the child from her grief proved impossible. They took her
+somewhere, in the old, idle effort to change the place and help the
+pain; but she mourned so, "because he might come home, and nobody see
+him but me," that they brought her back.
+
+The president of the university, who was a dogless and childless man,
+presented the bereaved household with a mongrel white puppy, purchased
+under the amiable impression that it was of a rare, Parisian breed. The
+distinguished man cherished the ignorant hope of bestowing consolation.
+But the invalid child, with the sensitiveness of invalid children,
+refused to look at the puppy, who was returned to his donor, and
+constituted himself henceforth the tyrant and terror of that scholastic
+household.
+
+As the weather grew warmer, little Adah failed and sank. It came on to
+be the bloom of the year, and she no longer left the house.
+
+The carrier and the cab driver lifted their hats in silence now, when
+they passed the window where the little girl sat, and the newsboy looked
+up with a sober face, like that of a man. The faculty and the neighbors
+did not ask, "How is the child?" but always, "Have you heard from the
+dog?" The doctor began to call daily. He did not shake his head,--no
+doctor does outside of an old-fashioned story,--and he smiled cheerfully
+enough inside the house; but when he came out of it, to his carriage, he
+did not smile. So the spring mellowed, and it was the first of June.
+
+One night, the poor professor sat trying to put into shape an impossible
+thesis on an incomprehensible subject (it was called The Identity of
+Identity and Non-Identity), for Commencement delivery in his department.
+Pulling aside some books of reference that he needed, he dragged to view
+a pamphlet from the lowest shelf of the revolving bookcase. Then he saw
+the marks of the Yorkshire's teeth and claws on the pamphlet corners,
+and, sadly smiling, he opened and read.
+
+The Commencement thesis on The Identity of Identity and Non-Identity was
+not corrected that night. The professor of psychology sat moulded into
+his study chair, rigid, with iron lips and clenched hands, and read the
+pamphlet through, every word, from beginning to end. For the first time
+in his life, this eminent man, wise in the wisdom of the world of mind,
+and half educated in the practical affairs of the world of matter,
+studied for himself the authenticated records of the torments imposed
+upon dumb animals in the name of science.
+
+As an instructed man, of course this subject was not wholly unfamiliar
+to him, but it was wholly foreign. Hitherto he had given it polite and
+indifferent attention, and had gone his ways. Now he read like a man
+himself bound, without anaesthesia, beneath the knife. Now he read for
+the child's sake, with the child's mind, with the child's nerves, and
+with those of the little helpless thing for whom her life was wasting.
+He tore from his shelves every volume, every pamphlet that he owned upon
+the direful subject which that June night opened to his consciousness;
+and he read until the birds sang.
+
+With brain on fire, he crept, in the brightness of coming day, to his
+wife's side.
+
+"Tired out, dear?" she asked gently. Then he saw that she too had not
+slept.
+
+"Adah has such dreams," she explained; "cruel things,--all the same
+kind."
+
+"About the dog?"
+
+"Always about the dog. I have been sitting up with her. She is--not as
+strong as--not quite"--
+
+The professor set his teeth when he heard the mother's moan. When she
+had sunk into broken rest he stole back to his study, and locked out of
+sight the pamphlet which Loveliness had chewed. So, with the profound
+and scientific treatises on the subject, arguing and illustrating this
+way and that (some of these had cuts and photogravures which would haunt
+the imagination for years), he crowded the whole out of reach. His own
+brain was reeling with horrors which it would have driven the woman or
+the child mad to read. Scenes too ghastly for a strong mind to dwell
+upon, incidents too fearful for a weak one to conceive, flitted before
+the sleepless father.
+
+Now the professor began to do strange and secretive things. Unknown to
+his wife, unsuspected by his fading child, he began to cause the
+laboratories of the city and its environs to be searched. In the
+process, curious trades developed themselves to his astonished
+ignorance: the tricks of boys who supply the material of anguish; the
+trade of the janitor who sells it to the demonstrator; the trade of the
+brute who allures his superior, the dog, to the lairs of medical
+students. Dark arts started to the foreground, like imps around
+Mephistopheles concealed. From such repellent education the professor
+came home and took his little girl into his arms, and did not speak, but
+laid his cheek to hers, and heard the piteous, familiar question, "Papa,
+did you promise me they'd be kind to Loveliness?" It was always a
+whispered question now; for Adah had entirely lost command of her voice,
+partly from weakness, partly from the old injury to the vocal organs;
+and this seemed, somehow, to make it the harder to answer her.
+
+So there fell a day when the child in the window, propped by more than
+the usual pillows, sat watching longer than usual, or more sadly, or
+more eagerly,--who can say what it was? Or did she look so much more
+translucent, more pathetic, than on another day? She leaned her cheek on
+one little wasted hand. Her great eyes commanded the street. She had her
+pilot's look. Now and then, if a little dog passed, and if he were gray,
+she started and leaned forward, then sank back faintly. The sight of her
+would have touched a savage; and one beheld it.
+
+A man in a yellow jersey passed by upon the other side of the street,
+and glanced over. His straight, black brows contracted, and he looked at
+the child steadily. As he walked on, it might have been noticed that his
+brutal head hung to his breast. But he passed, and that cultivated
+street was clean of him. The carrier met him around the corner, and
+glanced at him with coldness.
+
+"What's de matter of de kid yonder, in de winder?" asked the foreigner.
+
+"Dyin'," said the carrier shortly.
+
+"Looks she had--what you call him?--gallopin' consum'tion," observed the
+man with the eyebrows.
+
+"Gallopin' heartbreak," replied the carrier, pushing by. "There's a
+devil layin' round loose outside of hell that stole her dog,--and she a
+little sickly thing to start with, ---- him! There's fifty men in this
+town would lynch him inside of ten minutes, if they got a clue to him,
+---- him to ----!"
+
+That afternoon, when the professor left the house, the newsboy ran up
+eagerly. "There's a little nigger wants yez, perfesser, downstreet. He's
+in wid the dog robbers, that nigger is. Jes' you arsk him when he see
+Mop las' time. Take him by the scruff the neck, an' wallop like hell
+till he tells. Be spry, now, perfesser!"
+
+The professor hurried down the street, fully prepared to obey these
+directions, and found the negro boy, as he had been told.
+
+"Come along furder," said the boy, looking around uneasily. He spoke a
+few words in a hoarse whisper.
+
+The blood leaped to the professor's wan cheeks, and back again.
+
+"I'll show ye for a V," suggested the boy cunningly. "But I won't take
+no noter hand. Make it cash, an' I'll show yer. Ye ain't no time to be
+foolin'," added the gamin. "It's sot for termorrer 'leven o'clock. He's
+down for the biggest show of the term, _he_ is. The students is all
+gwineter go, an' the doctors along of 'em."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+His own university! His own university! The professor repeated the three
+words, as he dashed into the city with the academic cabman's fastest
+horse. For weeks his detectives had watched every laboratory within
+fifty miles. But--his own college! With the density which sometimes
+submerges a superior intellect, it had never occurred to him that he
+might find his own dog in the medical school of his own institution.
+Stupidly he sat gazing at the back of the gamin who slunk beside the
+aversion of the driver on the box. The professor seemed to himself to be
+driving through the terms of a false syllogism.
+
+The cabman drew up in a filthy and savage neighborhood, in whose grim
+purlieus the St. George professors did not take their walks abroad. The
+negro boy tumbled off the box.
+
+The professor sat, trembling like a woman. The boy went into the
+tenement, whistling. When he came out he did not whistle. His evil
+little face had fallen. His arms were empty.
+
+"The critter's dum gone," he said.
+
+"_Gone?_"
+
+"He's dum goneter de college. Dey'se tuk him, sah. Dum dog to go so
+yairly."
+
+The countenance of the professor blazed with the mingling fires of
+horror and of hope. The excited driver lashed the St. George horse to
+foam; in six minutes the cab drew up at the medical school. The
+passenger ran up the walk like a boy, and dashed into the building. He
+had never entered it before. He was obliged to inquire his way, like a
+rustic on a first trip to town. After some delay and difficulty he found
+the janitor, and, with the assurance of position, stated his case.
+
+But the janitor smiled.
+
+"I will go now--at once--and remove the dog," announced the professor.
+"In which direction is it? My little girl--There is no time to lose.
+Which door did you say?"
+
+But now the janitor did not smile. "Excuse me, sir," he said frigidly,
+"I have no orders to admit strangers." He backed up against a closed
+door, and stood there stolidly. The professor, burning with human rage,
+leaned over and shook the door. It was locked.
+
+"Man of darkness!" cried the professor. "You who perpetrate"--Then he
+collected himself. "Pardon me," he said, with his natural dignity; "I
+forget that you obey the orders of your chiefs, and that you do not
+recognize me. I am not accustomed to be refused admittance to the
+departments of my own university. I am Professor Premice, of the Chair
+of Mental Philosophy,--Professor Theophrastus Premice." He felt for his
+cards, but he had used the last one in his wallet.
+
+"You might be, and you mightn't," replied the janitor grimly. "I never
+heard tell of you that I know of. My orders are not to admit, and I do
+not admit."
+
+"You are unlawfully detaining and torturing my dog!" gasped the
+professor. "I demand my property at once!"
+
+"We have such a lot of these cases," answered the janitor wearily. "We
+hain't got your dog. We don't take gentlemen's dogs, nor ladies' pets.
+And we always etherize. We operate very tenderly. You hain't produced
+any evidence or authority, and I can't let you in without."
+
+"Be so good," urged the professor, restraining himself by a violent
+effort, "as to bear my name to some of the faculty. Say that I am
+without, and wish to see one of my colleagues on an urgent matter."
+
+"None of 'em's in just now but the assistant demonstrator," retorted the
+janitor, without budging. "_He_'s experimenting on a--well, he's engaged
+in a very pretty operation just now, and cannot be disturbed. No, sir.
+You had better not touch the door. I tell you, I do not admit nor
+permit. Stand back, sir!"
+
+The professor stood back. He might have entered the lecture room by
+other doors, but he did not know it; and they were not visible from the
+spot where he stood. He had happened on the laboratory door, and that
+refused him. He staggered out to his cab, and sank down weakly.
+
+"Drive me to my lawyer!" he cried. "Do not lose a moment--if you love
+her!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It was eleven o'clock of the following morning; a dreamy June day,
+afloat with color, scent, and warmth, as gentle as the depths of
+tenderness in the human heart, and as vigorous as its noblest
+aspirations.
+
+The students of the famous medical school of the University of St.
+George were crowding up the flagged walk and the old granite steps of
+the college; the lecture room was filling; the students chatted and
+joked profusely, as medical students do, on occasions least productive
+of amusement to the non-professional observer. There chanced to be some
+sprays of lily of the valley in a tumbler set upon the window sill of
+the adjoining physiological laboratory, and the flower seemed to stare
+at something which it saw within the room. Now and then, through the
+door connecting with the lecture room, a faint sound penetrated the
+laughter and conversation of the students,--a sound to hear and never to
+forget while remembrance rang through the brain, but not to tell of.
+
+The room filled; the demonstrator appeared suddenly, in his fresh, white
+blouse; the students began to grow quiet. Some one had already locked
+the door leading from the laboratory to the hallway. The lily in the
+window looked, and seemed, in the low June wind, to turn its face away.
+
+"Gentlemen," began the operator, "we have before us to-day a
+demonstration of unusual beauty and interest. It is our intention to
+study"--here he minutely described the nature of the operation. "There
+will be also some collateral demonstrations of more than ordinary value.
+The material has been carefully selected. It is young and healthy,"
+observed the surgeon. "We have not put the subject under the usual
+anaesthesia,"--he motioned to his assistant, who at this point went into
+the laboratory,--"because of the importance of some preliminary
+experiments which were instituted yesterday, and to the perfection of
+which consciousness is conditional. Gentlemen, you see before you"--
+
+The assistant entered through the laboratory door at this moment,
+bearing something which he held straight out before him. The students,
+on tiered and curving benches, looked down from their amphitheatre,
+lightly, as they had been trained to look.
+
+"It is needless to say," proceeded the lecturer, "that the subject will
+be mercifully disposed of as soon as the demonstration is completed. And
+we shall operate with the greatest tenderness, as we always do.
+Gentlemen, I am reminded of a story"--
+
+The demonstrator indulged in a little persiflage at this point, raising
+a laugh among the class; he smiled himself; he gestured with the
+scalpel, which he had selected while he was talking; he made three or
+four sinister cuts with it in the air, preparatory cuts,--an awful
+rehearsal. He held the instrument suspended, thoughtfully.
+
+"The first incision"--he began. "Follow me closely, now. You
+see--Gentlemen? Gentlemen! Really, I cannot proceed in such a
+disturbance--What _is_ that noise?" With the suspended scalpel in his
+hand, the demonstrator turned impatiently.
+
+"It's a row in the corridor," said one of the students. "We hope you
+won't delay for that, doctor. It's nothing of any consequence. Please go
+ahead."
+
+But the locked door of the laboratory shook violently, and rattled in
+unseen hands. Voices clashed from the outside. The disturbance
+increased.
+
+"Open! Open the door!" Heavy blows fell upon the panels.
+
+"In the name of humanity, in the name of mercy, open this door!"
+
+"It must be some of those fanatics," said the operator, laying down his
+instrument. "Where is the janitor? Call him to put a stop to this."
+
+He took up the instrument with an impetuous motion; then laid it
+irritably down again. The attention of his audience was now concentrated
+upon the laboratory door, for the confusion had redoubled. At the same
+time feet were heard approaching the students' entrance to the lecture
+room. One of the young men took it upon himself to lock that door also,
+which was not the custom of the place; but he found no key, and two or
+three of his classmates joined him in standing against the door, which
+they barricaded. Their blood was up,--they knew not why; the fighting
+animal in them leaped at the mysterious intrusion. There was every
+prospect of a scene unprecedented in the history of the lecture room.
+
+The expected did not happen. It appeared that some unsuccessful effort
+was made to force this door, but it was not prolonged; then the
+footsteps retreated down the stairs, and the demand at the laboratory
+entrance set in again,--this time in a new voice:--
+
+"It is an officer of the court! There is a search-warrant for stolen
+property! Open in the name of the Law! _Open this door in the name of
+the Commonwealth!_"
+
+Now the door sank open, was burst open, or was unlocked,--in the
+excitement, no one knew which or how,--and the professor and the lawyer,
+the officer and the search-warrant, fell in.
+
+The professor pushed ahead, and strode to the operating table.
+
+There lay the tiny creature, so daintily reared, so passionately
+beloved; he who had been sheltered in the heart of luxury, like the
+little daughter of the house herself; he who used never to know a pang
+that love or luxury could prevent or cure; he who had been the soul of
+tenderness, and had known only the soul of tenderness. There, stretched,
+bound, gagged, gasping, doomed to a doom which the readers of this page
+would forbid this pen to describe, lay the silver Yorkshire, kissing his
+vivisector's hand.
+
+In the past few months Loveliness had known to the uttermost the
+matchless misery of the lost dog (for he had been sold and restolen more
+than once); he had known the miseries of cold, of hunger, of neglect, of
+homelessness, and other torments of which it is as well not to think;
+the sufferings which ignorance imposes upon animals. He was about to
+endure the worst torture of them all,--that reserved by wisdom and power
+for the dumb, the undefended, and the small.
+
+The officer seized the scalpel which the demonstrator had laid aside,
+and slashed through the straps that bound the victim down. When the gag
+was removed, and the little creature, shorn, sunken, changed, almost
+unrecognizable, looked up into his master's face, those cruel walls rang
+to such a cry of more than human anguish and ecstasy as they had never
+heard before, and never may again.
+
+The operator turned away; he stood in his butcher's blouse and stared
+through out of the laboratory window, over the head of the lily, which
+regarded him fixedly. The students grew rapidly quiet. When the
+professor took Loveliness into his arms, and the Yorkshire, still crying
+like a human child that had been lost and saved, put up his weak paws
+around his master's neck and tried to kiss the tears that fell,
+unashamed, down the cheeks of that eminent man, the lecture room burst
+into a storm of applause; then fell suddenly still again, as if it felt
+embarrassed both by its expression and by its silence, and knew not what
+to do.
+
+"Has the knife touched him--anywhere?" asked the professor, choking.
+
+"No, thank God!" replied the demonstrator, turning around timidly; "and
+I assure you--our regrets--such a mistake"--
+
+"That will do, doctor," said the professor. "Gentlemen, let me pass, if
+you please. I have no time to lose. There is one waiting for this little
+creature who"--
+
+He did not finish his sentence, but went out from among them. As he
+passed with the shorn and quivering dog in his arms, the students rose
+to their feet.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He stopped the cab a hundred feet away, went across a neighbor's lot,
+and got into the house by the back door, with the Yorkshire hidden under
+his coat. The doctor's buggy stood at the curbstone in front. The little
+girl was so weak that morning--what might not have happened?
+
+The father felt, with a sudden sickness of heart, that time had hardly
+converged more closely with fate in the operating room than it was
+narrowing in his own home. The cook shrieked when she saw him come into
+the kitchen with the half-hidden burden in his arms; and Kathleen ran
+in, panting.
+
+"Call the doctor," he commanded hoarsely, "and ask him what we shall
+do."
+
+All the stories that he had ever read about joy that killed blazed
+through his brain. He dared neither advance nor retreat, but stood in
+the middle of the kitchen, stupidly. Then he saw that the quick wit of
+Kathleen had got ahead of him; for she was on her knees arranging the
+crimson blankets in the empty basket. Between the three, they gently
+laid the emaciated and disfigured dog into his own bed. Nora cried into
+the milk she was warming for the little thing. And the doctor came in
+while Loveliness feebly drank.
+
+"Wait a minute," he said, turning on his heel. He went back to the room
+where the child lay among the white pillows, with her hand upon the
+empty gray satin cushion. Absently she stroked one of the red puppies
+whose gold eyes gazed forever at the saucer of green milk. She lay with
+her lashes on her cheeks. It was the first day that she had not watched
+the street. Her mother, sitting back at the door, was fanning her.
+
+"Adah!" said the doctor cheerily. "We've got something good to tell you.
+Your father has found--there, there, my child!--yes, your father has
+found him. He looks a little queer and homesick--guess he's missed you
+some--and you mustn't mind how he looks, for--you see, Adah, we think he
+has lived with a--with a barber, and got shaved for nothing!" added the
+doctor stoutly.
+
+The doctor had told his share of professional fibs in his day, like the
+most of his race; but I hope he was forgiven all the others for this
+one's merciful and beautiful sake.
+
+"Come, professor!" he called, courageously enough. But his own heart
+beat as hard as the father's and the mother's, when the professor slowly
+mounted the stairs with the basket bed and the exhausted dog within it.
+
+"LOVE-_li-ness_!" cried the child. It was the first loud word that she
+had spoken for months.
+
+Then they lifted the dog and put him in her arms; and they turned away
+their faces, for the sight of that reunion was all the nerve could bear.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+So it was as it has been, and ever will be, since the beginning to the
+end of time. Joy, the Angel of Delight and Danger, the most precious and
+the most perilous of messengers to the heart that loves, came to our two
+little friends, and might have destroyed, but saved instead.
+
+The child was strong before the dog was; but both convalesced rapidly
+and sweetly enough. In a week Adah threw away her little crutch. Her
+lost voice returned, to stay. The pearl and the rose of her soft,
+invalid skin browned with the summer sun. Peals of laughter and ecstatic
+barks resounded through the happy house. Little feet and little paws
+trotted together across the dew-touched lawn. Wonderful neck ribbons,--a
+new color every day,--tied by eager, small fingers upon the silver-gray
+throat of the Yorkshire, flashed through the bending shrubbery in
+pursuit of a little glancing white figure in lawn dresses, with shade
+hat hanging down her back. The satin cushion with the embroidered
+puppies was carried out among the blushing weigelia bushes; and the
+twain lived and loved and played, from day-start to twilight, in the
+live, midsummer air.
+
+[Illustration: THROUGH THE BENDING SHRUBBERY]
+
+Sometimes she was overheard conversing with the terrier,--long,
+confidential talks, with which no third person intermeddled.
+
+"Dearness! Daintiness! Loveliness! Did you have a little baxet with
+blankets while you were away? Preciousness! Did they cut you meat and
+warm you soup for you, and comfort you? Did they ever let you out to
+shi-shiver in 'e wet and cold? Tell me, Dearest-in-'e-World! Tell me,
+Love-li-ness! Tell me all about it. Tell me about 'e barber who shaved
+you hair so close,--was he _kind_ to you?"
+
+When Commencement was over, and the town quiet and a little dull,
+something of a festive nature was thought good for Adah; and the doctor,
+who came only as a matter of occasional ceremony now, to see his patient
+running away from him, proposed a party; for he was not an imaginative
+man, and could only suggest the conventional.
+
+"Something to take her mind off the dog for a little," he said. "We must
+avoid anything resembling a fixed idea."
+
+"Love is always a fixed idea," replied the professor of psychology,
+smiling. "But you may try, doctor."
+
+"I will arx Loveliness," said the child quietly. She ran away with the
+Yorkshire, and they sat among the reddening weigelia bushes for some
+time, conversing in low tones. Then they trotted back, laughing and
+barking.
+
+"Yes, Papa, we'll have a party. But it must be a _Love_liness party,
+Mamma. And we've decided who to arx, and all about it. If you would like
+to know, I'll whisper you, for it's a secret to Loveliness and me, until
+we think it over."
+
+Merrily she whispered in her mother's bending ear a list of chosen
+guests. It ran on this wise:--
+
+The family.
+
+The carrier.
+
+Kathleen and Nora.
+
+The newsboy.
+
+The cabman.
+
+The doctor.
+
+Some of the neighbors' little dogs and girls.
+
+Not boys, because they say "Sister boy!" and "Sickum!"
+
+The president's white puppy.
+
+The president.
+
+Nobody else.
+
+Not the barber.
+
+"Here's 'e invitation," she added with dignity, "and we'll have a
+picture of him printed on his puppy cushion at 'e top, Papa."
+
+She put into her father's hand a slip of paper, on which she had
+laboriously and irregularly printed in pencil the following legend:--
+
+  +-----------------------------+
+  |  ON SATTERDAY, AFTER NUNE.  |
+  |       IF NOT STORMY.        |
+  |        AT 2 O CLUK.         |
+  |         LOVELINESS          |
+  |         _At Home._          |
+  +-----------------------------+
+
+
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+Transcriber's note:
+
+The list of the author's other titles (which originally appeared before
+the title page) has been moved to the end.
+
+Page 19, comma added ("The newsboy, the carrier").
+
+Both "cab driver" and "cab-driver" were used in this text.]
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