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diff --git a/35966.txt b/35966.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..07418f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/35966.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1514 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Loveliness, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, +Illustrated by Sarah S. Stilwell + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Loveliness + A Story + + +Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps + + + +Release Date: April 25, 2011 [eBook #35966] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVELINESS*** + + +E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Kerry Tani, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 35966-h.htm or 35966-h.zip: + (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35966/35966-h/35966-h.htm) + or + (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35966/35966-h.zip) + + + + + +[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._ | + +-----------------------------+ + + + + + ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED + BY H. O. 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