. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. e-eyed, stupefied, their lips parted, theirbreath coming in brief gulps. ThenWillis turned from his wife and gavehis commands to the servants. Thelittle group moved down the whitelawn to where the snow at the footof the garden was darkened by along, inert figure. There was a sleigh jingling ironical-ly along the road beyond the sight of those bent over the relaxedform on the ground, and of the lant-erns incongruously yellow in thewhite night, at sound of a hystericalmaid weeping and of tense ordersgiven the vehicle drew to a man le
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. e-eyed, stupefied, their lips parted, theirbreath coming in brief gulps. ThenWillis turned from his wife and gavehis commands to the servants. Thelittle group moved down the whitelawn to where the snow at the footof the garden was darkened by along, inert figure. There was a sleigh jingling ironical-ly along the road beyond the sight of those bent over the relaxedform on the ground, and of the lant-erns incongruously yellow in thewhite night, at sound of a hystericalmaid weeping and of tense ordersgiven the vehicle drew to a man leaped from the back seat. This is the Apthorpe place, is itnot? he began. Willis turned dullytoward the intruder, and the manspoke again. It is, of course—Ap-thorpe, dont you remember me?Hardaker? Is there some trouble? He stepped nearer the burden thatthe men had lifted, and looked onSusans face. My God! he said very then: Ive been thinking of herall the evening. Weve been at theclub with— What does it all mean,Apthrope ?. Our Men Of The Midi By E. N. Vallandigham in Atlantic Monthly OUR Southern whites present theonly instance in the history ofthe world of a people mainlyEnglish by blood and tradition, whohave dwelt continuously for six oreight generations below the 39th par-allel. They are essentially a peopleof what the French call the Midi, andthese interrelated facts of race andresidence have been too little consid-ered in the examination of their his-tory and the prognostication of theirfuture. Not elsewhere the world overhave Englishmen dwelt continuouslyin large numbers under semi-tropicalconditions for so much as three gener-ations. The whites in Australia pre-sent the nearest parallel in this regardto our own Southern whites, but thewhite population of Australia has beenconsiderable for only two generations,and large for hardly more than fiftyyears; and much of the increase upto very recent times came from im-migration. It is fair to say then thatonly
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