In the Three Zones By F. J. Stimson (J. S. of Dale) =Dr. Materialismus.= His Hypothesis Worked Out =An Alabama Courtship.= Its Simplicities and its Complexities =Los Caraqueños.= Being the Life History of Don Sebastian Marques del Torre and of Dolores, his wife, Condesa de Luna Charles Scribner’s Sons New York, 1893 _Copyright, 1893, by Charles Scribner’s Sons_ TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK WORKS OF FICTION BY F. J. STIMSON (_J. S. of Dale_) FIRST HARVESTS, CLOTH, $1.25 THE SENTIMENTAL CALENDAR, $1.00 THE CRIME OF HENRY VANE, CLOTH, $1.00 GUERNDALE, CLOTH, $1.25; PAPER, 50 CENTS THE RESIDUARY LEGATEE, CLOTH, $1.00; PAPER, 35 CENTS DR. MATERIALISMUS HIS HYPOTHESIS WORKED OUT I SHOULD like some time to tell how Tetherby came to his end; he, too, was a victim of materialism, as his father had been before him; but when he died, he left this story, addressed among his papers to me; and I am sure he meant that all the world (or such part of it as cares to think) should know it. He had told it, or partly told it, to us before; in fragments, in suggestions, in those midnight talks that earnest young men still have in college, or had, in 1870. Tetherby came from that strange, cold, Maine coast, washed in its fjords and beaches by a clear, cold sea, which brings it fogs of winter but never haze of summer; where men eat little, think much, drink only water, and yet live intense lives; where the village people, in their long winters away from the world, in an age of revivals had their waves of atheism, and would transform, in those days, their pine meeting-houses into Shakspere clubs, and logically make a cult of infidelity; now, with railways, I suppose all that has ceased; they read Shakspere as little as the scriptures, and the Sunday newspaper replaces both. Such a story--such an imagination--as Tetherby’s, could not happen now--perhaps. But they take life earnestly in that remote, ardent province; they think coldly; and, when you least expect it, there comes in their lives, so hard and sharp and practical, a burst of passion.