The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-21

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rieuced servants. who looked upon
Steve merely IS q MISSES husband. .
In the second wear of his marriage
| he began to have some thoughts which
would have astonished his wife, could
she have thought it worth while 20 in
ouire what occupied his mind in the
| long. moody hours when he paced the
shrubbery or sat silently looking out of
the window. But Steve was now ready
| for any employment that would take
him out Of the purposeless, dependent
life which he had so foolishly chosen
for himself.
/ One dav, greatly to his surprise,
Elizabeth said to him:
"Steve, have 3 letter from . cousin
of nv mothers who lives in Glasgow.
She is going to Australia, and wants me
to buy her house. She says it is great
bargain, and wrote to Barrett to 60
and see about it. l have letter this
morning saying he is too i'll to leave
his bed. wonder if You could 60 and
attend to it,
Anything for achange. Steve showed
very proper business-like interest. and
said:
..Yes. he would be yery glad to 90. y,
"Very well: / should think You knew
enough of titles and deeds, and con-
yeyaHcing. and all that kind Of thing.
/ will trust the affair to Won, Steve
So the next morning Steve found him
self ON the Caledonian line, with flOO
in his pocket. and a veritable piece of
business ON hand. The first twenty
miles out of Leeds he enioyed with the
abandon of bird set free; then he be-
gan to think again. At Crewe he
missed a train, and wandering about
the station, fell in talk with the engi-
neer of the next one, who was cleaning
and examining the engine with all the
love and pride mother gives favor
lite child.
c.a Iva men "rar 1 ~ q Ta Jn i.u
in the engineers cuddy. He was fine
young ieiiow' one Oh se'en' ne said'
all machlnists and engineers; he was
only serving his time. learning eyerv
branch Of his business practically; he
had brothers who made engineers. and
he hoped to do SO some time.
In spite OF his soiled face and oily
clothes, Steve recognized that refine
ment that comes with education; and
when his new friend called upon him
at the Queens Hotel, he would not be
ashamed of his appearance, even in the
most fastidious days.
"Mr. Dalrymple, l am glad to see
you," said Steve, holding out both
hands to him.
81 thought you would be, sir; it is
not often am mistaken in my likings.
l will go with you now to see my fathers
works, if it suits you"
Never had such place entered Ste
phen GaskilPs conception; the i'm
mense furnaces, the hundreds of giants
working around them, the clang of ma
chinery, the mighty struggle of mind
with the matter, of intellect over the
revelation. He envied those cyclops in
their leathern masks and aprons; he
longed to lift their mighty hammers.
He looked upon the craftsmen with their
bare, brawny arms and blackened
hands, and felt his heart glow with adj
miration when he saw the mighty works
those hands had fashioned The tears
we're in his eyes when Andrew Dalrym-
pie and he parted at the gate of the
great walled-in yard.
"Thank you., he said. "you have
done me the greatest possible service.
shall remember it,
That night Steve formed strange,
but noble, resolution. First of all, he
devoted himself 10 his wife's business.
and accomplished it in manner which
elected Mr.. Barrett's warm praise and
made Elizabeth wonder whether she
might not spare her agent fees for the
future. Then he had a long, confiden-
tial talk with the owner of the Dalrym-
pie Iron and Machine Works, the result
of which was the following letter to
Mrs. Gaskill:
Nv Dr..w ,vx. sb,,, No. be a. hom. ...;n
for q least two years fo5 have begun an APP