Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-21

Elem
!nir e.
IS the
FOND o
90 comradeE
Ga respect fol-
Ind sound sense
more than one deal
Ate summer and early
che had never COL led
Sewing, as usual, henming
!ole napkins that were to sur
1el when she came downstairs
were bought with Anns's own
w, when she deserted the numerous
gns 10 what rsmsined Of E!hel's bridal
Its: Of nspery. Hollis did not know
mis-, or care to observe the traces Of
homework in the reddeping and roush ben.
ing Of the "msiden's hand" The cruel.
est neglect women ever receive from men
who are men, is through the selfish alb
VI VIC ASstSl III SkAASA "oaASa'
Cataract never SO desGened the vision,
nor seone-desfness tae ear.
This particular man ought to have sp-
preciated the directness Of his compan.
IONS approach 10 the subject to be lad
before him.
"Gerald Upton was hanging shout
Mrs. Phelps gsrden this afternoon, wait
ing to speak to you or me-" she began
"Hsppering to catch sight CT me on the
back porch"
"When you ran one wsy, another, to
get away from the loVera," put In Hollis,
with 9 rough lsugh. "Well, go on"
She ooeyed gravely snd quietly, not
raising her eyes from her wclk:
"He beckoned me out, and asked II l
would walk in the rose-gsrden with him.
he was all In culver with nervousness
quite unstrupg between the dread OF,
ss he said telling tales out o! school,
and keeping back Whist Mrs. Phelps ought
to know, perhaps. He is very fond
of her, and CT Salome, but
felt that he could talk more
comfortable about It to me- II seems
that, night before last, hearing VOICES in
the library, he stole downstairs into the
parlors to peep at the visitors. BIS Gu
riosity had been already excited by cstch-
ing q glimpse CT bis mother, In q different
gown from what she had worn g. dinner,
slipping slyl7 down stairs, carving a big
piclure-a queer sort of affair, he said
with locked doors over it. that belongs
in his brothers. room. He saw her over
the balustrsde of the third story stairs,
having been to the garnet for q book he
kept there. Interdic,ed literature ,proba.
bly,, but made no comment. This Incl
dent tempted to play the eavesdrcpper.
The sliding doors and the portiere be-
tween the back peIlor and the psbrary
were shut, but he pried crack +tes#een
the doors with his knife -blsde, winding it
with his handkerchief TO- prevent noise
The curtains hung avery little way spsrs
SO he could see qoite well all that went
on In the other ROOM"
"That boy is educating himself Tor the
states prison AND gs!iows" rtmsrked
Hollis, sententiously severe.
~ must confess that the cool premedi-
tstion Of the misdemeanor shocked me
somewhat. Yet waeeteres ed when be
described how his mother. dressed up Il
to kill, in silks and lsces,' sat there read
ing q lie ,ter aloud to Mr. Phelps, with the
open picture by her. 1T wss the liseress
OF Rax's girl, the one who WAS killed Oh
the rsilroad,' ne ssid, 'and q ravirg beat l
ty.' His mother wss perfectly composed
in face and talk, but Mc. Pnelps looked
pale and scared.
"I had The strength Of mind to stop him
there. st wss as disnonorsble in me to
listen, ss in him to act the spy told
him, and vas leaving him in passion
when the boy burst iato tears, and begged
me not to: obliee him 10 go to
Mrs. Phelps or Rex with what be
wss sure Was at the bottom Of al
the trouble. II Mr. Phelps were 10 die
he would have to tell 1t all in court, most
likely. He hadn't slept q wink all lsst
highland SO much more Of the same
wild tslk, that let time go on, convinced
thsI his while Imagination magpifed the
Of the secret, there might be
In it that would! cast light en-
The mystery.
"Mamms WIS reading letter. he re.
peated. You know her smooth, purring |
way of tslkirg-!ike water slipping down |
, hillr"
"Thst's not hsli-bsd description" in !
;erj :cted Hollis.
''OJ tuOuSuts VCNy phlu utS 'sE6 |
.alked little and then read little from |
he paper. II was awfully sentimental
,tuh-ihe reading was-like love letter
n novel. At last she got to place
where the man WAS begging his girl TO
1--WE him six hours out Ct nobody
Knows how many half dozen years she had
o epsre, and how be could take as good
,sre Of ler as an Angel ever could, and
low Madeline would be the first to make
I'm OF her II she didn't come up to time,
u words to that eject. And before /
lad time to think that Madeline wss
Mrs. Paelps's name, too, up jumped MI
Phelps and roared out that she mus: stop
hat, and asked her what price abe put
lpon the stolen letter, and she stood no,
90, and laughed In his face, and I was
'irsid they were coming out of the room,
md would smoke me, and legged it Is
light as could up to my room. BIZ and.
" heard Mr.. Phelps's voice in the hall,
nd took o sq1int at him over the bsnis
ers. he said something about sending
1t papers over IN the morning, and his
lekd feeling strange. End . trying dsy!
uery trying day! and walked unssesdi-
= on his pins, to the front door, witaout
lie hat. I thought he'd be back il
minute, but be dian's show again." Il
"Mre. Lupton reported those veg
Vords."
"Yes-but she protested that tie in
ervlew was not sgifatIng-'a SINGLE mat.
CT Of bargain and s.le.' csoss-exsm-
ned GerEld sharply on tbs point. H.
tuck to his story-.hst a.. Paelps WAS
weerirg -mgd, srd-she IS cool as en- iced
q lumber. lOely 20 ice can be SO con-
,undedly cool as mamma is, when other