The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13

"Sunrise at sunsetp exclaimed her father
well, girls are possessed to upset the natural
order of things, l suppose. But, my dear
daughter, you've put the rouge on too thick
don't you think sop
"Fatherl" exclaimed the girl, and the flush
of her cheeks spread to her brow
Edgar" said Mrs. Tramlay, who came in
moment or two aftsr, ''see how foolish you
were to think Lucia i'll. / never saw her
looking better"
YES" said the merchant, dryly; 81 told
her the doctor was coming. That's often
enough to cure the ailments of some children,
you know" Then the merchant devoted ten
minutes of business tact to the task of ex-
planning to his wife the reasons of Philips re-
turn to New York; he also enlarged upon the
Haynton Bay Improvement company, and
the probability that if the Tramlays we're to
build the first and handsomest house on the
new property Mrs Tramlay would naturally
be the fashionable leader of whatever section
or subsection of society might select the place
as q summer home Mrs. Tramlay was in
clined to be conservative ON the subject, but
when she learned that Marge WIS stOckholder
and director i'll the company she became quite
cheerful
Phil was not so happy as he should have
been while on his way to the Tamlays'. He
wondered how he should be able to greet
Lucia without betraying the mixed emotions
which he was sure the first sight of her face
would cause him. He had firm conviction
that he would feel awkward and act accord
ingly, and his remembrance of various men
whom he had seen behaving awkwardly in
the presence of young ladies made him quite
certain that Lucia and Margie would laugh at
him when his back was turned. He did not
realize that in meeting, as well as in fighting,
the burden of action docs not all rest upon
one person Neither did he take into con-
sideration the tact which some maidens ac-
quire in a year or two spent in society. As
be was ushered into the parlor, with face
which he was sure was sober and set, Lucia
approached him with pleasant smile and ex-
claimed, as heartily and unaffectedly as if she
were Haynton girl:
How do you do, Phili I'm ever so glad
to see you back again"
Away went all sense of soberness, hesita-
ton and doubt; the young mans soul leaped
to his face, and he held 50 long the little hand
offered him that Lucia, perhaps remember
ing some impulsive demonstrations toward
that graceful member, withdrew it before
any attempt to release it had begun. Then
the girl began rapid series of questions
about Hayn Farm and its occupants, and
Phil made CHEEKY replies and Tramlay, after
gazing at the couple from the back parlor,
retired to his library to indulge undisturbed
in as much vigorous and affirmative head
shaking as the situation seemed to justify.
'How do you think you will like the iron
dinner.
Greatly, SO far as know it" Phil replied
up to date my duties have been to go to
lunch, read the morning papers and chat
with a railroad company's vice president
about off shore fishing"
I'VE always try to break in our young
men pleasantly" said Tramlay, $50 they'll
be willing to promise long service for small
money: then we begin to put on heavier
chains, one by one"
"Papas clerks have hard time if they
happen to be nice" said Lucia They have
to get postage stamps for Margie and me
when we happen in at the office, and find
small change for us when we lose our pocket
books and take us out to lunch when we
come down town and don't find papa in, and
sometimes they have to come to trains for us
when we've been q few miles oLt of town on
a visit and the team doesn't get in before
dark
said Phil. 1S'
''There's some down town place." said
Margie, where papa gets lovely candy
great deal cheaper than up Broadway; but
he forgets it half the time, SO we sometimes
,f fIa oil To
desk-that is, clerks who know how to select
candy" said Margie.
"My education in that respect" said Phil,
has not been as thorough as If l could have
foreseen sucn necessity for it; but will re-
sumo my studies at once"
"Are you good judge of teal" asked Lu-
cia. Mamma has not been quite herself
since one of papa's clerks went to Pennsyl-
vania to take charge of a rolling mill The
good man used to spend hours in the tea i'm
porters' warehouses, down near the office,
searching for the kind of tea that mamma
dotes On"
"You children are not to worry Phil with
any Of your trifling affairs" said the head
Of the house. ~ want you all to understand
that, besides having desk in my Office, he is
large operator in real estate-a capitalist
a sort of monopolist, in fact. for he is score
tary and a director of the Haynton Bay I'm
provement company, which monopolizes one
of the finest bits of shore front on the At
lantic coast"
"Haynton Bay" said Lucia, in wonder.
"Why, that is where HaYn Farm is.
"Wise childr' said her father; land that
fine bluff portion of the farm that overleoks
the bay is the company's property. You'll
never again cut your shoes to pieces on the
oat stubhle on that bluff, for when next you
see the place it will be covered by fine Villas
the handsomest of which you probably will
some day see mentioned in the newspapers as
the country seat of the we'll known merchant
prince, Edgar Tramlay, ESQ.,, father of the
charming
"Edgarl EdgarI" said Mrs. Tramlay.
sand, as 1 was saying" continued Tram
lay, no purchasers title will be good without
the signature and official seal of Mr.. Philip
Hayn. Candy and postage stamps, indeed!
Why, such mans time ought to be valued
at about o dollar minute"
Then Phil was rich, Lucia said to herself
She did not much care, and she knew even
less, about business details; a fortune ON
paper was as good as any other kind, so far