Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-09-28

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rcars,- said the husband. WITH more than n,s
usual cnrnestness "Girls like ours--bless
themi-arpnt going to make bal matches"
Besides" said Mrs. Tramlay, retrachig
her thoughts. Mr.. MarSe doesn't look the
least bit old; he Is not the kind Of man to
grow old. can't see that he appears day
older than he did years ago"
"Blcss your sentimental hearth said tho
merchant "fle doesn't, ehi We'll, IL does
you credit to think so. and 1t doesn't mako
me Jealous in the least"
"If the company succeeds" continued Mrs.
Tramlay, "Mr. Marge will 30 as much the
gainer as you or young Hayn, won't her.
Certainly"
"Then he'll bo that much better of than
this young man you're so fond OFF,
"Yes, II he does nothing foolish in the
mean time; but have my doubts Of the
financial stability Of any man who can't
pass stock ticker without looking at it.
Wall street exists solely for the purpose Of
absorbing such mems money"
"Mr. Marge is no fool, said Mrs Tramlay
Hes no wiser than some veterans who
have had TO leave their millions in the street
and live on their children forever after"
"The Improvement compap y has only about
forty acres, l believe you saidr'
"Just forty"
"And two thousand an acre is the most you
hope forr'
"Yea"
"That would be eighty thousand dollars;
four into eighty goes twenty times, and'----
III I'D known you'd such a head for bust
ness would have asked you TO put house
keeper in charge of tho family, so could
have your services at the Office said Tram
lay.
Twenty thousand dollars would be very
little for young man 10 marry on in New
york-and In our set"
Twenty thousand, and a salary which
must soon increase In simple JUSTICE also,
expectations from his fathers estate in the
course Of time. don't remember 10 have
told you, though, that the young man was
long headed enough to suggest that his IA
ther should buy options on the continuation
of the ridgo--there are several hundred acres
in oil, distributed among different farms
and tho old fellow has worked it SO skilfully
that we have the refusal OF 1t all, for a year,
nt tri1ing outlay in money. There's genu-
ire city business capacity In that young
mans head-ehf'
ut appears co." Mrs. Tramlay admitted.
This admission might havo been of great
comfort to Phil could ho have heard 1t, but
as he never received any Information, except
through his alternating hopes and suspi-
cions. no was obliged to remain in doubt.
His principal hope, aside from that based
on Lucia's willingness to devote any amount
of time TO him, was obtained through tho
manner of tho head Of tho family. Tramlay
was communicative as wise merchants usu'
ally are TO their employees; he was also con-
fdential evidently he trusted Phil implicit
- s.tl -. Ill
expectations and hopes, instructed him care
fully regarding every one whom the young
man was TO SEQ for business purposes. and
threw much Important work upon him. 1t
seemed impossible 10 misconstrue tho purpose
of all this; Mt the very least, 1t implied a high
order Of respect; and the respect Of possible
father-in-law was not an ally TO be under
rated. Besides, Tramlay frequently put Lucia
In his charge when she was out for an even
ing; and this implied still higher order Of
trnst.
But, after all, the hopes that were strong
est and most abiding were formed in the
Tramlay parlor, while Lucia was apparently
only acting the part OF a listener. Tho young
man occasionally found himself expressing
his own opinion freely, and to great extent,
on subjects that interested him. and the flow
Of language wns interrupted only by badly
COuccuieu ylWus lIclu uls. lIaIlibN
Margie. Where to them could be the inter-
est in tho latest campaign against the Indi.
nns, or methods Of vcntilating school rooms,
or tho supposed moral purpose underlying
1 England's continued occupation of Egypt
Such questions wero fit only for men, thought
/ Mrs Trainlay and her second daughter: the
mother sometimes said, after excusing her
self from impromptu lectures on these or
kindred topics, that the young man from the
country loved TO hear himself talk and Mar.
gie half believed that Phil only began what
she denominated "harangues' in order TO
clear tho room, so that hc might have Lucia
/ TO himself.
/ But to all that Phil said, no matter how
heavy the subject, Lucia listened patiently,
attentively, and often with al air Of interest.
Sometimes she attained sufficient grasp of a
! statement to reconstruct it, in words, though
not In facts, and return 1t 10 tho original
maker, who in the blindness Of bliss immcdi-
ately attributed II 10 Lucia's mental superb
ority TO the remainder Of tho family. Had
he seen her afterward perplexedly pinching
her brow she appealed TO cycopedia or
dictionary 10 make his meaning clearer, he
might have revised his opinion rs TO her in.
tellect, yet he would have been tho surer OF
what to him Just then was more desirable
than tho collective intellect Of the world.