Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-17

before she left ana she was in a nIrscr-
able stew over it. There had been a
scene of some kind that morning about
him. Cornelia wanted him forbidden
the house on account of his birth and
Mary refused to do it. Cornelia was
leaving for that reason. She said that
Mary had insulted her
Mary is wonderful woman not TO
insult her every day she lives. Cornelia
Beverley is enough to make saint caper
and blaspheme," the judge said Grossly
Ned Anthony is a good enough fellow,
but lie isn't the sort of man to captivate
woman like Mary Beverley if she is
left to herself. If that is ever a match
and /, for one, would be sorry to see
it in spite of his money-it viii be Of
Cornelias making"
How so, my DEAR" :.
Anna, how can you ask so stupid a
question, and you woman" reproved
her husband. why, by attacking him
unjustly for things he can't alter and is
not accountable for, in season and ont,
and forcing her to espouse his cause and
make herself his champion. There's a
lot of impulsive, generous South Caro-
lima blood in Mary, and if she thinks n
thing unjustly oppressed she'll rally to
1t without single glance at the ulti-
mate cost. If she ends in Anthony's
arms 1t will be Cornelia's doing"
Il wish the man had been born a gen.
tleman," remarked the old lady regret
fully.
Her husband laughed "A gentleman
makes himself, quoth he sententiously;
''he isn't made by his forbears Many
an arrant snob and rascal has pedigree
as long as my arm. Race is mighty
good thing, my dear, in men as well as
in horses; it helps powerfully in the
start, but there are other things that tell
at the finish Old Anthony had some
traits which, if he transmitted them to
his son, won't disgrace any stock that
they are grated on. He was poor and
ignorant, to be sure, but Ned has mend
ed that. Some of our best and noblest
have risen from the ranks, you know.
Henry was as poor as a broom sedge
field, and Clay rode to mill in the Hano-
yer slashes in a costume which was, to
say the least, unfinished"
But they had genius, my DEAR" re-
tOrted his wife impatiently. 1--WE for
give anything to that sort This man
has no genius"
Hes made lot Of money" the Judge
observed tentatively, and that's the
end that Nineteenth century genius has
in view. Judged by the commercial
standard, which l. getting to be the uni
versal one, Ned Anthony is about the
biggest genius Virginia has ever pro-
duced. He's got millions in his pocket. :"
Il don't care if he has the United
States treasury in his pocket" asserted
Mrs. Wilmer positively. Il don't want
Mary Beverley to marry him"
Nor do !. But it isn't because his
father was a good oyerseer instead OF q
sorry gentleman. Ny objection is to
the man himself Anthony's fiber is
coarse-good of its kind, you know, but
not like Mary's. She belongs to a high
.et development: ana if she makes this
unnatural selection in fit of generous
enthusiasm, she Will regret 1.-THE more
because she is too fine in the grain and
too stanch ever to admit, even to her
self that she had made mistake. I'd
hate to see q woman like Mary smiling
over Il heart full of broken idols. She'd
better go down to the grave as Hector's
widow than spoil her life as another
mans wife Hector never disappointed
her"
Mrs. Wilmer nodded her handsome
gray head over her knitting Mary
will never go down to her grave as
Hector Beverley's widow" she declared
her heart is too big and her nature too
sympathetic. She was strongly attached
to Hector, and no mother could be more
devoted than she is to his children; but
her capacity for love is not exhausted
yet, and she is young and attractive
Her marrying again viii be no disloy-
atty TO Hector; she will not love his chill
dren less nor push his memory out of
her heart. consider it quite certain
that she Will marry again"
Then hope she'll get another sort of
ashland than Ned Anthony" said the
Judge with whom Mary was favorite