Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-12

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Mrs. Beverley was beginning to be OPP
pressed b. certain fears and intuitions
| that made her extremely uncomfortable.
Of late her intercourse with her neigh
Dor, always frank and friendly, had
shifted its ground a little, and do what
she would she failed utterly to restore it
to its old footing. In her impulsive SYM
pathy with the glimpse he had given
her Of refined and tender side to his
hard nature. and her keen anxiety to
show him that she understood and ap-
preciated It, she had put out her hands
| to him. And after that she had let him
talk 10 her of little Mary, as of crea-
ture in whom he had far more intimate
concern than she had-had let him tell
all of the little tale. and speak Of his
love fur tn child, and of hers for him,
and OF his plans about her, and even of
his disappointment and resentment when
he found that she was not little Mary
without single word to remind him
that there nad ever been a social barrier
between her class and his.
When H. had spoken of his old IA
Their she FASTENED to tell him the story
of how he had brought her husband out
from the TEMPEST OF hostile bullets.
wounded sorely, but still alive, and of
how he had watched and tended the son
of his old employer until such time as
he could bring him home to his own
people.
''Poor oil father Anthony had said
There wasn't a mean streak in him
when it came TO sticking by man he
liked. Mr. Beverley was good friend
to him, and they set store by each
other. I'm glad the old chap didn't
funk. I'm uncommon glad he was brave
and loyal. l couldn't stand having to
be ashamed of the old man"
He had no cause to be, she had an
swered, and then had gone on to tell
him of how the long, slothful, indiffer-
ent brothers had redeemed ignoble liv-
ing by most noble dying. She had en-
larged upon the theme, pleased with the
pleasure size gave him in the descrip-
| ton of qualities and conduct he could
so thoroughly appreciate and under
stand
She had not thought of herself at all
"
she had done wisely. Not that she regret
ted her impulse, or even her manner of
showing it, put She feared he was not suf-
ficiently fine of fiber to understand what
she had done and would simply regard
| her conduct as a womau's acceptance Of
mans advances.
Already h. was showing her that he
recognized no barrier between them, nor
any reason why he should not come to her
as man comes to the woman he loves.
Nor did she wish to set mp barriers in
his case, highly as she regarded them
generally. he had lifted himself above
! his class-Inore, had elevated his class
! itself by the strength of his manhood,
the worth of his endeavors. In him were
| still flavors Of the parent stock, and they
were disagreaable to her, but she was
not weak and narrow minded enough to
think that because nature and circum-
stance had finished her class a little
more finely than his, therefore she had a
right TO exalt herself and abase him
What she desired was no acknowledge
ment of superiority, but to be unloved
She did not care for him, nor for any,
thing he had, and as she was not the
kind of woman that Graves promiscuous
incense burning she objected strongly
to his caring for her. 1t put her at a
disadvantage She was receiving some
thing she dill not want and could not
reciprocate and as yet had no way of
Kidding herself of, for Anthony had not
spoken and appeared in no hurry to
speak, although there was no disguise
of his intentions. She tried to make him
understand how very distasteful he was
to her in the quiet incisiye ways a well
bred woman always has at command,
but she might as we'll have saved herself
the trouble. Neds lack of perceptive-
ness was great, andshis knowledge OF
women-to say nothing of ladies-so
small that il would have required a
powerful lens to enable one to analyze
and describe i, and of sensibility he had
not one grain.
When little Ran rushed in for the sec
ond time within one month and raptur-
ously told his mother of great basket
of provisions which had been sent to her
old pensioners by Mr.. Anthony's orders,
Mary felt as though she would go dis
tracted. If he had liked the poor old
people, or felt a human, or even phil
anthropic interest in them, Mary could
have reconciled herself to both his bounty
and old Aunt kitty's senile pleasure in
it. But he made no secret of his dislike
of negroes, and she knew still consid-
cred her the victim of cunning imposi-
ton and thought that her pensioners
ought to be in the poorhouse. Mol hui
initiation of limitations! he was not
doing it for sw eet charity's sake nor en-