The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-02-20

for q wife. No wonder his father was
angry"
But the girl was all man could
DESIRE"
4 "Nevertheless, blood will tell"
1T does in her case, for she in
herits her mothers virtues, and a
better woman never lived. Why
should Nettie be held responsible for
the crime of her father?'
"Do you think Davis knows tue con-
dition they are in?" queried his COM
panion, willing to change the subject,
for the very unconventional views OF
Doctor Cramer were we'll known.
"Probably not. Knowing his want
Of sympathy they would be in no
hurry to force themselves upon his
attention. They ore not reduced to
actual want; but Nettio is settling into
q rapid decline which nothing but her
speedy removal to warmer climate
| will check or cure. This to Walter is
simply impossible; but the few hun
dreds it would cost to take them
through the winter would never be
missed by Milton. Jove! I should
hate to so live that my children would
be glad when WAS dead!'
"And you think Walter and his wife
are mercenary?"
"Not at ell; but it requires no great
mathematical ability to read the facts.
Milton Davis is worth at least eighty
or ninety thousand dollars. He has
four children. Fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars will inevitably come
to each Of them in the not remote
future, for Milton is about our own
age, and we neither OF US expect to
see many decades. Now, instead OF
having Walter work John Green's
farm on shares, with meagre utensils
and no capital to speak Of, and letting
his wife work herself, as she has been
doing this summer, why the dickens
doesn't he take five thousand dollars
of what will eventually belong to
Walter, buy him nice little place Of
his own, and give him a chance to
save his wite's life? THIS hanging to
your money till grim death compcls
l you to let go is one Of the greatest
farces of the day. Not that believe
in man robbing himself for his chill
l dren and then being dependent upon
them. But too many provide for a
future which their children may never
, live to sec, and allow the present, Of
5 which they are sure, to DO passed IL
. positive want. I hate cantlnS hypo
e crites!"
= Milton Davis listened in silence tc
: the long trade, for it was nothing
!, else, and shook himself uncomfortable
Q as it proceeded. The doctor was mis-
G taken, however, in calling him hypo
4 critic. That he certainly was not. Hi
,, views might be incorrect, but as h
Y SOW matters SO he acted; and now
y train Of thought was started tina
would probably bear fruit.
l. "Ee is so confoundedly proud" til
IS doctor went on, 'that I really thin
n he would consider it special dispen
|y satlon OF Providence in his behalf
i. Walters wife should die before an
y children were born to inherit III
&c fathers shame"
n He proud? Milton Davis denie
ID the accusation forclbly to himsel
r, WHY. no man in Hilton dressed plal1
err: then his mind refused to accei
IL the explanation. 1t was not pride
id dress, but the more subtle pride
If station. if not Of wealth, which pc
a sessed him; and communing with b
conscience, which the words OF Doctt
n, Cramer had reused as never it NJ
been reused before, he saw himself
IS. true light, and when the train DIRE
ns ND Of H1ntonville he hurried away, Il
Id wishing to sec the doctor, or be reco
ry nized by him.
%. For hours he lay beside his wife tn
X night, not sleeping, but thlnk1n
,e, thinking, till his brain grew dizzy.
or canting hypocrite-thav was what t
is doctor had called him. Was that VII
nd his son and his wife called him? Som
re-. how the pleasant subject OF t
churches he had helped refused to {
cupy the foreground in hia mind
10, night. Nettie dying, and ne IN
if. measure responsible because ne b
compelled his son to depend entire
on mon his own resources, not doing
mnch for him as he had done
, is strangers, even, because he hal o
lie raced his ideas OF proprlety ano
MS yes, his fpride-and married as
. heart babe him marry.
irc But the thought that ranked m
lat. was that his children would be g
to when he was dead. He had done
best to leave them tidy sum at
bo death, but, as the doctor had said,
md present was not SO we'll provided t
q ! lie remembered hearing Matte
Nv. once that she did not have as MI
zan money to spend as the hired 6
Was it true? Had ho denied his #
ec;. ilv more than he ought in his effort
,src leave them we'll provided for at
= IN death? Had he been tyrannScal IN
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