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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1900-06-07
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laufen piitbe.
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ten, 80 Seiunben, mas 78 Wieilen per
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g. a. Zimmerman. Der f6 bic repubIn6e Romnuon dr 9sr
bsprb ia Ibfmmuns Detd g pub 25 September 1858
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Der Seutsde 9apiertruft.

Die beuiidsn 8eitunsen riiiten ii4 81
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bei&loHsn. &uberbsm iOa Der 8ei6staa
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Giicnbabn Seittabelle.
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3n Nraft am 2S. W2ai 800.

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Na6m. Spnntasssise I'M 900 Born. unb
200 9la6m. 3iies Nps. 2 uub prbinbsn In
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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-04

her, for she wouldn't take it if you
stretch out both, and went down on
your knees into the bargain.
Her voice had risen to a scream.
Her whole frail form shivered under
the intensity of her passion. Holbrook
stood quite still before her, resting one
hand lightly on the table. His face
had grown quite pale, and a stern, set
look HAD come into his pleasant eyes.
He was questioning within himself:
How long could he stand this? Why
should he stand it at all? And then
voice seemed suddenly to come from
the grave, accusing, commanding,
binding. He must stand 1t.
1t was always his policy to oppose
her violence with his utmost calm
ness. He waited now until he was
quite sure she had nothing more to
say. Then he drew his gloves on
with slow deliberation. He wished he
knew just how to cope with this fiery,
undisciplined SOUL At that moment
the image of a tall, stately girl, Sc
rene of manner, gentle of voice, alto
gether a lovely flower of the cultivated
species, rose before him, and the con-
trast filled him with hot shame. He
turned away from the girl, who had
buried her head in her arms, and went
out without a word.
When Jane was quite sure he was
not coming back she lifted her wet,
| swollen face from the table. A de-
| spairing look had come into her black
F., eyes. Hes growing away from ne
: fast-fast. He looked like lord to-
night. while Il" she looked down
upon herself, upon her twisted limb,
| her shabby shoes-"good Lord, row
can he care for such thing? But it's
his fault-his falkland nobody else's,
| that am the thing am. That's what
makes him SO patient. Oh, know, l
know"
Long before Holbrook had reached
the studio building, where he was to
join his friend Barker, she had sob
bed herself to sleep, sitting there by
the table, just as he had left her
angry, crouching, desolate.
Barker was the fellow who had got
him into the Lenton class. over which
such girls as Miss Maxwell and Diana
held sway. And Barker's family was
one that everybody knew.
There's money In my family some
where" Barker often said. with his
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-04

long way from your poster painting
first
ION that ground you shah not tread.
I am more grateful to the fellow who
got me into this Lenten class than
can show him. I've got my wedge IN.
and it will be my own fault If l don't
drive It in as far as l want it to co.
"How far do you want it to go?"
There was a trace of sullenncss left
in her manner, but the defiance had
died out of her eyes. She was not with
out interest in his ambitions.
.'I intend it shall go in far enough
to split the log wide open"
what Logo"
ooh. we'll, to drop metaphor, l mean
I've got start, the first step has been
made. 1t will be my own fault If L
don't stand for something in the great
city of New York five or six years
from now"
Don't be too cock-sure of yourself.
Her ugly mood was coming back. He
might rise, but he could not carry
her with him. He might stand for
something" five or six years from now,
hut she would not be standing with
him.
She suppressed rising sob. 1t made
a gurgling in her throat. Holbrook
looked up from his plate pleasantly.
He felt sorry for her-aiways. why
don't you eat your dinner. child?"
There isn't any hurry. I'll have
plenty of time when you're gone. l
like to have something TO do when
I'm by myself-ard that's pretty much
oil the time lately"
He recognized the yelled complaint.
81 am very sorry, Jennie, but l don't
see how it can be helped. You know
what / came here for. l never prom
ised to sacrifice my plans for your
convenience If you have any sug-
SeSllOu w ndhc, dAs NhouS0
would like to suggest, / will try to
do lust what you think would make
you happiest"
She was not looking at him now
She was following pattern of clover
leaf in the tablecloth with the prong
of her fork. She spoke pacifically;
who said anything about changing,
Teddy? Not II
Nor l." said Teddy. I'VE talked
it all over so thoroughly before We
went into it that supposed we would
both be satisfied"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-04

Are your" She hung an eager up-
ward glance at him as he got up 70 50
away.
when you are good and don't snap
a fellow up at every turn am.
He looked down at her pityingly. She
looked up at him adoringly. He tower
ed far above her in his splendid young
manhood, she appealed to him pa
thetically in her feeble. crippled girl
hood.
He was a good-looking young ath-
lete. His strong, resolute lower Jaw
was almost too massive for the eanons
of beauty, if it has any canons, but by
the time his frank gray eyes. straight,
thin-nostriled nose, beautiful suit of
close-cropped brown curls and fine.
firm mouth had been taken into ac-
count the result was altogether salts
factory.
Have you studied any to-day?" he
asked, glancipg toward small black
book on the mantel shelf.
Her face clouded. 'No, can't make
head nor tail to it. Stenography's too
much for me"
Nor opened the typewriter
Eyes, l pecked little this morning.
/ know you think l am dreadful stu
pid."
Il don't think you are stupid at all.
/ am afraid you are-indifferent. You
need competition. If you would only
consent to-"
She interrupted him fercely: go in
to a class to have every fool in it
laughing at my crooked legs and my
crutches? | won't! I wont! wont.
There, now, you've got it straight out
from the shoulder. You just go on,
Teddington Holbrook, and have your
good times with your new-found
friends. Just go on and climb the lad
der you came here to climb. And,
when you get to the very topmost
round of it, if you can find time to look
backward and downward. maybe in
the mud at the bottom you'll see one
familiar face. You won't need to trou-
BILE yourself to stretch out hand to
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-04

face A clean smooth-shaven face.
The girl across the table was boring
him through with her fierce black eyes.
No. he sputtered. this is heather,
white heather"
Il can see that It's white. I'm not
blind as well as lame. Why don't you
wear one of those red carnations?
They're lots nicer"
''All the fellows will have red carna-
tons, I guess. wanted something a
little out of the ordinary"
It was not for this little "black-eyec
shrew'' to know that he had once heard
Miss Towers, his beautiful ascension
lily, say that she loved white heather
above all flowers.
Jane laughed shrilly. well, guess
you've got several things a little out
of the ordinary'-she rested her ell
bows on the table and supported her
chin in her palms-"the class, for in
stance. Now will anybody tell me what
good it does you or anybody else?
Less 1t is to run you into extravaganza
like this she released one hand to give
the carnations contemptuous little
shove-"and that"-indicating his dress
suit with a finger of scorn.
There had-before this occasion
come moments between these two when
Holbrook had to assert his liberty with
posltiveness. He got up now, and,
taking the despised carnations, put
them in tumbler of water and placed
the tumbler on the mantel shelf. When
he resumed his interrupted dinner all
the shyness and apology had gone out
Of his manners. '.'s'.. -
$50 much for that piece of extrava-
sance," he said, coldly. CAS- for my
clothes, perhaps you will feel better if
I tell you that they are hired, not
bought. AS for your question about the
class. can tell you it has been every
thing to me morally, and it may be
more commercially. 1t has put me in
touch with the sort of people who will
appreciate my work when come to be
a real artist
"a real artist. You've got to get
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-04
CHAPTER XIII.
THE LENTEN CLASS.

Mrs. Wilson Ward Desbrow was
strategist.
From the crown of her pretty head
which was always faultlessly Golf
fured-to the toes of her pretty feet
which were always daintily shod-she
was strategically inclined.
She told herself that she had been
bunglingly direct in showing her dis
approval of Diana's attitude toward
Ledyard Fielding. There was moth
ing more unwise than trying to drive
a girls affections, so she retreated
from her antagonistic position with
grace all her own. There should be
no postponement either of the Lenten-
class business of of Ledyard's coming
to dinner on Saturday.
On the evening Of the day when the
heather had been so ungraciously re-
ceived, Mr.. and Mrs. Desbrow talked
about the sender and the receiver af-
ter Diana had retired.
The story of the white heather serv-
ed for introduction. 1t incurred Mr..
Desbrow's outspoken displeasure.
81 don't think you we're at all called
on, my dear, to wipe away her tears
You should have shown her most I'M
mistakably that she was acting like a
spoiled child and merited your last
ing displeasure."
"In point of fact, Willie, she is only
a child. Her exclusive association
with adults and her mature size in
cline US to forget how young she is"
"She is either quite mature in her
feelings or has inherited some Of her
obscure progenitors' coquettish in
stincts."
There was such volume OF re-
proach in her eyes that Mr.. Desbrow
nut himself on the defensive, somewhat
| combatively.
| 81 repeat. She is either vastly ma
ture in her feelings or a coquette by
nature. We have no reason to belieTe
that Fielding has ever spoken d.
rect lover-like word to her, but she as
sumes toward him the attitude OF
young lady bent on rejection"
Direct; no, perhaps not"
"He is not given to indirection I'M
der any provocation." Fielding's cham
pion retorted with unnecessary heat.
She bestowed one OF her sweetest
smiles on him. "You precious old vol
cano-no. But any woman can tell
the precise moment when a man
passes from the grub's stage OF psg-
sive admiration into the winged state
of ardent love and desire"
"Oh, she ean?'
sOf course she can. / knew months
before the fatal words were spoken
that you were going to ask me to
marry YOU"
The lover-husband smiled fatuously.
Doubtless was too idiotically in love
to make it successfully. / had more
difacult task than Fieldings."
81 acknowledge the tribute. Int re-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-04

round blue eyes stretched - Il ii per-
petual search for the golden stream.
@but none OF it ever seems to triclle
into my trough.
Manifestly none Of it had trickled
into the barren, uncurtained room at
the top Of the big building. which
Barker grandiloquentIy called his
studio
He was just hanging his other"
coat on peg behind the one door
when Holbrook followed his own
knock into it.
"Hillo! Gotten up for slaughter"
Little Barker" planted his hands on
his hips, and. standing with his legs
very far apart, looked admiringly at
Ted.
by Jove, old fellow, if some of
your rich kin would only die and leave
you pile what swath you could cut
in New York society"
Holbrook was absolutely without
vanity. He was consumed with the
ambition ito stand for something"
and here to be told that il somebody
would give him money he might be
recognized as parsonage was irri-
tating to a degree.
Don't talk like a fool. Billy.
boro,,t opy r;oh rn1afinuc ard IL y0ll
please. propose to make a place for
myself in the world
Billy extended fat hand in bene-
diction. go in and win, my dear
child, you have my permission. Now,
as for me, / should infinitely prefer
having my Golfers filed by legacies.
Nothing could give me more satisfac-
ton than to spend money somebody
else had sweated to make. fear you
are subject to fits of ambition.
Il am said Holbrook, shortly.
Then he gave the talk violent
wrench away from himself. $50 here
is where you live. Nice. airy room"
He seated himself on the side of
the low iron bedstead to await Billy's
pleasure.
Here's where l live, move and in
tend to turn out the masterpieces that
shall bring the world to its knees at
my feet-provided my landlord does
rot get out eviction papers in the
meantime. Where in the devil is my
other tie?"
He was prancing round the bare
room in an eccentric orbit.
PLENTY of light" said Teddy, pur-
suing his commentary remarks: mo
cubby holes called rooms. No dark,
stuffy closets"
Having found his evening tie, Billy
was anchored in front of the tall chif-
foniere.
Closets? No, sir. / am afraid of
closets. / avoid them on high moral
grounds. No skeletons need apply"
Teddy received this sally with grin,
but he was hard hit. Was this
mere chance shot, or had Barker, by
some internal mischance, learned of
his closet skeleton?
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-04

ject the premises. Diana has subtle
fascination of face and manner which
even I, after sixteen years of daily
companionship am not proof against"
But you have never grown fond OF
the child" she said, mournfully.
mo. / am afraid have not There
is too much that is dark, hidden, OBJ
scure, behind her. | am so sorry this
is so, on your account. my love, not
on hers. / do not believe she has ever
given the matter thought.
Il am not at all sure about that.
She does a good deal more thinking
than you credit her with, and is by
no means lacking in penetration"
II wish she would exert the latter
then in Fieiding's direction and dis
cover for herself that the future is
not at all likely to offer her anything
more valuable than his affection"
rs it sure that the future will offer
her that? Poor, nameless girl! l am
trying to center her admiration on
him, knowing full we'll that he will
never openly avow his love for her un-
til her legitimacy is established be-
yond question"
Nor shall he," said Desbrow vehe-
mently, "if have any influence with
him. He is asking little and giving
much. A man of worth, dignity and
good family-a splendid all-around fell
low-and she?"
"The product of my best efforts"
said his wife, lifting her head triie
defianitly.
She does you credit, my love-" and
then he continued: 1T is one thing
for me to give this poor girl shelter
and an education. 1t involves moth
ing but my purse. But Fielding is my
friend. / was his fathers friend,
when we chummed together at old
Yale, and he shall not fall into this
quagmire If I can help it. He says
that he asks nothing but to know
she was born in wedlock. BY Jove, 1t
is degree of magnanimity 1 never
have achieved. if she really was the
goddess we named her for"
Hes coming here to dinner Satur-
day, and I've told Diana she could
have the billiard room for the Lent
en- class. You and Fielding will have
so much to talk about, you won't
want the table that night"
And when the Saturday evening
came Diana was SO intensely happy
over the non-postponement of her
own scheme that she was her most
charming self all during dinner-time.
She thanked Ledyard for the white
heather with sweetness and grace
that made even Mr.. Desbrow-always
cruelty critical toward her-wonder
where the girl had caught her tricks
of manner" and she was the life of
the quartette until coffee had been
reached and the rapidly succeeding
summons on the front door bell an
nounced the coming of the class.
Then she made her adieus, mingiing
them prettily with inquiries for her
dear Miss Fielding" and left the
room with swift grace that plunged
Fielding deeper than ever into what
his sister called his silly infatuation. .