Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-18

Ln1n2 WHICH occurred u 11G, IN i Wa
not good:
Write again."
He replied:
Yes, I suppose So" indiferentiy'
IT wrote again." said Classy. desola9ar
and mournful. Its just the same. No
answer" Il
This time I could say nothing.
I've had enough of this" said Classy
with emphasis After all, it doesn't
do a fellow much good to be rottin'
about in pokey streets all his life, does
it?"
1t was a very poor attempt. and !
waited.
I'm going to see a steamship johnny
I know. Big pot in a shipping office
somewhere. There must be lots OF
places where a fellow can go and enjoy
himself a bit; and-why don't you say
something's" he asked fefcely.
It was an inglorious fzzle to the at
tempt at cheerfulness.
FIll wait just a little longer said
Classy, later. "And if-then I'll take a
ticket for the Klondike or the Orient.
One of these places where it's not over
healthy unless you're used to it."
When my thought turned to Classy
during the next week I II
Mrs. Hepworth-Smith had thought fit
to become a rigid censor of her daugh-
ter's correspondence. It seemed the
only solution. Letters do not go astray
in the post twice running. And I knew
thu Mrs. Hepworth-Smith bore no
manner Of love towards the Knight
Classy.
t'I'm done" said Classy. Il was com
ing through the park the other after
| noon Git is the nearest way honne) and
1 met Mrs. Hepworth-Smith. I inQulF-
ed after Miss Hepworth-Smith, also
MP. Hepworth-Smith. She thanked me.
She said that Mr.. Hepworth-Smith was
in very good health, but that Miss
| Hepworth-Smith was rather unwen.
She said:
THE doctors have advised me take
Grace abroad somewhere"
ST blurted out Where?' like a fool.
| I felt her look across at me (you know
| what I mean) and h said: -.
ooh, we haven't quite decided that
yet, Nr. Classy
"I said feebly that T supposed the
doctors Nus it would be the best
thing.
"'They say it's really necessary she
replied. Tt will be a complete change
! fer her, you see.
81 don't know what else I said, but
I know that as I il goodbye to her
I hesitated for a minute. I must have
looked rather silly. She guessed what
was in my mind.
Grace is quite too i'll to see any
one. Mr. Casey was her parting shot"
Classy finished. There was a
ful silence.
'Wel1?" 7 said at last.
tIt's as plain as anything to rne,"
| said Classy. It's just her kind way of
1 latino mo Eyna~ that it'S no 09ra
| And I wrote two 1etters-one after the
other. What a supreme fool I must
have looked.
I refrained from asking him if he
thought that writing the two letters
together would have made any differ
epce.
IT'S not so plain to me-" I said.
81 can't help 1t II you're so thick
headed" retorted Classy.
He showed no disposition to be ar
gued with. He said he ought to have
known; he might have guessed-of
course; it was just what he could have
expected; he could not imagine (now)
how he had ever come to make UGH an
idiot Of himself. And he was sick OF
town, of everything in town, n OF
town life; he had thought for a long
time that it would be a hne thing to
get away from town altogether for a
time.
+ was not In request as a comforter
that night. Everything was wrong.
Things would never be the same again
SO the curtain OF the last act but one
comes down with slow sympathy or
the Hero Sad.
The hero in the long chair sad and
depressed beyond words. And finally
he said:
tI'm goin' away. Next week, I think.
Kx1.fa AsNnS% HIVE &hA a4hAr1 vo,1 &b;-L "a
is. I tell you-it Isn't"
But q week later the curtain rose
again.
"Oh, it was great" said Classy. 81
went down to that shipping office I told
you about to get catalogues and dates
and h a sort of thing" Classy was al
ways & little vague when he was ex-
cited.)
RaS a funny kind Of a show. j
-yng counter round three sides. and
wire railing facing you everywhere
And-you can't guess-there was g
lady there, with her back towards me
arguing with a clerk. I heard her say
something about Madeira as I pushed
the door e and I seemed to know
the voice. There was another lady will
her. It was Mrs. Eepworth-Smith anG
Grace.
ST had a good mind to bolt when
saw her-natura11y-but the swing doc
creakea, and Grace looked across a
me. And somehow Il don't know hoy
I did IT'D I whispered, You got my let
ter?' and she said Your letter? No
: Her mother vas Raging the fellow be
f hind the wire netting with her bac
: towards US still. And-I don't kno1
what else I said, or what she said, BIT
5 it's all right, anyhow. Mrs. Hepworth
Smith turned round suddenly. Dfcl
her face was a study. She said, No
u who would have thought of seeing 20
here, Mr.. Casey I should like my LEI
y ter now, mother said Grace, if yo
please Then we went outside and 1e