Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-07
Observation-Disclosures
. in THE DAY /
!. OF WORK :. !
By CLINTON ROSS.
Copyright, 1901, by Clinton Ross.

other faccs-his brothers and his sister
and always somewhere in the back
ground that chubby girl whose face,
after time, to be sure, grew less club |
by, and when he was back from school |
she was almost grown up" and didn't |
seem to think much of him or he of her.
Then again, it was school and soon
college-friends who had gone from
him; events that were like dreams, just |
MS all life is Il dream TO the dead.
He now was watching n boat race,
now dancing Mt a promenade with
Annie, now again in far Westminster,
and then he was in London and all
about-your young man of the world.
Soon lie was very much your man of
many clubs and of the town.
He had two sides to his nature, one
strong for the Inherited sense of the
gentleman, the other for pleasure, and
subtly pleasure Slapped the strength. 1t
was DENLY here and Denly there-a
youth to be talked about. Annie now
was quiet young woman, of whom he
saw little. But life was the best fun.
Presently he was doing things he
| once would not have thought of doing,
and then more of them and more of
them, until they spelled disgrace, and
men began to cut him, for he was full
| of force and passion for whatever he
| did, and his was not the nature to
brook criticism. Men told their women
friends that they would not be seen
with him. Annie's brothers, once his
| c,,.o 10
fled from him as rats from sinking
ship. But he had new friends. not
such nice ones, to be sure, and soon,
when certain successes he had had
IN 'the street. turned to failures,
}hesc, too, began the cutting" proc
Fellows l wouldn't have in my
house." DENLY said.
Then there came the dreadful day
when the dear old general turned as
adamant and told him he had disgrace
ed the family.
But his mother, in the graveyard,
could not know-or did she know?
In town things went from bad to
worse. If sullen pride often held him
up, there We're other days when shame
tore Denby's heart. His friends were
gone; his family was gone; he was
snubbed at the clubs; he had become
one of those who disappear" You
see them about for some years, and
then they vanish, and you wonder
where"
OF day at this period of his career
he passed Annie somewhere near
Washington square. She bowed as
graciously as ever. He replied as stiff
ly as he could. But she looked back
and called out:
"Why, jim; why don't you ever call
now?"
I'll haven't time and, you know
you know, you ought not to want to
see me-
81 will prove that. You simply have
to perslst-not to give up. It's work
you want-work-work AS for you,
Jim, | have known you too long-not
to want to see you at any time-under
any circumstances"
She spoke rapidly, and her eyes and
words We're earnest, and he was out Of
her class, utterly out of tia man I'm
classed.
lie broke away as soon as he could
He did not want to have people see he
with him. There was too much scan
: dial, true and untrue, about him, and
thank heaven, he had something of tht
y gentleman left.
III But her words rang in his ears, 'It
work you want-work."
I'll He had dawdled and fooled ant
9 thrown things away, but she had recog
nized him with no forced smile. An,
q there was Il way-the way of work
! But what work could he do?
Z Yet the thought cheered him, and Ii
q took pains for some days to return I'LL
q cheerful mods by those as uncheerfu
6 Again he began to look at Denly as til
name OF n line of men who had le
9 other men. He dropped certain nc
Y quaintances who had shamed him.
Z And one day he went to Bronson
who knew him slightly.
He made no explanations, nor di
Bronson require them. He knew til
case, for DENLY was the talk of tn
town. He knew his family.
"You think you want to get away t
learn trader"
"Where am quite unknown. ! wan
an apprentices chance That is TIL
reason l am here. l want a letter t
one of the managers in Il company yo
are interested in. Simply introduce me
without saying anything in my favo
or disfavor if you can help it. AM
then l want this mentioned to no one
to none of my family"
"Well," said the other after INC
ment, 81 will do It,"
And Bronson's word-his word wa
bond-had been kept to the letter.
1t had been since nothing but work
work, as the girl who had been stancl
to him had told him.
Old habits, old ways, were gone, to b
longed for at times with fierce inten
I sty. Yet at last he had mastered him
I self in the day of work.
Now waking with the gurglini
stream in his ears, all this past parad
ed, until he sprang up, remembering.
II have forgotten that Delafield ma,
want me-"
A short time after this Delafielt
brought him wire to the effect tina
the new superintendent presence II
New York.
Il don't care to CO." DENLY answered
Yet why shouldn't he? He wa
strong, sure of himself now. Ambition
tugged at his heart, and then that long
ing for home, for the old ways, cam,
over him. If people chose to snub him
he felt now that he could show them {
man who no longer cared. He felt thu
strong man he was, who had thrown
all his passionate strength into VIVA
he had been doing There were the
people, the workers, as he himself hat
. been, as he was-the workers so Otter
misled so incapacitated for seeing
: things clearly. He must use hi.
2 strength for them-his strength thai
& had come like the steel out of the fire.
I You would better go. They may