Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-28

having felt Il moments anxiety and ac-
customed to his absences, replied naive
ly, "Why| oh" responded Mrs. Win
dibrook, ION account of his great bust
ness responsibilities, you know; so
much depends upon him."
Again Cissy did not comprehend. She
could not understand why this master
full man, her father, who was equal to
her own and, it seemed, everybody's
needs, had any responsibility or was
not as infallible and constant as the
sunshine or the air she breathed. With
out being his confidante or even his as
sociate she had since her mothers
death no other experience. Youthfully
alive to the Importance of their wealth,
1t seemed to her, however, only nat
ural result of being his daughter. She
smiled vaguely and a little impatiently
They might have talked to her about
herself. 1t was little tiresome to al
ways have to answer questions about
her "popper." Nevertheless. she avail
ed herself of Mrs. Windibrook's invita-
tion to go into the garden and see the
new summer house that had been put
up among the pines and gradually d.
verted her hostess conversation into
gossip of the town. If ii was somewhat
lugubrious and hesitating, it was, how
ever, relief to Cissy and, bearing
chiefly upon the vicssitudes of others,
gave the young girl the comforting
glow of comparison.
Touching the complexion of the Sc
camp girls, Mrs. Windibrook attributed
1t to their great privations in the alkali
desert. Zone day." continued Mrs. Win
dibrook, when their father was i'll
with fever and ague, they drove the
cattle 20 miles to water through that
dreadful poisonous dust, and when they
got there their lips were cracked and
bleeding and their eyelids like burning
knives, and Mamie Secamp's hair,
which used to be n beautiful brown like
your own, my dear, was bleached into
n rusty yellow"
"And they will wear colors that don't
suit them," said Cissy impatiently.
Never mind, dear" said Mrs. Windi-
brook ambiguously. 81 suppose they
will have their reward" Nor was the
young engineer discussed in lighter
Nelh' III pains me dfeadfully to see
that young man working with the com
mon laborcrs and giving himself no
rest just because he says he wants to
KNOW cNactly how the thing Is done
ana why the old works failed" she re-
marked sauly. When ME-. Windibrook
| knew ne was the son of Judge Master
ION ana had rlch relations, he wished
OIL course 10 De civil, but somehow
young Mastefton and he didn't hit off,
Ihueeu MI. Wlndlprook was told that
ne had declared that the prosperity of
Sahada CITY was only mushroom
CROWN, ana 1t seems too shocking to
repeat dear but they say he said that
Tue new church, our church, was SIM
ply using the Almighty as big bluff to
the othef towns. vi course Mr.. Windi-
brook couldn't see him after that. Why,
ne even saia your father ought TO send
you 10 school somewhere and not let
you grow up In this half civilized
pace.
etfahsely enough, Cissy did not hail
thls corfoDoration OF her dislike to
young Mhsteftoh win the hveliness
one might nave expected, Perhaps 1t
was because ilheS IlpDs was no Ion
ger present. having left cissy ut the
parsonage ana returned nome STU she
enjoyed ler Visit alter fashion, romp-
Gu WIN the younger Wlndlprooks and
ciliupeu Tree III tne security OF her
| sylvan seclusion ana the pronptings of
ner sun nealthS, girlish blood and only
came Dack TO cake and tea and her new
T., ~ N.Y. sne n"u l'rnue,'iy ll'hs up
III .He Suhliilef uouSe us Tue AFTERNOON