The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-10-17
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Copyright. i'6ll BY Eu0snts UNrteh .
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| A.HtN.N.V.S'S'S'N 'N'~'N'N'\'S
Young Hetherngton tilled bis brier
wood pipe.
"You don't mind, do your You are
always so jolly and chummy."
She smiled little deprecatingiy.
There were times when somehow she
wished HetherIngton did not find her
30 Jolly and chummy, though these
times had nothing to do with the brier
wood pipe. The comfortable house was
hers In effect, and she. the frIendless
and kinless Kindergarten, must of
course have felt 1t good fortune to be
saycd the lot Of the boarding house and
given the cOlupaulonship OF pleasant
mud well set up people. All the other
Young women she knew told her over
md over again and reminded her that
she ought to be grateful for her mer-
cIcs.
Ills true TINT II Mrs. Hetherngton's
+, oldest daughter had not married and
gone to live In distant city and her
youngest had not died she perhaps
would not have felt the need Of girl
ish presence in the house enough to
take in wInifred.
Wlnlfred watched Hugh Hether4ng-
ton lift his fine length and move across
the room after light for his pipe. As
the match dare 1ckered on his clean
features she thought, as any woman
must have, what handsome fellow he
wns. But Winnie thought also that II
her own mouth had not been so big. her
tendency to freclIle so hopeless and the
tnt OF her hair 20 uncompromlsinRly
red Mrs. Hetherngton might not have
liked her quite so well. Moreover. she
looked a bit older than Hugh, too,
though she had carefully figured out
that she. in fact, was year younger.
; But then, Hugh's childhood had
passed in the fush OF pleasure and the
sunshine OF affection, and hers2- She
was too humble to he sorry for herself
nnd too wise not to see in the worst
that had ever happened her the posi-
bltes of still worse and thus be
thunkful for the Providence that had
kept her in Its hand.
But yet this evening she thought
more sharply than usual OF another
girls symmetry, her gowns. her ac-
compllshments, her opportunities all
the things that are dear to the heart
of woman. And why not? Venus her
self was not Irresistible until she put
on the right girdle. Hugh had asked
her to help in comparing some lists.
and she knew very well that every
minute of help she gave him this even
fnt, yvoa nm aXtra minute for the other
girl.
She bent her head over the papers
before her. for the things she was
thinking must steal into her face in
spite Of herself.
"3re you very tlred?" said Hether.
inSQn kindly. but yet altogether i'm
I,c.sonalIy. She raised her head and
smiled. What was the use? If 1t wero
not this misery, 1t would be something
else for n waif such as she. "Oh. not
at all," she said.
~ do not believe there is another
girl who would be us patient as yon
nre with all my tiresome stun and
with me too. Even mothers endurance
gives out once in while. and she
scolds about my den. II it weren't for
YOU, | don't know what would happen.
II you're really not tired, want to go
over these lists with you now, and then
I'm Off for the KendrIck reception.
Gertrude Stevenson will be there" he
said, happy little smile playing about
his lips. Seems to me she is getting
more beautiful every day. Don't you
think so?'
Hetherington did not even look at
her for his answer. He was indeed in
sistlpg on being even chummicr than
usual this evening, and Winifred bent
her head close over the papers once
more.
"Of course" Hetherinston went on.
Gertrude is popular, very. Sillngton
has mint Of money, too, but ! don't
think she's the kind Of girl who would
stoop to anything like that"
Winifred had to listen TO that and
much more in snatches and mono
loGues, and she was glad when at last
Hethcrington left There are times
when ii is singularIy harder to be
"chummy' than Mt others.
The next morning Hetherington had
| gone wien sue CuIuS ~ - N"htbSts
something most unusual for him. IL
the evening he did not ask her help.
He talked very little and Mrs. Icther.
iugton later said to her husband Can
it be that Hugh is not well;"
Her husband looked up retrospective
ly over his glasses.
"Nlaybe he's in love. Maybe be has
proposed to some girl. and she's turned
him down. Every young fellow has to
have lesson or two. 1t won't hurt
him, suppose"
"ob, how can you talk so? | am sure
Hugh would not propose to Girl with
out talking to me about it first"
Whereupon Mr.. Hetherington senior
smiled behind his paper and vent on
reading A long and comparatively Sc
rene matrimonial voyage had taught
him that arguments only fill the sails
with head winds.
WInifrcd herself neither questioned