Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-22
CHAPTER XVIII.
Father and DauChter

The winds of January had no better luck
in shaking down the leaves of the scrub
oaks on the Porter hillside than their pred
ecessors of November and December. The
SHOWS came and went on the duh slopes
and The Gamma beds We're little blots of ruin
| in the gray stubble. The ho,rse was a place
| of light and life once more for Evelyn had
| obeyed her fathers wish rather than her
| own inclination in opening it's doors for
| frequent teas and dinners and once for a
| large ball Many people had entertained
! for her; she had never been introduced for
mally, but her mothers friends made up
for this omission; she went out a great
| deal, and enjoyed 1t. Many young men
climbed the hill to see her, and many went
tic the theater to dances with her at least
| once. The number who came to call di-
| minishei by Christmas; but those who still
came and We're identified a S freQuentcTs of
tha house came oftener.
| Wary Raridan had ragged at the mob, as
| he called it, which he seemed always to
+! find installed in the Porter drawing room
but he ragged inwardly these days, save as
| he went eXplosively to Saxton for comfort ;
f, he had stopped raging at Evelyn. He was
at work more steadily than he had ever
been before, and wished the credit for it
which people denied him. to his secret dis
gust. He had idled too long or he had too
often before given fitful allegiance to labor
to pass tea for them in the afternoons re-
fused to believe that he had expelie fenced
change of heart. Those who had Dragged
of him abroad, and who now lured the
eternal visiting girl to town to behold him,
were chagrined to find that he was diff
cult to produce, and Modified their guests
by declaring that Wary was getting more
tickle and uncertain as he grew older, or
took vengeance by encouraging the rumOr
that he and Evelyn Porter were engaged
Wheaton called at the Porters' often, but
he did not go now with Wary Raridan;
he even took some pains to go when Rari-
dan did not. He knew just how much time
to allow himself between The Bachelors
and the Porter door bell in order to reach
the drawing room at five minutes past 8.
He was now considered one of the men
that went out a good deal In Clarkson; he
was invited to many houses and began to
wonder that social enjoyment was so easy.
1t seemed long ago that he had been
leading figure in the ball of the knights of
Midas Looking back at that incident he
was sensible of it's poverty and tawdriness:
he had sacrificed himself for the public
good. and the community shared in the
joke of 1t. 4;
Porter had an amiable way of darting out
of the library in the evenings when he and
Evelyn were both at home to see who
came In mot not that he was abnor-
door bell, though he enjoyed occa-
sionaly a colioquy with a tramp; but he
was always on the lookout for kilograms,
OF Wh,cn ne received great many at nome,
and he declared in his chatting note of COM
plant that the people in the house were
forever hiding them from him. He some
times brought home bundles of papers and
spent whole evenings digesting them and
making computations. Without realizing
that Wheaton was in his house pretty often,
he was glad to know that his cashier came.
When he found that Wheaton was in the
drawing room he usually went over to talk
to him in the interim before Evelyn came
down. Sometimes a bit of news in the
evening paper gave him a text.
u see that they've had q shaking up over