The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-03-10

heard a sweet. clear. rich feminine
voice reciting:
The quality Of mercy Is not strained:
1t droPpeth as the gentle rain from heaven,
down to:
Which, il thou follow. this strict court of
Venice
Mast needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant
there.
Entraneed. Dick. who loved Shake
speare even better than he loved boxing
and rowing. and knew him almost as
well as he knew himself, stood, almost
at the top of the tower, for the next
half hour listening 10 the finest pas
sages ever put into the mouths of wo-
men Then silence. All aglow with ad-
miration. Dick Ieaped up the few re-
manning steps and stood over Kitty
Baldwin, who was deep in volume of
Shakespeare. They were the only two
on the tower. he confessed to caves
dropping. and Kitty prettily forgave
him. He found her charming: she found
I'm interesting. Every Sunday after
tialt, Dick and Kitty found themselves
ON the tower That's how they fell in
fove
When the storm burst in the Fos,lick
h1lse Dick had been home from Har-
vtigd for Il month, and he had known
* aty for about a year. He had told
HIS father that he intended to marry
her. and his father had Numbered that
he would never acknowledge her, for she
would surely become an actress after
a ssear or so of married life.
SO. sir. once for all" Giles Fosdick
said to his son, after terrible half hour.
WIN you or viii you not marry this
girsP"
4 Will not. replied Dick quietly.
You are a sensible young man,
commented the father dryly.
Il will not marry her" went on Dick,
HIS face flushing at the implied sneer.
because 1 have already married her
this stfternOon-at the Little Church
Arougsd the Corner"
Try actors church, shouted old
Giles Fosdick. "Eh? What? That's the
first step toward the stage, Leave her
or lelve my house. sir. instantly"
very well. sir I shall leave your
houee-as 1 cannot possibly take it with
me.
For hve years Dick Fosdick and his
father had newer met. nor had Dick re-
!ceived a dollar OF his fathers money.
He haCa tried everything but suicide. and
everything had gone terribly against
1 him.
Iapartments in the Imperial 10 the TWO
/ rooms On Second Avenue; but il told on
her. arAd on this particular night she
/ was on q a remnant of her former self
as she rocked her little two-year-old boy
! TO sleep. while waiting for Dick. In y
l little while she heard his step upon the
| creakv old stairs. and her mind went
mack 10 the tower in Mount Auburn,
! which TACK had so often climbed in the
! summer Sundays of long ago.
! Dick was very quiet after supper,
very quiet and very desperate He was
/ almost devoid of hope and entirely de
void of faith. Kitty tried TO cheer him,
land ne made a CHASTITY attempt TO cheer
her but gave IL up when he learned that
they had not fifty cents in the world,
and even Kitty grew as white as death
at that. and they We're both silent for
half an hour, Kitty buried in her
Efhouahts Dick in a paper which ne had
bought with his last single penny hop
ling against hope 10 find something in il
to his advantage.
| Suddenly he dropped the paper, with
an exclamation impossible 10 put here.
il was so tremendous. as he finished a
little paragraph tucked away in a cor
I'M do it, BY heavens. III do it, and
he jumped to his feet and rushed for his
| DO what Dick dear?" cried Kitty
| oh. not that. Not that as. he opened
Keep quiet. little Kitty Baldwin tina
las. am only going to shave on my