The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-07-22


CRANK, STOOD A STALWAEr MAN.
Mor@ans feet. but his voice was
strangely tense and earnest.
No That would be all play and
/ no work, and men weary of all play as
We'll as all work
THAT is the first time ! ever heard
/ that it WAS mere rhild's play 10 please
/ a woman and make her contcntcd."
/ His tone was hantrring. but Amy's
1 face did not soften with mir1l.
You do not understand. | must
marry Il man who think is Il stronger
nature than myself. IL man 10 whom |
/ can look up. Aiy father, like most
| self made men. has his rough edges.
| but he commands Il certain respect
| which | want also TO give to my nus
| band. He is SO completely the mas
| ter of the situation. He did not buy
| his position as president of the Con-
Solitlatrd Intcrurban railway. He
| earned ii step hy step from the day
when he WAS first given Il car to OIL
Harry Watkins was not smiling now.
His eyes We're narrowing to Il mere slit
Oh the Berkshire hills rising magniti-
comfy Oh their right. hathcd now in
| richest September sunset. Suddenly
he turned and took both Of her slim.
| graceful hands in his.
"Amy"-it was the first time he had
ever used her first name, and her hands
trcmblrd slightly in his Amy. dear,
if | ever should come to you with the
fruits of genuine effort in my hands
could YOU
And. looking into her smiling eyes,
he read the answer he wanted.
The next day the Dearborn house
party broke UP. Harry Watkins joinci
Il yachting party bound for the Maine
coast. and Amy Morgan turned her
face toward her home in the midwest.
There has been no promise of Il CORE
Spondencc. And yet both were content.
!.
1t came out in huge black type:
"Our OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES James
Forbes Morgan, SFcsideut of the Con
soldated Intcrurhan railway, has
granted to the young women OF st.
James church the Use Of his road to
Lake View for the afternoon of July
1. the proceeds from car fares to be do
mated to the ViCtil.!S of the Cherry liill
lAinc disaster. The young women Of
the Altar guild Will have charge of the
work and ACT rs conductors during the
afternoon. Individuals Who will not
find il convenient to patr0niIe the road
on that day may send checks payable
10 Miss Amy Morgan, treasurer of the
guild"
And it certainly seemed when the
afternoon arrived that all Ccnt"rvillc
was bound for Lake View. The super
intpndcnt and his assistants held Il
hurried conference. and 1t WAS decided
that the regular conductors who had
anticipated Il day off should be pressed
into service to assist the young wo-
men acting as conductors, and an
emergency call WAS sent out for the
men to report ut once.
Amy Morgan sat i'll the auditors of
fee receiving the reports as each car
rctuRncd from its trip to the lake, her
enthusiasm riSing IL; the afternoon
wancd. At & o'clock the ears were to
he turned back Ia the company. and it
WAS just $50 when the telephone in
the superintendent room rang with
that peculiar inSistcncc which pr2Sa@rS
trouble.
Riot imminent ut DobSon's corner"
was the news. "t'an% of toughs have
taken possession of car No. 81; motor
man thrown OF: badly injured
Don't tell Amy" WAS her fathers
first order as he closed the door leading
into the auditors room. He had been
Mt his daughters elbow all afternoon.
"H!"trrs In pos&rS$"n; have run car
out of town. send police 10 head them
OF"
So the car was headed for Center
Vile, that was one comfort. but there
were ugly curves to make and two
sharp inclneS, which unaccustomed
hands. unsteady from Liquor. might
fail to accomplish. Probably few pas
SCngcrs were on board, but there was
the pretty girliSh conductor in charge,
| Jessica Wallace, one of Amy's dearest
friends. Anxiety was written on every
face