The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-12-07
A Freak Of Fate.
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BY PAULINE MONTAGUE

find DIR. Calender also not available.
And then, to stand disconsolately on
a street corner, wondering what on
earth would become of Miss Theo, just
as a doctors carriage passed him-evi-
IDENTIFY a doctor's and well-to-do one
too, as witness the footmati with fold
ed arms, the proud stepping horse the
handsome robe.
And ragged little Tim, all unaware
he was an instrument of unalterable
fate, succeeded in attracting DR.. Pen
ningtonS attentions
Say You! you're wanted down to
Miss Theo Vincent's-No. Sc Pollard
street-sharp, too! Goin'?"
Theo Vincent! clyde Pennington
was Surprised. and conscious ef i
pleasdreable sensation along with it:
"All right my boy! III be there be:
fore you are"
And sure enough, when Tim reached
home, there stood the doctors carriage
at the door, an object of envious ad-
miration for score Of urchinsI while
DR.. Pennington was sitting in Aunt
IbbF's shug parlor explaining the cause
of his appearance and listening to her
account of Theo's illness.
"And now, if you'll allow me to see
my patient" he said.
And then he went in te. find The5 de-
liri0us and taikati9e and entirely I'M
Conscious
'Of course it is not true" she said,
as he sat down beside the pure white
cot 81 never firted with Mr. Harry
Sylvester ar Dr.. Pennington either 1t
wasn't fair of her to turn me off with
out a character, was it? And Aunt
libby and are so pOOr1'
And, although he knew there was no
recognition in her bright eyes, still his
face flushed.
"She is very sick" he said, gravely.
81 viii see her again this afternoon,
Mrs. Bley."
That was the beginning Of their
friendship, and when, three months
latar, Theo was sufficiently recovered
to accept a situation as travelling COM
panion to a society lady she knew that
her most valued friend in all the world
was DR.. Pennington.
III.
A perfect afternoon, even for la belle
Paris, and Mrs. Sylvester, leaning back
in her chair beside the window of her
grande salon, thought that life in the
gay city was the one thing desirable,
and would be the one thing most glor-
ious were it not for her son Harry.
For her son, her darling, her chief
pride, for whom nothing in all the
world was too good, for whom mar
riageable maidens and shrewd mothers
had angled visibly and invisibly, who
never yet had been disappointed or
tKwarted in all his life, was in a state
of desperation and distress that made
Mrs. Sylvester wonder, in agitation and
dismay, what would be the result of
it all.
And ''it all' meant that Harry Syl-
vester was in love with Mrs. Van Rem
sellers charming young friend and
Vincent, whom, two
years before, Mrs. Sylvester had turned
out of doors.
"She will not listen to me-" Harry
had said to his mother before he went
out that afternoon. 81 tell you l must
have her answer-her favorable an
swer, too-before another twenty-four
hours 80 over my head, mother. I'm
less l get her for my wife I'll shoot
myself just as sure as fate. l love her
by George! 1 never cared so much
for anything or anybody before, and
it's only thememory of your cruel treat
ment of her-the feeling that she thinks
you would not sanction an engagement
that keeps us apart"
'You think that?" said Mrs. Sylves
ter. tremblingly-a little dismayed.
II know it." he answered, hOtly. "She
is gracious and kind, but beyond that,
1 tell you, her just pride restraints her.
See here, mother, if you want to do me
a favor-if you don't want to have me
brought in dead some time-you will
go and tell her you want ner IOr your
And Mrs. Sylvester knew as she
looked upon her sons handsome. bag
gard face. that even if it killed her to
humble herself she must do it for his
sake.
at is awfully cruel of your she said,
piteously, and he interrupted her
firmly:
You can take your choice-Theo
Vincent for your daughter, or - get
along without me-"
Harry
81 mean it. She won't refuse me, if
you ask her. BY, jove! she is the only
woman in the world 1 shall ever ask.
She shall accept me!'
81 think there is no danger of her re-
fusing such an Offer" said his mother
4 little of the old scornfulness in her
voice.
"Of course you will CO." he answered.
decidedly. s.When | come back at Z