The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-12-23
too. It's very ~ touch Of
red here and there to ef warmth
a man likes without ~ a room
glaring like a theater o. BON. All

red here and there to q warmth
q man likes without "a room
glaring like a theater o. BON. All
men don't have bad tastes.
'Thank you," said Tom, his eTes,
twinkling. "Im stiii more honorG
finding myself on the COMMITTEES wzz
you."
She flushed and changed the topic
hastily. ~ think we should get one
Of those low tables to match. She
could keep her sewing things or mag
azine on the top shelf and his smoking
outfit down below"
"Shall we get him one Of those COM
plete smoking sets in bronze to go
with it?'
"No," said the girl promptly, 1--WE
won't have money enough, and 1 think
the average man hates those sets. He
likes to pick up things for himself
odd pieces that will hold real cigars
Tobacco sets are only good for show"
"She hath wisdom beyond her years"
he murmured.
She rose hastily and signaled to the
clerk. In few minutes the three
pieces were skillfully arranged in
green hung corner Miss Pemberton
stepped back and studied the effect.
"a couple Of simply framed pictures
above the couch, soft toned pillow
or two on 1t, one In her chair, and it
will do very we'll"
"With the smoking outfit on the
lower shelf. Don't forget that. And
a bit Of sewing on the top. I'm quite
sure she will embroider."
mo-" said the girl as If talking to
herself. "She will make lovely little
things out of lace and bits of silk
things that he will like to see her wear,
because she will have time to make
herself pretty for him."
A sudden silence fell between them
The clerk moved to a discreet distance
"And you'd have a lamp said Tom
softly, mot turned too high, and he'd
head. And she might read aloud to
him sometimes
"Oh, I'm quite sure she would, be-
cause they would like the same books"
Then suddenly she flushed and turned
away. 1T must be very late. We have
spent such q lot Of time
but think what lovely things we
have"
All that afternoon between Tom Har-
dey's eyes and the accounts Of the
stock room moved a slender figure in
gray, and that night he said to his ia
ther, "Who is Miss Pemberton?'
''She is one Of those unfortunate girls
brought up by widowed mother in
comparative luxury and then thrust
out into the world to earn her way
without any special training. She came
here with the idea Of writing, but
found the market crowded and wisely
studied stenography before she wasted
her money hunting for a position she
could never get. consider her one of
my 'ilnds.'"
,ass--..s--x..s-:.--e. -.
er to buy furniture for another living
room. Mr.. Hardey had insisted on fur
nishing the home, and Mrs. Hardey had
been reveling in the purchasing Of lin
ems, cut glass and silver, but upon one
thing Tom had insisted.
Were going to have living room,"
he had said, "and THAT we will furnish
ourselves"
She wore gray dress for this second
expedition, at Toms reqLc't. They
went back to Santine's and fouHd the
same clerk. They bought the same sort
of couch, the same little rocker and the
same little table, though Mrs. Hardey
would have protested that it was all
very much out of date. Then when the
clerk had taken the order and left them
alone Tom turned to her with a salts
fed light in his eyes.
"I'll put that old meerschaum of
mine on the lower shelf, and you will
have the magazine up above" The
eyes that looked into his shone like
stars.
And I'll read aloud to you because
| we like the same books"
"And you will make the little silk
and lace thing-em-bubs that shall
like to see you wear"