The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-08-17

Subsequently,, in the stenographer's
room, Miss Wentworth took Il letter
head from the drawer at her side with
the air Of a person in deep thought.
Then. with scornful smile playing
about her lips. she dropped the naper
into the machine, gave the rollSr Il
quick contemptuous turn and MUIR
INJURED to herself:
"A perfect cad!'
Fight tie conviction us he would
Oglesby became more and more con-
WINGED as the days went by that a
dire thing had happsped to him.
Why, otherwise, was he forever fur
lively watching her clear, pure outlines
with satisfied delight?
Yet his very soul WINGED at the
thought of an Oglesby in love with a
typewriter girl--and one, moreover,
who scarcely noticed him. With that
thought the queer, unreasonable eA-
ultation that he had experienced before
at being snubbed darted through him.
He was proud of her-proud of her
as if she had been himself.
For two generations the Oglesbys had
married bellies of their day. I,deed, to
be born an Oglesby-and a man-was
much the same thing as being born
prince of the blood.
And now the head of the Oglesby
family was absolutely dependent upon
a girl of the people-a young woman
who earned her living by means of the
skill by which her long, white fingers
licked off the letters that pertained to
the vast Oglesby interests.
Admitting that the impossible could
happen, he reflected, wouldn't it be
sweet? Glaring headlines in the daily
newspapers: "Oglesby Weds His Pref
ty Stenographer!" Romance In Il Wall
Street Officer The thought was too
much. And he turned to the papers
that lay on his desk with his lips shut
in cruel smile. She must go!
"She is a queen, all right" he was
thinking as he held portentous docu-
ment before his eyes in the delusion
that he was reading it. she's a
queen, but we Oglesbys cannot marry
queendoms."
At that moment there was tap at
the door, and in response to his mum
bled Come in!' the lady of his
thoughts entered. In less time than it
takes to write it the Oglesby pride
skunk out of sight. After all she need
not go! The mere thought of some
round checked girl with a belligerent
pompadour filling her place made him
feel murderous.
he rose to place chair for her, dim
ly aware through the confusion of his
thoughts that she had expressed wish
to speak to him upon a personal mat
ter. Then shiver of intuition caused
him to look at her keenly.
".And l should like to get away as
soon as l can, Mr.. Oglesby, without in
conveniencing the firm in any way"
We're the first words that Oglesby
heard clearly as he recovered from his
dazed surprise
For moment he did not speak. For
the first time in all his elegant, AFRO
CANT life Hubert Oglesby felt forlorn
bereft! In that moment the Oglesby
pride was forgotten.
leave u.s." he asked at last, very hum
bly, and With fear clutching at his
heart as very probable reason for her
action suggested itself to his imagna-
ton.
"Of course he went on soberly, not
waiting for her to speak, Il do not
need to tell you how much I-how
ence here. We
She interrupted him by a little ges-
ture at once imperious and girlish
Now that she was about to leave, the
cold reserve of her manner had dis
appeared.
you've all been so very kind to me
here that
Something in the intense gaze that
he bent upon her caused her TO leave
, her sentence unfinished Then slowly
the color burned in her cheeks like
the fire in an OPAL and Mr.. Oglesby
was speaking rapidly, eagerly and as
, a man rather than an Oglesby
Don't tell me that it is too late
he pleaded, ''and that there is some
one else I think l have loved you
from the first but
. He stopped in embarrassment. Miss
Wentworth looked up at him with q
quizzical smile.
The Ogesby pride?" she queried
with gentle raillery.
1t was a trying moment Oglesby
turned hot and red with shame. The
Oglesby pride suddenly seemed to hin
a contemplate thing. Then he looked
up and nodded with dull hopelessness
She would never forgive such an ad
mission as that, he felt sure
Miss Wentworth laughed delightful
ly-unaccountably
"The Wentworths of Boston," she OBJ
served demurely, ARE unused to being
scorned!'
!, But how in the world came you tt
be earning your liying!"
Family and fortune" she smiled
back at him, sometimes part com
panyo