Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-08-31

the air OF person in deep thought.
Then, with a seornful smile playing
about her lips. she dropped the paper
into the machine. gave the roller
quick contemptuous turn and muir
INJURED 10 herself:
"a perfect cadg'
Fight the conviction as he would,
0giosby became more and more con
vineed as the days went by that a
dire thing had happened TO him
Why. otherwise. was he forever fur
lively watching hergclear, 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 esleer. unreasonable ex-
ultation that he had experienced before
at being sngbbed darted through him.
He was proud OF her-proud Of her
as II she had been himself
For two generations the 0glesbys had
married bellies OF their dry. Indeed, to
be born an oglesby-and a man-was
much the same thing as being born a
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 Ogiesby interests.
A1tpsAtiper tho tvar,nSsfbt. could
happen. he reflected wouldn't it be
sweet? Glaring headlines In the daily
newspapers: "Ogiesby WEEDS His Pret-
Is Stenographer." Romance In 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. Shes
queen. but we oglesbys cannot marry
queens who have got lost from their
queendoms."
At that moment there was a tap at
the door, and in response to his mum
bled Come I'M" the lady of hia
thoughts entered In less time than II
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 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 a shiver of intuition caused
him to look at her keenly.
'And | should like to get away as
soon as can. Mr.. oglesby. without in
convenienclng the firm in any way"
were the first words that OAesby
heard clearly as he recovered from his
dazcd surprise.
For a moment he did not speak. For
the first time in all his elegant, arro-
CANT life Hubert Oglesby felt forloyn,
bereft In that moment the Oglesby
pride was forgotten.
May ask why you have decided to
leave us?- he asked at last. very hum
bly, and with fear elutching at his
heart as very probable reason for her
action suggested itself to his imagina-
ton.
"Of course" he went on soberly. not
need to tell you how much I-how
much we have appreciated your pres
ence here. We
She Interrupted him by 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"
lac pleaded. "and that there is some
one else. think | have loved you
from the first. but
He stopped in embarrassment Miss
Wentworth looked up at him with a
quiZzical smile.
Tile oglesby prideT she queried
with gentle raillery.
1t was trying moment. Oglesby
turned hot and red with shame. The
0glesby pride suddenly seemed to him
a contemplate thing. Then he looked
up and nodded with duh hopelessness
She would never forgive such an adj
mission as that. he felt sure.
Miss Wentworth laughed delightful
ly-unaccountably.
1.-THE Wentworths of Boston," she OBJ
served dempreIy, 'are unused to being
scornedp'
"But how in the world came you to
be earning your living"
Family and fortune" she smiled
haak ar him aSomafimGS mart com