The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-07-06
REWARDED
By
CHARMING POLLOCK
Copyright, 1904. BY Charming Pollock


cause Frank Ewing was there. TX
her friends in the offices of the Amerl
can Opera Chair company she said that
she felt the quiet of the place to BIZ
what she most needed. In point Of
fact, however, what she most needed
was the love Of the young bookseeper
who had dropped his pen week be
fore with the avowed intention Of rus
ticating at Red Bank.
The ordinary, sensible woman Of thir-
ty-two, which was the exact age OF
Miss Marshall, probably would not
have sympathized with her much con.
corning this requirement. Ewing was
just twenty eight, and his gray mat
ter was not gray because of maturity
or overexertion. He was exceedingly
good looking, exceedingly tall and
broad and debonair, and these virtues
had appealed at once to little Miss
Marshall, whose eyes were accustomed
to grayness Of mind and Of other
things.
Ewing liked Miss Marshall, too, in q
patronizing sort Of fashion, his regard
having been deepened considerably by
the discovery that she was mistress
of double entry and not at all averse
to double labor. His affection never
melted into words, and it was sufl-
GENTLY adjustable to permit of being
put quite out of the way when its pos
SCISSOR met so fluffy and alluring per,
son as Nellie CarTuth. g
Frank Ewing's gone with your girl
again." Miss Marshall heard an idler
remark banteringly to another as she
climbed the steps Of the Globe hotel.
She stopped to tumble handkerchief
out of her bag.
"Who? Nellie Carruth 2" inquired the
youth addressed "LOois as II 1 was
cut out, doesn't it,"
That he was not the only Individual
"cut out" Miss Mashall learned i'm
mediately upon the return Of the pair.
Fluttering about the piazza, she dis
cerned them at the end of the street,
the bookkeeper hanging on the words
of his companion as no amount of mere
appreciation of wisdom ever made man
hang on the words Of woman. Ew-
ing was greatly embarrassed, too, when
he saw Miss Marshall, although she
tried to seem uninterested alike in his
presence and In his attention to the
blue froeked girl to whom he present
ed her.
Ewing was acting quite within his
rights, she told herself later, obeying
the impulse that babe her justify him
even to herself. He had made no pact
with her, at least no verbal pact, anS
she knew that few men recognized ths
OF unspoken contracts. Whs
should fine, strong fellow whose life !
was before him be tied to a neutral /
tinted woman who already realized |
that her future was to be only her past |
stripped Of it's Illusions? If Frank |
Ewing wanted to marry Nellie Carruth |
{ wasn't any Of her business.
Nevertheless while presenting an Inn |
perturbable front to that part of the
world located at Red Bank she suffered
Zeenly the next few days Miss Car
nth and her widowed mother occupied
/ cottage near the river, and between
riding and boating she and
Ter new admirer were together almost
Ewing glanced at Miss
once OF twice, assured him
elf that she didn't care and was glad
hat he had not committed himself.
Owing was not bad sort Of a man; he
vas just a man.
This was the state of affairs when
Ire at the Carruth cottage upset Red
Bank and permitted to the bookkeepeF
display OF courage which seemed to
Vrite ''fnis" to his romance. The blaze
'roke out at dead Of night and gained
UGH Roadway in the front part Of the
yelling that there appeared seant
reliability that the two inmates could
e rescued. Red Banks volunteer fire
rigade propped its ladders against the
eranda before the bedroom windows,
ut very wisely refused to mount them
trough the blast furnace Of the blaz-
lg porch. Ewing went up one Of them
Ike a toy monkey on stick and car
ed both women to places Of safety.
Miss Marshall, who thought it risky
} be among the spectators at fire,
Id not witness this deed, but she
card Of it, and her heart swelled with
ride. She had known ell along that
wing was capable Of Just such hero
m. Forgetting her previous reserve,
he FASTENED to congratulate him,
ringing up speechless and fearful be
re the couch on which he lay nursing
ban1aged burn on his cheek
This burn, the result Of contact with
falling brand, kept the bookkeeper
raped IN darkness and oil silk Tor
rtnight- Ills right ere had been en- /.
aid had to be treated care.
lily. Miss Marshall forfeited con- :
1erable amount Of salary and remain.
at Red Bank. She really was need
after Miss Csrruth, to whom the !
e soon became only an inpersonal !
currence which made good material :
r story telling, found rowboat I
AIRED with her earlier admirer rather !,
efersble to a stuffy room shared with :
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