Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-23

not only fallen in love with the lady. but
was suffering from the effect of the fall,
disturbed the professor not little.
Miss Carroway watched her companion
with a smile as he unused and then said alb
ruptly: Tomorrow l shall call for you and
we shall drive and talk
viii we?' gasped Mr.. Pearley, startled
by the suddenness and character of the
proposal.
Yes she replied. II have something to
say to you"
Truly unusual woman" unused Mr.
Pearley when he and his friend had re-
frank-a good quality
The next morning, at an hour earlier than
he had expected her, Dandy announced to
Mr.. Pearley: ''Dere's Buttons from up be-
hind a lady in a dnky little cart and he
says dat Miss Carroway waits for you be-
low. Shall l tell him to go chase hisself?"
Tell him" replied Mr.. Pearley, that 1
shall be down at once"
AT the head of the horse attached to Miss
Carroway's phaeton stood a midget groom.
His hat had a surprisingly deep roll and
large fange, his coat was surprisingly long,
but, instead of being buttoned high was cut
quite low, showing an expanse of white
shirt and choker. His breeches were so
white they suggested CLEAN of blue, like
those of the fine soldiers who march to
guard from near Hyde Park, and his boots
were of the softest leather as to legs and
shiniest as to feet. The phaeton had a
spdery lookout seat for the groom high up
Deilin0, ana was altogether smarter tndn
any Mr.. Pearley had seen, even when the
arstocratic Chicagoans swarm in summer
to the faryland lake region near Hoko-
hoonk. Miss Carroway looked as fresh
as the morning and nodded gayly to the
professor. The instant he was seated by
her side she fiicked the horse with the tas-
sci of her whip and the spirited animal
darted away with knees raised chest high.
Mr.. Pearley gasped in concern for the
groom who. he thought, must have been
knocked down and left behind; but, look
ing back, expecting to see the little fell
low rolling in the dust. he discovered him
perched aloft, arms folded and appearing
never to have been off the seat. How he
got there after the sudden start of the
horse is problem that the professor was
never able to solve.
1t would be agreeable to relate much of
that morning drive through the park, but
the nature of these recitals requires a strict
adherence to the plain facts having to do
with the real business of Mr. Pearleys visit
to New York. 1t CHANGED that, as they
wound among the leafy roads, Mr.. Pearley
saw a carriage of familiar appearance
which several times they seemed about to
oVertake, but when this was imminent Miss
Carroway altered her course SO as to lose
sight of 1t and then took a course likely to
make them meet the other vehicle, instead
of overtaking It, But the uncertain and va
grant course of the carriage averted a meet
ing for some time, though one seemed to be
desired by Miss Carroway This all came
back to Mr.. Pearley later when he had
cause to consider the possible purpose guild
ing Miss Carroway in that fateful drive
For the time he was more interested In the
singers sprightly conversation, until, sud-
denly, he was startled by her fatty asking,
Mr.. Pearley, what you going to do
with that land the Independent Iron people
want?"
My dear madam exclaimed the profess
sor, is every one in New York curious
about that land? 1t is astonishingr
1T should not be- blandly responded Miss
Carroway. New York Is q community of
SPECTATORS; we--men and women alike-in-
quire as to the solution of a corpora ton
scandal. the rainfall in the Mississippi val
ley, the degree of heat In the Dakotas, the
state of MIR. Rockefeller's health, the Presi-
dents latest conviction as to rate regula-
ton, all with one intense purpose, what eff
feet will it have on stocks? In other COM
munities a real concern for the farmer may
prompt solicitude about crops, hope that
the President will stay hitched may be the
cause of a desire to hear his latest resolve
on rate regulation, pious wish that so es-
Unable man may long live to continue in
good work, and give Miss Tarbell something
to write about may explain others solicl-
tude for Mr.. Rockefeller's health Not so
with US. We live and breathe and have our
being in one continuous fierce emotion: a
burning desire to be forehanded with infor-
nation which can affect the prices of Sc
curities. All other news Is of slightest mo-
ment, all other interests are nought, or but
feetinB. Very well; here you come, man
of mystery, holding the key to a situation
on which may depend the movement of a
dozen - twenty points in two stocks In
which every last Jack and Jenny of us is in
terested. Do you WONDER then. that we