Evening star., 1905-10-01

heard man preach once that these GRIM
inals from such homes were damned |
don't believe it. Those are rather to be
held accountable who allow them to live
there and give them no place to go but the
street corners when their fathers and
mothers get to fighting. l shouldn't care
to stay in the house after my parents had
come to blows myself"
| hadn't thought about it that way
she said slowly. Il was loud in my de-
nunciation of the car-barn bandits little
while ago
can imagine your high-bred scorn'
he laughed. From the manner in which
you spoke to me of the men in my Station
wish | might have heard you
1t was incredible the way she had con-
sented to handy words with this working
man, even if he was cast in an interesting
mold. She rose, and with slight acknowl-
edgment of his bow sgnaled to Harrison
to take her home. He watched her as she
disappeared, impulsive, imperious and in
tolerant, an odd smile on his lips, and then
he held out peanut and chirped softly to
squirrel IN the path
The next day and many days thereafter
she came usual to sit and watch the
crowds the park always held, but then
Harrison was dismissed and her afternoons
were relieved of his espionage. She found
the man in blue serge there more and more
frequently; but there reason why she
should abolish established custom of
months because of an interloper who laughed
at her out of wise gray eyes. He was a new
type, a fresh, wholesome creature whom
she had begun by domineering whom she
was continuing she knew not how. He gave
her different outlook on life and made her
feel as though she had been shut in by mar
ng nunnery walls till she met this careful thinker
the outside world.
lie had heard that the modern American work
is no longer the ignorant clod; but the depth
IS learning the extent of his reading, surprised
frequently into a silent contemplation of the
whom she could not understand She watched
hopeful agony of suspense for some coarseness,
: brutality in keeping with his station and then
I she failed to find him other than a perfect
she was ashamed because she was glad. What
ald rang in her ears for the rest of the day, and
speeches she planned to make to
were impossible as soon as she saw him again
often looked at herself in the glass and laughed
at the questioning eyes, certain that she must
ome other than the reserved Henrietta Hamlin
ty knew.
The doctor says father may be moved now"
said one day; land l must begin to get him
y to go away for the winter We stay in Chi
for the summer, and then we leave in the fall for
ner climates. 1t is rather lonely way to live
GU make I1ends everywhere, l fancy, he
and laughed.
don't always pick them up in the parks!" she
sharply. And they are too polite to come
sit on my bench when | wish to be Alone
our bench?" he said looking at her quizzically.
cause it was the only shady one? AS it grows
sr, now that the leaves are falling, will your
h be the only sunny one, over there?"
Where l am going they won't be so rude" she
They don't call me selfish at the winter
be surprised to hear that am quite
lar
didn't mean it just that way" he cried quickly
wish you wouldn't go away-not till it gets
II, anyhow. You have no idea what a COM
you've been to me in my loneliness
er glance fell before his earnest ewes suddenly