Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-22
CHAPTER ". A FAMILY REUNION.

Warburton had not been in the city Of Washington within F years. In the past his furloughs had been spent st his brothers country home in Iarchmount. out of New York City
 Thus when he left the train at the Baltimore and Potomac station he hadn't the slightest idea where Scott Circle was. He looked around in vain for the smart cab of the northern me- tropolis All he saw was line of omnibuses and few ramshackle ve- hicles that 20 years back might very well have passed for victorias A griz- zled old negro, in command of one of these sea-going conyeyances. caught Warburton's eye and hailed jovially. Our hero Gas rhe good novelist of the past generation would say, taking their readers into their innermost confi- dences) handed him his travelling case and stepped in.
 "Whar to, suh?" asked the commo- s dore.
 Scott Circle, and don't ponlmel that ! old nag's bones in trying to get there. I've plenty Of time. ''. -
 q reckon I won't pommel him, suh. Skt! skt," and the vehicle rat tied out into broad Pennsylvania Ave Lue, but for the confusion and absurd ity of its architectural structures, the handsomest thoroughfare in America. { Warburton leaned back luxuriously , against the faded horse-hair cushion 1. and lighted cigar, which he smoked ! with relish, having had a hearty ] breakfast on the train. It was not quite nine o'clock and a warm October haze lay on the peaceful city. Here were people who did not rush madly about in the pursuit of riches. Rather they proceeded more soberly, even leis- urely, as if they knew what the days work was and the rewards attendant, and were content. Trucks. those for midable engines of commerce, neither rumbled nor thundered along the pavements, nor congested the thor oughfares. Nobody hurried into the shops, nobody hurried out. There were no scampering, yelling newsboys. Instead, along the curbs of the market sat barelegged negro boys, some of them selling papers to those who wanted them and some sandwiched in between baskets of popcorn and pea nuts. There was a marked scarcity Of the progressive. intrusive white boy. naccad fn and fro with the days provisions.
 Glancing over his shoulder, Warbur- ton saw the capitol shining in the sun like some enchanted palace out of Wonderland. He touched his cap, conscious of thrill in his spine. And there. far to his left, loomed the Wash ington monument, glittering like a shaft of opals. Some orderlies dashed by on handsome bays. How splendid they looked, with their blue trousers and broad yellow stripes! This was before the army adopted the comfort ble but shabby brown duck. How he longed to throw a leg over the back of a good horse and gs;lop away into the great green country beyond.
 The only things which moved with the hustling spirit of the times were the cables. and doubtless these would have gone slower but for the invisible and immutable power which propelled them.
 But now he was passing the huge and dingy magic treasury building. round past the executive mansion with It's spotless white stone. its stately DOT tico and it's plush lawns
 GO slow. uncle; haven't seen this place since was boy" | ''Yes. suh. How q V like il? lwouldn' ' like [ live in dat house, suh?"-the commodore grinned.
 "One cant stay there long enough to please me. uncle. l. takes four years to get used to it; and then. when you begin 70 like it, you have to pack up and clear out"
 "1t's de way dey goes. suh. We go eToun' Lafayette. er do yuh want [ rec de va. department. suh:'
 Never mind nov. uncle; Scott Cir ele."
 Scott Circle she em. suh "
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