The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1906-06-20
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Prudence
-. BY NJ. J. PHILLIPS
Copgright, 1900, by Beatrix Reado

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berkeley Marshall leaned luxurious
ly back in the shady chair, hoisted his
feet To the bed aud blew ring of
smoke ceilingWard from his cigar. TO
recapItulatc,' he began. directing his
remarks 10 the calendar which hung
on the wall and from which stared
back at him the face of supposedly
beautiful young woman with fixed
and sugary smile your left ear is con
foundedly out of drawing. | beg your
pardon I'm not an artist. I'm n civil
engineer or will be next June. And
that isn't what 1 started out to re
mark.
To rceapitulate. / have peddled
maps over three states, and the net
profits of these adventures are $13l u.
/ have a steady job during the college
year waiting ON table at three per and
found. Furthermore, | have Il dress
suit and clothes and ties and things.
Further yet | have an invitation from
my cousin, Terrence Marshall, To spend
a Week with him at Sylvan Cove, the
SWEETEST resort on this little old ocean
1t is now Saturday night Sept. 10, and
college opens up the 25th.
The question seems To be shall | go
ON peddling maps and accommodating
more filthy lucre, which may possibly
need. shall ! 10 home, which Is 300
miles away; to college, which is 450, or
IL Sylvan Cove, which is under hun
wi
ii is presumed, abound?"
In due parliamentary form the Syl
van Cove question was put and carried
unanimously, whereupon the boy-he
VAS little more bowed gravely TO the
calendar lady and thanked her for her
Kindness la voting with him. Then he
ran down the stairs of the country no
tel 10 consult the time table, for he
was IN a hurry to be of
Marshall found Sylvan Cove ia the
elaborate simplicity stage of summer
resort development. Everything was
costly. but very plain, for the Cove
was inhabited each season mainly by
wealthy people who had become ac-
eustomed Ia their money.
ON the first day of his stay Marshall
naiVely conhded to his cousin that he
believed Prudence Fairehild 10 be the
prettiest girl nj the Cove, whereupou
florence grinned and replied, "Stung
are YOU ON the second day he learn
ed that she gould swim like II seal and
golf like a Scot That evening, by viz
tue of four dances which she generous
" IA at ,,rtIi mfr Is
stock of knowledge was augmented by
the fact that Miss Prudence danced
like II fairy.
His approval of the tanned. red lip
ped and wholesome young woman deep
ened during IA long sail the next morn
ing when he discovered that her taste
in books and tennis rackets was iden-
teal with his own. When Terrence in
formed him later however that her IA
Their, Rufus Fairchill, was credited
with more millions than there We're
letters to his name the young man eX
perienced novel and entirely unpleas
ant sinking of the heart.
His own financial situation did not
trouble Marshall In fact, he found hui
NOR in his poverty Marshall's father
had been rich until an Industrial furry
had left him broken and penniless.
Berkeley himself, II natural engineer
and In love ajh the profession he had
chosen, felt ., president stir of genius
within him, "a ,ae but real. His teach
ers predicted great things of him, and
with the knowledge of his own powers
and his burning desire to achieve, fame
and wealth We're merely around the
next corner.
Yet the fact of Miss Falrchild's
wealth depressed him. 1--WE almost
mouopolized her since I've been here"
he told himself, and she'll think It's
the blooming money. | suppose half
this bunch that's hanging around her
would marry a Digger Indian for the
old mans pile | wish she were poor"
The latter aggrieyed aud sincere re
mark revealed TO Marshall that he was
dangerously near being in love.
4 certain sensitive pride, for he had
a morbid fear that his attitude might
be misconstrued, kept Marshall out of
the girls presence most of the time
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vegetable soup in the hotel dining
room.
Now, look such as that from girl
who IS not "A firt dwells in her memory
too. Miss Fairchild's cheeks were hot
sometimes when she thought of 1t and
of the answering glance of bewildered
JOY that flashed from Marshalfs blue
eyes. "IIe might take advantage Of IT,"
she said to herself in brief, delicious
panic when the invitation of chum,
Nell Burrows, to come for the January