Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-04-09

rar snarse and hay colored hair ont of W
the way. why amt they satisfied 81
Nth things as they are-the store an h
tho Mace an all? l don't b'lieve Charlie $,
T1.r1iug II ever grow up-Cap'n Hard S
inc, what's LIS cap'n of, exceptin' it's
Grace b
Grace is cap'n, them" said her a
grandfather. b
Il can't tell where Grace got her am t
ritious s%perrit." said her mother.
ooh l do know" said her husband. |
81 was mos crazy to go to sea. fust
wye. Blu one good wreck cured me.
an o'r'aps twill them" {
..yes." said the old grandfather. ]
laughing half to himself. 81 guess he'll
be glad to git back on to the land !
ag'in."
II wouldn't wonder IL 1t all turned
ont for the best said Louisa, who had
come doYnsfrom the bill with her sew
ing.
But Captain Harding had no doubts
on the subject. First thing. some
clothes" said he. 1--WE heard say
there's nothin' succeeds like success.
an so you've gotter look successful.
An I'll say one thing-if there's any
body thatll e a credit to fine clothes
it's my wife!"
And yet, as LIS wife walked through
the corridors of she Fifth Avenue hotel,
after returning rrom the far west, a
little awed by the velvet carpets, the
satin curtains, the gliding, the mir
rcrs. the spiendor of the other women,
4---.1,,a nf C0nnnfhinr N IA,1f |
herself not as it should be. Her hus-
band was all well enough, a bluff and
ready man of business in a business
suit. But either she had on too much
or she didn't know how to put it o
She felt she was unlike these grandes
: danes who talked and laughed and
moved at ease. Her hands troubled
her and made her uncomfortable: her
j hair lacked the touch. But still she
;. knew it was only a matter of time;
e she would catch on. Charlie, anyway,
t looked at her with admiring eyes when
q he had any time to look at her at all.
o She was more lonesome than at first,
n for her husband had become entirely
S absorbed in his schemes.
10 Meantime she was seeing the world.
IS 1t went by her in the beginning like a
O.. panorama; it almost made her dizzy.
V Yet. although at last she was a part
d of it and as eager in the rush as any,
she was never quite at home in it.
IS Captain Harding had indeed had
le some measure of the luck he had hop
OF ed for. and he was floating the shares
lc of the Nimble Dollar mine in a way
n that made his wife hold her breath
or when he reported his successes to her
ut re had been on the ground, he mac
ir seen the mine, he knew hat he was
i'll talking about, he was not anxious FOL
or too large a price, and he came out Of
,er the transaction with a small fortune.
OH snow" he said, eff l did what M
ar. folks and your folks would approve
n of l should lay this down to grass
1T that means interest-and go home anC
1g build a house with bow winders ano
-, a French roof and be the rich man OF
st the region"
no. Yes said Grace.
X. But you believe in me, don't you?
Nv. asked he anXiously.:
Yes" said Grace.
MD You'd like to see me one of the mil
,et- lionaires? I've as. good a right to bii
money as the best of 'em, and I'm goir
nm in for if. I'm goin' into Wall street
ned ~earnest!' And Captain Harding had
ion sense of assured success which mad
had him the happiest, best natured an
her busiest man alive. "''Taint luck" 4
,me said to his wife. cts a long head. L
she look pretty hidin' such a knack OF bus
mon ness in the corner store, wouldn't
had And as for you, I'm proud of you e
cry day"
ina But Mrs. Hardlng was no prouo
IT herself. She would not let her husba1
hill, know it, but she felt hersen "hoi
rock unequal to meet the women OF socie
for with whom her husbands anal
title brought her into some association, !
light vited now and then to their houses,
vste- their opera boxes-women who mad 9
sim auaintance with each other, with II
over eign life, who knew what to do al
hitch how to do it and who without the lea
the Ill feeling often overlooked and lgnor
safe her and made her feel herself out or
and She sent home boxes of gowns and o.
had er things to Louisa and her mother
weet which in their private talks they So
yrtle they would have preferred her o.
n her things to make over for themseiV
4 her without dreaming how unsultaple IL
fine would bel, and she sent grandma
gray silk wrapper in whose rufies a
lace sne would look ike a niue
It the mower as Grace pleased nerseli
h her unlnklhS' ana she sent her srdnu
) now ther a Iur coat and a wonderful me
e top schaum pipe. She had a feehns u
hus- such things were, as her husba
his phrased it, so much to the good. n
ok of and then she sent her father a Iii
some money, but she did not have m
:. But money. captain Harding needed
here's his ready money, but she had gener
/. I've credit-and bills. 'sRfle it on S
her husband. Zone MIST look succ'
every full in order to be successful,