Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-05-25
When It's Worth While.


anything? When are you ever going
to Justify your birth and breeding and
ancestry?
And the girl stamped her pretty foot
hard on the yielding turf.
The big fellow in the gray outing
fiannels settled back in the hammock
and turned his patrician face to the
questioner.
by Jove! you're getting prettier
every day, co.," he said.
Il don't want your compliments or
your praise, Herbert Rollins" she re-
piled with blazing eyes. Il want you
to answer my question"
(Which one?" he asked, smiling in
the most provokingly Indifferent man.
ner.
ANY of them; all of them" replied
the girl. "They are all one"
The man drew 1.-The markings" from
his pocket and began slowly to roll
cigaret.
whats the user" he asked.
"The use of what?" she demanded.
"Oh, Of paving around trying to do
unnecessary things for a reward.
don't want?"
Unnecessary things" she repeated
Indignantly. What do you mean by
that? Here you are getting along
toward thirty"
"Twenty-eight," he murmured as he
lit the cigaret
And equipped with every kind
of ability and connections through
which you could get start in any line
you might select she went on, not
needing his interruption, land yet you
never have made an effort to justify
your existence"
"You forget my football record" he
laughed.
Yes, there it is" she replied, foot
ball, rowing, debating-everythin
fairs of life"
"My pretty cousin, again ask, what
is the use?" said the man.
"Use!" she exclaimed. What are
you living for?"
II ask that with great emphasis
every now and then" he replied SOL
EMMY. "And I'm blessed If l can get
| further with the solution than the
propositions: To feel good and enjoy
all the good things the gods have pro-
| vided so bountifully."
The girl looked at him scornfully.
Nov, look here, Nell" he said,
throwing the cigaret away. Il have an
ample fortune, thanks to the wisdom
and industry of my respected grand
father. don't spend my income
can't spend it. Why in the name of
| goodness should l bother my mind
with money-making? Why should
harry myself with all the work neees.
saly to successful professional ca
reer when I do not need the em0lu,
ments which would crown it in the
very doubtful event that succeeded
especially when there are so many
gond fellows who were less successful
in their choice of a grandfather and
who are compelled to do these things
in order to live? In fact, | think II
would be beastly for me to go in and
crowd with them for a success thai
means so much to them and absolutely
nothing to me. I am not bad sort
Nell. I am not hurting anybody any
that can see, and I'll be hanged If
sea the necessity of all this effort you
keep talEing about. There is no In
centive."
"Incentiv exclaimed the girl very
pale. sI'll tell you one thing Herbert
1t has been an understood thing in the
family that I'm to marry you. I want
to tell You now that never will marry
such useless butterfly as you in the
world. III marry a coal HEAVIER first
Rollins looked steadily at her for a
minute. Then he sgose and took her
unwilling hand.
perhaps 1t is best 30, Nell" he said
gravely. II don't know but we would
worry each other intoierably. It will
raise Cain with Uncle Charley and
your mother, but"
what is that, Bert?" interrupted
the girl, pointing to the surf.
He turned lazily and looked owe,
the sun-lit water.
Instantly his entire attitude changed
He was alive with interest, with pur
pose, with power.
Great Heavens, it is Julia!" he ex
claimed. "And she is out far over hel
depth and cannot swim a stroke.
have been teaching her to float ant
she's let the current carry her out. L
she tries to touch bottom she'll get
frightened and drown"
While he was talking he had peeled
to his trousers and undershirt anC
pulled off his shoes, and before Mis-!
| Nellie fairly knew what was going Oh
he had plunged into the surf and wal
making great strokes toward the tin.
head bobbing in the water.
AS the girl on the shore watched
him do these things with the rapidit.
of thought and noted his splendid self
poise and perfect proportions CRATE
full sense of satisfaction pervaded her