Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27

be glad to git back on to the land
ag'in."
II wouldn't wonder If 1t all turned
out for the best" said Louisa, who had
come down from the hill 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 III say one thing-if there's any
body that'll be credit to fine clothes
it's my wife!'
And yet, as his wife walked through
the corridors of the Fifth Avenue hotel,
after returning from the far west, a
little awed by the velvet carpets, the
satin curtains, the gliding, the mir
rcrs, the splendor of the other women,
she was conscious of something about
herself not as it should be. Her hus-
band was all well enough, bluff and
ready man Of business in business
suit. But either She had on too much
or she didn't know how to put 1t on.
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
hair lacked the touch. But still she
knew 1t was only a matter Of time.
she would catch on. Charlie, anyway
looked at her with admiring eyes when
he had any time to look at her at all
She was more lonesome than at first
for her husband had become entirel.
absorbed in his schemes.
Meantime she was seeing the world.
1t went by her in the beginning like a
panorama it almost made her dizzy.
Yet, although at last she was part
of it and as eager in the rush as any
she was never quite at home in it.
Captain Harding had indeed hao
some measure of the luck he had hop
ed for, and he was floating the shares
of the Nin.ble Dollar mine in way
| that made his wife hold her breath
when he reported his successes to her
He had been ON the ground, he had
seen the mine, he knew what he was
| talking about he was not anxious for
too large a price, and he came out OF
the transaction with small fortune.
Now be said, 'if I did what my
folks and your folks would approve
Of should lay this down to grass
| that means interest-and go home and
build a house with bow winders and
French roof and be the rich man Of
the region
tsyo, eof.1 Grooo
"But you believe in me, don't you?"
asked he anxiously.
"Yes," said Grace.
'You'd like to see me one Of the mil
lionaires? I've us good right to big
money us the best of EN-, and I'm goin'
in for it. Pm goin' into Wall street in
earnest!' And Captain Harding had a
sense Of assured success which made
him the happiest, best natured and
busiest man alive "'Tain't luck" he
said to his wife. Its long head. I'd
| look pretty hidln' such knack of busi-
| ness in the corner store, wouldn't l!
! And as for you, I'm proud Of you ev-
cry dayY'
But Mrs. Harding was not proud of
herself. She would not let her husband
know 1t, but she felt herself wholly
unequal to meet the women Of society
with whom her husbands affairs
brought her into some association, in
! yited now and then to their houses, ito
| their opera boxes-women who had DC
| quaintance with each other, with for
| eign life, who knew what to do and
how to do it and who without the least
i'll feeling often overlooked and ignored
her and made her feel herself out of 1t.
She sent home boxes Of gowns and 9th
er things to Louisa and her mother (of
which in their private talks they said
they would have preferred her own
| things to make over for themselves,
| without dreaming how unsuitable they
would be), and she sent grandma
| gray silk wrapper in whose rufies and
luce Nshe would look like a little old
flower. as Grace pleased herself by
thinking, and she sent her GRANDPA
Their fur coat and a wonderful meer-
schaum pipe. She had a feeling that
such things were, as her husband
phrased it, SO much to the good. Now
| and then she sent her father little
money, but she did not have much
money. Captain Harding needed all
his ready money, but she had generous
credit-and bills. "Pile 1t on!' said
her husband. zone must look success
full in order to be successful, you
know!"
They still lived at the hotel, where
they had what seemed to her royal
rooms. although she never grew used
| to them, and, although entertaining
there those who accepted their invita-
lions, she always had sensation that
one day those people would find her out
for a fraud
She laughed sometimes when she saw
herself in the glass. with her bare
shoulders and jewels, her satin and
lace and marabou, with a kind Of
mockery. But she never let her hus-
band know that this was not what her
soul longed for, that she was afraid OF
the other women or that she felt all
their own new way Of life to be of very
uncertain tenure.
| She did not have so much chance as
once to let him know her state Of mind.
He was occupied from morning till
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