The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-18

deep iASN'A
Fter they met they quite forgot OF
-,erlooked two cardinal facts tlrs
nra1at he was, though well bred and wen
It up, only a struggling scientist;
,,arricond, that she was helress to mil
sons and the sole hope of an ambl-
4 Stious and rather Grabbed father.
Inevitably they were engaged with
:, week of that fateful first meet
After a fortnight of pure, un-
-aasoning bliss, Polly walked up to a
limmering sense of how matters
wood Father will be dreadfuliy
hg1y; he wants at least a duke for
. ae. I'm afraid he will never, never
-at you have me- she confided almost
harfuily to her lover they stood
bgether. apart from al the rest, on
he moonlit veranda. He answered
fifth laugh, superbly confident
,noikugh, then said, lightly squeezing her
r, land: Il see! Your Aunt Louise has
ealtegun sitting up and taking notice.
r tinIy hope she has written to your
nfather. The sooner all things are set
C,led, the nearer We are to our happi-
us4ess."
ed His bold courage made Polly very
,ueaappy, but two days later she was a
bnoral and pattern of woe. Her father
aad come to Brently, her aunt's coun-
cry place, where all this mischief had
been done, intent upon whisking her
off abroad to stay a year, at the very
least He would have liked to remain
there the rest of his natural life, but
That matters of high finance forbade.
u zferardus Van Shimmeren Seaver,
esq, was well understood TO be the
power behind the throne of the biggest
Trailway combination in the United
.States. and the Congress had latterly
Geyeloped most impertinent interest
tl#n the way gentlemen. under gentle
5men's agreements, conducted their pri-
Fyate affairs.
i# A great man, even a parsonage, Mr..
1 kGerardus Seavers tried off-hand to
. Overlook young Jennings. Jennings
, refused positively to be overlooked.
Tile went right to the point, asking
} outright for Polly's hand in the most
.straigh forward. manly fashion. Mr..
-~Seaver heard him, growing all the
yrwhile more apoplectic of countenance
Wand aching to answer him with the
,xinsulting brusquery he had usually at
1~command. Somehow he could not do
#it-perhaps because Jennings had eyes
$50 steady, withal so touched With Il
@mysterious potency. AS he finished
shis plea, Mr.. Seaver turned almost
Nhelplessly upon Frank Grier, his
4nephew. whose foolish liking for Jen-
nings had brought things to this pass,
saying disconsolately:
.Frank-ahem!-you- er-ought
a to have told this-ahem.-person.
whom YOU had no business toto bring
here--that it's all arranged-you are to
4 marry my daughter-unless meantime
find a title to suit
Frank said nothing only got red IN
i the face. Jennings came near whistline
at thought of the girl up Boston way,
who held Franks heart in the hollow
OF her hand. But he was no tale-tell-
er, so he said gravely, though his eyes
twinkled:
Really, Mr.. Seaver, You must know
as well as anybody family arrange
nents of that sort never stand: be-
sides, they are clean out of date I'm
not good enough for Polly-no man can
be. But she has chosen ne Tnnre-
fore. a man of your intelligence must
see that the best thing for you is-to
approve her choice
Be off with you-and be damned to
you for an insolent lunatic'' Seaver
flung back over his shoulder, as he
STROBE away in purple rage. Young
Jennings looked after him, smiling
still that superbIy confident smile.
and said, almost languidIy: MY dear
sir. / mean to ask you again for Polly;
and next time you'll be glad to say
yes
Polly was duly sent abroad, but it
was as ward of Aunt Louise. At the
last minute Mr.. Seaver found his
presence imperatively required at
home. The great railway syndicate
which had commerce by the throat,
was threatened with an investigation
sure to be merciless. Half the other
men in it were SO nearly panic-stricken
the head dared not leave them to
themselves
Mr. Seayer was a good churchman.
also an almost Incorporate advocate
of law and order-that is to say, for
the mass Of folk. People like himself
could be trusted to be their own law,
and also that of their less hard headed
associates Satirical newspapers said
of him that he had a conscience lust
the reverse of brigands Brigands
were well known to plumber the rich
and give to the poor. Mr. Seaver and
his sort plundered the poor and gave
a share in the plumber to the rich. But
that, of course. was only satire-the
venom of fellows who lived by foment-
ing popular discomfort. Mr. Seavar
cursed them roundly-in his mind un-
Observation-Disclosures he let himself
think of them. But for them the rail.
way syndicate would have had the
sInoothest possible sailing, instead of
striking snags of hostile euactments,
or beating against the baffling winds
OF popular opposition
Yet, after his own way. Mr.. Seaver
was philanfhropist He really want
ed to do good-what time he was no.
making money. BY a sort of spiritual
housekeeping he balanced the ruin of
another mans enterprise with the en-
dowment of a school or the founding
of a hospital. Whatever the thing.
when it was done he felt an approx
ing glow. The money no matter how
he had laid hands on it. was SO well |
employed those who had been despoii- |
ed of il OUGHT not to cn,nnlain He