The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-02-07

hair awkwardly Read yorr letter.
Iebbe they do1't want you to come so
soon must so wash for supper"
II was trne-they didn't want her 10
come 50 soon. IN fact. they didn't
want her 10 come at all. The director
unkindly said satirIcal things about
her eows-a study IRON nature-and
suggested ho1sework as a surer means
Of ginning renown.
II was horrible shock. She did not
cry; she was too stunned and humiliat-
ed for that: she bad only enough ren-
son left 10 wonder doubly how she
could tell her parents that their sweet
con6depce had been misplaced-that
their child always was and always
would be nobody.
The stuGy little parlor. the hateful
daubs. had grown iatolerable. Pullin.
a shawl from It's. hook in the narrow
hall. she led from the house and M
the narrow street redolent OF beef
steak. coffee and hot cakes-Mead-
ville's favorite supper. Every one left
the blinds up in Meadville, and there
was a panorama OF warm interiors.
romping children. contented husbands
and active, happy wives Ellen. hurry
ing along in the chin gloom, felt like a
pariah and pissed quickly out OF the
din Of dishwashlng on to the country
road.
She was brought at last TO a realiza-
tion of her whereabouts by startled
cry and jumped back barely in time
to escape a horses hoofs that Just
grazed her sleeve as the horse was
pulled back on its launches. The star
light was sufficient to indicate her
close call. She uttered a belated but
frightened shrek.
"By Georgep exclaimed the man
somewhere back OF the horse. what
are you doing out herei Are you
drunk?
Say. are you hurt?" he continued in
alarm, as there was no reply. He
sprang to the ground. CROPPED his way
forward and plucked at her sleeve.
ELEM
She began to sob She couldn't help
It. There had been too many shocls
in Meadyille that day.
1t did not take Elton long to get her
into the runabout and start up the
erstwhile spurned Fanny G. Ellen
continued to be so distressed that Ell
ton, ignoring the fact that she had
Just refused him. slipped his arm
around her aud was not repulsed. In
fortunately. so 1t seemed, his extreme
kindness and lack OF curiosity about
her plight served only TO increase her
discontinue until. as be helped her to
alight from the vehicle at her gate. she
caught him close about the neck and
told him the whole miserable story.
How can tell father and motherf'
she cried.
Leave that to me-" he whispered
jubllantly. "nnd cheer up"
The old people jumped to their feet
as the door flew open. and look of in.
tense relief crossed their faces at the
sight of Ellen and Elton.
"oh. We didn't know what had be.
come OF you the last night you were
here said her mother a little re-
proachfully, but she smiled indulgently
at Elton. md be smiled back.
and whom should she be withfr he
cried. But have good news for you.
She isn't going away. She's promised
to become Meadville matron."
If Ellen had had fears. they were
Immediately dlssipated by the warmth
Of her mothers embrace and the happy
ejaculation Of her father as he grasp
ed Elton's hand. 1t dawned upon her
at the instant that they were happier
to know she was TO marry the most
promising young man in Meadyille
than they would be IL she could sur.
pass all the artists in history, and sud.
denly 1t appeared to her that ahs was
the happlest OF all and that Meadyilie-
poor, cramped, despised Meadville-
was garden Of Eden,
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