Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-05-18

OF manhoOd's full strength and row
er Is equally great. and equally sad
his divine faith IN human nature. his
divine belief that abstract justice and
right and truth rule the world.
Even now, when life is redeeming
some Of those large promises to pay
which ! had long ago given up as
! hopeless bad debts. even now, it
gives me wrench to remember the
cruelest chapter In that bitter lesson.
so certain had | been of reelection
that ] had arranged to 60 to Boston
the day after my triumph at the
/ polls. For ] knew from friends of the
4 Crosbys in Pulaski that Elizabeth
was still unmarried. was not engaged,
and upon that had built high a ro-
mantle hope.
! made up my mind that mother
and must leave Pulaski. that / must
give up the law and must. in Chicago
or Cleveland, get something to do
that would bring in a living at once.
Before found courage to tell her
that which would blast hopes wrap
ped round and rooted in her very
heart, and, fortunately, before | had
to confess to her the debts l had
made, Edward Ramsay threw me a
| lifeline
| He came busting into my office one
afternoon, big and broad. and obvious
| ly pleased with himself, and. there
fore, with the world. He had hardly
/ Gh3nRQd In c;n
Ann Arbor together. He had kent
up our friendship, and had insisted
on visiting me several times, though
not In the past four years, which had
been as busy for him as for me. LAT
terly his letters urging me to visit
MIN at their great country place
away at the other end of the state
had set me hard task OF inyenting
excuses.
Well we'll" he exclaimed. sbak-
ing my hand violently in both his.
'Yon wouldn't come to see me, 30
I've come to you"
tried not to show the nervousness
this announcement stirred. I'm afraid
you'll find our hospitality rather un-
comfortable was all / said. Mother
and had not spread much sail to
our temporary gust of prosperity:
and when the storm began to gath
er, she straightway close-reefed.
Thanks, but can't stop with Won
this time said he. I'm making an
inspection of the Power Trusts prop
critics. and I've got mother and sis.
ter along. We're living in the private
car the company gives me for the
tour" He went on to tell how.
since his fathers death, he had been
forced into responsibilities and was,
among many other things, a member
of. the Power trusts executive com
mittee.
Soon came the inevitable question:
And how are, you getting on?"
So, So replied l; mot too well,
just at the present, l was beaten,
you know, and have to go back to
my practice in January"
Wish you lived in my part of the
state" said he. But the Ramsay
company hasn't anything down here"
lie reflected a moment, then beamed.
Il can get you the legal business of
the Power trust if you want it." he
said Their lawyer down here goes
on the bench, you know-he was on
the ticket that won. Roebuck want
ed good safe. first-class man on the
bench in this circuit
But he added nothing more about
the Power trust vacancy at Pulaski.
True my first impulse was that ]
couldn't and wouldn't accept; also. l
told myself it was absurd to imagine
they would consider me. Still, /
wished to hear, and his failure to re-
turn to the subject settled once more
the cloud his coming had lifted some
what
Mother was not well enough to have
the Ramsays at the house that even
ing, so | dined with them in the car.
Mrs. Ramsay was the same sim
pie, silent, ill-at-ease person | had
first met at the Ann Arbor commence
ment-probably the same that she
had been ever since her husbands
wealth and her childrens infection
with new-fangled ideas had forced her
from the plain ways of her youth. I
liked her, but ! was net so well
pleased with her daughter Carlotta
was then %, had abundant, noticeably
nice brown hair, an Indifferent skin,
pettish lips and restless eyes. a little
too close together-a spoiled willful
young woman, taking to herself the
Difference that had been paid chiefly
to her wealth. She treated me as il
| were candidate for her favor
whom she was testing so that she
might decide whether she would be
graciously pleased to tolerate me-
(To be continued Lext week.