Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-03


to buy those boards you're sprawling on.
Yet you saddle yourself with "A wfe-I
| wife you can't support. \ woman who
will down all your social hopes. And
mine. You let designing doll with a
painted face dupe you into
! You shan't speak that way of Enid
fared up the boy tearfully. She is "a
| good and pure AS
| more sense. For she knows a legal way
of grabbing onto a livelihood: and you
don't Shut up! If you try any novel-hero
| airs on me, you young skunk, I'll break
! you over my knee. Now youll stand still
! and you'll listen to what l have to say"
Gerald, cowed. bat snarling under his
| breath, obeyed.
81 won't waste breath telling you all
! I'd hoped for you." began Conovor, cor
how | tried to give you all I missed in my
| own boyhood. You haven't the brains to
understand-or care. What rye got to say
| is all about money. And | never found
| you too stupid to lstep to that. You've
cut your throat Nothing can mend that
Wen talk about the future at another
time. It's the present we've got to tend
| to now. You're going to be OF some uss
| to me at last. The only use you ever will
be to anyone. Your allowance, for few
months, is going on just the same as be
fore. But you've got to earn it. And
I you're going to earn 1t by staying right
! here in Granite, and working like a dog
| for me in this campaign. II you stir out
| of this town. or If your--that woman comes
| here, or II you don't use your pull in my
| at the Pompton Club-if you don't do all
| this, 1 say. till further orders-then. for
| now and all time, you'll earn your own
| way. For you'll not get another nickel out
! of ME. l guess you know me well enough
to understand I'll go by what / say. Take
your choice. You've got an earning ability
| Of about 81 a week. You've got an allow
| ance of $4,000 a year. Now, TIL after
| election. which'n it be-"
| Father and son faced each other In
silence for full minute. Then the lat
I'm stay" he muttered.
Il thought so. Now chase! I'm busy
| Gerald slouched to the door. On the
| threshold he turned and shook his first in
impotent fury at the broad back turned on
| him.
TN stay" he repeated his voice scaling
| an octave and breaking In a hystercal sob.
"Tll stay! But before God. I'll find a way
| to pay you off for this before the CAM
| paign is over"
Caleb did not turn at the threat nor at
bling a telegram to his New York lawyer.
Gerald in scrape with chorus girl, Enid
Montmorency." he wrote. Find her and
buy her off Go as high as S1O),0oO."
Father Healy says. The sins of the
father shall be visited on the children -
he quoted half aloud he finished; but
when they are visited in the shape OF
blithering idiocy, it seems most like q
breach of contract.
The Railroader was not fated TO enjoy
even the scant privilege of solitude. He
had hardly seated himself at his desk when
the sacred door was once more assailed by
inqusitive knuckles.
1.-The Boys haven't wasted much time"
he thought as he growed permission to en-
ter.
The tall. exquisitely -groomed figure of his
new son-in-law the Prince d'Antri, blocked
the threshold. With him was Blanche.
DO we intruder" asked d'Antri, blandly.
as he ushered his wife through the doorway
and placed a chair for her. Caleb watched
him without reply. The multifariouS
brap of affected
him with contemptuous hopelessness. He
saw no sense In them; but neither, as he
confessed dissustedly to himself could he
I'VE don't intrude, l hope" repeated the
prince, closing the door behind him. and
sitting down near the Uttered center table.
Keep on hopingi" vouchsafed Conover
gruffiy. What am to do for you?
He could never grow accustomed to this
foreign son-in-law whom he had known
but two days. Obedient. for once, to his
wife, and to his daughters written instruc-
tions. he had yielded to the marriage had
consented to its performance at the Amer
lean embassy at Paris rather than at the
white marble Pompton avenue 'MauSo-
leum" and had readily allowed himself to
be convinced that the union meant a social
stride for the entire family. such as could
never otherwise have been attained.
His wife and daughter had returned from
Europe just before the reception (wEose de-
tails had, by his own command, been LETT
wholly to Caleb. bringing with them the
seen a prince. In his youth. fairy tales had
not been his portion; so he had not even the
average child's conception of medieval
Being in gold-spangled doublet and hose. to
guide him. Hence his ideas had been more
than shadowy. What he had seen was a
very tall very slender, very handsome per-
sonage, whose costumes and manner n
keener judge of fashion would have decided
were on a par with the princely command OF
English; perfect, but trifte too carefully
accumulated to appeal to Yankee tastes.
Beyond the most casual intercourse and
table talk there had been hitherto no scope
for closer acquaintanceship between the two
men. The reception had taken up every
ones time and thoughts. Caleb had. how
ever studied the prince from afar, and had
sought to apply to him some of the num-
berless classifcations In which he was so
unerringly wont to place his fellow-men.
But none of the ready-made mods seemed
to fit the newcomer.
What can l do for your repeated Con-
over looking at his watch I'm few min
utes I'm expecting some
I'VE shall not detain you long. We have
come to speak to you on IA rather delicate
theme"
..Delicate?' muttered Caleb, glancing UP
from the politely embarrassed prince to his
daughter e-Weii. speak. 1t out. then The
best treatment for delicate things is little
healthy exposure What is it?"
ITO he Confinued Naxt Saturday,