The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-31

OF lying awake for hours in that big
lonely study Of his, Of seeking In vain
to recover his old-time power. OF per-
feet Ihongh n,,d e nI,,v
sassail him in saner hours--.noW mad
a way Of rushing in upon the insom.
MAC with the extinguishing Of the last
light Tonght tnss SIN Ionger thsn
usual, and all the Conovers, dominat-3
ing will-powert failed to Danish them.
At length he gave over the struggle
and let his Tagrant fanctes have their
will. Was he growing OLD, he sbv Won
and political-thus wavered
Worry? He had heard others COM J
plain OF It, and he had laughed at
them. Nerves? Those were for wo-s.
Net for man w1tn ,1ad eigseg1
had been this way eyer slnce-ever5
since Yes, 1t was the night Anice&
Lanier left that he had first lain
awake. IS
lyzed his feelings toward her He had
been duly satisfied to know that in
her presence he ever had an unwonted
feeling OF content, of sure knowledge
that she would ,sunderstand; sthat she
men as he himself differed from his
equally contemptuousS estimate Of other
men; that he was at his best with her.
Had he been less practical and more
given to .hackneyed. phrases OF thou
he would have said she inspired him.
But now? The Railroader could not
yet force himself to dwell on the jar
ring end of5all that. he tried to think
of something else. Blanche? Yes.
there was a nice sort Of constellation
. wasn't it, Another international mar
riage and the usual ending thereof.
These foreigners can give US poor
Yankee jays cards and spades at the
bunco gamc!" he unused, half I'D mir
ingly. They beat our con men hands
down. for. they don even need to pay
h out cash In manufacturing green Z, goods l.1 s
iugged when they're found out.
Whenll American girls get sense?
When their parents do, presume"
And this unwelcome. answer to his
own question brought himAback to the
memory of his joy at hearing Of
Blanche's proposed marriage to d Antrl.
It had seemed to him to set the cap-5
stone OF fulflment to his social yearn-
in fancy seen himself at last exalted
amid the close-serried ranks OF that
class to whom only his wealth had
heretofore entitled him to ingress. And
money---cyen his money-had failed
to act as omen sesame. But surely as
father-in.law TO n prince
Even the very patent flasco nttend-
ant on his one effort to use this re-
lationship rs a master key to the por-
tnlsTof society had not wholly discour-
nged him Later. when, practically by
Il reclamation. hc should have won the
& GoNern0rship. and when the Iorinceton
Il d,Antri's GEuropenn triumphs should he
noised abroad in Granite, surely
them 3} VI IS n
But now there was no question OF
acclnmation.81f he should win 1t would
be by bare margin He knew that
4 And, ms for Blanche--well. It he could
keep the worst of the scandal outSol
tho American papers and make people
think his daughter had como homo
merely because her husband abused
(, her, or. because she was tired OF hel
surrountlings--ifs he could achieve thi!
much 1t would be@the best he could
e expect.
Gerald, too; he had hoped SO mucl
from the boys glitterng New Yorl
connections, Now that illusion wa
@ forever gone, Though his sons more
recent behavior had ina slight meas
lre softenel the hurt to paternal prtd
ana hope, vet the hurt itself, sCalel
knew, must always remain. And TIM
particular pride and hope were forcye
Gs dead.
The RailrondcrSwas not in any sens
a religious deyotee For appearanc
sake however, md to add stil fur
6 ther force to his liberal gifts to til
: Catholic clergy, he semi -oce asionall
i also, for OF her sons, occupied Sno'YY