The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-06-20

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Grace?"
"Grace is cap'n, then" said her
grandfather.
II can't tell where Grace got her am
bilious sperrit,' said her mother.
"Oh, do KNOW" said her husband.
II was mos crazy to go to sea, fust
wye. But one good wreck cured me-
an p'r'aps twill them"
'"Yes,'' said the old grandfather,
laughing half to himself. II guess he'll
be glad to git back on to the land
ag'in."
Il wouldn't wonder if it all turned
out for the BEST" said Louisa. who had
come down from the hill with her sew
ing. Z
But Captain Harding had no doubts
on the subject. First thing, some
Clothes" said he. 1--WE heard say
there's nothin' succeeds like success,
an so you've gotter look successful.
An I'll say one thing-if there's any,
! body that'll be credit to fine clothes
it's my wife!'
And yet, as his wife walked through
the corridors of the Fifth Avenue hotel.
after returning from the far west,
little awed by the velvet carpets, the
satin curtains, the gliding, the mir
rors, the splendor Of the other women.
shes was conscious of something about
herself not as it should be-. Her hus-
band was all well enough, a bluff and
ready man Of business in a business
suit. But either she had on too much
or She didn't know how to put it on.
She felt she was unlike these grandes
danes who talked and laughed and
moved at ease. Her hands troubled
her and made her uncomfortable: her
hair lacked the touch. But still she
knew it was only matter of time:
she would catch on. Charlie. ANYWAY.
looked at her with admiring eyes when
he had any time to look at her at all.
She was more lonesome than at first,
for her husband had become entirely
absorbed in his schemes.
Meantime she was seeing the. world.
1t went by: her in the beginning like a
panorama: it salmost made her dizzy.
Yet. although lat, last she was a part
Of it and as eager1n the rush as any,
she was never quite at home in it.
Captain Harding had indeed had
some measure of the luck he had hop
ed for, and he was floating the shares
Of the Nimble Dollar mine in a way
that made his wife hold her breath
when he reported his successes to her.
He had been on the ground, he had
seen the mine, he knew what he was
talking about, he was not anxious for
too large a price, and he came out Of
the transaction with a small fortune.
''Now," he said, IF I did what my
folks and your folks would approve
Of I should lay this down to grass
that means interest-and go home and
build house with bow winders and
French roof and be the rich man Of
the region
| Eyes," said Grace.
''But you believe in me, don't your"
! asked he anXiously.
eyes, said Grace.
"You'd like to see me one of the mil
lionaires? I've as good a right to big
| money as the best Of 'em, and I'm goin'
in for it. I'm goin' into Wall street in
earnest!' And Captain Harding had
sense Of assured success which made
him the happiest, best natured and
busiest man alive. "'Tain't luck,'' he
said to his wife. cts long head. I'd
look pretty hidin' such a knack of bust
ness in the corner store, wouldn't L?
And as for you, I'm proud of you ev-
cry dayr'
But Mrs. Harding was not proud of
herself. She would not let her husband
! know it, but she felt herself wholly
unequal to meet the women of society
with whom her husbands affairs
brought her into some association, in
vited now and then to their houses, to
| their opera boxes-women who had ac-
Quaintance with each other, with for
eign life, who knew what to do and
how to do it and who without the least
Ill feeling often overlooked and ignored
her and made her feel herself out of it.
She sent home boxes Of gowns and 9TH
er things to Louisa and her mother (of
| which in their private talks they said
| they would have preferred her own
things to make over for themselves,
without dreaming how unsuitable they
would be), and she sent grandma a
gray silk wrapper in whose ruffies and
lace she would look like a little old
flower, as Grace pleased herself by
| thinking, and she sent her grandpa
Their a fur coat and wonderful meer-
schaum pipe. She had a feeling that
such things were, as her husband
phrased it, SO much to the good. Now
and then she sent her father a little
money, but she did not have much
money. Captain Harding needed all
his ready money, but she had generous
credit-and bills. *'Pile it onv' said
her husband. Zone must look success
full in order to be successful, you
know =.
They still lived at the hotel, where
they had what seemed to her royal
rooms, although she never grew used
| to them. and alfhOuph ontorta ;yino {,