The Glenwood post., 1907-01-12
BytheShuttle
Train
BY NIxOLA GREELEY-SMITH
Copyright, 1906, by Mcclure, Phillips & Co.

Varied and multiple as the summer
sands are the means which the fates
presiding over love affairs employ to
bring the one man and the one woman
together.
1t was the shuttle train that has its
terminus at the Fifty eighth street ele-
waited station, where Sixth avenue ends
Its devious journey past wholesale
warehouses and small shops and de-
partment stores, with brief dip into
the gayeties Of theaters and dance
halls in the frivolous Thirues, and Cen
trail park begins Its spreading progress
through the city's heart that brought
about the determining moment in the
lives Of Madge Rowan and John Clev-
erley.
The interference of this particular
agent was the more remarkable be-
cause the lives Of the two persons most
before been lived more than 1000
miles away.
1t was in February that the pretty
daughter of the most prosperous physi-
clan in thriving Colorado town had
bidden a fearful farewell to the fond ia
ther and mother who had at last ac-
quiesced in her desire to go east to de-
velop her artistic talent.
The talent found its chief expression
In fluffy impossibilities masqueradine
as Easter chickens and other seasona-
BILE novelties, with which she decorated
menu cards, to the infinite admiration
of her many friends.
Her art, therefore, had brought her
to New York. And it was art, likewise
hers, that had brought John Cleverley.
For, though the two had been boy and
girl sweethearts together, the sudden
development Of Miss Rowan's artistic
genius had apparently absorbed all her
sentimental impulses, and before leav-
ing Colorado she had told Cleverley
that she could never marry him.
She had not been a month in town
before the young man made his APP
pearance at her Fifty-eghth street
studio with more or less plausible
story Of having been sent east by his
firm to look up an important case.
Art had languished during that first
month, when visits to unsympathetic
dealers had convinced Miss Rowan Of
the dearth of the demand for dinner
cards, and the cordiality of the auburn
haired, paint despatched vision that
greeted Cleverley when he climbed the
five flights to her studio augured well
for his hope Of taking her back with
him to Colorado. But the day after his
arrival she had actually succeeded in
selling dozen menu cards, and again
Cupid dropped his diminished head un.
der Arts overshadowing wing.
So furiously did Miss Rowan apply
herself to her profession under the i'm.
petus that it was only after much
persuasion that she consented to spend
an afternoon at the beach the Satur-
day after Cleverley's arrival.
you know, Jack" she had said
you haven't the responsibilities that
I have. 1t is natural for you to want
to go about and see things, but I've
Just started new pond lily menu
series, and 1 must have 1t finished to-
cleaned tomorrow afternoon anyway"
But as Cleverley looked unconvinced
and rueful she added contritely: "Well
I'll go this once. But don't you come
here, for everything will be in such
mess. I'll meet you at the Fifty.
eighth street elevated station at 3
o'clock"
And to this arrangement, after some
argument, Cleverley was forced to ac.
quiesce.
On Saturday the fact that she knew
she would have to refuse Jack Clever.
ley for the last time lent pleasing
melancholy to Miss Rowans prepare
tions for the afternoon. AS a conces-
sion to Cleverley she determined to
wear the rather barbarlc necklace of
topazes and Cripple Creek gold which
had been his last birthday Offering to
here and she therefore sought it in the
little Jewel box, which had not been
taken from its place of concealment In
the bottom of her trunk since her ar.
rival In New York.
Her surprise when she discovered,
after search that was at first perfume.
tory, then earnest and finally frantic,
that 1t and, indeed, all her jewels were
gone was a splendid testimonial to her
belief in her adopted city.
But fact, relentless, immutable, must
ever triumph over illusion, and in fif-
teen minutes Miss Rowan had realized
that all the pretty little trinkets she
had collected since infancy had indeed
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foreseen disaster she stood alone, in
experienced, In a strange city. And
for young woman in the full enjoy
ment Of an Independent career her first
thought was a singularly impracticabe
one-she must tell John Cleverley all
about 1t, and he would get them back
But first she would summon the land
lady, the stout person inhabitipg un-