The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-28

vitation and she would not decline without making inquiries.
 Mrs. LAnders, snrewuiy reading from the white, tired face that something had gone amiss. made tea directly, and Harriet slipped 1t appreciativeIy
 You know, mother is a bit old fash- ioneo--'
 She even disapproved of studio flats instead of houses." inquired Mrs. Lam ders With dancing eyes.
 She thinks you are the most won derful manager in the world, but a res- taurant supper, 1 mean that particular sort of restaurant--"
 T understana-and I am just bub- bling with the secret. I've been wai.- ing to tell every one for weeks, put Jerry, Douglas made me cross my heart and swear no--my dear, he is hero the sort you don't often ind in this day of spoiled millionaire sons and fawning parasites. When he finished his college course and started To read law with m old friend or his fathers down in Virginia he made what was to him an awful discovery. t1is In- heritance had paid only his bare cx- penses e. college-alI the little pleas ures. accessories, the social end of his game, his mother had made-by her own handiwork. She had been doing exquisite embroidery for a woman's ex. change and a New York department store to keep him at college as his father and grandfather had been kept before him.
 "TIis first feeling heine Virginia man of chivalric pride, was deep hu. initiation. l am afraid he was a bit hard on the little mother for daring to do such a thing-then he turned his back on the law and came north. going straight to the father of he had known at college, the sort who roll in wealth made in sim gla generation. The hov's father has all sorts of commercial interests, inc cIuding the Elm ire chain of quick lunch counters, and he promptly of- fered Jerry the chance to act as cashier in one of those dreadful lunch rooms"
 Harriet was leaning forward, drink ing in every word, oblivious to the fact that Mrs Ned was studying her face with matronly amusement.
 "WeIl,, this particular lunch room was in badly dsorganized state. and Jerry not only made changes. but he fired the cook. who had been making trouble .sand cooked himself until he could get a decent man. He stopped auarreling among the waitresses--and now he is going to Mexico for the man who was 1uBt IrylHB uiih OuI ih lunch room and what Is more, he is going on a most ticklish and import ant mission"
 Harriet leaned back with. sigh that might have meant reactioh--or some- thing deeper.
 And so he has asked just six Of us to have that little supper for which he agrees to cook all sorts Of things from pancakes to something he calls buttercakes. Anyhow 1t can't be worse for our digestion than some of the Newburg niesses our friend makes In chafine dishes. Will you go?'
 Harriet rose instantly.
 eff you won't think me abrupt-lm m going home this minute to telephone my acceptance"
 wise Mrs Ned did not suggest that in her hallway wsa a telephone instru- ment. which Harriet had oftimes used. and. the girl went her way. Later. as she hung un the telephone receiver Tn +Ha urt,+h-4n I'N-a~v ho~ e"aS sN"N'H0 to shine like diamonds, and soft hush mounted to her pale gold hair Ano iron, the library she went straight to her own room. climbed up to clothes rress shelf and lugged forth two pho tographs. Then with her chin resting in inc palms of her hands, she sat down. studying them with eyes that stu shone with the light that once r,,,s+ hove NrIoh+e0od trG Fa"a of the .rcestraI heiie at the tournament.