The Washington herald., 1907-11-02

I the cHo.rs affected even ta- average at
+ tendance and the collection i1 the plate
especially ON dark winter evenings. when
+ escort duty was considered % natural OBJ
legation
/ Vida BRYAN dl5 not SIT iu the choir.
/ SHE attended the ItfI. Caa.roalan E.gk
-.he "Erh or tH- M3rtvgs'-wuere Dick
/ Ul- an elder Th. session was strict
tEer. and d.i not encourage light blouses
/ il the choir because It faced the con-
+ gresut.oH. Yet aII the summer Vida wore
one iu tile pew of her adopted father
along with q weIl-cut alpaca skirt. and
nos even the minister said word
There Were. naturally enough. two
/ sides TO N5a's Tle-tre one which was
apparent to TIE good. sharp-toHgued folk
among whom she lived, and that which
She lived "-u 90 herself"
Daily she watched her fathers carriage
/ flash by. the stout Episcopal coachmau
+ on the box. and Gregson. the easily
scared f0otmaU, erect 10y his side Vida
/ had looked Unnumbered times on the
+ fierce. iTascible. vivid c0unten8uCc Of the
man who was her real father. and to
! her mind. &C least in iutenU the muir
/ derer 0f her mother But the regard of
.
seemed continually TO be looking across
the present into the tragic future-never
with fear-nev-r with epentance-8lwavS
/ with kind Of anger. bitter. contemptu-
/ 0us. and with difficulty restrained.
But what really scared Vida was 10
/ recognize i'm q little man who sometimes
sat beside the millionaire the former sr-
UcrcargO OF The Good Iuteut-Mr. James
Kahn. Sometimes she saw him alone
i'm an automobile, guiding the machine
himself his heeting gray eve glancing
| dangerously at an and sundry in his
path, as IT, were it not for the law. he
would he delighted 90 run them down.
DID James Kahn recognize her? Ger
tainiy She had altered greatly from the
/ hollow-Cheaked 6rece-eyed. suspicious
little girl who had kept such jealous
watch over her sick mother. But had
she altered 90 the extent that one who.
five years before. had been in daily com
muniCation with ur would row fail 10
recognize he-?
For the present. Vida could not find
this ont Certainly, the understood. gray
eyed man, with the turned-up mustaches
and the vaguely furtive air. showed not
the least sign Of recognition. Once even.
when she was gathering flowers along
Jle hedEerUUtS of distant lane. remote
from the clnging CRIME Of the Incubus
chinlneystalks. Mr.. Kahn stopped his
motor and politely offered her ride
home He knew her. he said. as the
daughter Of one Of HIS most trusted fore
men. one 20 whom he was immediately
going to entrust a task more fitted 20 his
abilities and character.
Vida thanked the manager Of the works
for bis offer bat still with certain air
OF grave surprise which sent him on I'm
his motor, secretly rebuked but certainly
not offended.
Thinking il over afterward. Vida was
afraid that she had spoiled her good old
friends chances of promotion. But Mr
Kahn showed no resentment. and that
very night Dick Finnan came home re-
joicing. lie was to be made Inspector
OF ways al the bottom Of No. 2 pit. and
his salary was to begin at q shiliings q
week,
IT was more money than he had ever
earned in his life. and Dick said so much
i'm praise of mr. Kahn and his kindness
that Vida. Ia spite Of The Good Intent,