Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-26
difference a pretty face makes to any

difference a pretty face makes to any
house"
els that Miss Annals portrait over
the fireplace, sir :"
You know her, Kennedy?"
| II have seen her once on the bal
cony of house in st. James Square.
That was last night when was on
my way to sleep in cellar"
My poor, poor boy and tonight
you will sleep in one of the most
beautiful rooms in England How
wonderful is fortune, how amazing
er-how very-is not that seven
o'clock by the way. l think that It
is, and here is Fellows come to show
you your room. You will find TINT
we have done our best for you in the
matter of clothes-guesswork. fear,
Kennedy, but still our best. To-mor
row Westman the tailor is to come
II think and hope you will put up
with borrowed plumes until he can
fit you up. In the meantime, Fellows
has charge of your needs. / am sure
that he will do his very best for you"
The young butler said that he
would-his voice was still raised to a
little just dignity, and he, in company
with Silas Geary, the housekeeper
and the servants hall had already
put the worst construction possible
upon Adams reception into the house
His determination to patronize the
young man" however received an
abrupt check when Alban suddenly
ordered him to show the way upstairs
He spoke like Duke" Fellows said
in the kitchen afterwards. There l
was running up the stairs just as
thought the GUNNER were behind mo.
Don't you think that you can come 1t
easy with him-he amt the sort by
long way. tell you, never was so
astonished since the GUNNER raised
my wages"
Alban, of course, was sublimely I'M
conscious of this. He had been con-
Quoted to an enormous bedroom on
the first floor, superbly furnished
with old Chippendale and excellent
modern Sevres-and there he had
been left to realize for the first time
that he was alone and that all which
had happened since yesterday was
not a dream but a hard invincible
truth so full of meaning so wonder
full, so sure that the eyes of his
brain did not dare to look at 1t I'M
f1inchingly. Boyishly and with a
boys gesture he had thrown himself
| upon the bed and hidden his face
from the light as though the very at
mosphere of this wonder world were
insupportable. Good God, that it
should have been spoken Of as his
just right; that he should have been
told that he had claim which none
might refute! A hundred guesses
afforded. no clue to the solution Of
the mystery. He could not tell him
self that he was in some way related
to Richard Gessner. the banker; he
could not believe that his dead par
ents had any claim upon this foreign.
er who received him coldly and vet
would hear nothing of his departure
Pride had little share in this, for the
issues were momentous. 1t was
sufficient to know that hand had
suddenly drawn him from the abyss
had put him on this pinnacle-beyond
all, had placed him in Anna Gessner'i
home as the f1rst-born, there to en-
bark upon career whose gial lay
beyond the City Beautiful Of his
dreams
He rose from the bed at length and
trying to put every thought but that
Of the moment from his head, he re
membered that he was expected tt
dine alone in the great room below
and to dress himself for such an or
deal in the clothes which the rev
erend gentleman's wit had provided
for him. Courageous in all thing
he found himself not a little afrait
of all the beautiful objects which hi
touched, afraid to lift the Severe
pitcher, afraid to open the long door
of the inlaid wardrobe, timid befor'
the dazzling mirror-a reluctan
guest who. for the time being. woult
.. have been thankful to escape to
carpetless floor, and glad to wash J:
a basin Of the commonest kind. Whel
this passed, and it was but moment
airy the delusion that trick was be
ing played upon him succeeded to
. and he stood to ask himself If he ha
not been fool to believe their stor
at all, fool thus to be made sport c
! by one who would relate the circun
stances with relish tomorrow. Thf
piece of nonsence however, was a
: quick to give way to the somewha
. cynical common sense with which A
: ban Kennedy had rightly been credi
. ed as the other. He turned from 1t In
= :, partiently and began to dress hin
:, self He had last dressed in blac
: clothes and white waistcoat for
school concert at Westminster whe
he was quite a little lad-but hi
y youth had taught him the convention
and he had never forgotten those tr
= ditions of what his dead father use
= to call the decent life" In his cas-
;. the experience was but reversion
! the primitive. and he dressed wit
> every satisfaction, delighted to p,
:, off shady old clothes and no less CO
a tent with his appearance as mirrt
;, revelaed 1t to him.
III The dining room at give Gable:
u was normally little dark in the da
time for it looked upon the dri7
h. where ancient trees shaded its lof
st latticed windows. At night howeve
a. Richard Gessner's one silver set {
the veritable black oak to perfectit
TX and the room had an air Of digni
Is and richness neither artificial nor {
a fensive. When Alban came down