The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-28
THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF DOUGLAS
BY IANN INGRAHAN.


 strength in the opposite sex. Fraii, ai- most fiower-like in her beauty, the sort Iof girl who had been protected and served all her life, and yet decorated her tiny morning room with etchings and small statuettes of classic heroes, famed for their physical prowess. and she could sit through a veritable bliz- zard to watch Tootball match and shout herself hoarse for Ted's college team.
 Ted was her brother and he said that somewhere in Harrfets makeup was strain rom the blood of an ancestral belle who had cheered on her hero in the old tournament days. For the Winthrop's could trace their lineage to the tournament days-and further. and even though MT. Winthrop had lost a large slice of the old family fortune through iIl-advised investment, lthey maintained their social standing, lived in rather severe but elegnnt fash ion and held fast to every tradition, in- cfuding the firm belief that no lacy rides in a street car or other public conveyance. She may walk abroad for exercise only, but when calling or shopping, the plain, rather old fash toned brougham of the depleted Win throp stables was brought into ser vice.
 That was why, when many other girls with more money to spend on ssanniro trirpsd worrilv m and down the great retail thoroughfare, tfarrieti Winthrop chafed in the Win throp brougl1am, caught in blockade of snarling motormen, raced chaufreurs and obstinate cabbies The brougham swung to one side, the wheels grating the curb, and Harriet leaned forward to see how close they were to the shop wherein could be found a certain piece of stlvery-blue gauge marked down to post-holiday prices. Then with q gasp and a shud- der. she leaned back in the carriage and closed her eyes. She had forgot- tap 4he s'ive- oau7a the shop the lam of vehicles-everything save the tall. suuare-shouldered figure of man whose entire attention seemed to be centered o- tho tint of nsncates ha was furn- ing in the window of d white-front res- tau ant.
 The brougham moved forward a few inches, then several feet Very soon 1t would be out of range. so Harriet took one more glimpse at the window to make sure that her eyes had not deceived her. No--it was he and this time he was actually handing the white arroned waitress plate piled high with golden brown cakes.
 What was Jerry Douglas doing fin that window, and how could he bestow upon the white aproned girl precisely the same frank, cordial smile with which ne greeted Harriet at that last dance after Teddy's team had won through Douglass clever coaching? She bought half & yard more gauge than she needed and went home firmly con- vinced' that Jerry Douglas had been cooKIng cakes 10 pay d wager. Ihat night she went to a dance where many mutual friends gathered--but no one seemed to have heard of the escapade and she was too proud to make inqui- rles. The next day she went back to the shop so close to the restaurant. bit of pale blue velvet ribbon would set off that silver gauze-but she de- cided after ali she did not care wheth- CT the silver gauge was developed into a creation or not. Nothing mattereu save that her idol had crumbled at her very feet, or more properly speaking within a few feet of the wheels or her brougham-for there was Jerry Doug las, turning what she thought must pc very fat and undigestible fried biscuits.
 So 1t was not an election wager or anything of that sort. An, she Knew! He had gone in for sociology. He was studying the condition of the working classes. Next thing he wuld be liv- ing in one of those dreadful settle" meut houses. holding club meetings Tor ragamuffins and poor factory girls apd writing silly things for magazines this man whom she had watched witn halted breath on the football field, whom she had pictured as sallying forth to nit his magnificent strength, phys icai and mental, against the magnates of the commercial and financial world.
 Cooking cakes in restaurant win" dow.
 Harriet Winthrop walked with firm, deliberate step to her desk and LOOK down from the wall above 1t, picture showing a group of lusty young men in football attire, and also certain in- dividual picture of young man with a finely formed head and broad, square shoulders. She thrust the two behind some boxes in the top shelf or her clothes press-and then sat down TOT a good cry" ,,.
 Of course, she might have found out what 1t all meant if Teddy had been home. but Teddy. after leaving college had gone to Paris to follow up ms studies in naval architecture. Anyhow. if did not matter Of course. 1t had haen only a girlish fancy-and then Terrv Douglas had acted rather strangely since he went back 10 his virginfa home-a few casual notes no references to his future career ID witch she had betrayed an interesf which she now felt was presumption and unmaidenly-and so she cried some more. -,.oa Ao- self into a fine nervous state. rom ybich she would issue forth n9'N' ana FcrIorn. a messenger brought her most amazing votes. It was from Jer rv Douelas and it calmly invited MISS w,nthrop to attend little supper he was giving at the Empire restaurant ID homer of his rromotion. It would ne served on the upper floor Of the res taurant. at Thursday midnight atter inc rush was over, and would she nIsase come because Mrs. Ned Landers bod agreed to act as chaperon anu everyone knew that Mrs. Ned was host in herself ,.,-.. ..,.
 Herc was a perfectly leg'timate ave me of inquiry which even the winthrop pride might not hesitate to tollow-so sbe bsthed her eyes. summoned the Winthrop brougham and drove to Mrs. Ned Landers's smart studio apartment Of course she could not accept the in-