The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-18

where Maggie and Tom had planned
to 90. Katherine felt sudden whim
to see the pleasure ground Of the
young people among whom she had
worked during the past week She
would 80 TO Ridley's park.
Away the car bowled. stopping now
ana then. but less frequently as the
suburbs were reached. And It seemed
@ Katherine that at every stop more
Maggies and Toms scrambled aboard,
al With an air OF golden anticipation
tnat she had never felt Mt prospect OF
an automobile tour or garden party.
80 absorbed was she in watching the
haH holiday crowd that she did not
houce Inc attention she was attracting
from group OF half tipsy youths who
\ had dubbed her THE queen" and were
daring each other 20 pick up the
/ peach"
I At Ridley's park she felt oddly dizzy
with the confusion. Perhaps she had
worked bit TOO hard at the Settle
ment house. Perhaps she had not eat
en- enough. At any rate. when they
reached the park entrance. and the
crowd showed her this way and that.
and the three youths clustered around
her and paid her loathsome compn-
ments she wondered whether she
should faint or scream aloud. Sudden
" man in uniform showed the leer-
ing youths aside and touched her ell
DOW deferentially.
Where do you want To go. miss?'
inquired the trolley inspector, for such
he was.
Home. home" exclaimed the tired
girl, with a touch of hysterla in her
voice.
Car on the third track" said the
inspector laeonically. and he put her
aboard.
Once out of the crowd. with the cool
ing west wind tanning her face. Kathe-
: rine felt better She understood now
why Maggie felt that Tom-big. pro-
tecting Tom-had given the girl a new
view of life
1t must be dreadful to be alone and
unprotected in the world. Now. IL Ar
mold had only been different, If he had
not been so absorbed in business. Then
suddenly a feeling that had never come
to Katherine Morgan before obsessed
her. Had Arnold ever really neglected
her? Had he ever refused her his at
tendance save when she wilfully
changed her mind or made childish de-
mands on his time? She remembered
too, that her father said somethin,
] about q shaky market. possibilities o
2 panic the need OF conservatism, etc
: They had all been meaningless term
: in her moment of anger. but now sh
I understood. If Arnold meant to TAX
: her "outen the factory" he must stan,
in with his boss, too, and Arnold's Dos
: was 1.-The street" Something brigh
I and round fell from Katherine's eye {
: the gloved hand she raised hastily as
] screen, and then it appened-crashin
] beams. cracking glass, shrieking VIC
r men and grooming men.
When Katherine woke up she was Il
] Arnold Gresham's big touring Sar an,
' Arnold Gresham's face was very clos
9 TO hers.
How did you get offY' she inquire
q duly, feeling as If she had been chang
> ed into Maggie Delany and Maggie
L Tom had come to the rescue.
). Il went down to the Settlement hous
E, for you, found you had left with on
d girl. and another told me she had seeI
Il you board the car for Ridley's park.
a was just following you out-when
e saw the collision and thought | nigh
a be of some service to the injured
e Katherine, why in the world did yoI
$ go out like this aloneY
! Katherine laid her head contentedlJ
on Gresham's still trembling shoulder.
d Because l needed TO know that
could not get along without you. ar
IS mold, dear, take me home"