Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12

like me-" She seated herself easily in a low chair
where She with David, could watch the flames
play at hide and seek up the broad throat of the
fireplace.
"a grate-fre fascinates me-" unused the girl
Il love to watch tiny flame reach up from be-
low and, twisting this way and that attack a
lump OF coal high above it. AT first there is no
apparent erect but the hard, black shining sur
face cannot resist forever; persistent heat will
tell, and after few moments the whole bursts
into hame the heart of the lump seeming to glow
most brilliantly. The flame and the coal remind
me of lives someway. They come from different
parts of the globe, perhaps surmounting this OBJ
stacle, lodging that, twisting and turning until
Mistress Fate, satisfied with having brought them
together, leaves them to work out their own sal
vation And if the life lower in the social scale
reaches toward the other with the warmth of a
persistent purpose, how often the higher one is
caused first to notice. then to ponder and finally
to succumb, and the whole nature to glow not
only with reflected warmth but with fire within
itself all unguessed until it burst into flame at
the touch of that other lfe-light.
After that the conversation had drifted easily
from one subject to another until suddenly David
found himself answering the question,
Have you met Edith Rawston?"
Yes, on a single occasion several months ago."
She is abroad now, and I am missing her
sorely She left for the South of France quite
suddenly two months ago. Her mothers health
failed and the physicians prescribed a radical
change, and at once. l am afraid it will mean all
winter for Edith. But you must learn to know her
when she returns She is a charming girl"
Elizabeth McClintock was absolutely free from
sefconsciousness She had behind her line of
Puritan ancestors on her mothers side and of
Scotch on her fathers, who feared nothing but a
lie, and she had looked at things from her fathers
broad standpoint during the formative years of
her life so that it seemed many of the petty femi-
nine qualities had been omitted from her makeup.
A keen and comprehensive sense of humor saved
her from an consciousness.
1t did not therefore occur to her that this
steadyeyed, squarechinned, clean-cut young
friend Of her fathers might enjoy knowing her
well, although more than one young fellow had
beautiful, magnetic Edith, her ideal of grace and
charm from childhood she considered we'll worth
a thoughtful mans study and friendship.
So engrossed in her subject was she that she
failed to notice that David stiffened in his chair
and looked steadily into the fire. forgetting for
the moment where he was, while those words
branded upon his memory, sounded once more
clearly in his 81 have neither the time nor
the inclination for your friendship, Mr.. Angus"
Edith Rawston had never told Elizabeth of
David's note to her three years before; she
could not quite stand the gaze of her clear eyes;
"and then-it would be just like honest sympa-
thetic little Betty to receive the goose" thought
she.
Elizabeth could not guess, therefore the tumult
her words aroused in David's heart
He took his departure soon after, and found
himself responding deghtedly to her invitation
to come again soon, especially if father isn't
able to be about" The light from the hall lamp
fell softly over her sunny hair and the pale blue
OF her gown, which seemed to enhance the beauty
of her wonderful deep eyes that smiled so frankly
into his
That night she wrote to Edith as she had al
ready planned One paragraph would have inter-
ested David had he seen it,
THAT brilliant young assistant states attorney
that everybody is talking about-dned with us
tonight He doesn't talk great DEAL q can hear