Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-27

1T doesn't matter, so far as 1 am
concerned"
81 know. my boy: You'll never know |
how 1t hurt me to find that l had no
daughter. 1t hurts her worse thou
sandfold to learn that she has no moth
er. l trust it may not happen that
you will lose her as wife"
"If / really thought i couldn't win
her, sir it would ruin my ambition in
life She loves me. I'm sure"
by the way, Clegg tells me he has
offered you the New York office. 1t is
splendid chance for you. You will
take it. of course
Il expect to talk it over with Mr..
Ciegg when get to Chicago"
"Come up to our apartments. Oh.
pardon me, Graydon. / want to ask
you if you have sufficient money to
carry you through? / know the pay
! of private is not great"
Thank you. have saved nearly
all of it. My father has sent me a
draft for five hundred. l don't expect
to use it, Of course"
"Your father" asked Cable, with
QUICK, SCREENING IOOh-
And then / did save something in
Chicago, strange as it may SEEM" said
Bansemer, with a smile. Il have a
few of your per cents. l trust the
| road is all right
The Cables left San Francisco on
the following day. accompanied by the
| Harbins and Graydon Bansemer. There
was no installing the joy which lay
under restraint in the faces and atti-
! tude of the Cables. David Gable had
| grown younger and less gray, it
seemed, and his wife was glowing
with a new and subdued happiness.
! Graydon. sitting with the excited
Ethel. who was rejoicing in the pros
! peet of New York and the other young
q man. studied the faces of the three
people who sat at the other end
the coach.
: Time had wrought its penalties. Ca
/ BILE was thin and his face had lost its
virility, but not its power. His eyes
never left the face of Jane. who was
! talking in an earnest, impassioned
manner, as was her wont in these
days. Frances Cables face was a
study in transition. She had lost the
| color and yivacity of a year ago al
thought the change was not apparent
to the casual observer. Graydon could
see that she had suffered in many
| ways. The keen, eager appeal for ap-
probation was gone from her eyes;
in its stead was the appeal for love
and contentedness. Happiness, now
struggling against the smarting of a
sober pain. was giving q sweetness to
her eyes that had been lost in the am
bilious glitter of other days. Ethel
| bored him. a most unusual condition
He longed to be under the tender, quiet
ing influence at the opposite end of the
car. He even resented his temporary
exile.
Jane" Cable was saying with gen.
! tie insistence, sit is not just to him.
He loves you, and you are not doing
the right thing by him"
You'll find l am right in the end
she said stubbornly.
Il can't bear the thought Of your go.
ing out as a trained nurse, DEAR" pro-
tested Frances Cable. There is no ne.
cessity. You can have the best of
homes and in any place you like. Why
waste your life in
Waste, mother? 1t would be vast
ing my life If did not find an occupa-
ton for it. / can't be idle can't ex-
. ist forever in your love and devotion"
Good Lord, child. don't be foolishr'
exclaimed Gable. THAT hurts me more
Ii,,l.
is yours
, I'm sorry 1 said 1t. daddy. 1 did not
mean 1t in that way. 1t isn't the
money, you know, and it isn't the
home, either. No; you must let me
choose my own way of living the rest
of my life. / came from founding
hospital. A good and tender nurse
found me there and gave me the hap
piest years of my life. shall go back
there and give the rest of my years to
children who are less fortunate than I
was. 1 want to help them, mother, just
|, as you did-only it is different with
!, me-
you'll see it differently some day."
said Mrs. Cable earnestly
Il don't object to your helping the
foundlings. Jane" said Cable, ''but |
don't see why you have to be nurse
I to do 1t. Other women support such
causes, and not as nurses. either. It's
Its my way, daddy, that's ALL" she
. said firmly.
Then why, in the name of heaven.
, were you SO unkind as to keep that
poor boy over there alive when he
| might have died and ended his misery :
You nursed him back to life only to
give him a wound that cannot be heal
ed. You would ruin his life. Jane. Is
it fair? I'm uncouth and hard in many
ways-I had hard, unkind beginning
, but l really believe I've got more
heart in me than you have
''Davidr' exclaimed his wife. Jane
looked at the exasperated man In sur
prise.
Now, here's what / intend you t.
do: You owe me something for the
love that give to you; you owe Gray
don something for keeping him from
dying. If you want to go into the
nursing business, all right. But I'm