Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-01-18
FROsTBJRG, Y, Is, 1908

NneFe MaSHle ana ION udu Iidiieu
to go katherine felt sudden whim
to see the pleasure ground of the
young people among whom she had
worked during the past week. She
would go to Ridlcy's park.
Away the car bowlcd, stopping now
and then. but less frequently as the
suburbs were reached. And it seemed
to Katherine that at every stop more
Maggies and Toms scrambled aboard,
all with an air of golden anticipation
that she had never felt at prospect of
an automobile tour or garden party.
SO absorbed was she in watching the
half holiday crowd that she did not
notice the attention she was attracting
from a group cf half tipsy youths who
had dubbed her 1.-THE queen" and were
daring each other to pick up the
peach"
At Ridlcy'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 rat when they
reached the park cntrar e, and the
and thSshrce youths clustered around
her and paid her loathsome compi-
mcntS, she wondered whether she
should faint or scream aloud. Sudden
ly Il man in uniform showed the leer-
ing youths aside and touched her ell
bow defcrcntiaIly.
"Wherc do you want to go, MISS"
mammal tho trpl1nt- inSnnatnr Sl1ob
he was
Home, home" exclaimed the tired
girl, with a touch of hysteria in her
voice.
Car on the third track" said the
inspector laconicaIly, and he put her
aboard
Once out of the crowd, with the cool
ing west wind tanning her face, Kathe-
rinc felt better. She understood now
why Maggie felt that Tom-big, pro-
tecting Tom-had given the girl new
view of life.
II must be dreadful to be alone and
unprotected in the world. Now, if 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 Willfully
changed her mind or made childish de-
mands on his time? She remembered,
too. that her father said something
about a Shaky market possibilities of
a panic the need of conservatism etc.
They had all been meaningless terms
in her moment of anger but now she
understood. If Arnold meant to take
her "outen the factory" he must stand
in with his boss, too, and ArnOId'S boss
was the street" Something bright
and round fell from Katherine's eye to
the gloved hand she raised hastily as a
screen, and then it happened-crashing
beams, cracking glass, shrieking Wo-
men and grooming men.
When katherine woke up she was in
Arnold Grcshams big touring car and
Arnold GrcShams face was very close
to hers
How did you get off, she inquired
duly, feeling as if she had been chang
ed into Maggie Dclany and Maggie's
Tom had come to the rescue.
81 went down to the Settlement house
for you, found you had left with one
girl, and another told me she had seen
you board the car for Ridley's park.
was just following you out-When |
saw the collision and thought might
be of some service to the injured.
Katherine, why in the world did you
go out like this aIOneE
Katherine laid her head contentedy
on GreshAm's still trembling shoulder.
because needed to know that
could not get along without you. Ar
mold dear, take me home"