The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-12
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AS Janet added line after line TO
this ode OF loving adulation, lyman
squayed his huge shoulders as Father
Jacob doubtless did when wrestling
with mis- angel his grip closed hard
on his child's arms and into his eyes
came a flame that was not the CLINT
OF gimlet point but fash like that
OF lightning
You mean that. don't you Janet?"
he asked
Why, OF course. ! do"
Well" said lyman dropping his
daughters arms-and he had hurt
them too-and giving himself a sort
OF wet-retriever shake. you just keep
on believing that. for IL will be a
damn bad day for both of US. daughter
dear when you think otherwise. Now
go and take your ride. up around the
hills and see how the new house IL
progressing"
"Oh, bother the new house." said
Janet. Father what In tho name OF
common sense do you want OF another
home and why In the world should
You build on the top OF mountain ?"
III answer you categoricaily."
said lyman. I'm building another
house because | presume that In the
course OF time you might like this
one"
Well" said Janet, why shouldn't
you stay here and let me- climb to the
hilltop"
Not on your life cried lyman.
| bringing one hand down on the other
with slap. And you have been
looking down on me? No. sir. no one
/ looks down on John Patrick lyman;
not even his daughter, not even his
well-beloved daughter Eagles Nest
is the highest point on these noun
tains and there build. And II II
wasn't the highest point I'd cart up
dirt until IL was-if the carting cost
me a million dollars
You're proud man, aren't you
Daddy" said Janet
I've got a daughter that has helped
me to feel SO. And that. think, will
close this family discussion. for as
told you | have four men TO meet. and
by the same token here comes one OF
them-with your mother"
When lyman made terms they were
as rule PROFESSIONALLY accepted. but
when he said your mother" he used
term which Janet never had accept
ed. Mrs. lyman was not her mother,
not the mother who had cuddled her
in the struggling Carolina days. but
a stepmother who had come in the
days of the lyman glory
lyman had one creed. Il believe in
serving God and Mammon," and
Mrs. Tynans creed was still more
simple and concise, II believe In one
God, gold Tynan's devotion to gold
was not that OF the miser, for he
never opened his safe to gloat on the
piles OF gilt-edged securities as Gould
and Sage used TO do. He loved gold
for the power and ease and beautiful
things that II brought and among
these latter was surely the second
Mrs. lyman.
The Mrs. Tynan-she whom Janet
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES a plain, motherly
creature with grammar that some
times sweryed. but a heart that never
did The second Mrs. lyman had been
toasted as beauty from Washington
10 Newport Her manners were as
faultless as the curves OF her neck and
her syntax as correct as the fit OF her
wonderful gowns. Before she attract
NN JphH had bCCh ohs
OF five sisters, all equally pretty.
equally poor. AS Mrs. lyman she had
thousands To spend without thought
for other thousands; while as Miss
Orme the outlay OF dollar had been
a matter of calculation. Her dia-
monds had been the subject OF
hundred newspaper articles, and she
had spent more for one pet dog than
her family had paid on years gro
cory bills. Small wonder Mrs. lyman
loved money. Small wonder that she
valued John p Tynan's love.
Yet there had been time when she
hesitated as to the disposal OF her
beautiful self. Another man of mil
Hons, Stanley Barholm, had wooed
her at the very time lyman was press
ing his suit--a younger. handsomer
man than lyman, too-but one day
Miss Orme was told casually by her
father that lyman had cleaned up
SO. 000,0 900 in a struggle on Wall-st and
that the man who lost In the furry
was Barholm. Put chronologically the
deal was closed at 1870 a. m; Ty
mans big red motor car was outside
the Ormes at 4:l5 D. m. and Miss
Elsie Orme had promised at 445 to
be Mrs. lyman.
Being Mrs. lyman meant being to
her husband at once the trustee of his
love and pride. He was as fond OF
her as he was proud Of her. She was
the living evidence that he had won
out" in his rivalry with Barholm-
and OF many others; she was the
lovely proof OF good investment.
Tynan's wife was part OF Tynan's
glory. Tynans love for his daughter
was deeper thing. That which
touched Janet touched his heart. Ty-
mans love for his wife was the love
OF achievement that which touched
her touched his pride.
Janet knew the difference between
the loves: she knew the place held by
each in lyman life and she was not
Jealous She was not jealous even
when she knew that the package
which her father drew from his
pocket as Mrs lyman came forward,
was something for Mrs. Tynan's neck
or ears or wrists. for her father was
always bedecking disbursement.
But she was jealous of all that touch
ed her fathers honor-jealous by
proxy so TO speak-and she never
saw Barholm with her stepmother
without an indefnable unease.
There was no unease though about
Barholm He was suavity itself.
smoothness from the top OF his sleek
head to the soles OF his dapper feet.
A younger man than lyman. but as
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