The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-20
CHAPTER VII.

III ~ AlG1 SIOOu 1T tic NAHdC" 'SH5
after Mallory had disappeared In
the direction Of the stables CIV
ing free rein to her thoughts, and they
we're not all precisely cheerful in char
acter. She had known that Mallory's
ill-luck with the horses and the burn
ing of the stables had been q serious
setback, but just how serious 1t was
she had never realized, her anxiety
having been dispelled by the CHEEKY,
optimistic letters she had received from
Dan and her parents. Dan had decided
that it was better that she should be
kept in ignorance of the real state of
affairs as long as possible. 1t was not
necessary, he had said, hat she should
worry with them, and he hoped for a
change of fortune that would enable
him to recoup some of his losses. Patsy
had understood at once the delicacy of
the sentiment hat had actuated him
in Withholding the truth from her, and
during their tete-a-tete she had re-
Trained, with an equal generosity, from
uttering one word of %reproaeh, although
she felt thai she ought to have been
taken into his confidence. As the situa-
ton stood, after all these years of effort
and waiting, they appeared to be as
far as ever from the realization of their
hopes, which, up to her visit home, she
had believed to be near.
Moreover. the stock farm project
filed her with doubt and misgiving.
She was unable to see how. If he could
not make q success of n racing stable,
which it had been his great ambition
to own, Dan would be able 70 attain
his goal through the medium of the
stock farm, and the change in the
roseate plans for their future, as they
had so often discussed them did not
commend itself to her. Indeed, it had
filled her with deep disappointment.
She had seen herself as a successful
trainers wife, attending the race meets
all over the country and basking in her
husbands glory when the horses he had
trained should carry his eolors or the
colors of their owners to victory in the
great vents. And she had had day
dreams in which she had beheld certain
Of her high-nying associates of the
boards dying of envy as they paid court
to Mrs. Daniel Mallory at the track.
And to cap her worries and perplexi-
ties, here was the little sister she idol
lied and for whom she had dreamed
of assuming the role of fairy god
mother stagestruck and bent ON going
to New York. This was the very last
thing she would have desired for her.
As Patsy had mapped it out, Nora was
to have remained at home. the spoiled
child of the family. until some virtuous
and Well-to-do young man, should lead
her thence to the altar. Instead the
girl had sayagely resented the tracing
for her of any course she herself did
not want to follow. This was a Nora
she did not know and never had
imagined, a Nora to be reckoned with.
The outburst Of an hour before still
wounded and panied.
Fhe very day, for which she had
waited So inpatiently that for two
nights she had scarcely plept, had be-
gun wrong with her humiliating ar
rival at the railroad station.
isn't It the pLunkety-punkest?" she
s~oliloquized. Cooks like luck's givip'
me the double cross, and I'm ,gettin'
the lemon all around. Talk about pa
tiencei It's enough to give even Jobs
think tank a jolt
She turned from the window to seek
her mother when Nora came into the
room. The girl was shamefaced and
embarrassed.
Tin awfully sorry, Patsy" she
stammered. 81 oughn't to-I didn't
mean-indeed"-
Her coDtrition suficed in an instant
to dispel any resentment at her treat
ment that may have ranked in Patsy's