Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-17
CHAPTER III--(Continued)

ness It would serve me 'i6n'.
81 am considering the motive. sne
said almost wistfulIy, he ran ciea !,
I'VE have drifted very far from al
those quiet anchorages of courtesy
and helpfulness. If we lived sihaPie'
lives
He smiled at the turn she was CIV
ing it.. ~, AZ. f.d
"Are YOU. too. bitten with the 1ao
of the moment, the simpler lie: ne
asked "Let me assure you that II Il
beautiful only when you can looh
oown upon it from the safe aitienus
OF comfortable income. KNOW pc
cause rye been living in it for the
past two years. o.,
She looked as if she we're sorry io'
him. .ed
"onr forefathers had the better OF us
IN n,any WAYS. and their simpler man
Nor OF living was che OF them, Ines
Mad time for all the little courtesies
and kindnesses that make lie truly
worth living"
Ford,s laugh was boyishly derislTe.
yves; they certainly had plenty o.
time: but they didn't have mucn else
WHY. lust think for moment, o,
what our own America would be II
merely one Of the modern civilizers
the railroads, had never existed
Thsre simply wouldn't be any America
as we know 1t now.
How can you say that!
because it is so. For nearly tWe
centuries yre stood still, necause
there were no means OF locomotion-
which is another word for progress
and civilization But In less than MY
wears after the first railroad was ouii'
we had become great nation.
She was silenced, II not wholly con
vinced: and q few minutes later tne
train drew into the Forty-sec ond
street Station. When the parting time
came. Ford dutifully gathered her be
longings, said goodbye, and put hel
on a north-bound subway; all THIS
without remembering that he did not
know her name. The recollection came
however. when the subway train shos
into the tunnel.
"Of all the blockheads!" he groWled,
apostrophizing his own unreadiness
"But ri And her again She said shed
send her brother to the hotel with the
dinner money, and when get hold o.
him it will go hard with me IT don't
manage some way to get an intfod'ulc c
ton"
This was what was in his mind
when he sought the downtown hotel
whose name he had written on his
card for her; it was his latest wax
Ing thought when he went to sleep
that night, and his earliest when he
awoke the following morning.
But when he went to the clerk s
desk. after leisurely breakfast. to
get his mail, he found that the sure
thread Of Identification had broken IN
his fingers. There was a square en-
yelope among the other letters in his
key-box. containing the exact amount
OF the young woman's indebtedness
to him; this. with brief note Of
thanks-unsigned
CHAPTER nv.
II courage, OF the kind fitted to lead
forlorn hopes. or marchings undaunt
ed up to the muzzles of loaded can
non, be matter of gifts and tempera
noent.it Is also in some degree mat
ter of environment.
Stuart Ford was western born and
bred: a product of the wider breathing
spaces. Given his proper battlefield
where the obstacles were elemental
and the foes to be overcome were
mere men Of flesh and blood. fighting
freely In the open, he was a match fol
the lustiesr But New York. with its
submerging, jostling multitudes, It'll
thickly crowding human vastness, and
more than all, its atmosphere of dol
lar-chasing, apparent and oppressive
even to the transient passerby; dis
heartened him curiously.
It was not that he was more pro
vineial than he had to be; for tina
matter, there is no provincialism Sc
rampant az that of the thronging
striving. self-sufHcient city. But isola
ton in any sort is thing to be reck
oned with. The two pioneering years
In the Rockies had done their work
OF narrowing as we'll as Of broadening
and the plunge into the chilling Sc;
Of the money-mad metropolis mad
him shiver and wish he were out.
This feeling was really at the bot
tom of the late rising and the leisure
Iy breakfast. making him tennporiz'
where he had meant to be prompt, en-
ergetic and vigorously aggressive
Having pocketed the young woman
unsigned note, he glanced at hi
watch and decided that it was still to-
early to go in search Of President CO.
BIRTH.
~ don't suppose he'll be in his offic
for an hour yet" he unused reflective
ly; "and, anyway, I guess I'd bette
20 over the papers again, SO can b
sure to speak my piece right end tt
BY Jove! didn't suppose a couple Q
thousand miles OF casting would tax
NE heart out Of things the way
does, II didn't know better. shout
think I'd come here to float the bis
gest kind Of fake, instead Of a lift
boat for the shipwrecked people j
the Pacific Southwestern. It is begil
ming to look that way in spite Of q
| can do"
Going once again over his CAREFUL
tabulated argument did not help ma
tiers greatly. He was beginning to r
alize now how vastly, autipodally di
ferent the New York point Of vie
might be from his own. 1t came to hil
with the benumbing effect of a bio
that b{c on,, ambitions hea peruic