The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-30
CHAPTER XVIII.


nATTY'S cry of delight when She
saw Max Schippheim checked a
reproof which he had come pre-
pared to utter, and made his usually
grave though kind face become sudden
ly radiant with smiles as the girl ex-
claimed:
My best friend, it will be all light
now o AVE come back
II returned last night" he said, and
| have ak over here this afternoon
to inquire the meaning Of
She would not let him finish the sem
tence.
please don't believe a word they've
told you, sir. l nave lone nothing as
you said l wasn't to do. l couldn't
help Joe and Mounseer coming to blows
and there being a row in the quad
rangle. l didn't ask 'em to do it, and
I'm very sorry as they did" and Patty
began to cry.
He too her hand kindly.
Don't cry, my lass. l haven't said
it was your fault, nave II"
He led her toward a felled tree which
lay not far off, on which he made her
sit down beside him as he said kindly
MY DOR little Patty, you seem to
have passed through a great deal of
trouble since left home"
So the lecture he had been preparing
all the way as he walked from Arun-
dale had melted into ha~lf-a-dozen sym
pathetic words. the kindness in the tone
of which made Patty's tears break forth
anew. Kindness always softened and
subdued Patty's character. while harsh
ness only served to render her hard and
u~nbending.
HnI Ill l. a.,,r .,,A,,t ,..-~
you've come home, if you only say you
don't think as 1 was to blame; it's
that as has been worrying me,
the thought as you'd be angry"
and Patty dried her eyes with the
corner of her apron, and looked at him
with a sweet, ingenious face, from
which he felt desperately inclined to
kiss away the tear-stains, only he re-
membered just in time that he was the
senior partner. and that this little girl,
sweet and beautiful though she was,
was only a discharged gold -burnisher.
lie did not kiss her, however; by the
time he had argued the matter out
with himself, the opportunity had
passed for a moment, and he did not
feel inclined to force it. He merely
assured her that he was not angry
with her, though very much annoyed
that there had been so much trouble
and turmoil during his absence, and
then he got on to safer ground. asking
her what money her Granny had left,
and what she proposed to do with 1t,
seeming, too, quite to concur in her
idea that a portion of it should be
placed at Mrs. Bligh's disposal, and
that she should join that good woman
as partner in the Dalcford Laundry,
which was a tolerably lourishing con-
Germ.
and some day.. L suppose, you will
marry Joe Marks" said Mr.. Schipp-
helm. after he had fully discussed the
money question and told Patty to bring
him the necessary papers to the works
on Monday morning. About coming
into Arundale she rather rebelled, but
she was told it was absurd to mind
it now that he was there to silence in
solent tongues.
Patty's dislike to returning to Arun-
dale was. however, not expressed by
any means in such unmistakable terms
as those she used to disclaim all inten-
tion of ever marrying Joe Marks, To
think that Mr.. Schippheim should con-
slider Joe a fitting match for her SEEM
ed to cut her to the very quick, rather
to the amusement of the senior part
ner, who seemed scarcely TO be sorry
for having annoyed her. as the cir
cumstances might have been supposed
to warrant. This time taking her hand
ana raising it to his lips. he assured
her she should marry no n she did
not care for. Either Max Schippheim
was very shy or he was thoroughly
unused to women, for he had not the
faintest idea of taking a citadel by
storm-a fact about which Patty's
astonished face might nave told him
something. She had never had her
hand kissed in her life before, and, for
a moment she almost thought she was
a queen or a grand duchess.
(To BE Continued Tomorrow