The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-14

NN%%EXE2 Althea first him, and he
wAkM%E0 very pretty to look at There is. or there
@ARy40 may be, sort OF artistic fitness, in blu
.HMkN@HSN denim oyercothes and mechanics cap
gEkS but the g-boned, thin-faced youn,
man who jabbng the snout o
sshe ohcan into the yitals Ct the ten-wheeler hae
sse a as they lacking in
were inn ocent OF soap and water his jumper wa wa
smotlcy, he wearing cap which was the lates
wrinkle in golf headgear.
Il Vice-Pn.sdent Lockhartst private car, Nadia,
was coupled in the rear of Number Five and at the
breakfast station three members of the party
s4ase the
air ne M Af.eT A,h few haa said
-I want to sec the engine; don't you know always
want to see the engine" And 50 the three OF them
had walked up the hong platform clear now Of the
Biz ssBsslswin" stood throbbing and shudderine
preparatory to its plunge into the tunnelke gate
VI This was he way Miss Lockhart came to see Or
man. In the ordinary course OF things he would
scarcely have had second glance Of hers; but with
STOOD his friend Major Lockbart had been known
button on his uniform; and ormans iii-ftting over.
cothes. the OIL she coal smut and the parti-colored
he snord Is wonder how long Hoskns
rhas been putting vostabouts in charge of his first
There was moment of fuse-fzzing silence in
which Brockton, decently reluctant to witness the
sshaming of fellow man, turned away Miss Althea
stood her ground, hoping that the engineer had not
heard But it said of the president that his
sarapiers were all broad swords
Strengthened up and faced him. "You are disgrace
TO the servce-a harlequin, sir! There is excuse
%as round-house wi per. Report to Mr.. Hoskins
Ewhen you get in. and say. to him, with my compli'
voucher for box Of SOAP and supply of wash
buckets for the use Of +, the companys engne,nen"
sher Visible distress chang the engineers seow Of
into "a s ham 1sb. g9n b. admitted
cor atu
say. I'll report to Mr. H''s'sns-and mention the
Althea was watching him narrowly as he spoke,
with her wonans heart full Ct sympathy She was
Now, il there be women 1,om emotion mars
are few whose charms aret heightened thereby.
Miss Althca one Of the fees; and Brockton. who
her ery
turbcd him little. to reflect th;'t the exciting
washed workngman. As he knew to his own dis
comfturc, Miss Lockhart had an exaggerated re-
spect for men who had work to clio and did it. It
clearly the moment for diverssior and he made
one
ing his watch Don't You think we'd best be get
ting back to the carr"
Miss Athea sat with Brockton's SIM Alicia, be-
hind the broad windows in the observation end OF
the Nadia, watching the cliffs and peaks swing
y edly OF 4 small dilemma
The outing triD. which was now three days old
sand which Was TO pause indefinitely at Undercliff
Inn Summer resort in the he art Of the main
-1ranre had not been. nor did it pKomise to be an
ualloyed joy While her invitation to join the party
had come from her uncle in his own prpper person.
u prompted by certain, match-makir pnocIvities on
Efhe part Of the vice-presdents wife Mrs Lockhart
SslI was young woman and cambridge Brockton
was her cousin once removed
A Althea had known Brockton since his college davs
~ and had liked him as much as she could ike anv
NJ man who was content to do nothing Left to her
II self she might have come IN t;n,e To loci Nth
Efavor nnon R;s woo;ng which was ,s ersros.;s M
tsnything he ever did But, with ali it's yeldnes the
smd Mhen Miss heg aua t tat M