The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03

so important q factor of the social life
of the lower east side of New York In
winter.
AS they entered the hall about 200
couples were doing slow twostep
with set and serious faces, most Of the
girls chewing gum In time to the meas,
ure and many of the young men hold
Ing lighted cigars or cigarettes be-
tween two fingers, while the other two
clasped the lady's hand.
One look at Philips face showed
Jenny that he did not care much for
this. and as she cared very little about
1t herself (what she wanted was to
get him alone) she suggested that they
60 up into the gallery and look on, and,
If Philip felt like ordering two glasses
OF beer, why. that would be very nice
Philip ordered the beer, and they took
seats in the gallery.
Presently the music struck up an
inviting waltz with q lapguorous. in
tensified beat. and Jenny leaned for.
ward with half sad. half longing en-
preston which, she knew very well,
heightened her beauty, especially in
profile. Then suddenly she turned to
him with a warm, appealing look. 81
suppose I must give it all up, mustn't
]. PHILIP"
She was like a disappointed child,
and he felt sorry for her. "You mean
dancing? Why, no! There's no harm
In dancing"
They danced the next waltz. and as
Philip held the 1.-THE young creature
and felt her graceful. supple move
ments he realized vaguely that she
was not created for factory toll and
dull tenement life. And Jenny. glid,
ing to the delicious measure, forgot all
but one thing-that she was here in
Philips arms.
On their way home Philip tried to
have serious talk with her, but II
was not so easy to say just the right
thing
They did not talk much after that.
but Philip thought for n long time
about this evening, with its apparently
trivial happenings, and somehow they
filled him with vague uneasiness.
In the morning he awoke pale and
unrefreshed, and when he Joined the
Moran household after breakfast Hag-
gleton observed that he looked tired
"It's nothing" said Philip; "I'm not
accustomed to balls"
Haggleton went out with Philip.
He, too, had slept badly. He had been
awakened when Jenny came I'm, and
for more than an hour he had thought
about this boy, his son. He did not
like the idea Of his going out with
Jenny Moran.
The old man began by talking about
Margaret.
approved, "but if I know anything
about women she's got bit of spirit
in her, and-you'd better cut out
anybody else"
"You mean Jenny" said Philip, who
started to explain the situation as well
as he could without revealing Jenny's
previous life. but Haggletcn inter |
have lived sixty years with my eyes
wide open. It's not so hard to guess
as you think, young man."
'"Then you must approve Of my do
ing what can to help her?"
"Does 1t help her much to dance |
with her?" replied Haggleton dryly.
'If other people had felt their re-
sponsibiity toward her as I do, she
wouldn't be where she is today"
"What do you mean by that?" asked |
Haggleton.
"You control the New York Midland,
don't you"
"Why, II suppose So" answered |
Haggleton, surprised at this sudden
turn.
"Well, the New York Midland killed |
her husband ut one of its grade cross |
ings. The law commands you to |
put gates at these crossings, but you |
laugh Mt the law, and every year you |
Kill hundreds Of innocent citizens as |
you killed her husband Then you re- |
fused to pay her cent of damages, |
and rs she was a poor woman she |
couldn't press the suit. So she was
left without dollar in the world, and
she had a little baby, and-well, the
end Of 1t was she went to the bad"
II didn't know that" said Haggle-
ton.
''Ihere's good deal you rich men |
don't know and don't want to know. |
I tell you, Jenny Moran would be |
good woman today If she'd had fair |
chance. And, il You think I'm going |
10 turn my back on her as your crimi- |
nal railroad did, then you're very much |
mistaken"
One morning, day or two after the
nilllonaire's second tour with Philip |
among his tenements, boy arrived |
from the bakery to tell Moran that he
was 10 take charge of the night shift
and must report That evening at g.
Moran sent him back with word that he
tould bring the assistant he had already
spoken about IL he were needed, and
the answer came shortly afterward |