The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-10

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 l '1t's d-d nonsense, Janer lie saTI
 1t so feelngly that she smiled even a! she shook her head and moved away
 "I'll see you tomorrow on shore" ht called, repentant and anxious. l 'Yesv'
 l The next day they landed. Graydor waved an anxious farewell to her as
 he was hurried off with the lame, the 1 halt and the blind He saw David Ga l ble and his wife on the pier, and il l spite of himself he could not repel ar eager, half fearful glance through tht crowd of faces. Although he did no 1 expect his father to meet him, ht dreaded the thought that he might be there, after all. To his surprise, as he stood waiting with his comrades he saw David Cable turn suddenly an6 after a moments hesitation wave his
 hand to him.. the utmost friendship il his now haggard face. His hear, thumped joyously at this sign of amity AS the soldiers moved away Cahle paused and looked after him, grin though compassionate expression in his
 
 front the customs officers.
 "I wonder if he knows about his
 father" unused he Jane eaught her
 breath and looked at him with some
 thing like terror in her eyes He abruptly changed the subject, deplorins
 his lapse into the past from which they were trying to shield her.
 The following morning Graydon re ceived note from Cable, frank but carefully worded message, in which he was invited to take the trip east in the private car of the president of the Pacific, Lakes and Atlantic. Mrs. Ga ble joined her husband in the invita- tion. One of the sore spots in Gray don's conscience was healed by this exhibition of kindness. Moreover, Ga ble stated that his party would delay departure until Graydon's papers were passed upon and he was free from red tape restrictions.
 The young man on landing sent tele- grams to his father and Elias broom, the latter having asked him to notify him as soon as he reached San Fran cisco Graydon was not little pug zled by the fact that the old clerk seemed strangely at variance with his father in respect to the future. In both telegrams he announced that he would start east as soon as possible.
 There was letter from broom awaiting him at headquarters. It was brief, but it specifically urged him to RhN hr Clegg and reiterated his pressing com mand to the young man to stop for a few days in Chicago. In broad and characteristically uncouth sentences he assured him that while the city held no grudge against him and that the young men would welcome him with open arms-his groundless fears to the contrary-he would advise him to choose New York. There was one rather sentimental aIlusion to .old Broadway" and another to "Gren- nitch," as he wrote it. In conclusion, he asked him to come to the office, which was still in the U- building, adding that if he wished to avoid the newspaper men he could find see3usion at the old rooms in Wells street. "Your father" he said, 'has given up his apartment and has taken lodgings. I doubt very much if he will be willing to share them with you, in view of the position he has assumed in regard to your future, although he says you may always caQ upon him for, pecuniary as- sistance." A draft for $500 was in- closed with the letter.
 Graydon was relieved to find that there would be no irksome delay at tending his official discharge. When he walked out free man," as he called it, a gentlemanly pension attor- ney locked arms with him and hung on like leech until the irrftated soldier shook him off with less consideration than yigor.
 He went directly to the Palace hotel, where he knew the Gables were stop ping. David Gable came down in re- sponse to his card The two men shook hands, each eying the other inquiringiy for an instant.
 ~I want you to understand, Graydon, that am your friend Nothing has al- tered my esteem for you"
 Thank you. MT. Cable. hardly ex- pected it."
 'T don't see why, my boy. But we'll let ali that pass. Mrs. Gable wants to see you"
 Before we go any farther want to make myself clear to you. still hope to marry Jane. She says she cannot hecoxee uTv xptfe Yox understand why sir. only want to tell you that her objections are not objections to me. She is Jane. and love her, sir, be cause she fs."
 '1 hope you can win her over, Gray don. She seems determined, however, and she is unhappy. You can't blame l her, either. If there were base or com mon blood in her, it wouldn't make l much difference to her pride. But she's made of other material. She's serious about 1t, and am sensible enough to get her point of view. She wouldn't | want to marry you with the prospect of an eternal shadow that neither of l you could get off of your minds. l sometimes wish that knew who were her parents"
 "It doesn't matter, so far as ana | 
 "I know, my boy. You'll never know how it hurt me to find that I had no daughter. It hurts her worse thou