The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05
THE FARMER: DECEMBER 5, 1910

So what Is the useT
 "But you wish to do as your father asks you, DoraT said Fullerton, with as much gentleness as he could put into his voice.
 "Under ordinary circumstances should not think of doing anything else but what he asks me, but I am weary of being told that I have noth ing but the most despicable traits, and I want to live my life as see it.''
 vavin moved over to where the girl sat and took her hand soothingly. Her father, he explained. had asked Judge Elliott and himself to spend the week end with him that they might help hel by their advice and suggestion The girls eyes filled with tears "a he gently endeavored to show her that there was not the opposition to her plans that she believed.
 T am here, my dear child as much as your friend as I am here as a friend of your father. Let us talk the matter over."
 The girl declared that she was weary. "Let me go," she said. "and you fight it out among yourselves "You." and she took vavin's hand be tween her own-"you, know. are my friend, and if you decide that should not take this part in Mir. Holcomb's play then I won't do It."
 Spoken like a sensible girl" said UnIllo%< o~A nx,o~ rr,n~v<n~ (oy% with that attitude the matter was practically disposed of. L
 "It is very fortunate," said Judge Elliott when Dora had left the room ''that you have this Influence over her as I am afraid she has come to feel that the rest. of us are not sympa. thetic."
 "Are you? ?'' asked vavin.
 Fullerton and Elliott looked at him with surprise.
 You are both affectionate, but are you sympathetic to her mood? Do you put yourself inside of the young girls mindr Arc you once again young yourselves, with the wide world be- fore you as a wonder book r
 "Then you sympathize with this CT. ratio desire?"
 "Erratic for judge" replied vavin ''erratic for professor, cratic, may. be, for an author with gray mus. tache. But for young girl with beauty, with heart, with imagina- tion, with fire, with sensibility, that is not necessarily erratic.'
 "You encourage her, then r said Full. lerton, beginning to doubt the provi dential quality of Vavin's interposi ton. fae
 "I don't know. What is better?''
 The judge tried to explain to him that in America persons connected with the theater did not receive the social recognition accorded them in I France and went over much the same ground as they had covered the night before at the dinner table. q am afraid" said Fullerton, who had walked up to the closet in the library and taken therefrom an oak box, "that we are wasting a great deal of time. had hoped when you came here, NJ vavin, that you would give Dora the advice that had suggested. You are apparently h sympathy with her, and this makes 1t necessary for me to tell yo1 something which no, even you, judge, had suspected. The money that enables us to live here"- with sweep of his hand he indicated the comfor table surroundings-t'a pro fessorship, as you can imagine, would hardly support us-is the interest upon . fund in trust. mention this be cause if the property were my owr my first thought in this situation would not be of that. But must pro tect what hold in trust, and only my proper heirs can inherit 1t. This leads me to tell you something that is knowr only to myself and my sister. Dora ii not my daughter" Elliott stared blankly at him, while vavin, whose ironic calm @had ono. been referred to as institutional. turn cd first white. then red, while hi' hands twitched nervously. "Ceci est absolutement vraiw he ex claimed.
 'sI knew 1t would surprise you both, said Fullerton, "and hated to tell 1t because love the girl as much for hel mothers sake as for her own. Hel mother left me because of my opposi ton to her going to France to stud. music. She obtained divorce iron me, and I heard nc more from her fo two years, when her own people. th' Wilfords, brought her body back t America with a four-weeks-old baby Dora"
 ..she had married againr' said El Holt.
 | Fullerton hesitated. then spoke wit evident pain
 sThe records in France report tn l mother as Mime. Fullerton. Som
 sconndrel deceived her into believin
 she was his wife. can only thinl l that
 "I should be very slow to believe, | said vavin, with some show of emo ton, .'that the mother of this beau tiful girl was not good woman.
 ''She died at Montigny, you say? said Vavin after a pause.
 Mol did not say so," said Fuller
 ton. looking at him in surprise, "bu l that is fact. She left no statemen
 other than that she wished the chil
 to be brought up by her people. Blu
 persuaded them to let me have her.