New-York tribune., 1910-11-13

carload OF officials. There had been some change.
parts to design, and he kept his force working
night and day put q machine together time to
the road requirements. They offered him nine
thousand dollars q and if that successful
would order Il hundred more. Gar1OttS motor com
pete could be made for thousand dollars. 4
eighteen hundred dollars build, and that left him
profit Of six thousand hundred thousand #
he filled the whole contract. He had letters too from
traction companies IN other cities and the possibilities
for money making seemed limitess.
r. was It irving summer. For weeks at a time the
mercury hung in the ninetes. But occasionally
breeze blew IN from the sea giving those who We're
The work hard, and, stripped to undershirt and
overals like his Garriott delved in the shop amid
the smoke and flying cinders from the forge. He
in training again hard nails, without an ounce OF
flesh that he didn't need II things had not been going
50 well. perhaps he might nave known now hot 1t Vae:
but he eager TO bnng his last tests to successful
conclusion that he unconscious OF the conditions
under which he worked He knew that he sWeated
profusely; but that nothing 1t made the
shower bath a the end Of the working day the
refreshing
At night he was often alone, His room, while less
sumptuous than his quarters at the Grange at least
more pleasant than the one he had shared with
McNIurtrie at the Taylor House and when he
tired write read he was glad enough to tumble into
bed. Sometimes he took Dowd 10 roof garden
where they and smoked and often worked again
in a different way the problems Of the day. Once
twice he had called up college who in bu~-
ness in the city and had gone theater and the cafes,
but these We're disspations which made him want TO
sleep late III the morning and rule he preferred to
for the task he had set himself.
\ dozen times in the solitude Of his room he had sat
pen and paper hand, trying To- nnd words TO write TO
Natalie; but each effort had ended in the basket
What was there to saw He had strong impression
that his duty Abby demanded some of expana
ton of his own conduct which might exonerate her
But nothing that he could think of seemed really
plain, and the letter uuWrtcn. After all, per
haps il was better So If their relations had i'm
proved when they seeing each other letter that
he could write could be expected to accomplish the
miracle
Often on those nights when he weary sleep
and his tired brain was at the mercy OF ms lnaglnat1on
he would lie awake until dawn trying to find way out
and then every byway of the mental maze seemed to
lead to the one thoroughare divorce There was no
other solution Of their difcultic5. Once twice
the Grange he had ancied that perhaps ii would still
be possible win her himself; but he had given
I'D In those dark moments the bitterness of his pO-
eition set him at war with himself and all the world
for he realized that every effort master himself had
failed and that spite of all prudence and intuition he
loved his wife more than Was there cure?
Apparently not He loved her for what She ought to
be- for the fruits of the spirit that still hung upon the
tree would rpen, and for brief glmpses he had
been afforded of tender Womanly virtues IN her treat
ment OF others which appeared more lovely by con-
trast her uncharity to him.
He made no effort to deny his jealousy OF De Land.
De Land had been taught in courts Garuott-ln
camps He possessed every grace that Iarrlott lacked
Garrott wondered if he had met De Land elsewhere,
whether his Judgment OF the man would nave not been
different It was hard to say. He had never yet made
friends with of De Land kind. Perhaps marriage
with Natalie might make Il OF h1n; marriage some
times improved of his type Although She was not
be for him, Garriott seemed To have curious haIt
fatherly interest in her future happiness.
And yet he could feel that ne giving her up.
One could give up what had never possessed.
All he had given her his name; lent 1t to her that
together they might take dead man money ana cheat
the Fate that had destined them both for poverty He
l.tr r,.l. To