The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-03

against man TO whom he had al
lowed himself to become so ndebt-
ed. lie certainly would not have
acted as Perry had. He would have
investigated. proved his point, over.
come the circumstances which seem
ed to battle him. Why wasn't Per
ry more persistent? To be sure he
he had seemed to most deliberately
avoid Perry, but Perry could easily
have found out where he was ana
what he was doing from Gold smith
n Eikns. He wondered If he was
right in his conjecture that Perry
had not mailed that letter. He even
wrote to the hotel i'm Warsaw, and
asked them to forward any possible
mail None was forthcoming from
that source, but he had received a
handsomely cngrossed set of leSC-
mtons Of thanks from the directors
of the Warsaw Street Railway,
through Goldsmith a. Elkins He
threw It in the waste paper basket.
which showed that he was not yet
quite himself and then h" fishcd
it out again and hung it on the
wall. which showed that he was re-
covering At this period he was al
tcrnatng between fits OF hope and
despair, belief in himself and utter
abicct misery. Like many another
high strung man. able to take hold
Of situation and accomplish re-
suits with tremendous burst of
energy. the reaction left him de-
spondeut and utterly incapable of
I Ia D.. 1 ..uH
"A hopeless failure. He began to go
out for HUE walks about the square,
and read some of the trashy litcra-
turc which Goldsmith recommended.
/ but the weather was cid, and the
trashy literature quickly pallcd. In
tho luxury of his solitude ne wrote
some very bad poetry, Of which
the heroine always had indescriba'
BILE blue or purple eyes. But the
main point was that they We're in
descrihablc. and he VAS trying 10
describe them. The waste paper bds.
kct received more contributions.
Then one day. SUDDENLY came the
glorious Indian summer. without
warning it came, all out Of season
i'm the early spring when the final
winter blizzard was still on its way
to New York. Startled buds peepci
out on the trees IN Washington
Square, The park benches We're tax
cn out OF the fountain, and work
men We're put into il To do tn,
mysterious things tD the sprayinl
apparatus which would soon be
spouting merrily Children-the chill
dren to whom Chester had given
his hurdy gurdy poured ~
oi Thompson aud Third Street
and the toeming tenement distric
behind them. Chester awOke on'
morning, with "A soft warm Win'
blowing across his face, 10 find th'
world very different place. Iii
first impulse was 10 go o the OF
flee. but every time he had calle,
, up Goldsmith on the phone the lat
ter had Curtly hidden him To kee
away longer He looked out Of hi
window and caught a sight If tn
p imperial OF the numbering, creaky
oldfashiOned Fifth Avenue stage
\ sudden desire for space, fre,
dom. the open air, was arouse
within him. He would go on IN
stage up to Central Park. and be
D little boy again. He would look a
S the menagerie, and feed peanuts
such of the animals as affected tina
diet What were they? He felt sur
u OF the monkeys, but had a yagu
r recollection Of feeding peanuts
[ some other four-fu3ted animal. Wha
!. vas II? On, yes, the elephant, FC
the first time in many days Che
ter laughed aloud at the absurdit
OF the contract.
t lie climbed on the lofty imperi'