The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-11-25

u hihsCo VIM hhduC thCI ihOhty "a
fertilizing material having anything to
do with Bart Keith. You know how
they snubbed u.s."
Eyes, indeed / do, and I'm waiting
for the time to come when / can get
even with them"
up with Bart?"
II don't know, Name, unless you
have the same power you used to have
over him."
Name cast a glance in mirror Art
had done a great deal for her since she
waited on the railroad men her mother
fed in their days of poverty. Nothing
that money could buy was now denied
her. But she knew Bart Keith well.
He had loved her in calico, and to
love her in costly fabrics must excite
sn entirely new sensation. Besides, he
was in the swim at Newport, where he
would meet the finest costumes in
America, to say nothing Of the women
they incased. To make matters worse,
she had cut him.
NiothSi, ShC Soio, Il DClcNc. 4 ~
write him line saying I've heard Of
his being in Newport and telling him
we're here. ThatIl look as If we
hadn't seen him on the avenue"
"Do you think he'd tumble to it?"
The girl pondered awhile, then ad-
mitted that she knew very well he
would; their eyes had met and there
had been a mutual recognition. She
dare not write the note.
But one morning she received note
from Keith. He told her that, having
heard she was at Newport, he had
come on from the west to find her. But
time had made great changes for both
of them and he did not doubt she was
following course which seemed in
viting to her in her new sphere. He
shrank from parting with her without
letting her know that he had kept the
boyish promises made years ago. He
refrained from mentioning the cut she
had given him, but it was evident 1t
was this that had tuEaed him from
her. He closed his epistle with the
WOlu ldItWtll, SnC hlCW thdt
he had passed beyond recall.
. For time the Murphys heard that
Keith was being introduced under the
wing of the Forbes. Then they began
to hear his name mentioned among the
people and in the society notes indie
of his introducers, and it
was not long before they learned that
which travels on the wings Of the
wind. Keith was rich. He had be-
come interested in certain western
speculations with Mr. Forbes and the
two had made money together. Then
came rumor that Keith was to marry
Miss Alice Forbes.
Up to this time the Murphys had
merely wondered. Now they were
And over Mary Murphy
came wave Of regret. 1t was not
for the loss of Barton Keith's wealth
or position; it was for Keith himself.
The prize they sought for and for
which she had snubbed the lover OF
her young girlhood every day seemed
further from her grasp. Despite their
l1ililOnS, tuc Muip hyo iouhu IL III
possible to effect an entrance into
Newport society. Mary had become
to wealth, and it failed to
satisfy her. She was hungry for the
boyish love that had been hers in
poverty, but she had thrown it away.
The report that Keith was to marry
Miss Alice Forbes proved true. When
the engagement was formally an
nounced the Murphys read in the So
siety columns of New York news
paper story concerning the contract
ing parties that gave them the key
to the situation. 1t told how Mr.. and
Mrs. Forbes and their daughter were
in the Rocky mountains, how
4 stage driver fell asleep, how q young
man who had been formerly handler
Of the ribbons saved the passengers
from death, how Mr., Forbes had taken
him up and enab"ft him to make a
But the = t.y did not tell the
most important feah1 tte that had led to
he union-a young girl seeing an act
If cool bravery on the part of young
nan.
The wedding Of Barton Keith and
Alice Forbes was not celebrated with
hat splendOr usual to nuptials in the
world. 1t was said that
his was in Difference to the wishes Of
he groom, who bore the reputation
If being an extremely modest man.
lie devoted himself to business, his
,nly recreation being driving fourth
lands, and this was supposed to be in
memory of>experiences Of former days.
Mother" said Mary Murphy one
lay, 81 have a PLAN"
What is it, Manner
1--WE can't break through the shell Of
his Newport egg. We must go else
where"
where shall we go?'
ITO London"
"Good gracious, daughter! II we
ant succeed here, how can we do so
mong the British nobility"
i"Others who have failed here have
ucceeded there. Leave it to me.
Honey, dear mother, is the power that |
pens doors wherever money is need |
I'll. These British mobiles are getting |
'oor. Our people are, getting rich.
iany here have always been rich, and |