Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-04

It's possible that | should have Jared
poorly in college: my disposition was al
ways. even when a boy. TO brush away
details and seek the broader view.
think I owe my success in life to that
the ability to climb upon the hills and
See the lights afar Off
He stirred his coffee with the care We
give In our ease to unimportant things.
IIe was satisfied with himself and the
world: when he spoke she felt as though
she were eavesdropping upon reverie.
1T is a great joy to have YOU here by
my side-the house has Frightened since
you came. If only Wayne would take the
place to which he was born in the com
munity ! should not have a care.
But Wayne is doing we'll: j thought
you said yourself that he was attending
very regularly at the office. that lie had
really begun TO take an interest in ousl-
ness"
/ Hes boy of moods, poor Wayne,
Just row he's going to the office every
! day. His cleverness is amazing when ne
applies himself: but let new kind OF
motor catch his eye and off he goes. tie
/ struck a new humOr lately-devoting him
| self to the study Of lot of most compil'
/ Gated legal matters-contracts and the
! like. Such things are best left to the
( lawyers But he has kept straight fol
some time and that's something. It's q
! good deal and I'm grateful for it. ] have
always let him do as he pleased at tine
Office in the hope that he would some da!
J find something that interested him.
I Hes very bright-and likable. said
! Mrs. Craighill. Fanny says he's a
genius
Fanny can see no wrong in her BROTH
| er. and I'm glad of it: but she has kept
! NE ignorant of many of his worst esca
! pades and have simply never been able
/ to get near him. We are very unlike
Isn't that strange! I've been thinking
! that in so many ways YOU and he are
much alike.
Physically. yes; he has my build.
rather fancy that I'm still as erect as ht
! isl
/ He smiled ard waited for her acquies'
/ cence but she had peen thinking intenti1
and did not at once meet his eyes.
| They had rarely spoken OF Wayne: il
could hardly be said that they avoided
mentioning him: but his life WAS outside
theirs. his sleeping in the house aud eat
| ing one meal a day with them left him Z
! tolerated tenant whose WAYS it were wise
! not to question Mrs. CraiEhlll observed
with interest that her husband seemed
willing to take credit for his sons ad
Inirable physical proportions. but that hi:
! patcrnal pride stopped there. Her atti
| tude toward her husband was so wholly
sympathetic tonight that she saw Wayne
! with his eyes. 1t must, indeed. be &
/ grievous thing TO have lived an honorable
| life, to have made a place for ones self
and to find both name and position
brought low by a prof1igate son.
RAINY IL VEL HAPPY t'htt i'he' W.
Craigfil John is splendid fellow
steady rs a rock and with high ideals
! \ woman like Fanny needs such mar
| to check her eXuberances."
! ooh. she's most delightful and she ha:
, certainly been kind to me- She Nigh
have made it hard for me if she hat
wanted to-
! "Oh, she's kind smiled Col. Craighill
though his tone implied that allowance:
must be made for Fanny. There's {
good deal of the Wayne in her. just a,
there is in her brother He shook hi.
! head and sighed. AS they left the dining
! room her husband placed his arm abou
her. These limitations of his secret feel
| ing toward his children seemed to have
knit her closer into his life: she felt the
ground solder under her feet. She wa!
not without her sensibiities. and she haC
| rea lized that q second wife does not a
once wear her new robes easily. It is a:
! though she bhndered upon a stage whose
scene has been set by another hand. II,
| mechanism. it's lights, its exits are un
familiar She is haunted by the dread ri
missing her cue and of hearing A ghostlJ
prompfers voice hooking her off stage.
| II have just been rewriting my will
| and have taken pains to eliminate, sc
far as human foresight can do so. the
possibility of any trouble when ] an
gone. You will have many years beyond
my expectation Of life and want nothing
TO mar them. 1t will he unnecessary fol
YOU TO deal with my children in any way
/ have designated o,lr strongest trus
company-a concern in which have Ion;
been director--to administer the estate
OF course ! hope your relations with my
i children VIII always continue 1rlendiS
but it is best not to mingle family inter
ests i'm such a case. And pow'-he rub
bed his han6s~ toget her, a. though freeing
himself Of every carc-'HoW we may us