Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1910-11-12

other people. | can't imagine those
Perkinses who made their money in
fertilizing material having anything to
do with Bart Keith. You know how
they snubbed us"
Yes, indeed do. and I'm waiting
for the time to come when | can get
even with them"
"But, mother. how are we to fix it
up with Bart?"
81 don't know, Name. unless you
have the same power you used to have
over him"
Name cast a glance in L EurrOr. 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
iove her in costly fabrics must excite
an 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.
Mother" she said, II believe I'll
write him line saying I've heard of
his being in Newport and telling him
we're here. Thatll LOOK as if we
hadn't seen him on the avenue"
do you think he'd tumble to itT'
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 n course which seemed in
vitng 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 1t was evident it
was this that had turned him from
her He closed his epistle with the
word farewell" and she knew that
he had passed beyond recall.
For a 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
pendently of his introducers, and 1t
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 a rumor that Keith was to marry
Miss Alice Forbes.
Up to this time the Murphys had
merely wondered. Now they were
astonished. And over Mary Murphy
came a 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
millions, the Murphys found it i'm
possible to effect an entrance into
Newport society. Mary had become
accustomed to wealth. and 1t failed to
satisfy her She was hungry for the
boyish love that had been hers In
poverty, but she had thrown 1t 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 q New York news
paper a 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
travelling in the Rocky mountains, how
a stage driver fell asleep, how young
man who had been formerly handler
of the ribbons saved the passengers
from death, how Mr.. Forbes had taken
him up and enabled him to make
fortune. But the story did not tell the
most important feature that had led to
the union-a young girl seeing an act
of cool bravery on the part Of young
man.
The wedding of Barton Keith and
Alice Forbes was not celebrated with
that splendor usual to nuptials In the
fashionable world. 1t was said that
this was in Difference to the wishes OF
the groom. who bore the reputation
of being an extremely modest man.
He devoted himself to business, his
only recreation being driving four-in-
hands, and this was supposed to be in
memory of experiences of former days.
"Mother," said Mary Murphy one
day, 81 have a plan"
What is it, Mame?"
1--WE can't break through the shell of
this Newport egg We must go else
where"
Where shall we goT
ITO London"
Good gracious, daughter! If we
can't succeed here. how can we do so
among the British nobility?"
"Others who have failed here have
succeeded there. Leave it to me.
Money, dear mother, is the power that
opens doors wherever money is need
full These British mobiles are getting
poor. Our people are getting rich.
Many here have always been rich, and
some care nothing about becoming
richer. In England commoners have
been getting rich, while the mobiles
have been getting poor. Noblemen