The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-10-30

band must have been a brute. She had to leave him.
But she complains. She's game, all right The
Stutsmans say the way she met 1t was splendid"
Dr Richel did not comment He was thinking of
the lavender sewing silk.
'1ts to be hoped somebody Will be able % make mp
her day for all she's suffered the boy said
as he went off
The physician continued his way home He
shook his wise old head.
II don't suppose a ever lived who at Joey's
age didn't want to make it up to older
than hlmself-a widow, nine times out of ten, with
at least one child" a chuckle slipped out of his
throat MY widow had tbree"
He looked back at the old RIttenhouse home 1t
the only In town that pretended to stateli-
ness. How admirably it fitted Joey.s mother The
physician could her there in her eOrucr ..h lcr
flowers. He could her in the honey old living
room. He could her everywhere about the house.
And he could not endure to Mrs Pcrcy1ed there,
even in his Imagination, The very idea of it hurt
him. He knew how her presence would hurt his old
frleno Mary Rittenhousc. And to think of those
unmannerly youngsters being turned loose in such
place! 1t unthnkable!
A light streaming from a softly curtaIned window
the street attracted his attention and he
nberatcly went lie mad no intention OF pryinG,
but he certainly stopped and strained his eyes through
the dusk at the girl who sat inside the embrod
erlnG roses a piece of white linen, Now she
worked feverlshly now dropped her work and sat
staring absently into space the toe OF her shoe stir
ring the hem Of her gown. She fresh coored,
cleonly cut young person with no more pretence than
the flower she embroidered than her simple gown
Itself AS he looked Mt her he thought Of what Electra
McCulum had said about hers-"A painter a sculp
tor would choose Min The pure profile OF her face
reminded him of the faces Of ivory and of marble
had
He sighed He knew the world well He knew
youth and it's easy impressionsm He knew the
chance girl like this would have against the
who had come adventurlng among them
When he reached home he did not go into the house
at once, but sat down little bench beneath the
walnut tree lie had planted Gfty years before. He
leaned his head against the trunk and stared up at
the clouds
II took him a long time to go to sleep that night
and then be dreamed of the eternal triangle of the
and two At breakfast he dis
traught. His face showed It's anxiety. He picked
absently at his fish balls.
What in the world have you got on your mind
father1' his daughter lnlnw inquired when chill.
dren had finished their breakfast and her husband
had left the table.
The physician and pushed back his chair.
There twinkle left I'm his keen old eyes. They
hurassed.
i've got Dresden shcpherdesscs." he said
The Expedient
He was doing up powders for Lizzy Wilson when
be had his idea. 1t to him like a fash. and he
could hardly walt to get Wilson out of the office. The
instant he was gone he grabbed his old felt hat and
went OF at trot down the hill toward Electra Nc
Culum's-
Electra was on her knees before Mrs Percyheld's
dress form,
She looked around It at him he appeared start
llDgly In her inner door
Mercy! What is t2' she mumbled about a mouth
ful Of pins.
lie sat down, painting. He was scventyonc; you
do not go up hill or come down 1t at seyenty-oDe
without feeling It
I've thought OF way to save Joey Rittenbouse
II you'll help me-" he said
"Ill do anything" said she, but don't you try TO
tell me about 1t for minute l got some OF that
cherry shrub liked 80 well last year I'll get it,
She whlsked out OF the and into II again with a
tall thin glass on tray Take It,, she commanded,
"and If Marina scoIds you let her Twont do you any
harm
He took 1t with chucklnG laugh. aud she sat