El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-26

and Mallory went to lodge with the
family At that time he was twenty
six years old.
1t was nearly two years after his in
stallation as member of the family
for the O'Briens treated him as son.
and he who never had known the COM
fort of having some one TO look after
him returned their interest in him with
a regard that was little less than affec-
tionate-when Patricia came into his
life. She arrived at the Christmas holt
day time. Her parents had never wea-
ried of extolling their Patsy. as they
called her. but she proved TO be entire
~ different from what he had pictured
her. A pretty. slender girl. piquant.
wide awake. full of fun and with an
extraordinary vocabulary Of New York
slang. she transformed the whole
household with the joy she diffused
from the minute of her arrival
Mallory soon found that back of her
liveliness and fun loving disposition
she possessed large capacity for dis
cernment and common sense. which
had been quickened by the sophistica-
ton furnished by her experience in the
metropolis.
Patsy made up her mind that NAL
lory was the one man in the world for
her and that she would marry him.
But the meal table conversation had
enlightened her as TO the views he had
entertained, and she sympathiZed to
a large extent with his logic. for she
was every bit as ambitious for him as
he was for himself. Therefore when
at last the. telling of the Oldest and
sweetest story ever uttered by human
lips had made her his and the happiest
girl in all the world. and be urged her
to name the day and make it soon,
finding in his joyful eagerness as many
cogent reasons in favor of this course
as formerly he had adduced against it,
she placed her hand IN his and. gazing
at him with the glory of her happiness
shining in her eyes and with an into
nation of love tenderness that would
have Invested her speech of any incon-
gruity even to an Unconditional listener.
said:
mo, Dan. There amt no SPAWN on
my interleck. and / amt the girl to
put kinks in your ambition. TN name
the day. all right. all right. when you
have a stable of your own-not before"
But pleaded Mallory ruefully,
there amt no prospect of me getting
a stable of me own as can see"
you'll get it one of these days I'M
less I've sized you up wrong" she as
sured him.
a few months after her return to
New York the family were startled by
a bombsheil in the shape of letter
from Patsy announcing that she had
left Nine. Elises owing TO a quarrel
with the bookkeeper and gone on the
stage. To say that her parents were
Mortified is to put it mildly.
Her parents summoned her home per
emptorily. and she came and had 1t
out with them. She explained her de-
parture from the milliner's and her en-
trance into the theatrical profession in
this wise:
Il couldn't stand for the bookkeep;
but. SEEM he was head hand holder for
madame. it made it kinder embarrassin'.
an | took the exit without bluefoots
or tremolo music Me carryin home
hats to the girls at the Casino got me
real intimate with 'em. an when L
was down an out they SEE, WHATS
the matter with breakin' into the show
TT7n A. L
there with a smile an a shape-1 90
say it as shouldn't-that got me tniru
from the end in short order. Of course
now the bookkeep's married madame
an is maxim book at the track Things
nd be. different, but I'm in the sho"
business for keeps"
Mallory. driven to desperation. went
SO far as to cast the first SHADE" on
the sun bathed horizon of their DiiSS py
intimating that he feared II "ouiu De
all over between them If she hsisteu
On going on the stage.
"What are you afraid off, she de-
manded quietly.
"Well," he replied. with some neslta-
ton and embarrassment, i've neereu
tell that the stage amt no place TOT no
good girl"
She looked him straight In the eyes
Daniel Mallory" she said, cut mat
out and forget it. Remember. we're
goin' to spiel through life together
You've got to trust me for good an all
trust me without string to it-in
all places an all things. You've got 10