The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-10
Fly VIRGINIA BLAIR,
Copyright, 1911, by Associated
Literary Press


Literary Press
Back Of the Martins new bungalow
was terraoed garden with rose Dor.
ders and a fountain at the end, In
the very center Of the garden stood IA
snndial, around the pedestal of which
The dark -leaved ivy chung.
The Martins had made their moues
in patent medicine. Their so-called
bungalow Was palace. and they
kept six servants In the bottom OF
her heart Mrs. Martin would have
preferred a six-roomed cottage. with
one maid TO do the heavy work. She
VAS a round. rosy. healthy minded
woman. who liked 10 cook and scrub,
and who was distinctly bored by her
magnificence. Her husband was
bored also, but he did ii because he
had really made his money against
her advice. She had feared that they
might lose their happiness. when they
gained fortune, and she had not
eeen far from the truth.
Their daughter. Angela was like
her mother. In spite of her ethereal
name, she wsxed round and rosy as
she grew into Young wonanhood
She was domestic in her tastes and
would have made an excellent wife
for poor man.
But her father had made m hts
mind that she should not marry "a
poor man. Hence. when suitors
came to WOO, he selected an amhi-
s.ous young man, who knew that
Angela's money. united To his own
income, would make him a power In
The financial world
angela rebelled in vain. She had
her own ideas about the man she
wanted to marry. On the other sida
81 the hedge at the foot OF the Rsrdar.
was little stefan. and here. ever,
oar in midsummer. came a certain
youth. on fishing bent Perhaps tho
stream would not have held as much
charm for him IL ne had not know
mat Angela vas on the other side
of the hedge.
The two young people had beer,
classmates at school, but the Mar
TINS interesting fortune had takep
Angela into more fashiona6Is o..
roundings- During her years at
ffafding school she had been shut
away from the friends Of her ahtld
noe1. but when she came back fo her
nome town she showed herself ron
s.aht 10 her youthful companions
iter father objected strenuously.
slite lam at+trst mat II was
sni.s Waen John West lshed In the
seia' rVery day when she eonlti slim
N'e Wy VINE Tshe could slip
a~ar she spent on the ~3tha,, -4;e.s ~
tne hedge ready TO run bae Into bar
a~n garden at the slightest warning
ne aaFs that she could not come
sae tucked note into a certsff, min.
IN the carved sundial. from which
JAnD Wast- reaching over -fh.. he5lra
distracted H. go
80 II happened that the st1ndia1
hhe" all the secrets az the uair =,
'tsaro their vows as they sat in the
.sa OF the hedge, and IL kai,t
pocket of stone.
ne plans Of the young counle far
the future included a modest cor,
rage IN distant town. There uas
70 he garden but not 81 tarracnd
Safaeh- with flowers in it, Th.v wer.
10 raise vegetables and keen a COW
All or Angela's instincts we're Of tha
country bred. She had heard ber
'hotheF tel ~ tho first DAYS OF her
married life and ~ the joy thora had
peen ~ their humble home
fhfher wants me To marr,. a man
mio money Angela told her lover,
hnf j won't ! WON'T"
There is Only one trouble 1oh,,
said slowly: "everybody's sojng Vs.
mink that / am marrying Won far
your money Even II I don't axe i,
sna u We live on my income. thew
time" - swine
II he would only cut US Off with
out a penny" said Angela I'm. moth
81 won't lat him Do that because she
y afraid I wifi suffer"
Yap can see II YOU cannot tsik her
OYER John advised. Il do ngt want
- .. -.nown as fortune hunter.