Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-29

slow, ponderous strides which made no sound on the
carpet.
Amarillo presentation clock on the mantel shelf licked
off the moments, and from the street outside the
dull roar of traffic All his life the ironmaster had
worked in turmoil When he spoke again. his voice
held another note The Earring strife of it had died out.
With instructive desire to respect his emotion Hes
keith fixed his eyes the bronze figure of Labor.
After seven days acquaintance, Mr. Hesketh you
easily enough to ask me for my only child have
watched her and guarded her for nineteen years
We have hardly ever been separated. Her birth cost
me my wife, and at first l refused to the child |
away from it all with burning of resent
ment my loss sullenly alone. And one night,
his voice grew hoarse across the awful loneliness
seemed to hear the baby hers and mine crying to
and came back We have been all in all to each other
for nineteen years. until his strongly marked features
contracted and hardened again. until you came
you who haven't notion of what life really means,
who have just skated airy the surface, blind to
in your life taken interest in those who work
hoped she had enough of her father in her to for
with ideas beyond sport and entertainments
He pulled up short in front of Hesketh and eyed him
up and down with grudging glance. And the pity OF
it is that you're strong well built manly with the looks
that women set store by. And you're nothing but
well bred loafer, after ALL
HESKETH had reached the end of his tether He
sprang up, passionately angry his control flying
to the winds "You have had your say, in all
science and for Mans sake I've borne it. Now is
turn! knew you to be hard its the outcome.
l suppose of your life-but looked for some kind of
under him. But no, you narrow, like many of your
kind. You've risen to power by tramplng on other
people; you have set up Labor as god, and those
who won't fall down and worship with you you have
no call for You had the great incentive Need to spurn
you on. There's nothing like it for nerving man,
he's got to work or he's got to go under + you'd been
a rich mans son. you might have been different prob
ably much pleasanter to deal with. You grind your
people you interfere with the existence Of those under
you. You want to spoil the happiness of the daugh
you profess to love. She takes secondary place.
This with passionate forefnger he indicated the
bronze figure, this is your fetish, not Mani
Taken out of himself, Heslseth walled to the
hearth. He had momentarily forgotten his errand::
Now the face of the girl he loved before him and
checked his words eyes, the soft curve Of the lips
his own had touched last night lie had failed her!
Balamaine not the to forgive such plain speak
ing He ought to have tried diplomatic means He
stood and went to the chair that held his hat
and stick His face looked suddenly Oder more de-
termined. He hated the inlexible adversary with
whom he had just measured steel. He would have Nan
in spite of him!
RALANIAINE from his big leather revolving chair
= watched him. Suddenly he leaned nearer, his eyes
cleaning under shaggy brows. That's the plainest