The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-06-01

I said. and want to be trained TO
speak in public"
The secretary regarded her atten-
lively Women came TO her from an
KINDS OF motives. restlessness. ambi-
uon. curiosity as TO the new ideas
abroad i'm the world-a rare minority
from actual enthusiasm and devotion
10 the cause. Felice she placed in
the majority. she has something -
she thought, that she wishes to for
get
DO YOU know much about us and
what we are doing. Miss Burton?"
Feltce confessed her ignorance
AND YOU want to speak in public
Tor uS-after you're somewhat ac-
quainted with the subject?" the sec
rotary said. a smile fitting over her
race. She had grave doubts OF Miss
burtons htneSS for the work. but
otherwise she was most desira BILE ac-
QUESTION. A young and beautiful girl
with her life before her, made a mag
nettc medium for the dissemination
or the clubs ideals. Too often the
women who undertook the work were
disappointed people who had failed
or their natural destiny.
want especially to speak i'm pub
lie. Felice said.
You're very young to do that"
4 should like to try"
She would oppose her father in a
direction equally diStasteful to him.
yet she knew that in doing so she
was not acting the better part. She
tod herself. in eNtenuation of her con-
uuct. that she Was in search of knowI-
edge, clear and hard and irrefutable
since certain blessed dreamy wis
dom had ben taken from her This
would fill up at least the time of wait
lng-tc her young Imagination end
less and hopeless.
QUIZ have to read and study for
he
pretty big subject But / can give
YOU some books which present a con-
denSed account of the movement and
Of what il stands for"
I'll take them now"
The secretary brought some VOL
umes, laid them on a table and left
her to examine them. She began res
olutely. but her mind soon wandered
to Robert. What were these theories
OF woman's place in the universe to a
girl in love,
Hugh Burton, watching his daugh-
ter from the remote distance to which
MS denial of her romance had ban
lshed him. was both bewildered and
ANXIOUS. She was always deferential
always courteous. ItJ she went
through her days alike .l.- i'm a dream
AS the winter wore an me grew pale
and languid. more than ever like a
Hover whose roots are not deeply in
the ground. Her appearance worried
MN greatly. remem bering the early
age at which her mother had died
sometimes he had serious doubts of
his position. In the watches of the
night he trcmbled towards surrender
Robert Underwood'S face haunted
nm. II seemed TO him that the faith
er mad come back to him in the son
to argue against the old unsettled
questions
He discovered that Felice spent
long hours away from home engaged
M some work, the nature of which
she did not reveal to him. Ordinarily
ne would have demanded of her an
account of these a absences, but the fear
or OVERRIDING the matter of his author
ltN restrained him. He never for a
moment suspected her Of meeting
kobert or communicating with him
she had given her word. and he knew
that she would keep il faithfully.
one April day he was going home
earlier than usual to ask her to ac-
company him on a drive through the
park. when, glancing at his evening
paper. he saw a paragraph that Rich
ard Underwood had died suddenly of
heart failure that morning at his city
residence.