Arizona republican., 1911-10-22
THE NAN
WHO THOUGHT
BY pONAL HAMILTON HAINES.
Copyright. 1910. by the Pearson Pub
fishing company.

III q oupicuc cuOll W tucCl HIS way
ward sons redemption, despatched hin
on a six-months' trip around the
world, he made a long speech in {
voice that was almost feminine in its
tenderness. and gave him a slip of pa
per on which, penned in the bold pa
ternal hand, were three "don'ts":
Don't cable for more money!" Don't
borrow!" Don't buy what you can't
pay fori"
Obedience to these, owing to the
generous figures on his letter of credit
the young man had found far less diff.
cult than adherence to certain princi
pies. involving the overthrow OF BE-
setting habits which, though implied
in the gentle parental address, had
been neither written nor put into di,
rectly spoken words. But there came
a time, at length. when all the world,
save the Atlantic Ocean, was behind
him, as we're most of his faults as
well, when those "don'ts" rose like
so many formidable giants, and de-
clared: Thus far, and no farther"
And if in the stress of their overcoming
a possibly ill-disciplined conscience
failed utterly to make protest, and the
nicer scruples never so much as lifted
a warning finger. who shall say that
familiarity with some of the modern
methods of high finance in general,
and of his fathers methods in par
ticular, was not largely responsible for
his seeming moral obliquity?
A lesson grew out of the episode. at
all events; and under a new and up
lifting stimulus, he But to begin
at the beginning:
Young David Farragut Fultener
reached London with three hundred
pounds sterling to his credit at
Browns. He was so proud of this evil
dence of rare financial management,
that, on his third day in the British
capital, he drew it. A portion of it,
he decided, should be devoted to the
purchase of a few delayed presents
for certain dear folk in America.
Then his passage was to be provided
for, and his far from immodest bill at
the Carlton. But before any one OF
the three purposes was accomplished,
he lost the money. In some astound-
ing, unfathomable fashion, his three
acknowledgement Bank of England
notes disappeared, leaving him with
scant ten pounds loose in a trousers
pocket.
When he had made diligent search
in places likely and unlikely, and had
instituted quite as comprehensive an
inquiry, all without the least shadow
of result, he began figuring on the pos
sibility of meeting his small London
Indebtedness and getting home by way
of the steerage with the sum remain
ing. But with small economies-with
how to shave off a shilling here and
sixpence there-he was not familiar,
and his best mathematical endeavors
left him a full thirty shillings short
of the required amount.
There occurred al this juncture, too,
an encounter which so broadened the
borders of his necessity as 10 make
the thirty-shilling shortage appear
very picayunish indeed. He met an
oil hn
In spite of peak and pallor and an
evident effort not TO be noticed, he
recognized her at once. Back in the
old DAYS. he had held her in higher
esteem than she was conscious or,
for the reason that she was about the
only really Woodworking, modest, and
absolutely good young woman OF the
chorus that he knew. And for that
reason. TO his discredit be IL said, he
knew her. indeed, but slightly.
She was slender and fairly tall. and
of a rich dark beauty that suggested
the Southron. Fultener had always
been impressed by something mex
pressibly appealing in the luminous
DEPTHS of her wonderful dark eyes;
and it was those eyes now, and that
appeal. never so compelling before.
which arrested and held him and iden-
tilted her to him amid the throng that
was passing the Somerset House, on
this gray, misty, murky- September
morning. Did it, too. indeed, IN spite
of his own absorption and OF her quick
turning of her head at sight OF him.
He had to speak her name-Alice
Dayenant she was called-before she
would admit seeing him; and, even
then. she was for passing on. after
word and bow; but he detained her.
After the first brief exchange OF COM
monplaces he found.this OBTAINING not
at all difficult She seemed TO realize
that there had been change In him
since she last saw him, and the change
made him much more likable than he
had ever been before.
"Tll bet you guinea that you re
broke" he said with a laugh, AFTER
eliciting the facts that she had come
over in April. with the Queen of the
Isles" company, and had been let out
over a month ago. because she declined
an invitation to take supper with the
new stage manager.
IF | should bet you. you'd win; ana
7 should certainly never be able 10
nav" she replied; and though 1t was
said with a brave effort of gayety, Full
tener noticed that her lip trembled, In
spite of her.