Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-16

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was leaving the room. I'VE won't hunt
for her in Westfield. N. j., where
Changers home is; We'll hunt for her
in West Forty third street. New York.
"And this wife of Granger's." MUIR
INJURED Temple. left to himself, II sup
pose she has faith in him: they all
have. I dare say it's she who's work
ing behind this plan to get his pardon:
doubtless she's somewhere now. pray
ing for him, waiting for him to come
back to her vindicate ted. an honest
man. And I? Well. I'm fighting to
prove his conviction just. and there
you are! Queer little muddle it is,
after all. this play Of life. wonder
sometimes If the great Eye mustn't get
tired Of it and the great Ear wearied
Of it. I wonder
A light. firm knock at the door caus-
ed Temple to wake from his revecie.
His new secretary entered, ready for
work.
From the first days Of his association
with the Gotham Trust company in an
inconsequential capacity to the later
days when he had risen to its presiden-
cy. allies and rivals had found in Bur-
ton Temple a personal humility that
was charming, but underneath it fight
ing qualities that were terrible. He
had the gentleness Of lamb and the
strength of lion.
Immediately Anna Granger had
recognized the second Of these quail
ties. Now, after some weeks of daily
work with him. in the gradual unveil-
ing Of the mans personality. she was
coming to sense of the first. Her
feelings and judgments about her host
| were beginning to pulse through her
mind with an energy that she seemed
powerless to arrest They did not
make her happy; far from it. but they
| of thinking and living.
Usually, however, she, succeeded in
recapturing herself. in beating back
the thoughts which. like troops on
doubtful field. appeared to be carrying
her into the ambushes and strong
holds of an enemy; she was impatient
and scornful of them.
AS to Temple himself. maybe he
didn't know 1t, but already he was In
the way to fall as completely in love
| with his new secretary as Amadis of
Gaul or Aucassin Of Beaucaire or any
other hero Of romance you may choose
to mention. Even In the first few
! days he had found himself thinking
more of her In a personal way than
he had ever thought Of any woman.
He was not the fashion of man to
whom women in general appealed
not that he was wanting in certain
admiration for them or in reverence.
but his early life had been devoted to
his mother and to his career. SO that
during the days when man usually
chooses wife Temple had been too
occupied to seek for one. Later--well.
somehow he had not met with any one
who had quickened the romance that
| was in him.
! For at heart this cool, collected man
Of finance was romantic. He was
more; he was an idealist. He was the
sort Of man who would husband to his
original mate or none.
Unccnsciously he made constant lit
tie discoveries In Anna-most charm.
ing yields Of new regions Of intelli
gence, new points Of humor, unex.
pected fountains of emotion, unfath.
0mable depths Of womanliness. He:
eyes and her hair pleased him; her
| slim, firm, delicate hards- No; he
) repudiated that. It was herself-her
inimitable self.
| And as he felt the excellencies and
beauties Of her nature more and more
he felt the absorbing power Of his own
manhood to make them his own. She
bloomed for him the flower Of fan
cies, but the seeds lay In his own
heart: she seemed an exhalation from
his own hidden sources. His mother
possessed the same ladyhood. At
Annals age his own mother must have
been like her, he thought, the stirrer
in man Of noble passions, the allay-
er Of others. Life partnership with
such women promised not gratifica-
tons merely, but satisfactions.
| Life partnership and love! They
were thoughts now neither for noon
nor her presence. With man like
Burton Temple everything had its
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good name first. That was the imper-
alive duty on hand.
Az the result of the gradual recog.
milton Of the state Of his own feelings,
there had come about increased ac'
tvity in his work against Granger.
The reward to Crane, should he sue.
coed In securing some scrap Of evil
dence from Brady, had been raised to
$4,000. The detective bureau had
been offered fabulous sum for proof
that Granger had invested any large
amount Of money; that he had been
big purchaser Of stock in any company,
or that he was tangled up with some
woman besides his wife No means that
daring, shrewd fighter could use had
been overlooked.
And 90. all unconsciousiy-oh. tho
little pathetic game Of hIman cross
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