The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-06-01
Tie Cash Intrigue



Win q Pretty little assumption OF bust
mess:
~ want sou to write out note for
mo to slgn.e
Without protest Phillip did 80 sai1d
put the note cafcfnlls asya5
sSow We come btieiil 70 tlleg ques tiott
a einplo yment, sud lie "a mems
toned 4 wine me- your athets s.ls s.
dtning Hobby. Do you suppose he.
would take apo sitlon in that line
itA month DO he would not, but now
III would grafefdIly II you esla get
hin such place Il would perhaps
solve our problem
II believe that I car" unused Phil
Ilir 4Just wait a minute" and he
wrote a note, inclosing. it in an adj
dressed envelope, which he handed to
her III your father VIII take this
note to the address on the envelope ]
nm quite certatn they will make q
pace for him.
NJ don't know how to thank you,
she said. "You will have to take 1t
fotgranted."
He took her warm hand In bis own.
and II in that moment he had obeyed
The impulse that was In his heart, II he
had spoken the words that stroye to
rush upon bis. lips, the whole course OF
Lis life might have been changed-for
The better. But again ambition. which
grlmIy forbade any clog upon his
movements, interfered. and he held
her hand With the tenderness of a
brother mo more!
REALLY. Elsie. wish / could have
done more for you" he said. II want
you to'promlse mo that If you get into
difficulties Of any sort you viii let me
smooth them out for you"
'Thave no one else to go to-" she re-
piled simply. "Do you know how much
suffering there is in the worldT she
suddenly asked him.
"Isuppose there Is great deal Of it."
DO you understand what suffering
isr
II dor he returned. 81 had my
SHIRE Of it-Lot illness. Of poverty. of
cold and hunger. Of uncleanliness, of
tho social degradation that belongs
with want of money. I know these
things not as one emerging from them.
but as one cast down among them
from luxury. Some people that experl-
ence softens, others it hardens and
makes bitter Sometimes I think 1t
had that latter effect with me-"
1T must not bel" she said earnestly.
Phlllip. what has happened to my
family has happened to three-fourths
of the people in Hampton. which. as
you may or may not know. is compos-
ed entirely Of poor people. workmen
who in better times try to buy their
own homes! In that village Of four or
five thousand people there are per
haps one half OF them facing actual
starvation ut this minute"
4Yes? inquired Phillip. waiting.
4 aThere are hundreds and hundreds
A 6tsStA ef villages Ike Hampton! where
/ thousands llpon thousands are inathe
same condition. Things were never SO
bad sthey are now
+. 4yeses he asked again!s
'TbEy sayEthey, sayP-she halted
and Stopped. and then. with her face
colOring, she stumbled on-''they say
that you brought Oh this pdnic and
that you could stop It. It isn't true, is
IttT
an a measure l suppose It is" adj
mitted Phillip. "The condition was like
q pile of loose gunpowder at the side
Of a railroad track, where constantly
passing engines are sending up sparks
One spark was sure to lind in that
gunpowder and explode IT. I merely
happened to be the spark, but with nc
more power than that spark to STOP
;, the subsequent destruction"
she recoiled from him with dilatine
eyes ut Is true! them" she said.
II suppose it is. even in the way you
look at 1t, but assure you, Elsie
that it was necessary. Out of this
better times will result, and better
times could not be reached except
through this devastation. 1t is like Q
surgical operation. which. painful and
cruel as It may seem at the start, Is
necessary to save the rest Of the body
!, from death and decay"
She shook her head. II cannot un
! derstand it, but then suppose I could
never have been a surgeon"
r HO smiled and laid his hand upor
her shoulder mo I dorf think yor
, could"
! She WINGED under that touch ant
glance, not because they were reprl
sIve TO her-oh, not because of that
but because they were the touch ant
= glance Of brother.
; Rensselaer, was announced just then
: and the interview closed
|. In Phillips touring car, big Sam NJ
beside the chauffeur, Kelvin and Rens
!. selacr bowled along n pleasant country
! road, with the latter young gentleman
IN astate Of stupefaction.
y 'aTO Forest Lakes!' Rensselaer, ex
claimed for at least the twentieth
time, "why, you old fox, you neveI
!. said a word about ever having know
Henry Breed or Of ever having beer
to Forest Lakesw
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