The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-01-10
[ FIRST INSTALLMENT7

nat 90 You think | am made of that
YOU waste good fuel in this shameful
way2 | suppose it was you who piled
the Goals halfway up the chimney this
morning Its all on a par with every
something terrible. It's enough to
bring us all to the workhouse,''
The girl did not answer; she stood
up. straight and tall, and looked at him
not trying to conceal the contempt
Wnich was expressed in every line of
ner euriously inscrutable but unde-
complexion. with large gray eyes, and
halr or a rich brown. and close shut
Ups that appeared capable of keeping
ngure was round and full. and in spite
OF the shabby black serge dress she
wore. she was very striking LOOKING
with proud turn of the head and
aristocratic carriage that would have
been noticeable had she been a beggar
in rags.
Her cold silence angered her grand
father still more, and he began again.
on are as bad or worse than that
lazy Martha or that other idiot who
calls herself a cook, for Won are al
ways eating and drinking, and YOU
dom do a hands turn of work for it,
girl replied. coolly
Vases he. repeated furiousIy;
wages What should | pay you wages
for unless il is for eating me ONT Of
house and home, Or for wasting coal
az 80 shiilings a ton. and doing moth
ing ing Really, Audrey Byng, you are
When remember your mothers be-
havior and the way your father
stop, grandfather" the girl said
and though she did not raise her voice
as ne mad done. there was as much
anger In her clear, incisive tone. You
snail not abuse my parents. You may
say mnat You please Of me- don't care
! VIII not hear them abused. Whatever
my mothers conduct may have been,
she had reason for it. |, for one. could
never blame her for taking the first
opportunity that presented itself of
getting away from this house. where
everything Is grudged one. where every
men or bread and grain of tea is count
ed We may be-we are-poor in the
everyone IS welcome TO it. We do not
the crusts for the next meal"
And that is why you are on the
verge of the workhouse." the old man
e en 3D. and so should be. if | went
spendthrifts. and If you think to cafole
ME ME ou Ls OF Any any money You are vastly
you hated this place? Why do you
stay now? Eth? Answer me that
= came because. mother wished it,
and because you desired her to send
me here; l did not hate the place before
saw 1t: III my widest dreams [ could
never have imagined such an abomina-
ton of desolation stay because
have not the money to pay for nv Jour
ney home Heaven knows if l had. /
father. viii you lend it to me? / do
not ask you to give it, but lend me SUI
work there, and l will send it back.
every fathering Of it"
Wit. NTH interest" he sneered.
more contemptuous turn, IF you wish
am no use to you here, and mother
wants me. Grandfather. let me go
No: l will not. You are of use to
me. If only as a means of Furnishing
daughter of mine, who lied to me- and
deceived me. and left my house to fiv
like thief in the night with that
before he could gather breath for any
more vituperation, Audrey had flung
herself out Of the room passion OF
She felt as If she must suffoeate If
she STAYED within those walls, and
which She had thrown into the hail
when summoned to her grandfather's
presence. she went out at the front
down from the terrace which skirted
the house TO the sshrubbery below.
7 hate hin hate him" she NUT.
only / had the money; if there was any
one being who would lend it to me
through s her brain, Clarence A isasnen
But no, l could not ask MIN; he is poor
himself, and It might be SO long before
seem like trading on" she broke
off. she raised her eyes to see the
! object of her thoughts standing before
| her
Miss Byng. he exclaimed. Il hoped.
I fancied / might see you. 1 was going
| on up to the house If l had not CHANGED
10 meet you"
His manner was unlike the usual
| rather diffdent demeanor which she
| was accustomed to see in the adoring
young organst of the parish church
that for a moment she stared at him in
| mute surprise-the next she said with a
| short laugh:
1T is just we'll you did not goS on
My grandfather is in one of his own
particular tempers, and YOU would
probably have had warmer reception
| than you cared for