Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-01-19
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From the Play by
WILLIAM ]. HURLBURT

4 light, firm knock at the door cauS-
ed Temple to wake from his reyerie.
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 personal humility that
was charming. but underneath 1t fight
ing qualities that were terrible. He
had the gentleness of a 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 q 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 1t, but they
quickened and intensified all the acts
Of thinking and living.
Usually. however. she succeeded In
recapturing herself. in beating back
the thoughts which. like troops on a
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 It. but already he was In
the way to fall as completely in love
with his new secretary rs 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 a man usually
chooses a 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 ut heart this cool. collected man
OF finance was romantic. He was
more: he was an idealist Heswas the
sort Of man who would husband to his
original mate or none.
Unconsciously he made constant lit.
tie discoveries in Anna-most charm
ing yields Of new regions Of intelh.
gence. new points Of humor, unex.
pected fountains Of emotion. unfath-
enable depths Of womanliness. Her
eyes and her hair pleased him; her
slim, Arm, delicate hands No; he
repudiated that 1t 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
bis own hidden sources. His mother
possessed the same ladyhood. At
Anna's 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 gratidca-
tons merely. but satisfactions.
Life partnership and love! They
were thoughts now neither for noon
nor her presence. With n man like
Burton Temple everything had its
time and place. He must clear his
good name first. That was the imper-
alive duty on hand.
As the result Of the gradual recog-
milton Of the state Of his own feelings,
there had come about increased ac-
| dvity IN his work against Granger
The reward to Crane, should he sue
coed In securing some scrap Of evi-
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 q
big purchaser of stock In any company,
or that he was tangled up with some
woman besides his wife. No means that
q daring. shrewd fighter could use had
been overlooked.
And so. all unconsciously-oh, the
little. pathetic game Of human cross
purposes Mt which fate. the finty
hearted, must smile-Anna Granger
had become at once her husbands
champion and foe She, for tenderness
toward him. was here in Temples
house, fighting desperately to ind
some evidence that would clear him.
Temple, for the indicated honor
which he hoped to lay at his lady's
feet, was fighting with equal despera-
ton to keep In prison rs a branded
thief the man whom he had sent there.
But, as yet, the nght had fetched
nothing to either Of them.