Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1912-03-15
CHAPTER I.


Across the brilliant parquette, from
the bishops box. Miss Winstaniey
openly beckoned me with her little
white black.dotted fan. Henrietta
Wlnstanley is the bishops sister, q
lady more like her own fan than any
thing ! can think Of at the moment
10 compare her with n small hutter
Ing thing. constantly In motion. Great
ing pleasant stir wherever she hap
pens 10 be. smelling deliciously OF
orrIs root or lavender. her black eyes
sparkling like the iridcscents on the
fan.
There were beside her In the box
the bishop. barbara Hemingway. her
brother Dan--the most popular young
rascal In town Ankony, acting presl.
dent OF the Central Savings Company,
and, for the rest. part OF the Forlorn
Hope, as Miss Wlnstanley calls the
ardent band OF IIarbnra's followers,
whom she has always stoutly declared
Barbara would have none of wish
had beon an sure Of II.
The bishop looked the bishop, or he
would probably have been Dr. Win.
stanley, ms his father had been before
him. or Winstanley. attorney .at.law,
following the way mis- maternal un.
cleA had taken, or merely Wlnstanley,
dealer In loans and real estate, as he
once told me- his prediction unde-
niably tended. iiut he looked the
bishop, and his sister who was much
older than he. vowed that he should
become what nature so evidently In.
tended. No one ever understood clear
~ Just how she contriyed n, but that
ahe had trlumphantly arrived with
him none could contradict. Indeed.
whatever Miss Henrietta Wlnstanley
undertakes she is pretty certain to
- She had declared 20 mo often. and
With warmth, that IL she could help
Il Apkony should not marry Barbara
Hemingway. as he very evidently pro.
posed TO do, n possible. Therefore
was not surprised at the summons
which beckoned mo as her alde.de-
camp, for Ankony had been making
the most unmistakablo love 10 .Bar.
bara ever since the curtain had gone
up and that part OF the Forlorn Hope
represented In the box had yielded
itself to what was going on over the
footlights.
There's lngratitude for YOU" whls.
perod she, AK | bent over her.
1T looks moro like devotion" re.
marked dryly,
II launched that man socially. He
had been very nice about my chart
ties, and one must make some return,
you know; besides. he isn't altogether
u bad sort hut he must not think
he can marry barbara Hemingway"
Does hep"
She made comprehensive gesture.
'You can see for yourself. Such au.
daciousness | never know, lie seems
TO forget the gulf between them"
"The gult OF blood. chg" said |.
Exactly, What Is more harder to
get aroundg | don't mind a
self'made man--in the third genera.
ton; but Ankony IL In the nrst, and
proud OF II. And he imaglnes that
because Dan IL In his employ he can
force his attention on barbara when
and as no likes"
Isn't II possible that he may not
meet with quite the discouragement
YOU thinkr | suggested. with a smile
that was mere braggadoclo.
"Nonsensol You don't believe any
such thing as that DO you suppose
Tor minute that barbara would re.
ceiye him-or his Impossible sister>in.
law either, for the matter OF that
n she didn't feel that she had toy"
She sighed and hurried on; "One has
Go do so many awkward and unpleas.
ant things when one Is poor, and they
are SO poor, DO you know it's fact
that they have TO depend entirely
nowadays on Dams salaryg And so,
you see. quite naturally, they must
be decent to Mr. Ankony"
How they manage Co get on don't
know, ! dissolved gravely.
Miss Winstanley shook her brisk nc,
tie head mo more do |. Dan isn't
economical, YOU Nnow--how can we
expect him TO be. with his bringing
upe It's such a pity their father
should have made that last unfor
tunate investment Just before he died
II must be frightully hard on them
both; but the brunt OF Il falls on Bav,
bara. as is natural perhaps You've
noticed. haven't YOU that when
man and woman practice economy to.