The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-06

I'm afraid so, Wiley sighed. The
deal for the turning OF Sinsinawa
Greek back from the uplands above
the town 10 its ancient channel
which led TO the bottoms above Tan
ners quarry, had gone quietly through.
Everybody favored il. except the out
lying farmers who grumbled that il
was another piece of favOrtism. or
maybe worse Tanners boards %
however, were an always present
grievance. The only item of int.
est the News found In the procec--
ines was that Harlan Van Hart, Esq.
son OF Judge Van Hart, the latest ad-
dition to the Winnetka county bar,
made has first public appearance as an
attorney for the Tanner company 70
argue for the ordinance. Wiley
| spread himself in the most approved
rural journalist fashion on Harlan's
effort. but he sighed-and sent the
, clipping 70 Arne Vance.
And not even young attorney Van
Hart. toiling away that summer in
the little side room of the firm of
nonley a Van Hart-names reyers-
ed you notice-getting up his briefs
and citations, knew that in his little
ner chuckled and roared. The News
actually commenting something that
he had done But that fool editor
didn't really think Van Harris boy
had anything to do with It? He took
the paper 10 his son-in-law. Cal Rice,
the pallld cashier. I'VE gotta get
this boy, Cal. We gotta get him on
the ticket next fall, If he can hold
the News and these sorehead cusses
who've started that Progressive
league over in Earlville Yes. sir.
Gala mighty clever boy, and a good
boy-like his father-steady and safe
The party needs more young men like
that-and maybe il would be just as
well to put old jelly-belly Jewett off
the ticket this year and run Harlan
for district attorney.
Old Thad joked about this to Judge
Van Hart the next day; and the judge
frowned. He deprecated politics. But
when he went in the bank Cal Rice
said something about IT, Then the
Judge mildly and worriedly told his
wife. Her eye frightened. Harlan
should have career In the state
certainly. But ii was absurd to talk
OF IL his first year out of school. But
the next day Old Thad stopped her
surrey TO speak of IL when she was
shopping about the Square. He had
a joking and yet deferential patron
izing for the Van Harris that always
made the good lady detest him-as
much as one may the richest man in
the county-and the most influential
Meanwhile Harlan plugged away
lie seemed more reserved, but still
his genial self He picnicked with
the girls of his set along the river;
the High street young people wan.
dered in and out OF his mothers home
IT informal summer dances, and play
ed tennis on the lawns, and ate ice
cream OF evenings, and hirted on the
Veranda much as they had done since
he was sixteen. Nothing was chang
ed. only he was now a man ar man $
work Much like his father people
said From his office window Harlan
could see the Judge drive in town be-
hind Old Dutch tie him to the rail
and walk slowly under the naples
to the courthouse steps, speaking
gently 10 to every one, bowling with
old.time courtesy TO the women pat.
ting the dogs-a fine. upright, beiov.
he should come TO be. doubtless, a
sturdy, unfearing, clear-minded Amer.
lean OF the best people.
And once as he watched the court
room windows with the June sweet.
ness straying In he thought of that
evening when John Lindstrom's
hoarse and despairing voice cursed
his father and the law He felt that
even now the hurt Of it was on his
fathers mind. A hurt growing with
what the town was slowly coming 10
think OF Lindstrom. He had defied
society cut himself off, a religious fan
attic in his patch OF corn land i'm the
Pocket Only last week a shotgun
under mis- crippled arm the gaunt
quarry worker had come upon the sur.
veyors on his land running the line
for the diversion dam and forba-a
them further entry. Harlan remem.
bered that he had heard Marryat. the
good-natured sheriff telling his father
that he would have to drive out and
have a little friendly talk with John
The somber quarryman was "bit
of maybe. Taken his children ont
OF school. forbade them to mix with
the town boys and all that. The Judge
had not answered Harlan knew in
hls~heart there was a grief and an
outrage he would not reveal People
had whispered that John had become
an outlaw from the day Judge Van
Hart put the faint Of the Jail on him
Theh to Harlan's mind the thought
OF Lindstrom brought the memory OF
another summer-the long quiet even.
ings when he had met Aurelie in the
mis-. Ii seemed that he must have
been desperately sorry for her 70 love
her so. That was it-her pathos and
hor grace and prettiness and all tho
magic of the summer Now he heard
her discussed about the verandas By
the nice girls he knew-her notoriety
the laughable idea of her going on the
stage And backed financially by the
McFetridge boys II seemed to Har.
Ian. as the nice girls talked of il ltl
the hammocks and over their ices
that all that was cheap. unworthy
grotesque. utterly apart from all ne
had known, had come TO gather about
Aurele.
Imagine" said Elise Dickinson in
a group about his mothers porrh one
evening. "A travelling man who came
I'm papa's store yesterday told him
that Aurelie Lindstrom was being
Billed In stock company as the One
Hundred Thousand Dollar Prize Beau
ty-and was wearing diamonds /
don't suppose they are real"
Mrs. Van Hart was watching Har.