The Detroit times., 1913-06-06
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$50 YOU are going to impose silence
~ me: isn't that little hardy NOT,
* added bitterly, that fnd myself
vith any inclination to anything
n1oe!"
.It n necessary IL We are TO meet
~ the future" she said quietly
~But isn't II an unnecessary condi-
t1on?" he persisted.
Her anger toward him seemed 10
lave passed, and his courage Was re-
wink. He threw aside his baffling
mauner and said frankly:
I'm more sorry than can say, Mrs.
and you shall not find me
;UnWorthy q second time
CHAPTER TWENTY-NiNE.
Benson carried with him continually
now q sense Of hurt; and out OF tnis
I. came q certain subtle change in the
very fibre OF his love itself. He lost
q |1omething Of the spirit Of worship, he
Moeemed to be struggling tor oom-
d nance. The reserve Of his former
latitude toward Virginia was lost.
n Once he had hoped to win her love,
32ow he felt that he must compel IT.
49, always came back to the one rank
1lne conviction that she had been un-
B 1uGt: that she had allowed him to
fsnkke sacrifices and to do for her IN
\ nimberless ways she should not have
Dormittsd, unless she were willing to
u accept, not his love necessarily, but
fthp full consequences OF their inti-
16cy, since II was perfectly Incredible
Ito him that any man could know her
6 ~ he had known her. and not come
"a love her: he came to blame her
4 tint she had not understood.
tk was not unnatural perhaps that
~ after effect upon Virginia OF Ben.
!sooh's declaration was less pronounced
stnhn upon himself. Her active anger
VS. Of brief duration only. and she
puobn forgave him his unlucky utter
Eodeeo In remembering his real kind
&n}os. She would have liked him TO
&ktow this: but she was sensible II
WIND be unsafe to show 1t. and after
an 4 marked but kindly reserve was
Obj q reasonable precaution. She
$2Wie sorry for him, and his restrained
md Deepen her feeling Of pity; yet she
Hcdneidered him both foolish and pre-
Eualnptuous young man.
~ had meditated radical and salutary
Investment OF him. She had even
o1i6ught Of asking him to retire from
Sstt1e management Of the estate: but
NJ had decided that this would be
oaless severity When they met
EDl1o Was tremendously kind, but eth
Ead Jane or Stephen was present. At
SD3ot Benson had been rather inclined
&t0 Gm1le at this; 1t struck him as be-
E1nk such distinctly feminine
sNkmouver; but the chaperonage when
EltIwas firmly persisted In, ended by
Eb4ooming rather calling; It argued
Iedch q lack Of confidence. as well as q
MED unwillingness to allow him to
EAeVof again revert to the subject which
IN had most ut heart.
Virginia had found that even DR..
HI4ng's Select academy, with its mod
Eso fees FOR tuition, was out OF the
E4@ootion; and was forced to send
&D4ophen to the public school. At nrst
EU4D West drove him into town each
kmRgning. returning for him In the
%04Grnoon, and Benson pointed out to
EXvgginia that when the winter actual
57y{Set In these drives would be rather
III hardship for the boy, and proposed
f111x he stay with him when the wealth
Eso4 Vas severe.
a loh, no. I couldn't think OF that"
*0u3 Virginia. HE would be such .
kelBp to yoi."
EZ0u leave that part OF IL to me.
&1yH Landray." answered the lawyer
kD(D6nakuredly.
8@ EAnd should miss him dreadfully.
&q}A hs might be homesick,"
n 2 He probably will be at first: but
*14Hl b sending him on to college
Dontly; this will prepare you both
~ that time"
Bsil, perhaps, when the roads get
#34Ey III indeed"
II y14toe his FIRST experience In town,
(phen carried Virginia such an en-
Ujoof1c account of his hosts kind
~ that It won from her a grateful
S1Velo Letter Of acknowledgment and
41nnls.
M FROM the start Benson exerted a Ger.
MN Mduence over the boy that was
uoD1ned to increase with his develop
Do0t The lawyer was the first man
- had known Of his own class; all
- short life had been passed among
women, they had been his companions
md friends; and he slowly abandoned
me reserve with which he had hrst
ut Benson's advances, until finally
- tAlked to him almost as freely az
- would have talked to Virginia her.
&)oe3f.
II Stephen had never known men,
{3H was equally true that Benson had
3uever known boys, his father having
made his own youth q period OF the
MOet rigorous industry: he had also
been quiet aud studiously inclined:
tie latter Characteristic which he
y Noted Stephen did not appear to Dos
$1,000 He remembered that the. boys
14ther and uncle, while they were
4oucated men. had possessed a much
0reater respect for books than knowl-
efee OF them; and It impressed itself
&f0pon him that Stephen Was most un-
moly material from which TO recruit
70 mamber Of one Of the learned pro-
1oooionS. In short the boy evinced
on utter and astonishing lack OF curl
O01ty concerning the lawyers we'll.
selected library which had been placed
Hut his disposal. When Benson com.
&Wonted On this fact. Stephen informed
him quite frankly that he didn't care
10e books: he had all the reading he
wanted af school.
How would you like to be lawyer
Dtophenr Benson asked him on one
Docasion.
II shouldn't hike II, Mr.. Benson" he
80 promptly.
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