The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-07-19

speed and joyous laugh.
But she weighted in the race by many more mil
lions than two. On the day of her birth the first
million had come to her in the form of check the
signature in her grandfathers trembling and hon
ored hand. On the envelope enclosing it he had
written: ga Nest Egg, for Baby
But after that the millions came to her in sad
ways and with sad words First the heart that most
loved her ceased to beat and the busy fingers that
had wed with Paris and Flanders in sewing for the
baby were still. And they gave the baby more mil
lions, but for long time could not dry her eyes.
When she ten the old grandfather died. and,
though they gave her banks, and ranches and oil
wells and mines, she cried for him. And after that
sshe became the one flower in the heart of stern
gray man who owned many gardens. Him she loved
with all her strength, and called MY father with
unreasonable pride.
Though there were never any little girls for her
to play with, she not very different from the
general run of them When she ran furiously she
got red in the face, when she fell down and bumped
her nose it bled, and when her stomach ached she
howled. The heavy millions had not yet begun to
weigh her down. 1t may be that there not
enough But many on the way, and, as
before, to pay her for the death Of somebody she
loved. She waited up Christmas till very late
for her father to come home. He had telegraphed
that he would come. He would come, the secretary
told her. his pet railroad in his pet with his
pet engineer at the throttle and he would make
such time that the country would gasp. But the
great home more slowly than he had eX-
pected and in a conveyance in which he had never
ridden before He came feet first into the big house,
carried by soft moving in high silk hats and he
rode in plain black coffin with silver handles But
they would not let the Little Heiress look at his
face, and she learned sonpehow-from one of the
servants thnk-that ''fre had added to the horror
Of the accident"
But to comfort her there came her fathers lawyer
and he made her present of the railroad that had
killed her father and other railroads. He gave her
this million and that may be hundred of them and
more-but she could not be comforted.
Thus all those who really loved the Little Heiress
mas OutO of taken
her fathers sister, Aunt Katharine, who learned to
love her after while. Aunt Katharine and her
husband lived when their household was stationary
in one of several houses. They had two white ones,
made of marble-one that stood corner and
looked over Central Park, in New York City, and
one that in Newport and looked over the ocean.
The Little Heress had hunted look. All the aft
ernoon she had been hunted with cards and cut flow
ers. And now she was being hunted by the phalanx
of shirtfronts.
1t would surround her, then it would open to let
forth the Little Heiress and the ShirtfrOnt with
which she had agreed to dance. AS rule she looked
very little and like child against the man with
whom she dancing, and when 1T came time to tell
him that she could not sit out the next dance with
him in the conservatory she had to turn her face
to him to do So And then she looked so little, and
so sweet and enticing, just the way pansy looks,
that as one man. the phaanx ground It's teeth
eff I were poor'' she thought to herself, "there
might be man or two waiting for me (she had just
seen her face that so like pansy, in long mir
ror) but now it has to be just shirtfronts -
The face that the Little Heiress liked to look at
was rather proud young face that kept itself apart
: from the phalanx. When the man who owned the
face thought that it his duty to dance with the
Little Heiress he would cut through the phalanx
yacht cuts through water and ask her. And she
would be ready for him with her gladdest smile; just
such smile as the beautiful lady wore when the
hero rescued her from the horrible sea monster But
gaddest smiles and the little hand on his arm made
very little impression Proud Face. When, for
hospitality received, any reason as good, it was
his duty to ask her to dances he asked her; when it
was not his duty he didn't stHe won't ask me again
tonight" sighed the Little Heiress to herself, $50
don't stop, music--don't stop.
But the music stopped, and Proud Face, conduct
ing the Little HeiIess to Aunt Katherine (and the
advance guard Of the approaching phalanxa bowed
and said Il had been pleasure, and left y hen