Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-24

| was made for his particular beneb
| and all the people who composed hi
mart of 1t were miDistering spirits pu
| here for his convenience. was at the
bottom of the whole trouble and, IL n'
had but known, lost most by It
But Stanhope never realized this
LAST fact and only chuckled fathead
edly when he heard of the mess Ms
exhibition of monumental cheek (he
! called it perfectly legitimate request
| as long as Trevis was going over to
his rooms, anyway, had got bis friend
into.
Trevis was good natured-aiways
has been and always will be-but good
nature may be carried to extremes
and Trevis was an extremist
Besides, how is a girl to know that
a man really cares the world and all
for her If he seems so willing to step
aside and allow a comparative stran-
ger to take his place by her side just
because she seems to fancy him for
the moment2
That's the way Marion Harper look
ed at it, and know, for she told my
sister-and what those two girls don't
tell each other isn't worth telling.
When Trevis came back from col
Iege (the one decent thing his close
listed uncle ever did for him was to
stake him to a part OF his tuition fees
during the four years. he brought
Stanhope with him.
They had chummed It during their
scholastic course, and now they got
modest rooms together, and each start
ed to carve the figure of fortune out
of his own particular bit of timber.
= Treyis' task was a hard one. His
timber was full or knots and weather
cracked, as you might say. Stanhope
walked into the counting room OF a
friend of his fathers and obtained a
good position at once
Then Trey introduced him to Mar
ion.
Now, Stanhope was a big. handsome
fellow, an athlete of note in his col
lege-just the sort of a man to attract
a girl like Marion. Trev was so quiet
and modest that, although plenty of
people liked him, they'd never have
raved over him in a thousand years.
They Just took him as a matter OF
course, unless for some sudden reason |
they happened to stop and think over
his stable qualities. Then they told
themselves he was really one OF the
very finest fellows they knew
OF course Marion and he had never
really been engaged, for Trev wasn't
the sort of a fellow to ask a woman
to tie herself to him until he was es-
tablished in some business and had
obtained a decent footing. But it had
been understood between them for
years, and everybody said that It
would be one of those foreordained
marriages that you read about, but SO
seldom manage to see In real life.
But it came pretty near not coming
off at all, and there's a good deal of
1oubt in some quarters yet.
Stanhope was introduced to Marion
It a little evening gathering at Ven
lables' studio. Two nights after hei
net her again at a box party at the
Gotham. The next afternoon they
we're automobiIing through the park
After that it was flowers and calls
nd little dinners with Mrs. Harper as
chaperon. She'd never been called on
o chaperon Marion and Trev. They
eemed too much like brother and sis
er.
Oh, Stanhope was the sort Of fell
wv to carry a girl by storm. He made
regular San Juan Hill campaign Of it.
1 reckon Trevis was the most stag
cred OF all But he was loyal to
Iarion and loyal to his chum.
Trev stood by him as firmly as ever.
lie didn't try to go back to the girl
gain, and Marion seemed to have
roken out of the chrysalis into a veri-
lble butterfly of society.
She was on the go every night and ,
egan to attract attention from quar- ,
RS that were not altogether safe. It
as whispered that Latell had joined ,
er train of admirers. and she certain. ,
came to the Broughton that night :
18th him and her mother. ,
1t was a shock to some of us
She looked royal as she went down G
e aisle. We had just come over from I
enables and bought admission tick
S and were standing behind the rail-
the orchestra floor as the curtain 8
ent up on the first act.
And there Marion was sailing past {,
and down the center aisle, with her
other trailing on behind. looking a Y
tie bewildered. and Latell in the rear, Ii
tn his mustache cooked at a most T,
angle. Il
reckon there are times In a girls d
e when even her mother doesn't IN tc
rstand her, especially il the mother
8 always been a quiet. honey" sort al
a woman like good Mrs. Harper. al
She never had two strings to her re
W in her life, and as for three hi
Veil!
The theater was crowded-it was b,
len Aurora" was having its big run OF
nd the standees were packed in pref 1c
tight behind the railing. 1t was oSse In
those nights when. If you went out
'rs without an overcoat, you wished ov
once that you hadn't. and II you did II
ar 1t you felt that It was In your tn
v. 1t wac warm in the house.
'tanhope took or his coat anu rnrew
over the railing. OF course an off,
rGhA hnA a.