The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-18

IF | were in Lafayette's class" sighed
David. Il wouldn't be selling automatic
punches"
There's your trouble" declared
Emily. You lack self-confidence.
You're too humble, you've got lighting
blood and you ought to keep saying
TO yourself. Blood will TELL and the
first thing you know II will tell You
might begin by going into politics in
| your ward. Or you could Join the
militia. That takes only one night q
week. and then IL we did 60 to war
with Spain you'd get "A commission and
come back u captain"
Emily's eyes were beautiful with de-
light. But the sight gave David no
pleasure. In genuine distress he shook
his head.
Emily" he said, you're going to be
awfully disappointed in me-"
! Emily's eyes closed as though they
SHE'D some mental picture. But when
she opened them they were bright. and
her smile was kind and eager
mo, I'm not" she protested. "only
] want husband with a career and one
who'll tell me to keep quiet when I try
to run It for him"
i've often wished you would" said
David.
would what? Run your career for
your"
mo. keep quiet. Only 1t didn't seem
polite to tell you So
Maybe I'd like you better" said
Emily, ~ you weren't so darned polite
week later, early In the spring Of
1897, the unexpected happened and
David was promoted into the fiyine
squadron. He now was a travelling
salesman. with rise in salary and a
| commission on orders. Ii was ster
forward. but as going on the road meant
absence from Emily David was not
clated
Nor did 1t satisfy Emily. II was
not money she wanted. Her ambition
for David could not he silenced with
a raise in wages. She did not say
this but David knew that in him she
still found something lacking, and when
they said good-by they both were i'll a,
ease and completely unhappy For
merly each day when Emily in passing
David in the office said good morning
she used to add the number OF the
days that still separated them from
the vacation which also was to be
their honeymoon. But for the last
month she had stopped counting the
days-at least she did not count them
aloud
David did not ask her why this was
so. He did not dare And sooner than
learn the truth that she had decided not
TO marry him, or that she was even con.
sidering not marrying him. he asked NJ
questions, but in ignorance OF her pres.
emf fsalfnpe cal
Absence from Emily hurt just as
much as he had feared 1t would. He
missed her. needed her. longed for her
In numerous letters he told her So Blu
owing to the frequency with which
he moved her letters never caught NJ
with him. II was almost a relief n,
did not care TO think OF what they nigh
tell him.
The route assigned David took hin
through the South and kept him clos,
to the Atlantic seaboard. In obtain
ing orders he was not unsuccessful. ant
, at the end of the first month ne received
from the firm n telegram OF congratula
, ton. This WAS Of importance chiefly
because It might please Emily. Blu
he knew that in her eyes the great
, great-grandson Of Hiram Greene coulc
>
, Burdett & Sons.
A year before she would have con
1 sidered II a high honor n cause To-
celebration. Now he could see he
I press her pretty lips together and shak
2 her pretty head II was not enough
t But how could he accomplish more
He began to hate his great great grand
Is father. He began TO wish Hiram Green
had lived and died a bachelor.
Y And then Dame Fortune took Dav
I in hand and toyed with him and sparkle
I him, and pelted and petted him, unit
r finally she made him her favorlte sor
Dame Fortune went about this worI
I in an abrupt and arbitrary manner.
on the night of the LIST OF Marcf
= S97 two trains were scheduled 10 leav
Z the Union Station at Jacksonville a
y exactly the same minute, and they lief
exactly on time. AS never before in IN
+" history of any Southern railroad ha
p this miracle occurred il shows tina
when Dame Fortune gets on the job sh
!. is omnipotent.
d She placed David on the train I
T. Miami as the train he wanted DIRE,
v out for Tampa. and an hour later, whe
n the conductor looked at Davids tickle
he pulled the bell cord and dumpe
l. David over the side into the heart OF
. pine forest IL he walked back alon
" the track for one mile, the conducto
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