Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-28


up to CaXley-Webster's to tea; pitiie
water and sticky sponge cake. l want
YOU to meet my wife and daughter.
II should be very pleased TO meet
them" So this was Nora's father!
wont you come along with me TO
the colonels?" with sudden inspira-
ton. Here was an opportunity not
to be thrust aside lightly.
"Why. just begged off. They won't
be expecting me now
All the better. Id rather have you
introduce ne TO Your family than to
have the colonel AS matter OF fact,
told him | couldn't get up. But !
changed my mind. Come along. The
first rilt in The storm-packed clouds;
and to meet her through the kindly
Offices Of this amiabie man who Was
her father
"Iu: the pup ana the cigar DoX?'
"S-ud them up
Narrigan eyed his own spot!ess
ianrcls and compared them Win the
others. What was GoCd enough icE
the son Of a millionaire was certainly
good enough fer him. HcsidcH. il
would 10 bully good jo&e Or Nora
ard Molly.
You're on" ba cried. Here Wa 4
lark. lie turned the dos and ,ae
purcha IS over TO III" proprietor, ~"
promised that they shCu,U arrive -
start!y &t tho villa.
Then the two men sought the QE"y
to cAga.,n boat. They walked sEoIi'
der 10 >h,Gldor, flat.backeG, with sup
Die swinging limbs, tanned faces and
clear animated eyes. Perhaps H&:rl-
gan v&s 10 or Is pounds heavier, but
the difference would have been no
ticeable only upon the scales.
Padre. my shoe pinches," said Nora
with a puckCr between her eyes.
My child" replied he padre, never
carry your vanity into shoemaker's
shop. The happies; man is lie who
walks in loose shoes"
IF they are his own, and not in-
herited," quickly.
The padre laughed quietly. He was
very fond Of this n"W-found daughter
of his. Her spon,2 Gcity, her bloom
ing beauty, her careless observation OF
convention, her Independence, had cap
tivated him. Sometimes he believed
that he thoroughly understood her,
when all at once he would find him
self mentally peering into some dark
corner into which the penetrating light
of his usually swift deduction could
throw no glimmer. She possessed the
sins OF the butterfly and the latent
possioiiiLes OF Judith. She was the
: N-n7s fTleFv-T'-S -feniTiae fToblem he
nad IN his long ye2ls encountered. lE9
cerred with the INN" 1iate business CT
supcrinteudiL- tie service.
Courtlandt had never been man
20 surrender TO impulse. 1t had been
his habit to form a purpose and then
to go about the fulfilling of it. During
the last four or five months. however,
he had swung about like weather
cock in April. the victim Of thou
sand and one impulses. That morn
ing he would have laughed had any
one prophesed his presence here. He
had fought against the inclination
strongly enough at first. bat as hour
after hour went By his resolution
weakened. His meeting Harrigan had
been q stroke Of luck. Still, he would
have come anyhow.
"Oh, yes: ! am very fond OF Como"
he found himself replying mechanical
ly TO Mrs. ilarrigan. He gave up Rao
as hopeless so far rs coming 10 his
rescue vas concerned. He began,
desritc his rCpUpnarce, 10 watch Nora
And all the while Mrs. lIarrigan Was
talking and he was replying; and she
thouyht him charming, whereas he
rad .a- 1,.,l,A #"% Cr'n';% {. "Hr =
al. nor later cGuld r,G!ynbcf word
II II" coEYersation.
"Tcr," hawl.G tho coiCncl. The ve-h
had Is Gi>,rct uses. and one general
~ applied il 10 the colon"l's od!NUrs's
without being depressed b. the feel
nS Of iuclc';~nce.
There is invariably some slight hes
italiOu in the selection Of chairs
around tea table n the open. Nora
scored the first point OF this singular
battle by sciEing the padre on one
side ard her father on the other and
pulling them down on the bench. 1t
was adroit in two ways: it put Court
taHdt a. Il safe distance ard in nowise