Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-12

| where dad and she awaited him. smiling,
| it is true. but dead tired" And after
| dinner, when she watched him examine
| bruised hands, gingerly stretch tired
| limbs, she murmured delghtedly to her
| self. About week. l think, will set
| tie him..
Bus it didn't. And on the afternoon
! in March, as she watched the sunset.
| Billy was in the second year of his APP
premiership. Her tolerance had long
| since deserted her She had stormed,
she had pleaded she had threatened all
| in vain Now she accepted conditions in
| outward calm. though constantly there
surged through her j storm OF rebelllon;
She never went near the WORKS Bl!B
absolutely forbade her coming Tor nm nm
in her electric. No style yet, was ms
grimly voiced resolve. shs curtiy re-
fused in the first days his offers to snow
her round the place. The usiness OF II
all. the hammering ana the erasmus ap-
palled her It's dreadful to have the
Lldeousness so near hone, 10 have YOU
come To me grimy and horrid. ike an
ordinary laborer. without seeking fGfther
hideousness in a tour oil lnsPeello'' VI
late no offers had come from MIN.
During this time she formed friend
ship with the ThorntonS. Billy ana
young Thornton had gone through col
lege together. In one respect thelr lotS
were identical-only sons OF rlch men
with fathers anxious to shift the burden
of responsibility on younger shoulders.
And there all sembiance ceased. biiiy
had developed rad. 1ouis hoi hloii
had a modernly equipped office IN the
Thornton factory. which he entered at 10
in the morning and left at nigh noon 10
run his wife and Marion out TO the touh-
try Club. \ most correctly attlreo; I'M
maculately groomed young man, in direct
contrast to the srimy Billy they ire
quently passed on his way home at din-
ner time. And contrast that was even
more glaring on Saturday afternoons.
RiIIy's time off. when he took his racer
out to the club and relaxed. Marion al
ways told herself. as she looked from
Thorton's pink and white freshness to
Billy's face. roughened by smoke, sweat
and CRIME. that hateful iron was written
all over him. Toll showed in his rough
ened hands and his blunted nails, and
fastidious to the core, she looked away
in anger and disgust.
Frequently, she said. bringing Thorn
ton up as a shining example: He never
forgets the dignity of his position The
men are bound to look up to him. re-
spect him, hold him in the proper degree
of awe, while you-
Billy's shrug was an interruption. The
respect of the men | want. too. but the
awe can go hang. Thornton can keep
it. Genuine old-fashioned liking is what
want and what l think I'm getting. As
for Thornton, well. he doesn't know any
more about that business than his setter
pup.
Marion's tart Nonsense dismissed
the subject
W
saw with Bily's eyes. She. with Mrs.
Thornton, was in Thornton's private Of
ice. looking out over a yard while wait
ing the finish of a conversation between
Thornton and a foreman. SubconSciouS-
ly she was aware of an argument When
a fretful note suddenly grew in Thorn
tons voice she became alert, and when
he arose abruptly as evidence of a closed
conversation, the immaturity, the unfit
ness of him for a position of RESPONSE
bilty, came to her with a shock of sur
prise
For heavens sake let the matter
stand until my fathers return" he
hedged. Il don't know a COMPOUNDED
thing about it, and"
We've got to know today. Mr.. Thorn
ton" Marion caught the contempt in the
mans voice.
Fix it up as you think best. then. or
wire father for instructions" He dis
missed the foreman. turned in his easy
way to the women and announced he
was ready for the club.
Somehow Marions taste for the club |
had departed. With a plausible excuse |
she slipped away. vividly conscious of |
two things: One Billy was right. Thorn |
ton didn't know any more about business |
than his setter pup: the other, the knowl- |
edge that it would break her heart to |
have a man look at Billy with the dis
dain that had lain in the eyes of the |
Thornton foreman. |
A sudden longing seized her to see
Billy in the midst of the men. For the |
first time in her married life she started
for the works. Strange to say, as she |
entered the yards her nose was not ele- |
waited diSgustedly at the odor of rust |
and molding sand, nor did she cringe In |
the least from the ugliness all about her |
She went to Judson, ST., at once. When
his work he smiled queerly. There's an