The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-05-07

aave lapsed into It's true perspective
III due course OF time had it not been
for the sudden appearance OF the strans
ger in the Wilson pew The moment
that Patty's gaze fell upon that fash
ionably dressed. instantaneously dis
liked girl, Marquis Wilson'S stock rose
twenty points in the market She
ceased in jlffy to weigh and consider
and criticise the young man, but re-
garded him with wholly new eyes.
His, figure was better than she had
realized, his smile more interesting,
his manners more attractive, his eye
lashes longer; in a word, lie had sud
denly grown desirable. A month ago
she could have observed with idle and
alien curiosity the spectacle of his
thumb drawing nearer 10 another fem
intnel thumb on the page Of the Watts
and Select Hymn Book" Now, at the
morning service, she had wished moth
ing so much as to put Marks thumb
back into his pocket where 1t belonged
and slap the girls, thumb sniattly ana
soundly as it deserved.
The ignorant cause of Patty's dis
tress was Il certain Annabel Franklin.
the daughter of cousin of Mrs. Will
sons Mark had stayed at the Frank
lin house during his three weeks visit
in Boston, where he had goaeSon bust
ness for his father. The young people
had naturally seen much of each other
and Marks infnmmable fancy had
been 50 kindled hy Annabefs doll-llke
charms that he had persuaded her to
accompany hla 10 his home and get a
taste OF country life in Maine. Such
is man. snchis human nature and such
. isSlifc, that Mark had no sooner got the
WILTON object Of his affections under
his own roof than she began to pail.
Annabel was twenty-tliree and, to
tell the truth, she had palled hefore
more than once. She was so amiable,
SO we'll finished with her smooth fax
en- hair, her neat nose, her buttonhole
OF mouth and her trig shape-that
she appealed to the opposite sex quite
generally and irresistibly as worthy
helpmate. The only trouble was that
she began to bore her suitors somewhat
too early in the game, and they new
or got far enough to propose marriage.
Flaws In her apparent perfection ap.
peared from day to day and chilled
the growth of the various young loves
that had budded so auspiciously. She
always agreed with everybody and ev-
erything in sight, even TO the point of
changing her mind on the instant if
circumstances seemed to make it ad-
visable. Her instructive point OF view,
when she went so far as to hold one,
was somewhat cut and dried-in a
word, prigglsh. Her father had an
ample fortune, and some one would In
evitably turn up who would regard
Annabel as an altogether worthy and
desirable spouse. That was what she
had seemed to Mark Wilson for full
week before he left the Franklin
house In Boston, but there were mo-
ments now when he regretted, fugi-
lively, that lie had ever removed her
from her proper sphere. She did not
seem TO st into the conditions of life
in Rdgewood, and it may even be that
her most glaring fault had been to de-
scribe Patty Bakers hair at this very
Sunday dinner as 'carroty." her dress
altogether dreadful and her style Of
beauty "unladylike." Ellen Wilson's
feelings were somewhat injured by
these criticisms of her intimate friend.
and, in discussing the matter privately
with her brother, he was inclined to
agree with her.
And thus, so little do we know>of the
prankishness of the blind god, thus