Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-04
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY 4. 1914

Villa. He amt even bought new pair of
shoes since he came here. All he's done,
with all he got, was to give free pavernents
and free buildings to Port Hatch. The land
he gave for the park would be worth hun
dreds of thousands if a railway ever did
come here, and on top of that he goes to
work and turns Hubbard loose to fix it up.
Geological Gardens BAIL Fountains! Ar
tifcial lakes! All rubbish! He must be
we've all got to take hand in tryin' to dis
courage him every time he gets a new fool
idea. 1t amt as if he was young Somehow
or another I've got so lately that I'm afraid
| of the years
He stopped and looked out at the noun
tains, and went on, as if to himself and for
getful of her presence, a pudgy, impolite
philosopher, with his back turned toward
his companion:
dts time that always beats us-just
that-time! There's man child born at
every tick of the clock. We amt no good
| before we're twenty-one, and we croak at
sixty. When you come to figure out all the
| time that we're asleep and drunk, we don't
live very long, nohow!"
Arabella's voice recalled him. II didn't
hear you, Burmah,' she said, and he felt
| glow at her unconscious use of his name.
@What 1 mean by all this, he said, wheel
ing so that he faced her, dis that something's
got to be done to curb the Colonel, and
want you to help me-
Her shapely eyebrows were drawn into
frown, and her face was a picture of dis
tress as she met his eyes. @But what can I
do? You know how Father is. No one can
influence him."
3You can do this, he asserted: 3You can
listen to his plans. You can argue against
| ,,Ofc he'll of,o bot 81 70 Gy,1
ways of maxim him change his mind. You
must never let him think you don't believe
his new hobbyhorse the finest that was ever
rode; but always suggest that maybe there's
another that's got prettier paint on it. You
must always appear to agree, and inside OF
your head know that you don't agree. You
must always smile, and pat his cheek, the
way I've seen you pat it, even if your hearts
sick over some newfangled way of THROWN
away the bankrol1. And you can do more
than all that. You can tell me always when
he's got new hobbyhorse in mind, and I'll
do my darndest to see that it's taken out of
the shop window before he can get around
to buy it,"
She got up impulsively, and came to him,
and put both white hands on his arm, and
looked him full in the face, with the trust
full affection of sister for big and strong
brother, and he sustained stab of sorrow
that he had been compelled to bring even
this worthy distress upon her.
3You are so good!' she almost whispered.
3You talk differently from the men / have
known; but there's something in the way
you say things that makes anyone know,
without thinking, that you are honest and
| wise.
Beneath the confidence of her touch, and
the trust and admiration in her voice, he
almost shuddered as the lash bit deeply into
his conscience; but his eyes did not lower
themselves, and he appeared the same i'm
mobile, Unconditional, stocky, fat man,
grotesque in his vulgarity of dress, masterful
in the dominant features of his face and head.
@Then you'll do it?" he insisted, never
varying from the point that he sought to at
tain.
Eyes, will, she promised with outspoken
candor. 3And I'll do it without feeling that
l am a spy on my own father, because I
know now that it is for his good"
@Then, he said, masking his gratitude
under the guise of raillery, @my time of sus-
pense has been extended another three
weeks, and can take you back to where
Hubbard is probably spoutin' about the
high art way Of how to build parrot cages"
He made flourish with his hat, and Of
fered his arm, and talked lightly of trivial
| things as he led her back to the arbor, at
whose entrance he babe her GOODNIGHT He