Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-01

posed TO her, That Mice had not ac-
cept"d him lid not mitigate Marie's w,e
Wu"n She heard about it. 1t was at last
aN'arent that he never intended to pro-
pose to her. SHE told her mother, and
Mrs Lindsay ragged.
You've let him get away from you.''
sue cried. What have I been raising
Oh for all these Years? Why 10 marry
MN. Aul now YOU We lost him How
IN the world is your father to pay all
the debts he's incurred for vou%-'
IN ten minutes Marie Lindsay seemed
=" hctScIt I" gro" ten years older. She
tclt old"G than her own mother. She
Was ashamed unto death IF the whole
business OF living. which had thus sud
denly resolved itself into q mean low
process Of trickerN. From that moment
she took things into her own hands
Life. you sec, had hitherto been for
Marie kind Of perambuiator which her
mother had pushed pcrSistently toward a
ilNtd goal. Marie had merely sat in the,
peramDulator and allowed herself to move
p;tssiNclN with it. Now Of sudden the
goal had vanished simultaneously Marie.
had Fallen out of her perambula tor
Ilruccforth she had not only to choose a
new GOAL. but get herself toward it as
best she could.
Six months later she married Hal
/ Churchill. who had always wanted her.
I \ week after she was married her father
and mother left Westnore for Oregon
They Went leaving host of cares and
CbHSdtlOiS benlnu.
Marie was abandoned TO Hal. Her
mother had openly fought the marriare
If Marie waited long enough and PLAYED
her cards properly she might get Sam
yet. But Marie was proud. She did love
Sam but She did not mean that he
should Know 1t. The one way to Keen
him from knowing it was 10 marry Hal
Hal was very innocent of this meaning
within a meaning that lay behind her
acceptance. He loved her. lie wanted
I h
/ had had 10 stand aside to Sc. her dance
off with Sam rravers. He felt joyfully
eNultantly that he had got her away
| from everybody And he peant to keep
hey against ali corners.
Hal ran the grocery store and had a
| fair income and a good many friends He
was an honest. good. faithful little fellow,
who paid his bills and dealt with his
| fellow-man as he wished to be dealt by.
/ Han had a suite of rooms over the
store, where he expected to begin house
keeping Bat Marie would not go there
she insisted upon boarding for while
I The real truth OF the matter was that
she did not know the least thing about
| hotscwork ard had no mind 10 learn
I Her mother never had allowed her 10
soil h." hands. Resides. Marie as a
I bride saw great crowd Of good times
before her. She was popular and be-
4 longed to the fashionable set Hal
strictly speaking. had belonged to no Sc,
At all Marie determined that her friends
should be his friends She wished to pull
him into the swift current with her. A,
/ Mrs Louden's boarding house there was
\ g particularly swift portion of that cur.
| rents eroup Of Young married folk who
/ cared mere fof Sarety ttlan homes
I Hal KEEP ~ manfuilv all winter. liz
| sai ~ half Tie night playing cards, and
ye' managed TO open the grocery on tim,
neTt morning. En-, the strain began I,
| tel on rim IN The spring he borrowed
! money and built q house. Marie or.
! d"Tnd II III 70 suit herself. All Hal haG
| 10 do was to see that il got paid for.
/ Fly this time Hal was hopelessly il
I debt, Debt did not bother Marie. Haon
/ her father always been in debt pithou
| Inconvenience to his family? Hal uouiS
4 manage sorte way. AID all these goo,
friends Of hers were helping TO boom III,
| grocery business. She did rot know tina
\ her good friends we're Just as much il
debt. aud that when they ordered vas
4 yrla"s If groceries they did not ,ay fol
/ them Eut II@l had 10 meet his bills reg
| uarly. whether o. q" his customers nc
/ theirs
i IN the new house Marie hogan with
| luncheon ana ran the whole gamut Of ex
\ r.itSire parties up TO dance al whicl
| The ices ed came from the city Sucl