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

nave Inpsed inlo IT'S true perspective
in due course Of time bud It not been
for the sudden appearance of the stran-
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 word, he had sud.
denly grown desirable. A month ago
she could have observed with idle and
alien curiosity the spectacle of his
thumb drawing nearer to another fem
ininel 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 it belonged
and slap the girls thumb amartly and
soundly as it deserved.
The ignorant cause of Patty's dis.
tress was certain AnnabeI Franklin.
the daughter of n cousin of Mrs. vii.
sons. Mark had stayed at the Frank.
lin house during his three weeks visit
in Boston. where lie had gonaSon bust.
ness for bis father. Tire young people
had naturally seen much of each other
md Afopl..S ;t,anY,,,obI. e,,,.,.. f..sI
been so kindled by Aunabels doll-like
charms that lie had persuaded her to
accompany him TO his home and get u
taste of country life In Maine. Such
is man, such is human nature and such
is life, that Mark had no sooner got tile
whiloni object Of his affections under
his own roof than she began to pail.
AnnaDel was twenty-three. and. to
tell the truth. she had palled before
more than once. She was so amiable,
SO well finished-witll her smooth flax.
en- hair, her neat nose. her buttonhoIe
OF ii 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 fur 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 IL
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, priggish. 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 a full
week before he left the Franklin
house in Boston, but there We're mo.
ments now when he regretted, fugi-
lively, that he had ever removed her
from her proper sphere. She did not
seem to tit into the conditions OF life
in Edgewood, and it may even be that
her most glaring fault had been to de-
scribe Patty Ba&ters hair at this very
Sunday dinner as 'carroty," her dress
altogether dreadful and her style Of
beauty "unladylike.p Ellen Wilson's
feelings were somewhat injured by
these criticisms Of her intimate friend,
and, in discussing the matter privately
with herr brother, he was inclined to
agree with her.
And thus, so little do we know of the
prankishness of the blind god, thus