Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-01-16

woman shaking carpets over my WILL
dow from the fiat above!"
A piece of Dresden china on
wooden chimney piece! Myrta's I'M
agination declined the jump.
Happily the misfortune has been
.averted by-whom do you think !.
Again speculation halted.
"Mr. Lester-your fathers old
friend. you remember?-though, OF
course, years younger than your father
who retired from the street last
year just before the crash In Great
Western came and put his money In
What is it they put it In, Myrta?
pianos" said Myrta, unconsciously'
looking back to that last evening.
Mercy! No, child! Whoever heard
of putting money in pianos? Some
times they put it in bureau drawers
though Mr.. Lester did not. Well, ne
put it there, wherever it was, and II
brings in an income that would make
your head dizzy. He Is willing to put
up the money to save US, and all De-
cause he wants to marry you. AS soon
as he sees you and gets your consent
your father will have enough to put
him where he was in business. Your
father told him that he need have no
doubt of your consent You never have
been disobedient, and you certainly
would not begin now when so much
depends upon you. How could l live
in a seventh story fiat on some I'M
known street and do my hair myself?
Are you not glad that you can save me
from it,"
Poor, pretty. weak mamma! How
indeed?
Myrta leaned out and dropped some
thing into the water. She fingered a
moment gazing after it as If she might
be wishing that she could follow 1t
1t cleaned in sparkling shades of red
as it fell. She wondered If it would
hide away in the wreck of lost ship
down at the bottom of the sea, and II
a diver would bring it up into the sun
again some day and if it would
sparkle on the finger of a girl happier
than the one who drowned 1t in the
waves.
"Yes," she said, family.
Her mother drew her into her arms
and embraced her with languid affec-
ton more like the real article than
she had ever before bestowed upon
her.
What a mistake l have made all
these years! I have regretted that l
had not son instead of daughter.
l see now how much more real value
there is in girl. What boy could save
his family in such crisis by the SIM
pie and beautiful process of walking
I'D a church aisle in clouds OF wonder
full lace, surrounded by wilderness OF
lovely flowers, and murmuring few
words in shy, pretty way, and then
going off to do the grand tour Of the
world? You ought to see the exqui'
site prayer book Mr.. Lester has bought
for you to carry-all pearl and silver
and the inscription In diamonds. Isn't
it glorious to be a girl?"
Suppose SO? You will know SO
when you see that prayer book and
costume. We ordered the gown IN
Paris and Felix said 1t was the most
elegant thing he had ever created. we
could afford to do the handsome now
that we are in such luck. Your hus-
band can never say that you came to
him a beggar If we have been on the
verge Of ruin"
It all came back to Mrs. Lester as
the carriage rolled along-the low, sad
music of that last farewell and the
face that looked out from the white
moonlight of that night in Paris. She
had never again seen that face until
Here we are. Are you asleep? No
wonder, after that stupid play
enough to set the whole town asleep"
She alighted from the carriage and
followed the burly figure Of her hus-
band up the steps. In the doorway she
turned and looked out into the pale,
star-swept east.
BY and by the dawn would glimmer
over that horizon and a new day
would begin-a long, dull, wearisome
day, so like all the other days that 1t
would not be known from any yester-
day that ever was.
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