The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-06
CHAPTER ~.
Copyrighted. 1918. by star Co.,

| tCopyrinhted, 1918. BY star CO..
Mr.. barclay couldn't help being
fond OF Tommy. but in some ways
Tommy proved an awful disappoint.
ment to him.
Adopted Into and brought up 10
be an ariHtocrat OF wealth. he had
no interes, In money except to
spend IL
lie was much more interested IN
horses and boats and doga and
shooting than IN any OF his patrons
financial affairs lie won, 20 board.
ing school and played on tho foot.
ball team and the hockey team and
N. baseball team. He took prizes
In everything that h. engaged in.
excent siudicR II was the same
With him at college. lie spent BALI
OF his time winning trophies for
his college and the other half max.
ing friends for himself. When he
graduated. Mfr BARCLAY tried 10
teach him banking. railroadine and
few other tFlfles all ~ once. Mr..
Barclay had no patience with the
idea that II iH best 10 begin nj the
bottom and work M. lie believed
In beginning at tho top Tommy
did his very best 20 make good.
Mr.. Barclay did not expect TOO
much OF Tommy. aud soon saw that
what little he did expect he was
not likely 90 get but he was very
fond Of him and tried 20 make the
hest o, him, Tommy spent all his
leisure time playing POLO or tennis
or dAshlns off on hunting trips.
and some fourteen or fifteen years
after this story opens be became
very much interested In Miss Mary
blackstone.
lie hadn't forgotten the little
Amoshury Girl. lie never would
forget her. but what Ia tho use %
little Girl who lives In heaven 10
young man who doesn't
Tommy often dreamed about her
a,ill. IA be grew older she grew
older. and the heaven In which shs
lived and was educated by the most
scientific and philosophical u all
the saints and angels became more
and moro sophisticated and seas
like the palace scene IN a comic
opera.
But Mary blackstone did not tive
In heaven. did not wear halo. dla
not play a golden harp. or slt
around and look as II butter would
Tot melt In her mouth. She lived in
low white house near southamp.
ton. I. I Il lad gardens full OF gl.
gantle boxwood. and IL had 10
many flutcf columns to hold up
its yeranda roofs that Tommy. wiih
bis dlstaste for figures was never
able TO count them.
Mary blackstone rode horses.
played tennis and swan in tire su-f
as well ms a strong and courageous
! boy Tommy never knew whether
she was more attractive In athletic
clothes or when. a. she expressed
II. she was dressed TO look like a
real lady Every phase OF her ap.
pearance charmed him. untortu.
nateiy. these same phases and
4
a good many other men.
II she liked Tommy better than
anybody else she was IN no hurry
to say so. She didn't want 10 cut
herself off from all the other young
men. whom she liked almost az
well. Carlton Fitch. for instance.
Carlton Fitch was Mr. Barclays
nephew, and I'm some ways was a
great favorite of his unclos. lie
took so much interest In his uncle's
banks. railroads. mines. etc. that
you might have thought that he ex.
pected TO own them some day. He
was not only a nominal director OF
great many corporations. but
very real director in the affairs of
half a dozen of the more important.
He never neglected work for play.
Some people admired him ire
mendously. others said they
wouldn't trust him around tho cor.
ner with flve-cent piece.
Outwardiy he and Tommy were
always friendly and polite 10 each
other, even after they had become
open rivals for Mary Blackstone's
approval. but inwardly. each had a
certain contempt for the other. and.
In addition to this. Carlton Fitch
was Jealous OF Tommy, for he had
expected TO inherit almost the
whole Of Mr.. Barclays money. and
since Tommys adoption Il looked
as II he was going 10 inherit very
little of II indeed He would be
rich. anyway. but he was very
greedy for power.
Mentally. they were poles apart.
Tommy, tho he loved to spend
money. was given TO asking fool.
ish questions about the ways and
prerogatives of capital. He couldn't
understand why the majority OF
people I'm this world have to be
poor and dirty and unhappy. Why
the real producer should have such
a small share In what he produces.
He did not go into these questions
very deeply, but Just enough to be
something Of socialist at heart
and TO feel certain contempt for
people to whom the collecting OF
money WAS tho most important
thing In the world. Perhaps he
only took up socinlistlc ideas in
order to amuse himself at the ex-
pense OF those who maintain oppo.
site theories, for he didn't go into
anything, except Games. very ser.
iously or very thoroly. lie did feel
very strongly, however. that in n
world containing so many able
minds IT was n shame that so
much poverty and misery should
be allowed TO exist.
You couldn't live I'm house that
l kaI e. JFrt.s att .uJ d. NUT.