Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-07-29

but what is the use OF u little girl
who lives in heaven TO a young man
who doesn't?
But Mary Blackstone did not live
in heaven. did not wear a halo. did
not string a golden harp or sit around
and look as If butter wouldn't melt in
her mouth. She lived in a low white
house near Southampton. L. !. Tommy
was on the most charming and init
mate terms with her father. and there
was n southwest room in which he
spent many and nan a weekend.
and which was always known TO the
Blackstone family as Tommy's room.
Mary Blackstone rode horses. played
tennis and swan in the surf as well as
a strong and courageous boy.
II she liked Tommy better than
anybody else she was in no hurry to
say so. She didn't want TO cut herself
of from all the other young men.
whom she liked almost as well. Carl
ton Fitch. for instance.
Carton Fitch was Mr.. Barclays
nephew. and in some ways was a great
favorite of his uncle's. He took SO
much interest in his uncle's banks,
railroads. mines. etc. that you might
have thought that he expected TO own
them some day.
Outwardly he and Tommy were al
ways friendly ana polite 10 ZACH other.
eve after they had become open RI
walls for Mary Rllchstone's approval.
but inwardly each had a certain con
tempt for the other and, in addition TO
this. Carlton Fitch was jealous of
Tommy. for he had expected 10 in
herit almost the whole of Mr.. Bar
Clay's money. and since Tommy's
adoption il looked as il he was going
to inherit very little OF it indeed. He
would be rich. anyway. but he was
very greedy for power.
Mentally they were poles apart.
Tommy. though he loved TO spend
money was given TO asking foolish
questions about the ways and preroga-
ives Of capital He couldn't under
stand why the majority of people IN
this world have 10 be poor and dirty
n unhappy. Why the real producer
shoul have such a mall share in
what he produces. He did not 20 INTO
these questions very deeply. but just
enough TO be something OF a socialist
at heart and to feel a certain con
tempt for people TO whom the collect
ing OF money was the most important
thing in the world. Perhaps he only
took up socialistic ideas in order 10
amuse himself at the expense of those
who maintain opposite theories. for he
didn't go into anything. except games.
very seriously or very thoroughly. He
did feet very strongly. however. that in
a world containing sc many able minds
ii was a shame that so much poverty
and misery should be allowed TO exist.
Mr. Barclay was supposed to be the
coolest calculator of possibilities In
America. AS a matter OF fact. he was
a man who owed his greatest sue
cesses TO impulse But in the case
of Tommy Barclay. whom he had
adoped, not after carefui elaboration
and calculation. but upon impulse. il
looked as If ne was going TO be disap-
pointed.
He had planned in complete detail
a splendid destiny for Tommy. The
boy was to be one OF the worlds great
est names and powers; Its richest
man. To the millions that he was to
inherit from Barclay the Blackstone
millions were TO be added by mar
rage Why. in case II ever developed
hat government by the people is a
failure. when that government should
NJ taCf nA1lanGn No N hfa fanrf Dr.
clay thought and hoped that ii would.
Tommy Barclay might aspire to be
anything. a dictator. a king.
For a long time Barclay kept on
hoping against hope. and attributed
Tommy's failures and wrong-headed
principles TO mis- youth and nigh
spirits. Then one day there had ap-
peared an interview which Tommy had
given 10 a REPORTER. between the chuck
ers Of 2 polo game. and Barclay threw
up his hands.
Talking with the wild carelessness
OF youth. Tommy had given IL as his
opinion that in the great coal mine
strike in western Pennsylvania. then
at its height. the miners were really
fighting for their existence. and that
the owners were expressing them.
To Barclay such opinions uttered
by his adopted son amounted to trea-
son. And he had the impulse to aban-
don all those hopes which he had en-
tertained for the boys future. and he
had abandoned them.
First. he sent for his nephew, Carl
ton Fitch. To this one he made no
elaborate explanation OF his changed
attitude. He said Carlton, | want
TO see you married and settled down.
You are said TO be in love with Mary
Blackstone"
A light seemed TO glitter in Fitch's
eyes.
I'm afraid her father doesn't like
me. uncle. he said, and there is
someone whom l think she likes
more"
Tommy"
Fitch nodded. and Barclay smiled
grimly.
III will take care nf Blackstone ond