Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-06-26
(Contiued from Yesterdays Capital. J
CHAPTER VI.

fond of Tommy. but in some ways
Tommy proved an awful disappoint-
ment to him.
Adopted by the millionaire. his name
changed 10 that of his adaptive father
and brought up to be an aristocrat OF
wealth. Tommy mad no interest in
money except TO spend it. don't mean
that he was especially wasteful or
especially extravagant, but only that
ne took no interest in how the money
mad been gathered or now il could be
made to work. He was much more
interested in horses and boats and
dogs and shooting than in any of his
patrons financial affairs
Mr.. Barclay did not expect too much
of Tommy. and soon saw that what
little he did expect he was not likely
10 get. But he was very fond of him
and tried to make the best Of him
Tommy spent eli his leisure time play
ing polo or tennis or dashing off on
hunting trips and some fourteen or
fifteen years after this story opens he
became very much Interested in Miss
Mary Blackstone
He hadn't forgotten the little Ames.
Dury girl. He never would forget her,
but what is the use of a little girl
who lives in heaven to a young man
who doesn't?
But Mary Blackstone did not 1--we
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 low white
house near Southampton, L. l. Tommy
was on the most charming and inti-
mate terms with her father, and there
was one southwest room in which he
spent many and many 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
off from all the other young men,
whom she liked almost as well, Carl
ton Fitch, for instance.
Carlton Fitch was Mr.. Barclays
nephew, and in some ways was a great
favorite of his uncle's. He took so
much interest ia his uncle's banks
railroads, mines, etc, that you might
have thought that he expected to own
them some day.
Outwardly he and Tommy we're al
ways friendly and polite to each other,
even after they had become open RI
walls for Mary Blackstone'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 to in
herit almost the whole of Mr.. Bar
clay's money, and since Tommy's
adoption it looked as if 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-
tives of capital He couldn't under
stand why the majority Of people in
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 so into
these questions very deeply, but just
enough to be something Of 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 to
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 feel very strongly, however, that in
a world containing SO many able minds
IL 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 careful deliberation
and calculation, but upon impulse, Il
looked as If he 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 Il
inherit from Barclay the Blackstone
millions were to be added by mar
riage. Why, in case it ever developed
that government by the. people is {
failure, when that government should
l at last collapse, as in his heart Bar
clay thought and hoped that it would
| Tommy Barclay might aspire to be-
| anything, a dictator, a king.
For a long time Barclay kept OF
hoping against hope, and attributes
Tommy's failures and wrong-headel
| principles to his youth and higl
spirits. Then one day there had az
peared an interview which Tommy ha'
given to a reporter, between the chuck
eTs Of a polo game. and Barclay threw
up his hands.
Talking with the wild carelessnes
of youth, Tommy had given it as hi
opinion that in the great coal min'
strike in western Pennsylvania, thel
at its height, the miners were reall.
fighting for their existence, and tina