The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-12-23

suite!"
Neither: II I have time 10 get my
supper and catch a train. Hava you q
railway guide7"
There is one In the writing room.
But possibly | can tell you what you
wish TO know. Which way are you
golng?"
Without stopping to think OF the
critical happenings which had inter.
vened since the forming OF the i'm.
pulsiye resolution fixing his destina.
ton, Griswold named the chosen field
for the hazard OF -resh fortunes, and
its direction.
North; to a town In Minnesota
called Wahaska. Do you happen to
know the place."
The clerk smiled and shook his
head.
PLENTY OF time. is there" Grlswold
asked.
"oh, yes. Ycur train leaves the ter.
minal at eleven.thirty; but YOU can
get into the sleeper any time after
eight o'clock"
Seated at a well.appointed table In
the Chouteau cafe. Griswold had ample
time TO overtake himself in the race
reconstructive, and for the moment the
point OF view became frankly Phills.
tine The luxurious hotel. with its
air OF i~nvincible responsibility: the
snowy napery. the cut glass. the
shaded lights, the deferential service:
all these appealed irresistibly "a the
epicurean In him. II was rs II he had
suddenly 10 his OWL again after
an undeserved season OF deprivation.
and the effect OF II was 10 push the
hardships and perils OF the preceding
weeks and months into n PARKWAY
past.
He ordered his supper deliberately,
and while he waited for its serving.
Imagination cleared the stage and set
the Genes for the drama OF the future
That future. with all It's opportunities
for the realizing Of ideals. was now
safely assured. He could go whittier
he pleased and do what seemed righ,
In his " eyes. and there was none
TO say him nay.
In this minor city OF his hasty selec.
ton he would find the environment
most favorable for a rewriting Of his
book and for a renewal OF his studies.
Here, too, he might hope to become by
transformations degrees the beneficent
g~od.in.the.car OF his worthier ambition.
raising the fallen. %succoring the help.
less and fighting the battles OF the
oppressed.
Further along, when she should have
quite forgotten the Belle jules deck.
hand. he would meet Miss Farnham
on an equal social footing; and the
conclusion OF the whole matter should
be a triumphant demonstration 10 her
by their irrefutable logic OF good deeds
and a life well.lived that in his case.
al least. the end justified the means.
The train OF reflective thought was
broken abruptly by the seating OF two
other supper guests at his table; a
biE.framcd man in the grizzled iilties.
and n young woman who looked as IL
she might have stepped the moment
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Griswold's supper was served. and
for q time he made shift TO ignore thu
couple at the other end OF the table
Then an overheard word, the name OF
the town which he had chosen as his
future abiding place, made him sud.
denly o%bseryaut.
II vas the young woman who had
named Wahaska, and he saw now
that his first impression had been al
fault; she vas not oyerdressed. Also
he saw that she was piquantly pretty:
a bravura type, slightly suggesting the
Rialto at It's best perhaps, but equally
suggestive OF sophistication. travel and
a serene disregard OF chaperonage.
The young woman's companion was
undeniably her father. Gray. heavy.
browed, and with a face that Was a
life.mask OF crude strength and ele.
mental shrewdness, the man had be.
queathed no single feature 10 the alert.
ly beautiful daughter; yet the resem.
blance was u~nmistakable. Griswold
Nv lbN loN'H uthlEltulg bul u" tOulu
not help o~verhearing much OF the talk
AZ the ether end OF the table. From
II he gathered that the young woman
was lately returned from some Flori.
da winter resort, that her father had
met her by appointment in 81. Louis:
and that the two were going on 10.
Eether; perhaps TO Wahaska. since
that was the place name ftenest on
he lips Of the daughter.
II was at this point that the apex OF
Phllistine Contentment was passed and
the reaction set n. He Aad been
spending strength and vitality reck.
lessly and the accounting was az hand.
The descent began when he ooh him.
self sharply TO task for the high.priced
supper. What right had he TO order
costly FOOD that he could not eat when
the price OF this single meal would
feed a family for a week?
After that, nothing that the obsequi.
Gus and attentive waiter could bring
proved tempting enough 10 recall the
vanished appetite, Never having
known what IL was TO be sick, Girls.