Evening star., 1915-02-21

PioNS
uNSM had so many acres, or such high ground
uB\WS SO large house, such magnif-
w. cent stretch of the Hudson River
G%" "a call his own. And that because he
was Rolin, whose ideal was said to be
taking rather than giving. He paced beside Adela
sereney, the striking his masterful head
and neat blond beard, in which not touch of gray
showed. He was handsome man; but Adela was
beautiful: in her, in all he touched his assets had
been multiplied.
Adela admired her father and had that fear of him
which is the difference paid what powerful and also
unknown. She did feel in the least that she knew
him. To her he typified most of all unbreakable
and Interchangeable will, of which his splendid force
the symbol He talked little and was always guarded
in what he said, when he alone with her;
that she felt she better acquainted with of
her many friends than with him. But she did under
stand that next to his power he cared for and had
pride in her.
"Father" she said to him with an irnpulsiveness un-
usual in her. @do you know wish we had place some
where that didn't feel superior to?"
He waited attentively, was his custom.
II mean think we ought to feel occasionally flicker
OF humility in the face of Nature-and never have
swim the Hudson, can climb these hills,
walk this swaziland SO despise them all
Roin smiled slightly. @There places could take
you where the would dash you to pieces in five
minutes, praries where you could be lost and sarve
stone walls of mountains that you could climb
But don't know that l want you destroyed just to
teach you respect for Nature"
His inscrutable face showed her of the admira
ton he felt for her beauty. Adela creature all
god, golden eyes, golden hair, and a golden tinted
complexion. Rolin thought that she walked like
Princess he used often to when he lad in the
streets of Brussels, standing with hat in hand watch
the great lady pass little dreaming that the day would
when she would read of him as of the richest
in the world. But Adela did not really walk like
Princess much like dryad of the woods or
other pagan creature, conscious of power, but
scious of limitation.
"And yet" Rolin added in meditative tone, @its
that very quality in me- that there is ideal
bigger than my ability to conquer, which has
abed me to do what have, and will make you some
day the richest in America. After your mothers
death remained in America just for this end"
HE had spoken frankly to her before. In
- her quick glance he saw her thought and replied
to it.
Il want to tell you what is in my mind this morning
Adea I've been thinking of you the better part of the
night. AS you know, Hale and spent the evening
gether yesterday"
Adela drew quick breath: she almost guessed what
coming.
@Now and then" Roin went with a slight smile
@the newspapers speculate who the richer Hale
and ourselves couldn't tell them within several hun
dred thousand dollars what we're worth"
ayes, Father" she said inquringly
HPenrhyn has been speaking his father about you"
Rolin said.
The Hales had the place next the Rollins. There had
been much in the situation of the two fami-
lies Both men were widowers with no intention of
remarrying, each had only child, and each had
inordinae passion for work Adela and Penrhyn Hale
had grown up together with discreet absences when
the other had been taken abroad had been
put into school, One of these absences had lasted three
years, and when the two had met again. seventeen
and twenty young Hale had fallen strongly in love with
Adela. This devotion had lasted now, with brief
periods of indignant withdrawal for eight years. So