The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-04-19
CHAPTER |.
Love Of Woman.

Love OF woman.
II meetings only lived up to their
anticipations, life would be n success
sion of startling climaxes. 1t had been
some months since Meade had seen
Helen llllngworth. He had dreamed
OF meeting her every day and had pic
turcd the meeting differently and more
rnpturously after every letter. As
matter OF fact the whole thing was
casual and ordinary to the last degree.
1t always Is.
Doctor Severance, a retired physi-
clan. who was vice president and
financial man, and Curtiss, the chief
engineer OF the bridge company. were
hard upon Miss IlIngworth's heels as
she stepped down from the car to the
station platform. He saw her. us 1t
were. surrounded by prosnlc men. The
woman he loved got the same welcome
and the same handshakc us her father
and the other two men. II was not
until big Abbott, who had been bclated
by some sudden demand Of work, came
sweeping down the platform to engage
the attention OF the men that the anx-
ious Meade had moment with the girl
herself
Now Helen llllngworth had also been
seeing visions, so that she had been as
disappointed MS he. The only real sat
isfaction that either Of them could take
In the situation lay In the fact that the
other wns there. II was midsummer
and the girl was dressed In some light,
filmy fabric which well became her RI
dInnt beauty. Meade could look Mt n
bit of structural steel work md tell
you NIL about It. All that he could
have told you about the dress she wore
was that II wns cSquisitcly appropri-
ntc, but It never occurred to him that
with rrcnt price to n great nrtist
Helen lllingworth had obtained that
look of delightful simplicity.
The gown was not wasted on Meade.
she decided, Ms she caught his raptur-
Gus glnncc. She had never looked love
Her. She was not II fragile. ethereal
woman. quite the reverse. That was |
one OF ten thousand things Meade liked |
about her. She could do nll those nth- |
letic and practical things that modern |
young women can do md she could do |
them well.
Meade wns Intensely practical and !
efficient. lie could do all Of those |
things himself and many more and he /
liked ito do them, and that is one rca-
son why he had been nttr acted to her:
yet not for that alone dld he love her |
On thpt soft summer afternoon she |
looEc'l MS subtly delicate ns every man |
would NJ one time or mother have the |
woman he loves appear, and as fnr re- |
moved from things strenuous ns II In |
another world! lie was wearing the |
rough clothes. flannel shirt, khaki trou- |
scrs. hcuyy shoes and locgIngs which !
were his huhItuul use al work. Con.
trnstcd with her flmy mud dcllcntcly
color"d fuhrIc hIg woll.worn olive |
druh hUbIlimonts stood forth hldcously. |
That is. he thought 80, and tho con.
trnst somehow u,umcd typical ~ the
difference between them ms he cousil-
cred her.
There was thu careless insoucluncr
OF conscious power In the bearing Of
the engineer VIII ch differentiated him
from most N tn men with whom she
had been thrown In contact during her
NE. The Interim ionnl Bridge WINS the
biggest thlr" II he kind the Mnrtlct
company or amy ether American struc.
turul plant Ind Nrr undertaken. II
had been n cuuzil a. topic of converse n.
lion wherever hrr father was. She
had heard 1ll ubut u, ana although.
Al lei sf.t.HIIfIsF a. IFIl#F.s a.