New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-05-04
CHAPTER nl.-Continued.

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son" she said, "mother's write
two or three books, and lots Of mag
zine articles, about wOmen-womeh
rights and suffrage, and all ina
She's been-well, sort of IL leader eve
since she graduated from college
back in-iuSt think !-lS7O, when mo-
girls used to have - accomplishment
French, music, and washing extra
you know"
She said it all with n quite adore
Bile seriousness. and his gravity match
ed hers when he replied: Il woul
like to meet her very much. Femin
ism's ii subject I'm blankly ignoran
about"
~ don't believe" she said thought
fully, that ia call 1t feminiSm II
talking to mother about 1t, If ! wer'
you. Mothers II suffrngist, but
there came another wave of faint
color along with her Smile-"but -
we'll, she's nwfully respectable, yol
know"
She didn't seem to mind his laugh
ing out at that, though she didn'
join him.
"Wlat about the other interesting
member of the family" he asked
presently, your sister? Which is she
a %suffragiSt or a FEMINIST"
~ suppose" she said, you'd call
Portia IL feminist. Anyway, she
hasn't time to talk about it much. You
see, she's n business Shes n
house decorator. She tells you what
kind of furniture TO buy, and then
sells it to you. Portin's terribly clever
and nwfully independent"
"All right" he said. "That brings
us down to YOU. What are your
She sighed. I'm sort of Il black
sheep, | guess. I'm just in the univer-
sity. But I'm TO be II lawyer"
Whcrrulon he cried out 50 rXplo-
sivcly that she fairly jumped. Then he
a~pOlogiZcd and said the notion of her
In court trying Il casc-hc was II law
ger himSolf-Scrmcd rather startling.
She sighed again. "And now |
suppose She said, "you'll advise me
not to be-"
"Not II bit" he said. ITS the fin
est profession in the world"
But he said it Off the top of his
mind. Down below, it was still en-
gagged with the picture Of her in n
dismal courtroom. blazing up nj Il
jury the way she had bluzcd up ut
that conductor.
II suppose" she hazardcd, that it's
awfully dull and tiresome, though,
until you get way up to the top"
That reused him. ITS awfully dull
when you do get to the top, or what's
called the top-bcing n client care
taker with the routine law business
of n Jew big corporations and rich
estates going through your office like
grist through n mill. That's supposed
to be the big reward, Of course"
He WAS out of his chair now. tramp
ing up and down the room. "The thing
to bear in mind, if you're going to
travel that road, is that n case is
worth while in Il precise and unaltera-
BILE ratio to the mount Of money in
volved in it. If you question that
axiom at all seriously, you're lost.
That's what happened to me"
He pulled up with Il jerk. looked ut
her ana laughed. "If my sister Ere
were here" he explained. "she
warn You that now was the time
for YOU to ask me If I'd been to see
Maude Adams or something like that"
She smiled in a sort of cOntented
amusement. Then the smile trans
nuted itself into Il look of thoughtful
gravity. and there was II long silence
which, though it puzzled him, he made
10 move to break.
At last she pulled in n long breath.
straight to him, and said: 81
wish you'd tell me what happened
o you"
And, under the compelling sincerity
# her, for the next two hours and IL
half, or Whereabouts, he did-told it
IS he had never told it before.
tie told her how he had started at
he foot of the ladder in one of the
zig successful firms of what he called
client caretakers." He told of hls
discovery of a real legal problem and
f the passionate enthusiasm with
'hich he had attacked 1t. the thrill
lg weeks of labor he had put upon IL.
And then he told her how the head
{ the firm. an old friend of his IA
had called him In and said the
'ork he had done was very remark =,
bic. but. unfortunately, not profitable
the firm, the whole amount involved
J the case having been some twenty h
oIlars. In other words, he was fired. G
He told her how he'd got an with b
n altruistic bunch the City Homes "
And from the way he {;
I'D of his labors in drafting n new
ty ordinance, she felt that ii must N
ave been one of the most fascinat- h
* occupations in the world, I'M m
he told her how IL had drawn him g,
to politics, and then how after an f.
a new states attorney had Of II
red him a position on his staff Of hi
'sistants. II
In a sense. of course, 1t was true
he had, as Frederick would have d.
IT II. forgotten she was there. SO
The girl knew he had forgotten. and es
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