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fertilizing material, having anything to
do with Bart Keith. You know how
they snubbed U.S."
ayes. indeed do, and I'm waiting
for the time to come when can get
even with them"
"But, mother, how are we to fix 1t
up with Barti'
81 don't know, Name, unless YOU
have the same power you used to have
over him"
Name cast glance In mirror. Art
had done great deal for her since she
waited on the railroad men her mother
fed IN their days Of poverty. Nothing
that money could buy was now denied
her But she knew Bart Keith well.
He had loved her In calico, and to love
her in costly fabrics must incite an EN-
tirely new sensation. Besides, lie was
in the swim at Newport. where he
would meet the finest costumes IN
America, 10 say nothing Of the women
they incascd. TO make matters worse,
she had cut him.
NOlllNG, SHc Sulu, ''i''S -
write him line saying I've heard of
his being IN Newport and telling him
we're here That'll look as If we
hadn't seen him on the avenue
"Do you think he'd tumble TO itT
The girl pondered awhile, then i'd
mittcd that she knew very well he
wouldn't; their eyes had met and there
had been Il mutual recognition. She
dared not write the note.
But one morning she received note
from Keith. lie told her that, having
heard she was at Newport. lie hnd
come on from the west to find her. But
time had Elade great changes Fer both
Of them and he did not doubt she was
following n course which seemed in
viting to her In her new sphere. He
shrank from parting with her without
letting her know that he had kept the
boyisl promises made years ago. He
refraincd from mentioning the cut she
had given him, but it was evident it
was this that had turned him from her.
He closed his epistle with the word
farewell" and she knew that he had
passed beyond recall.
For time the Murphys heard that
Keith was being introduced under the
wing of the FOrbeses. Then they began
to hear his name mentioned among the
people ana in the society notes inde-
pendently of his introducers, and it
was not long before they learned that
W biah tfn ynlS tha ypinuo np ha
wind. Keith was rich. lie had be-
come interested in certain western
speculations with Mr.. Forbes, aud the
two had made money together. Then
came II rumor that Keith was to marry
Miss Alice Forbes.
merely wondered. Now they were as
tonished. And over Mary Murphy
came II wave of regret 1t was not
for the loss of Barton Keith's wealth
or position; 1t was for Keith himself.
The prize they sought for and for
which she had snubbed the lover of
her young girlhood every day seemed
farther from her grasp. Despite theft
millions the Murphys found 1t impOssi-
BILE to effect an entrance into Newport
society Mary had become accustomed
to wealth, and it failed TO satisfy her.
she was hungry for the boyish love
that had been hers in poverty, but she
had thrown it away.
The report that Keith was to marry
Miss Alice Forbes proved true. When
the engagement was formally announc-
ed the Alurphys read In the society
columns of u New York newspaper a
story concerning the contracting par.
ties that gave them the key to the sit.
uation. 1t told how Mr.. and Mrs
Forbes and their daughter were trav.
cling In the Rocky mountains, how a
stage driver fell asleep, how young
man who had been formerly handler
from death, how Mr.. Forbes had taken
him up and enabled him to make a
fortune. But the story did not tell the
most important feature that had led t.
the union-a young girl seeing an act
OF cool bravery on the part of young
man.
The wedding of Barton Keith and
Alice Forbes was not celebrated with
that splendor usual to nuptials in the
fashionable world. 1t was said that
this was In Difference to the wishes
OF the groom who bore the reputation
of being an extremely modest man
lie devoted himself to business, his
only recreation being driving four-in
hands, and this was supposed to be IN
memory of experiences of former days
Mother" said Mary Murphy one
| day, Il have plan"
what Is II. Mnme?"
"We can't break through the she'll OF
this Newport egg. We must go else
where"
"Where shall we go?"
ITO London"
Good gracious, daughter! II W,
can't succeed here, how c0n we do 81
among the British nobility?"
"Others who have failed here hay,
succeeded there. Leave it to me
Money, dear mother, is the power tha
opens doors wherever money Is need
ful. These British mobiles are getting