Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-02-13

Eyes, indeed ! do, and I'm waiting
for the time to come when / can get
oven with them"
But, mother, how are we to 6x It
up with Bart?'
II don't know, Name, unless you
have the same power you used to have
over him"
Name cast glance IN q 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, he was
In the swim at Newport, where he
would meet the finest costumes In
America, to say nothing Of the women
they incased. To make matters worse.
she had cut him.
Mother" she said, Il believe I'll
write him a line saying I've heard Of
his being in Newport and telling him
we're here. That'n look as If we
hadn't seen him on the avenue"
do you think he'd tumble to it?'
The girl pondered awhile, then ad-
mitted that she knew very well he
wouldn't; their eyes had met and there
had been a mutual recognition. She
dared not write the note.
But one morning she received a note
from Keith. He told her that, having
heard she was at Newport, he had
come on from the west to find her. But
time had made great changes for both
Of them and he did not doubt she was
following 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
boyish promises made years ago. He
refrained 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 and In the society notes indie
pendently OF his introducers, and it
was not long. before they learned that
which travels on the wings of the
wind. Keith was rich. He had be-
come interested in certain western
speculations with Mr. Forbes, and the
two had made money together. Then
came q rumof that Keith was to marry
Miss Alice Forbes. =
Up to this time the Murphys had
merely wondered. Now they were as
tonished. And over Mary Murphy
came wave Of regret. 1t WAS not
for the loss of Barton Keith's wealth
, or position; it 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 their
millions the Murphys found it 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 boyfsh 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 Murphys read In the society
columns of New York newspaper q
story concerning the contracting par
ties that gave them the key to the sit
uation. It told how Mr. and Mrs
Forbes and their daughter were trav-
cling In the Rocky mountains, how a
stage driver fell asleep, how a young
man who had been formerly handler
Of the ribbons saved the passengers
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 to
the union-a young girl seeing an ast
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. It was said that
this was in Difference to the wishes
Of the groom, who bore the reputation
of being an extremely modest man.
He devoted himself to business, his
only recreation being driving fourth
hands, and this was supposed to be In
memory Of experiences Of former days.
Mother" said Mary Murphy one
day, Il have a PLAN"
~"What is it, Manner"
1--WE can't break through the shell of
this Newport egg. We must 60 else
where"
"Where shall We go?''
ITO London"
Good gracious, daughter! II We
can't succeed here, how can We do sc
among the British nobinty?'
"Others who have failed here have
succeeded there. Leave it to me.
Money, dear mother, Is the power that
opens doors wherever money is need
full. These British mobiles are getting
poor. Our people are getting rich.
Many here have always been rich, and
some care nothing about becoming
richer. In England commoners have
been getting rich, while the mobiles
would prefer to marry an American
to commoner Of their own country.
there being no titles here. l shall 60
to London. marry title and come
back here for just long enough to snub
those who have snubbed u.s.
Two years later Mary. Murphy re-
turned to Newport as the Countess Of