The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1919-09-19
Observation-Disclosures,
THE BIG HOPE
BY LAURA DREW.


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Dave LindIey was in New York four
weeks before 1t dawned on him that
his capital was dwindling TO few dol
lars, and nobody seemed to appreciate
the value of his presence there In
business way.
He had been so accustomed 10 the
way people regarded him up home it
had been a distinct shock to be over
looked. In Saginaw his father was the
old lumber king, Jackson Lindley. His
boats were leaders In lake shipping.
his name power In state politics and
he had just one son to slip into his
place.
The trouble was that son had inner
tied the temperament and looks of his
mother, Nanon Seyrier, French-Ca-
madam girl from the straits, whose
dark eyes and caprlcious ways had
drawn the silent Yankee lumberjack TO
her, back in the early days in The
northern forests.
LindIey had come out of Ann Arbor
with a new viewpoint and the wander
lust. His love affair with Bah Welles-
ley had been natural result. She was
with a little musical comedy company
that happened to strike Saginaw Oh IFS
route up the lake. and to Lindley she
was the personification of the New
York world he longed TO see and be
part of. In his senior way he had
tried to meet her and make her tonr-
day stay a whirlwind memory, but the
trouble was you couldn't find the max
ings of whirIwind in, Saginaw. Al
the end of the motor trips and little
suppers after the show Ba5 said
good-by.s
you're an awfuIly nice kid, Lind
II you ever hit New York you'd get
along great. If you'd keep your head
and not be like they are down there.
He had asked what she meant. and
she had only shrugged her shoulders.
Nothing, she had said, only nobody
cared about anybody else down there.
They weren't neighborly; they just
didn't care whether you lived or died,
even If you happened to be next door
to them.
s'YOu'l know what i mean If you
ever go there" she added.
Now he knew. He had moved from
the McAlpin into a little furnished
room on a side street. Not that he
had TO. He could have wired home
for money, but he wanted to show the
old man he could stand on his own
and make good. There was nobody in
the roonaing house who ever spoke to
him excepting the old Irish woman
who came to clean up his room.
But when he passed I'm and out he
often saw a girl at the telephone in
the lower hall. She attracted him
oddly, because she seemed like one OF
the girls back home.
Then one night he was wakened by
smarting sensation in his throat,
and he opened his eyes to find himself
In gray cloud.
From the basement windows the
smoke was pouring out thickiy. A
man passed in the falling snow and ne
hailed him, telling him to turn in the
alarm ut the corner while he reused
the rest of the house. He tried as ne
made his way through the smoke-flled
halls to remember the people In the
rooms above, but on the third landing
Miss Donald met him, and she L IS
wrapped In a long gray cloak.
"T've called them ALL" she told him
quietly. SIT is just the furnace. There
isn't any real danger Of fire. Nora for
got to open the draughts before she
went to bed. and the house is filled
with coal gas and smoke. IT'S all right
now. She went down to TX II.
''When there's so much smoke there
isn't much fame. hIr. Lindley. she
said seriously.
.How did ycu know my nafnes
didn't think anybody in New York
| knew their neighbor's names even. IN
| told her.
She laughed and hesitated.
.You see, know some ore vine
knows you. Bah Wellesley. She's n
the same show | am this season UP al
1 the Jardin des F1eurs, roof show
you know. I'm from the West, toe
Omaha, and we're friends. She was
down here to see me and recognized
you Is you came through the hail, bai'
i YOU didn't seem to remember her. Blu
/ know all. about you. and I've wanted
| to faik to You SO much and tell yea
to 70 back home.
/ "Go backs'. he repeated. sWhyf
| Before you lose your big hope
/ Bah wanted 10 be the new Marlowe
i and I thought I would be Mt the cper'
4 in d year. and here we are MP there =
the Jardin, and glad to get the en-
gagement. too. she's going home. toe
i / would. too. ne a had any TO 90 to. bu
| my mothers dead and my father
marrisd again. 50 I'm not wanted.
All the end OF three months old Jack
SON Lindley landed In New York =
Hook up his sone aud only" as he tsi'
1 Nora when she led him into the oil
| red brick house. And Nora broke tn
news to him eonfidentially and j5bi
iantly.
aSure. he was the finest Young snal
ever lived here. ard that free. too