Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-23

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out OF OWL for a year or 80. IN which
He meets Elsie again, and learns that
his break with Mrs. Masterson.
Tony asks Elsie to marry him feeling
tnat 1T Is his best chance Of happiness;
AZ some thought she consents and
tn couple take a house in the Pail
oisGovers that he loves his wife: 49,
drlving a truck In his own fathers fac-
tory.
They continue to live hAppily for sew
eral months.
Then one day when driving his motor
truck down Fifth avenue Anthony again
meets Mrs. Masterson.
Elsie is soon to become a mother.
CHAPTER MI.
THE UPPER TRAIL.
Adriance had not spent half a year
in the mill. even in the limited ca
pacity Of chauffeur, without observ-
ing many things. He had come to
ming mechanism of which he was a
part. Might he not find in this fact
an opportunitya He saw much that
he himself, given authority, might do
to promote efficiency. He did not de-
Jude himself with the idea that he
could go into any factory as IN eff
cheney expert; he did see that here he
might fairly earn and ask for a sal
airy that would give Elsie more
Injuries than she had even known in
her w home and more than he him.
self had learned to desire. After all,
there had been nc quarrel between his
father and himself. When the young
man had chosen a course hat he
knew to be disagreeable to the older.
he simply had withdrawn from their
life together as a matter of courtesy
and self-respect. Since he no longer
save what was expected of Tony Adri-
ance, he could not take Tony's
privileges; now however, knowledge
Of Elsie had changed the situation.
His father had only to meet his wife,
Anthony felt assured, for his mar
riage to explain itself. Even If Mr..
Adriance were disappointed by the
simplicity of his sons choice and I'M
billions, even if he preferred the bril-
liant Mrs. Masterson to the serene
young gentlewoman as a daughter-in-
law, why should there be rancor be-
tween the two men? For the first
time it occurred to Adriance that his
father might be lonely n welcome
been intimate, but they had been COM
panions. or at least pleasant ac-
q~uaintances. The house on the Drive
had not contained only servants, as
now it must-servants who were
merely servants. too, not the faithful,
devoted, tactful servitors of omance
but the average modern hireling. The
house-keeper engaged and dismissed
them and was herself a shadowy auto
maton: who appeared only to receive
special orders and render monthly &C
counts For INV afnnsrhere IF hnpna
created in the house, the Advances
might as we'll have been established in
a hotel. Anthony wondered if even
Elsie could leaven that dense mass Of
formality, or If her art was too deli
cate, to subtle a combination Of heart
and mind and personality to affect
such conditions. He could not be
certain. He could we'll imagine her,
daintily gowned and demurely self
hold: but he could not imagine the
household itself as altered very much
or made less stupidity p%onderous by
her presence. He had not thought of
this before, but now he could not
think his pleasure would be quite the
same if they sat together in state in
that drawing-roona he knew so well.
while she told him the tales he had
learned to delight in. 1t could not be
doilS IN Sd11lC do d IS0lL1 D1 LIOIE
own, and his pipe. burning with a
coarse, outrageous energy, expressed
i'll volumes Of smoke, while Elsie
leaned forward. little hands animated,
gray eyes sparkling. and mimicked or
drolled or sang as the mood swayed
them or the tale demanded. He knew
that he himself could never read aloud
with enthusiasm and verve il Mr.. Ad-
rance listened with amused criticism.
Va t.
constituent that he did not want to
take his wife home.
Nevertheless, the thing must be
done. It was a duty. He could not
selfishly continue in the way he liked
SO well. He must consider Elsie and
the third who was to join their circle.
He must pick up for them what he
had thrown aside for himself.
But he refused to go back to his IA
ther like a defeated incompetent to
plead for his inheritance. His pride
recoiled from the certainty that his
father would SO regard his return;
great gate to the factory yard he
paused to survey again the enormous
buildings with their teeming life. In
more than one sense this wa his
workshop.
There was more than the usual
hubbub and confusion in the ship
ptng-room when he went down the
stone incline to that vast subterranean
apartment. The little wizened man In
horn trimmed spectacles. who vibrated
around his long platform, checking
rolls and bales and boxes as they
were loaded into the trucks. had al
traction. His thin hair was fattened
by pe%rspiration across his knobby
forehead. although 1t was not yet
eight o'clock and freezing draughts of
air swept the place as the doors swung
~unceasingly open and hut. Groups OF
grinning chaufeurs and porters lott
cred in corners Of behind pillars. eye
ing with enjoyment or indifference, a.
the case might be. the little mans
busting energy and anxiety.
This condition had already lasted
two days. like veritable festival of
confusion. Adriance had watched II
with the utter indifference Of his
mates. merely attending to, the duties
assigned him n leaving Mr.. Cook to
solve his own perplexities: but this
morning he hesitated beside the fiery,
streaming little TAI The little man
caught sight OF his not unsympathetic
face and hailed him, calling through
the tumult Of, cars. rafting hand
trucks. pushed by blue -shirted porters
and the complex din Of the place,
Here, Andy-you know New York,
how long should / allow thig man to
go to the Valparaiso dock, unload and
get back? Three hours."
Two responded Adriance. mount
ing the long platform beside his chief.
S.CAn't be DONE" the chauffeur OF
the waiting truck sullenly contradict
why not?"