Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-09
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merging itself with the new.
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CHE made her way down an easy
~ pathway and seated herself upon the
bright sand behind huge boulder. Her
eyes fixed upon the quiet, ripping
sound, which the wcstering sun was
transmitting into u giant sheet of ham
mered copper. she sat considering. Her
life, she realized had now fully be;
gun new phase she was now out upon
large stage she had Mt last definitely
entered another world--she was farther
removed than ever and more definitely
removed, from the world which con
taincd her father and her earlier friends.
And she realized that. for the future.
the management of her life was wholly
in her hands. This had been the case
before. YES: but in school there had
been prescribed grooves which had held
her toward prescribed and proper ends
Here and from now on. there were no
grooves. Her future. whether she sue
ceeded or failed, rested entirely with
herself with her clcvcrncSS, her skill,
her caution, her watchful control of
herself, her tactful handling of others.
She felt strangely alone in this new
world-and yet she felt cxhilaratingiy
strong.
She considered what, under these new
circumstances, should be her plan. She
thought and thought--the dying sun
= fiared more ruddily upon the, sound
but she could devise. III detail, no con =
crete course of action: just exactly
what she should do, just exactly what
might happen to her. Law behind the
glory tinted veil of youths great to-
morrow. But general plan she did
decide upon, and of it her soul took
a determined grip: she was going up,
far, far up, in this new world of which
she was now an accepted part. IIcr
method of doing this would be to turn
events as they came to pass, and per
sons as they touched her life, all tC
her advantage-and perhaps she might
so manage as to bring some events into
being.
Also she perceived that her imme-
diate career was to be founded, in solnt
measure--how large or small she coult
as vet not estimate-upon the Uarri
sons. She must study them, and stud,
to please them and particularly did sh
decide, as she turned away from tn
dimming sun path, that she must vii
I Mrs. Harrison, No one else, perhaps
could so greatly helpsh her.
As the days of seeming quiet passed
Jennie's real attention was fixed NOR
and more upon the Harrison family
Mrs. Harrison was of first Importance
yes; but irresistibly she fould hersel
giving most study to Kenneth. Sine
the evening of the theatre party, whe
Kenneth had so frankly admired her
! her mind had been constantly turn
Z ing to him. He was interesting
he was more finished than an
man she had ever known-but, on tn
other hand. Sue had spoken of hin
fippantly, disparagingly. What wa
he really like? He came out four time
during Jennie's first two weeks at Sill
yer Bluffs, and little by little his por
trait grew Some of the details whic
filed out the portrait Jennie learne
from Sue. some from his mother, som
she saw or surmised-and some few sh
did not learn until much later. Bt
presently the real Kenneth was com
pleted upon her minds canvas,
This real Kenneth was more of
person than Sue had indicated yer
much more, indeed. Jennie felt thu
Sue, influenced by the distorting init
macy of family life, which may max
one see the large thing as small or tn
small as great, had been unjust to Ken
Kenneth, as Jennie at length judge
him, was, in worldly sense ut leas
the bright star of the family. Frol
the best houses invitations warml
beckoned him; he really was consiG
cred big business man for one 5
!, young; he was one of the younger me
that men of large affairs had thei
eyes fixed upon. In short, he was, nc
so much because of his fathers wealt
Or because of his position in his faith
er's business, as because of the impress
sion he created through his own per
sonality, heir apparent TO lordl
place.
And another great detail: Kennel
worked much harder than he seemed
work. Like so many of the younge
generation of business men who go i
for a social life, he worked at KILN
pace and for killingIy long hours.