Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-22
A Storv OF Nep York Life
BB Leroy SCOTT

personally her feeling was that she was
going up, up--breathlessly, magically
! up! And she would help Kenneth make
great place in the world-a very
great place She felt swelling within
herself the power to do this.
And then she thought again of her
! Suther--her mind fingered upon him.
! What, indeed, would he say when he
| learned? In her exalted spirits, great
| idea was suddenly born. There was
one thing she might do, after she had
become Kenneth's wife and had come
10 be the person of power which she
intended to be she would use her in
luence, indirectly of course. to have re
moved from her father that stigma OF
4 double murder which he had borne for
fifteen years. Ics-she would do
Iitf
She decided that she should at once
tell her father of her engagement. Late
at night. in disguised hand, she wrote
an unsigned note to him. which she
sealed and inclosed in Il letter to Uncle
George. letter which would mean
nothing if it fell into the possession OF
the wrong persons, but which Uncle
George would understand. Then she
slipped out of the house unobscrved. and
| out of the grounds, and dropped the
letter into village postbox.
The letter was not taken up until
the next morning, and Uncle George did
not receive it until the next evening
when he came back to dress for dinner
TO his apartment on Central Park
West; Uncle George, though he liked
| the easy life of the restaurants and
hotels of Broadway, preferred for his
hours of rest and relaxation u roomy.
quiet place such as he had managed by
n suavely efficient japanese servant.
Uncle George could not break his dinner
appointment, but at 8 o'clock he passed
through the Pekin, whose two apiece
orchestra had just begun it's evening 5
work. and with Black Jerry entered
the little Office at the rear. When the
two men were seated at the little table
he handed Black Jerry the inclosurc,
Black Jerry read the note, then he lit
u match and burned it, When he looked
up. his black eyes were cleaning.
cam / to be let in on what it's all
about?' demanded Uncle George. "Of
course know it's news from Jennie"
Black Jerry told him. There was a
brief silence, the two men gazing stead
lily at each other
Didn't 1 say my Jennie had as
much right to a chance as any other
mans kid?' Black Jerry presently ex
claimed exultantly. Didn't l say I'd
And didn't ! say she was clever enough
to make good in any chance l give her?
And amt she made good?'
''She sure has, Jerry " returned
Uncle George, lubilant yet solemn.
well. we have put the big thing
across ] said it had to be a slow plan
but, Jerry, we have put it across ~
Jerry ordered in a split of cham
pagne, and these two shapers of life
silently drank to their own success and
to Jennie
"She's already won big" said Uncle
George. with eyes meditativcly peerina
into the future. ''And yet she's only
just beginning | wonder how far she s
going to CO."
she's clever, my jennie is" was
Black Jerry's proud response
Eyes, she's clever" Uncle George
nodded. "God only knows how fal
she'll go ~
Once more there was silence. Their
Uncle George spoke on in solemn tones
We've put the big thing over, Jerry
Our Job is done-we're through. AnC
) this means, Jerry, that more than ever
: you've got to keep out of her life. 1
Il wasn't ended before between YOU anC
her, it's ended now"
Sure, understood that. But l.
she ever needs me"
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