Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-10-31

THE BIG HOPE
BY LAURA DREW.


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Dave Lindley was in New York four
weeks before IL dawned on him that
his capital was dwindling to a few dol
| lars, and nobody seemed to appreciate
the value OF his presence there In a
/ business way.
/ De had been So accustomed 10 the
way people regarded him up home 1t
had been distinct shock TO he over
looked in Saginaw his father was the
old lumher king Jackson Lindley. His
boats were leaders IN lake shipping,
his name o power Ia state politics and
he rad iust one son to slip into his
place.
The trouble was that sou had inner
tied the temperament and looks Of his
mother, Nanon Sevrier, French-Cn-
madam girl from The straits, whose
dark eyes and capricious ways had
drawn the silent Yankee lumberjack to
her. back In the early days in the
northern forests,
Lndley had come out of Ann ArbOr
with new viewpoint and the wander
lust. His love affair with Bah Welles-
ley had been a natural result She was
with little musical COMEDY company
that happened to strike Saginaw on its
route up the lake. and to Lindley she
was the personifcation Of the New
York world he longed to see and be
part of. In his serlOr way be had
tried to meet her and make her four
day stay a whiriwind memory, but the
trouble was you couldn't find the maxi
ings of a whrIwlnd in Saginaw. At
the end OF the motor trips and little
suppers after the show Bah said
good-by.
You're an awfully 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.
you'll know what l mean If you
ever go there" she added.
Now he knew. He had moved from
the McAlpin into 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 rOoming house who ever spoke to
him excepting the old Irish woman
who came to clean up his room.
But when he passed In and out he
often saw 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 a gray cloud.
From the basement windows the
smoke was pouring out thickly. A
man passed In the falling snow and he
hailed him, telling him to turn in the
alarm at the corner while he reused
the rest of the house. He tried as he
made his way through the smoke-fllled
halls to remember the people in the
rooms above, hut on the third landing
Miss Donald met him. and she was
wrapped in long gray cloak.
1--WE called them ALL" she told him
quietly. ut 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 filed
with coal gas and smoke. It's all right
now. She went down to fix it,
when there's so much smoke there
isn't much flame, Mr.. Lindley," she
said seriously.
How did you know my name?
didn't think anybody in New York
knew their neighbours names even," he
told her
She laughed and hesitated.
you see, I know some one who
knows you. Bah Wellesley. She's in
the same show am this season up at
the Jardin des Fleurs. a roof show
you know. I'm from the West too
Omaha, and we're friends. She was
down here to see me and recognized
you as you came through the hall, but
you didn't seem TO remember her. But
know all about you, and I've wanted
TO talk 10 you so much and tell yon
10 90 back home"
eco backY' he repeated. "Why?"
Before You lose your big hope.
Bah wanted to be the new Marlowo.
/ and thought | would be at the opera
In year, and here We are up there at
/ the Jardin. and glad 10 get the en-
i gagement 100. shes going home, 100.
/ would, too, /; I had any to 60 10. hut
my mothers dead and my fathers
/ married again, 50 I'm not wanted"
At the end of three months old Jack
( son Lindley landed in New York TO
1 look up his zone anil only" as he Told
Nora wnen she led him into the old