News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-01-26
PART l..
Moral EmbIems.

Moral Embems.
Please don't skip this description OF
Robert Hervey Randoiph-siX fee
straight up and down, broad of shout
der and narrow of hip, sandy-haired
blue-eyed. nose slightly appended ant
wearing saddle of faint freckles
clean shaver, well groomed, very cor
rectly dressed, and twenty-six years
old Let it be added that his eyes
were placed Just ean enough apart tC
stamp him forever honest; he had an
open and most prepossessing coun'
tenance.
at the moment of the start of this
rapid yarn, he was standing in the
Van Telliers' library, looking down in
panied and flushed surprise at Miss
Nadge Van T., who was sitting in a
huge leathern chair half facing the
dre in the open CRATE, one leg very
much under her, the other waving a
satin-and-silk combination of foot and
ankle in distracting accompaniment to
her disturbing speech.
Bobby" said Miss Van r., you are
darned good-looking; you're strong,
straight, and a gentleman; there are
times when you are wholly adorable,
but, nevertheless, I'm not going to
the show with You tonight, or to the
opera tomorrow. or anywhere any
more. There. there, dear boy; you
don't have TO say anything. r.You have
ore of those faces that is absolutely
BEYOND the aid of vocal organ. 1t
says everything that is in your heart
-crfi gold before your brain iias.time to
tinlle 4 bel: ]" MI
Look here, Md i1gge : said TIL .aained
MI Randolph '.are .youa making fun
OF my face or Of my brain or Of
both?"
my dear" said Miss Van T. quite
graveIy, "I'm not making finn of you in
any way whatsoever I'm merely toll
ing you how lovablo YOU are, so that
you will understand how serious it is
when I say that I've decided not to
love you any more"
"B-but how can you help it?' STAN
mered Mr.. Randolph. his tongue for
once saying the same thing as his face
at the same time.
Miss Van It's breast luttered as
though rising against its mistress to
the defense Of this disingenuouS Young
man, and she was obliged to sWerve
her eyes from his and draw a long
breath before she answered
81 can. because 7 will" she said, her
face paling ooh Bobby, can't vow
wake up? Look round yOu and come
TO earth You are born and bred ON
Manhattan. yet you've never seen New
York"
81 guess you're right" said Bobby
fhOughtfully Look here. Madge: why
should | try to see New York. and
why should we be talking ash-cans
when I've got you to look at in one of
the most bewitching and abbreviated
bits Of dress goods that ever revealed
"A completely adorable person? Tell
me that"
well" said Madge. her face hard
ening II will. It's long story, not in
words but in generations. The Van
Telliers have lived in East Ninth
street since the year one of the island.
That is. they used to live here; now
they hardly exist. They are merely an
assorted lot of animated corpseS that
crawl out of their tomb periodically to
take strange air, leaning on a rotten
siave called the old Order Listen to
this, Bobby: The new New York is
fever, and I've caught 1t. | want
rainy-day car, a calling-car, and
touring car; / want dresses that will
stab with envy the heart of every
woman that looks at them; want my
Jewels to run to size and quality, and
want a yacht Dust for the papers to
fnlk about, because I hate to ride in
the smelly things"
BObby's eyes had grown rounder
and wider as the list progressed.
"Do you think you could get along
eH a hundred thousand a year," he
asked very softly.
II don't know" she said slowly.
We Deen gong INTO tne SuD1ecl
rather thoroughly, and hundred thou
Eand would be running it on q pretty
close margin. BY the way, just what
Is vour allowance under that crazy
WHIP"
"Ten thousand" said Bobby.
well" said Miss Van T., there you
are Lust enough to keep you com
fortahly in debt and you want to
marry me on i'll It wouldn't be quite
80 out Of the question IL you knew you
were going to have 1t forever but you
don't. 1t may be cut Off"
ANY day." said Bobby promptly.
ri isn't likely, after all these years.
Bot It may"
Wei. there you are l' Miss Van T.
repeated herself. "Tm not altogether
. pig. Bobby. Ten thousand with you
thrown in is enough TO make any
woman think three times. but the
truth is you have been killed by too
little and too much Kindness. IF you
hal never gone on as super for a dis
heiress, you might have
amounted to sometimes by now. In