The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-11-19
BIZ WiN PANE


wood was tho attorney in the mat.
ter.
II was nj the basket factory that
krom fret raw Elizabeth Maiden.
sitting NJ the work bench, he was
suddenly aware Of nm extraordinary
yiHlon-n slender figure IN nlmpls
linen drcfa with hat thhi he had
NO detailed perception OF. only IL
looked like spring fragrance; q
face under the INIT. Then be- saw
that tho vision was for slelnmnn;
the little man WINS running 10 fetch
chair. Probably II wouldn't hnve
occurred 10 Stoinman 10 Introduce
Erom.
But Ellznhoth, stnndIng NO close
he felt n fragfoncc, was looking az
him, smiling, and aoylng 10 Stein.
man "Thla In Mr.. Krom. Isn't itp
While Kron stared NJ NJ her from
tho bench steInmnn replied, quite
lInporaopnlly. ms though they were
discussing n piece ~ furniture,
"Yos. That In Mr.. Krom."
fsilNuH'lfl F'llllf lNtiIHlfu
brighter M bhe completed tho IN.
PRODUCTION herself ~ nm Miss Nal.
don--Judgo Liscomb'a sfonog.
fapher"
Krum muticrod. "Glod 10 know
you"
She spoke few further words
and then turned away for her visit
with stoinmnn. A duh, confused
shame surgcd IN krom's mind IIe
ought 10 hay. stood NJ when she
spoke 10 him instead Of sitting at
The bench like n Iobsterl From
somewhere or other no remembered
that he should have arisen. 10
must have looked like fool 10 her!
Only 10 feet away abe and stein.
man were cbnttorinR away lkrom
observed That with natonahmcnt.
The queer, shy old nut was aetuo.
ally rhdttcrlng--m making regular
ladies' tea party Of ~ And Miss
Maiden was shining at him. her
clear laughter ring IN the shop
Wouldn't tbnt bent hell7 Regular
tea party Krom reflected. with n
sntlricnl implication, that he war no
lady's man. That tea party lasted
nenriy half an hour
Rising, the called spoke few
more words 10 him Should he get
10 his feet uoW2 But II didn't mat.
tefi he remained NJ his bench When
she went out neither he nor stein.
man mentioned the enll-the latter
plunging NJ once into his work
But all this was mere bypay Ma
thaniel IIarwood was finding a sur
prlsing lot Of time 10 spend IN ths
home Of hla boyhOod. or course, he
was greatly interested IN the lnyen.
ton that Steinman and Krom were
working at But he could not have
got the reports from Srom, who
spent at leaDt half the time IN Chi
cago, ana when In the city came
almost daily to the roof room which
had now been made a workshop.
Harwood had been fond Of Jose
phinc Cutter when he married her
he thought. lie had looked proper.
~ mournful at the funeral. But
directly after II. and when alone,
he had not been able to keep a
faint smile of relief from coming
TO the surface. Josephine, IKE her
father, had been person OF very
decided opinions. In which she had
such implicit faith that she could un.
derstand any opposition to them
only on the ground Of n moral or
mental defect HARDWOOD mourn
fully feared that his daughter Ma
thide waa Ike her In that.
All his life admiration OF women
had surrounded him like native
air. But early training. or Temporal
mcnt, kept him 10 a conventional
standard OF conduct; he was IA
nous squire Of DANES to whom no
scandal had ever attached.
lie was now. In practical fact, en-.
gagged 10 Betltia Belknap who had
many admirable qualifications for
wife--one of them being the posses
sion OF 10000 .000--and who was
one yonr older than himself,
There was an odd paradox IN his
llltt w WHICH bt woo nv" ''s.'N
Women had always been his friends.
His big success had come through
q womnn--Josephine Cutter. lie
was aware-s ensitively II secretly
that some men held that against
him, slshtingly. saying that he had
won his marshal's baton by marri-
age, not by his own merit that
the most conspicuous object on his
coat OF arms was a petticoat Nat
urally, they would say that all the
more when he married Letitia Belk-
nap. In short he had owed much
TO woman. but not the great debt;
for no woman had ever before car
ried him out OF himself and shown
him a new heaven and new earth.
Woman had given him a lot OF
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