The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-26

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 At IA years old, Robert Landon be- gins his awakening to young man. hood by joining the Boy scouts. The son of poor woman, he leads any thing but an enyiabIe existence, but citizenship and what it means has begun to stir in his soul. One day seeing a corner stone being laid and hearing the attendant euIoSy to n citizen, Bob vows he will be n great man.
 red -hafred girl hears him, and much to Bob's embarrassment, speaks up and encourages the idea. He loses her after a boyish promise that he will make good just for her sake. An automobile drives up and whisks her away. He does not even learn her name.
 Bob decides to become an architect, and gets a job with the best and most successful firm in Birmingham. and fs persuaded to become a real estate man. He conceives nm idea that he wishes to build u series of gigantic electrical figures above the city which will be magnificent to look upon from the top of Red mountain. T'winIxlinG lights, he feels, are not enough. He hopes to see only castles, municipal building, houses of God,
 
 buildings go up along Red mountains erest--alI of them to be of marble. Their spires and turrets and artistic beauty, he feels, would forever be nm inspiration when Birmingham citi- Eens lifted their eyes to look upon them. He maps out figures typical of the old south and builds his towI.s in colonial style.
 One day, coming down the street. he sees the red-headed girl again but again she suddenly escapes him. In seeking her, he accidcntly learns to know Annette kingston, yOung society girl, who Is very much att tracted to him, and who aslxs him 7 to call, which he decides he will not do. Mary witnesses the meeting, but docs not recognize Bob.
 CHAPTER VI.--Coutinucd.
 Mary Trevor had had such a hur- ! ried life. Like the life Of any society 2 girl, 1t had been crowded with things { that must ins trSict her to take her : place in the world as tho daughter < of a mining and coal operator whose influence was vast, not only in his own city and state, but in the United States.
 Mary. even so young. was bit too tired of it all.
 As little girl there had been private tutors and Kindergarten and z school work. There had been dancing classes and almost weekly or monthly ] affairs in which she had played the role of a fairy fanciful or merry character.
 A 7 Childhood Days s She could remember even yet, when, almost a baby, her little feet and body were 80 tired all she longed to sado was to creep away, like a little. fluffy white chicken, and go to sleep. ti Maybe it would not have been so q strenuous life for her if her mother had lived. But dying, as she did, so sAearlyl in Mary's existeuce-at three years of age-an aunt had had the si supervision of her training and educa- : #a. ton, and being of a disposition that all things must be done in thorough 5 manner. had exacted that nothing be slacking in Mary's upbringing. No sa body could say she had not done her 7 full duty by the childi
 At the time Mary had met Bob as "a little girl, he had guessed right as to her mission at the deserted house. With her aunt and several friends in the automobile, they had driven through the neighborhood to seek a workman who was needed to patch .<. B stone retaining wall about the = house.
 With chiids delight fin beauti- full nodding blossoms, Mary's eager ness and childish pleading "oh, please. Aunt Mamie, let me get just a few and I'll come back and meet you at the corner" had attained re- suits. But the flowers she really had wished to gather had been too hiGn for her hands, and rather than accept the blossoms she did not want. s--e took none at all
 With her that was character hn - position.
 The City View -- Her chin went down on her arms as she leaned upon the window ledge and watched the night, and the city's lights that blazed so brightly now. so dimly then, over the thousands of persons who were yet filling the splayhouses and rushing hither and thither upon missions to be per fformed before bed time, or were hurrying to parks, or homeward
 'T wish could make up my mind quickly about anything" Mary thought-and was annoyed at a problem of marriage that seemed to be almost too urgent to be denied. and which that day had come to a climax when she had received a tele- gram saying that II rbert McAllister would be in the city the following g day.
 It meant that the period of six months had elapsed which le had asked her to grant him before her final reply. For he had refused to take No" and was a very insistent young man and very much in love. He was only the latest of many dozens of men who had sought = Mary's hand at home and abroad. And while her father did not say so. Mary sometimes felt that he would have been very much more pleased if she had not dallied so long.
 Fortunately for Mary, however, there was no one to insist upon her making any quic.. decisions, since, some years previously her aunt had married again. which had removed her supervision. After which, a very quiet. demure and mos. lovable grandmother had come to take charge of the household who never was anything but considerate and stndulgent-and a wonderful hostess to those who came to enjoy the hos pitality of the housA.
 No Interference ~1- Never in any slightest way did Grandmother Trevor interfere with MSry's private and individual life. land while it was a comfort always when Mary asked her advice to hear her say: You must do as you think best, my child. You see. I could not know Just what would make you .ahappy," there were times when Mary really would have preferred her to express positive opinion.
 Mary knew that the next day, a,wfen Herbert called, her grand emother would be quite as gracious