The Colorado statesman., 1924-08-16
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By H. LOUIS RAYBOLD
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20. 1924. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
When Angus Patterson, bereft of his
wife, left for South America to look
up mining proposition, he did not
know that he would never see his lit
tie daughter Jean again. In fact, so
sure was he that he would return
within the year that he placed her in
n private school and paid her board
and tuition in advance for exactly
twelve months from date.
Teach her manners" he bluntly
told the head of the school. Cynthia
Krailing "Some day she'll manage a
big establishment" At the time he
supposedly would be his own.
Kissing the weeping Jean he COM
forted her with assurances that he
would soon be home again. and in
the meanwhile exhorted her TO study
hard, be a good girl, and write regu-
larly to Aunt Julie, her dead mothers
sister whose husband captained a
string of barges operating between
Buffalo and New York.
Then Angus took his departure to
invest what little fortune he had in
q losing venture, and shortly after to
die of jungle fever far In the interior
of Brazil
Money or no money, Cynthia Krail-
ing would gladly have kept Jean on
at school, but there came a day when
she abandoned teaching to marry, and
the problem of disposing of Jean had
to be faced. OppOrtunely there ar
rived one morning a pleasant-faced
woman who announced herself as
jeans Aunt Julie and begged for
visit from her sisters child.
So, with a little pang as she looked
into the girls starry eyes, she said
good-by and, like Jeans father, bade
her be "a good girl" She promised
not to forget her and, If the time ever
came when she needed her, to prove
Jeans friend
So ended the first phase of Jean
Patterson's life.
When Helen Cabot bought ma
hogany speed boat for her son Dick
and turned him loose in it for the
summer she did not foresee the con-
sequences.
1.-The poor boy is worn out with
studying" she told her husband, land
before going into your office in the
fall needs good rest out of doors.
He has set his heart on q certain boat.
Let him have It."
So the speed devil was purchased,
and with couple of friends Dick set
off up the Hudson for destination
that was vague but distant-Georgian
bay at the very nearest.
A day later they locked into the
Erie with several barges, among them
one which stood out above the others
because of it's well-kept condition,
freshly Numbered curtains at every
cabin window, pots of brilliant gerani-
ums at the door, and sleek cat blink
ing lazily in the sunshine
Whatever details Dick absorbed at
first glance, however, were immedi-
ately ecipsed by the young girl who
sat sewing in low chair, her slender
ankles gracefully crossed.
The swish of the incoming water
accustomed although she was to it,
for an instant startled her, and she
looked up-sfraight into Dicks eyes
rs he stood on the old towpath manip-
ulating ropes for the smoother pas
sage of the Speed Devil.
81 am going to marry that girl he
declared to his scandalized compan-
ions. watch me. Meanwhile we
hang about here with the barges until
L can make an opportunity to meet
her"
Dick met her aunt and uncle, and
little by little he won their confidence
and jeans affections. On the day
that she promised to marry him with
in the year he wrote to his parents
"She Is the most beautiful girl in the
world 7" he ended his letter.
Helen went to pieces over the COM
munication. "Imagine" she said,
"our Dick losing his head over pretty
barge grill Then she gathered her
wits together to combat the situation.
'I know the thing to do" she declared
"I'll invite her here and give din
ner for her It cannot fall to show
him how utterly untitled she is to fit
into 6he environment to which he
would bring her as his wife"
So hopefully she sat down at her
spinet desk and wrote two cleverly
worded notes-one to her beloved son
and one to the dreadful girl who had
ensnared him. 49,
A week later Jean Patterson, with
a very fiuttering heart stood In the
doorway of the Cabot drawing room.
Well she knew that she was on trial
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bitterly she dreaded the ordeal.
Unfortunately, Dicks mother pur-
sued her reflections, little things would