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looked up to her, copied her gowns,
and courted her patronage, and there
were those among them who did not
wholly approve of her. Her family
had been socially prominent through.
out the State, her aunt was the
famous Jane Adams. but it was
thought young Marcel was a little
perhaps too modern.
Had she not been sent home from
Bryn Mawr because. as the president
said, Marcel created unrest among
the students!" Had she not gone
on the stage? And, coming back to
the village after her mothers death,
she had put on airs.
She Smoked :.
And the airs she had put on. She
brought hack "lady1s maid'-a
uniformed creature who attended
her and performed all Of the services
these simple people did for them
selves. Her greatest sin had not
been proved against her. hut a neigh.
Dor reported he had seen her sm0k-
ing q cigarette. None Of her friends
believed it.
Not that there was anything Eiddy
about the pretty Marcel now. After
her mothers death she had left the
stage. taken charge of the affairs
of the bank, which was part of her
inheritance, and had preserved a
discreet period of mourning.
When she found business con-
slderations would keep her in the
town for several years. she inter-
ested herself in civic welfare, and
her interest in charity opened her
purse to any worthy cause.
Romance Grows
Her romance with the struggling
young Emmanuel julius was a ro.
nance the people never wearied of
talking about. He had come, a
newspaper man from New York, to
work on what was then a great
socialist weekly-the Appeal to
Reason.
Although his salary was small,
it enabled him to dine in the one
hotel in the town, and there, at.
tracted by the modish gowns and
air about Miss Haldeman, had
carried on a demure Irritation. She
had been away from Girard so long
she was virtually a stranger, and
he was stranger in every sense.
In their loneliness, they sought each
others company, and it was not
long before they met formally.
The romance grew and blossomed
rapidly-a simple ring proclaimed
their troth, and within a short
while a simple ceremony made them
man and wife.
Names Merged
1t was decided to incorporate the
two names. Haldeman and julius.
preserve a distinguished name, and
with it the prestige it carried
throughout the State.
The two young people settled
down, to simple. pleasant life Of
ease. and lived quietly. Sometimes
smart people came from the East
to visit them. but they were most
frequently alone, and confined their
interests to books, and to each
other. When their little girl, Alice,
was born, they were happier than
ever. and from that time the Jean
Marcel of the stage became Mrs.
Haldeman-Julius, with a
farm, a child, and other things that
go with 1t.
So. on this lazy summers day
as she drove old Nell along the
main street, her thoughts were on
the roast for dinner. the new nurse.
maid, and the garden she was plan
ming.
Alice. almost two. and very much
In life, suddenly S0uealed
with delight and pOinted chubby
finger at q barred window OF the
old Jail.
"Oooo. mummy, see the mon-
key"' Mrs. Haldeman-Julius looked
and the sight which had attracted
Alice's attention drove all thought
Of simple, happy things from her
mind.
ChiId's Face
It was not monkey. though the
wizened little face might well have
been mistaken for one. 1t was a |
child-but what a travesty of baby
hood it was! Wild, terror. stricken
eyes peered from behind a. tangled
mass of hair, and the hands which
srasped the bars were like the
claws of an animal.
Shocked and touched by the sight. |
she rushed into the Jail, and asked
he old Jail keeper the name of the
child. and what it was doing there.
The man. who had known her from
told her the story.
1t was little Josephine Wettstein,
whose parents, were miners in a /
lamp near Girard. The family was
moor and the v,1ofkar
With a new baby on her hands,
'OUId not give her other children
my attention. They had been
aiken away from her. and an but
his one was taken tO the State
orphanage. She was In the lall be-
cause she had seurried away like