Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-25

old TraSk, who at that time was one
of the biggest and shrewdest lawyers
in New York. FELTON, senior and Trask
had grown up together as youngsters.
When TraSk'S parents died old Mrs.
FELTON, practically adopted the boy and
mothered him for a number of years.
So, naturally, FELTON, did not hesitate
to ask a favor for his son.
Well, Trask gave young FELTON, a
place in his Office and for a long time
things went well with him-as we'll,
that is, as things could go with any,
one who had to associate constantly
with a grabbed, bitter old creature like
Trask.
I needn't recall his reputation. Peo-
pie who had known him as a young
mar said life had soured him.
He had no reason for diSliking
FELTON, except that FELTON, was young
and optimistic and clean minded. Fell
ton was ~senSitive-an idealist and
generous. Several times he had been
on the point of quitting the firm and
returning to California. But, for his
fathers sake, he stayed on.
This went on for several years. Then
FELTON, met the girl. She was singing
in a musical comedy at the time
filling a small, incOnspicuous part, but
her beauty rather marked her out.
She disliked going about on parties,
but her position meant a great deal
to her and in order to hold it she had
ever, she was always mistress of her.
SELF.
FELTON, met her one night at a late
onl rotbor nou ct,n,Nar Uiypn hy did
Pop Seldridge in his apartments.
Seldridge was one of Trask's most val
ued clients, and FELTON, went to the
supper largely as an act of business
diplomacy. He was somewhat stunned,
therefore, at finding a girl like Ruth
Wallace among the guests. To him
she seemed entirely different from the
others.
Anyway, FELTON, looked into the girls
eyes, and neither one moved or spoke
for several seconds. But they felt
something-some subtle, dim recollec-
ton, as it were-pass between them;
and when their fingers touched in the
unconsciously prolonged h~andshake
that followed they were both trembling
a little and their pulses were beating
fast.
Later in the evening FELTON, man.
aged to get the girl alone in an al
cOve.
What are you doing here?" he asked
her, with the candid concern of ar
old acquaintance.
She smiled a bit broodily and looked
at him with tender gravity. II might
ask the same question of you" she
rejoined, a bit eagerly.
II came wholly as a matter of bust
ness" he told her, in that honest
straightforward manner which has car.
ried him SO far.
She dropped her eyes. I'm a way
that is just the reaSOn I also came,
she murmured. Then she added, with
a tinge of bitterness: "A girl must &
through much more even than a mar
when she has her living to make"
FELTON, succeeded in taking her ava.
that night before the others left. They
rode home in silence, and at the doc,
Of her f1at-which, by the way, wa
in Harlem near the East river-h,
kissed her on the forehead.
This was Saturday, and as she di(
not have to go to the theater the mex
evening she had given him permission
to call. At eight O'Clock, accordingly
he was there. She was living will
her father and mother, and when Eel
ton met them he received a shocl
which would have shattered the 70
mantle enthusiasm of a less idealisti
nature.
Her parents were obviously common
people, and, worse, they were vulgar
They appeared to FELTON, like lowly
simple working people who had BEEF
insidiously corrupted by poverty an
misfortune.
But, on the contrary, there wer
many evidences about them Of al
ample income.
And as he sat In that gaudy Twin
room comparing the sensitive, beauti
full girl with the coarse. inferior ma
and woman, he found it difficult to &C
cept the fact that she was Of thei
same flesh and blood. She seemed t