Evening star., 1935-03-31

absence. adding:
I'm going to tell my father shall not
obey him. must fail him, though know
how dire was the need that broke his iron
will"
Mr.. Gore shook hands, silently, and Dan
hurried away to find his friend Joseph Taylor.
He asked Joseph for the loan of hundred
and, to his astonishment, had three hundred
pressed on him by his much moved friend. 1t
was wonderful!
And so, a seat in sleigh, north bound to
Salisbury, and just at sunset the next day, his
fathers farmhouse. Dan paused on the side
porch to gather his courage and then went
into the kitchen. Judge Webster, wrapped in a
shawl, lay on the settle and he looked, Dan
thought, as if the very pith had been drawn
out of him.
II knew you'd come. boy" whispered the
Judge.
Dan dropped his great coat on the floor
and rushed to kiss his father. Then he gasped,
But I'm not going to take that clerkship,
sir"
What
His fathers voice was terrible.
Hear me out, fatherw pleaded Dan. mo,
HUt ucdI 0OIc. 10 Ills OpIIllOu
on this clerkship!" He repeated Cores every
word; only this was not the lawyers nasal
tones. Dams voice was sheer deep music.
The old man on the settle seemed to collapse
into himself and. when Dan was finished, he
replied with difficulty. For the first time in
my life, money trouble has me scared. I'm at
the end of my tether and turned to you. If
that's weakness, Gore is right. Nevertheless,
ftsc srk> int
plans and you must take it, Daniel"
Dan could not speak, and the Judge went
on with half a sob, It'll make new man of
me. boyw
Il must 60 back to MIR. Core" mumbled
Dan.
The Judge half rose.
Your mothers housebound for lack of
shoes! can't pay for the ones the shoemaker
finished six months ago."
Dan, as always in crisis of his affections,
began to cry. He seized his scarf and ran out
into the street.
1t was well below zero but he did not feel
the cold. He sobbed as he rushed through the
twilight to the shoemaker's and was still Sob
bing when he returned with his mothers
shoes. And yet that something above all emo
ton which controlled his genius would not
permit him to neglect or prostitute it. He
could not take the clerkship.
He burst into the kitchen again. His
mothers arms were around him. He kissed
her and, as he held her, his father said,
husisily, "You needn't have run away, Danny.
I won't force you to take the job Your
mother won't let me-"
Dan led his mother to the hearth and set
her shoes to warm.
II borrowed three-hundred dollars from
Joseph Taylor" he explained, with which to
pay your most pressing debts''
His parents stared at him. then his father
remarked. II suppose you didn't mention
having the cash because you wanted to settle
the case on its own merits2"
Il forgot had the money!" replied Dan,
simply.
go back to MIR. Gore III never mention
the subject again" said Judge Webster. "IIl
only remind you that you don't need the law
to get you to Congress"
Nor did he permit Dan to speak of the
matter again, and the young man returned to
Boston with sore heart. For the first time in
his life, there was a real misunderstanding be-
tween himself and his father. The rift per-
sisted. Dan was admitted to the bar, his
young shoulders blrdened with debts which,
if he'd taken the clerkship. could have been
paid off. His great hope was that his first case
would be so brilliant that he would be vim
dicated in his fathers eyes.
That first easel Widow Amhead, one of
the Websters' neighbors. was sued by John
Moss for fifteen dollars, the price of heifer