The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-05-06
XI-Continued
Copyright By Mabel ossood Wright

IL
IA year ago I had a good place
as a draughtsman. With prospect
of promotion and a home in sight,
I spent my savings in sending for
my betrothed, whom I had met in
visiting my grandparents, for I too
am Of German descent though not
birth. When she was on the way,
the ran g.: whom / worked found
fault with me unjustly, said that /
had given away the secret Of a
patent and refused me promotion
for the well-known mistake of an
other. He refused to hear this ex-
PLANTATION and in the rage of despair
/ struck at him. I left the place
and, as Marie arrived within the
week, w were married. What else
was there to be done?
Besides why worry? A draughts.
man Of practical things could al
ways find work, / thought. But
something always came between
the persistent story that l could not
be trusted. 1t was a few weeks
here and there, until two weeks ago,
being at my wits ends, I started
for Westover to put my wife, though
much against her will, with an aunt
who, we believed, lived here, while
! made n more effort.
1.-THE aunt could not be found; as
I now know the Westover where she
lives is in another state. We could
get no further and meeting a man
with whom I once worked, who
tends the horses for the Railroad
company, he let us rest here. 1t
was his wife also that helped Marie.
OF course you may say we took the
risk in marrying, but if the poor
did not take risks the world would
have died eat long ago. If the
ghost Of that old story does not
follow me. possibly I may find work
at Westover."
There was nothing, save the dra
matte setting, that was new in the
mans story as he told it, and yet
something held Eleanor spellbound.
"Please show me your baby" she
said presently.
The man crossed the room softly
and lifted the shawl that now shield
ed the sleeping faces Of mother and
child from the light.
The man never moved his eyes
from the face Of the young mother.
and at the sight Of the expression
in his eyes something leaped to
Eleanor's own heart, a feeling that
she had believed dead, and sent
tears Of a delicior.s Sane stream
ing down her cheeks until she hid
her face in the sleeve Of her fur
coat.
Coming back to the things Of the
practical present, she said:
"In the morning we will come
and take Marie up to my mothers
until she is well, and then my hus.
band shall give you work. He is
the head of a great manufa curing
business and employs many
draughtsmen."
AS they walked toward the door.
she paused again saying, my hus.
band is Emery Vance. president of
the r. R. Equipment and Supply
Co. If you have designed in steel
and iron you have probably heard
of him."
The man started and when she
next looked at him he seemed to
have grown taller and the lines of
his face were hard and cruel, in
stead Of wan and sad.
You are the wife of Emery
Vance of New York and these are
his c~hildren?" He fairly hurled the
question at her.
Certainly; we have come to
spend Christmas with his parents
who live up the Glen" said Flea
nor, thinking his establishment came
from finding so well known a man
at a distance from his headquarters.
Tell Mr.. Vance, when you ask
him to give me work, that Joseph
Hess would first like to know the
reason why he has been harried
from plsc e to place during the last
hah yasr, and also the name OF the