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The Yakima Herald.
COUNTRY I.l'l'K. (coNTiMtxo.)
“If you believeevYytnia' you hear about
men an' women, my boy. you'll be off your
course all your life long Take a good gri|
on that”
Again Phil went Into a brown study, from
which he emerged suddenly to say:
“It's just what you did when you supposed
you learned she wasn't engaged, isn’t it! You
believed It and wrote it at once to ma."
“Oh, no I" said the old man, with an air of
superiority, as he put a very sharp point on
what remained of the toothpick. “Not
much. I’vu learned always to go to head
quarters for information.”
“Why, father,” Phil exclaimed, excitedly,
“you don't mean to say, after what you
promised me, that you went—and—and"
“Poked ray nose into other people’s busi
ness! Not I Mr. Tramlay took me home
to dinner—say,what an outlandish way these
city folks have got of not oatin’ dinner till
nigh onto bedtime! an’ after the meal, 'long
about the edge o’ the evenin’, when Tramlay
had gone for some papers to show mo. an’ the
old lady was out of the room for somethin’, 1
took 'casion to congratulate the gal ou her
engagement; that’s the proper thing la such
coses made an' purvided. you know Bbo
looked kind o’ flabbergasted, an’ at hut she
•aid 'twos the fust she’d boerd of it 1 tried
to git out of it by sayin’ if it ws’n’t true it
ort to be, if young men in York bod eyes in
their beads But it didn’t seem to work. She
asked bow I beerd of It, an’ I bad to say that
somebody in the city bad told my son about
It"
Phil frowned.
“Then," continued the old man, “she bust
outcryin’.”
“Oh, dear I” sighed PbiL
■•Well,” said the old man, “1 see somethin'
bad to be done, so I put my arms around
her”—
“Why, fatborT said Phil, In alarm.
*1 put ray arms around her, an’ uid that
when a gal wai cryin* the ort to have her
parent* to comfort her. an’, aa neither of
Vm wa* present, I hoped ahe'd make bliovo
(or a minute or two that 1 waa her grand
father 80 the took my advice; an’ itaeemed
to do her a sight o’ good.’’
“What advice did you give herf naked
Phil
"None—in words,” said the old man.
“Wait till you’re my age: then you’ll under
stand.”
“I don’t see," aaid Phil, after a moment or
|wo of alienee, "that things are much better
than they were. Perhaps she's not engaged,
but that fellow Marge U hanging about her
all the time. From what I’ve heard people
remark, he's been paying attention to her for
a year or two When the family were at our
house hut summer ho was the only man she
talked about. I’m pretty sure, too, from
what I've seen, that her mother favors him.
80, putting everything together, and think
ing about it a good deal, as I’ve had to do in
spite of myself since I've been up homo. I’ve
made up my mind that it’s a foregone con
elusion.”
“8o you’re goln’ to flop like a stuck pig an'
lot it go on, are you! Just because you’ve
thought somethin’ you're goin' to do nothin’.
If I’d thought that of you I dout b’lleve I'd
have brought you down hero to be a business
man in tho city. A fellow that bain’t got
the grit to fight for a gal that he wants is
likely to make a mighty poor flat of it flgbtin'
fora fortune No, sir; you’re not goin’ to
knuckle under while you’ve got a father to
egg you on. I don’t say she's in ev’ry way
the gal I'd liave picked out for you, but any
gai that'll live up to the best that’s in her is
good enough for any man alive. If you care
as much (or her os you thought you did
when I met you in the street that day, that
gal is tho one for you to tie to, unless she
breaks the ropa A man sometimes gets a
bad lickin’ In a love fight, an’ a powerful big
scar besides, but both together don’t do him
as much harm as backin’ out an’ playin'
coward.’’
"I’m not a coward, father," protested Phil,
and his eyes flashed as if be meant it.
"You don’t moan to bo, my boy,” said the
old man, with a pat on his son’s shoulder,
"but er’rythin’ in this affair is new to you,
an’ you're in tbo dark about some things that
inebbo look bigger than they are. That sort
of thing’ll make cowards out of the best of
men, if they give in to it; that's the reason
I’m crackin’ the whip at you.”
“I wonder what Mr. Tram lay wants of
me,” said Phil, a moment later.
"Reckon you’d better go down and find
out,” the old man replied.
CHAPTER XVni
rna nw clkkk.
r OUR mother's out,
' os usual, 1 sup
pose," said Mr.
Tramlay to bis old
est daughter, os he
came home in the
afternoon and
roamed despond
ently about the
house, after the
manner of family
men in general
when thou- wives
are oway.
"She isn’t back
from her ride yet,"
said Lucia. “You
know the usual
drive always keeps
her out until about fl."
"1 ought to know It by this time. 1 sup
pose,’* said tbo merchant, "and 1 don’t be
grudge her a moment of it, but somehow the
bouse is never quite the same when she is out
of It"
Lucia looked at bar father with a little
wonder In her face. Then ebo laughed, not
very cheerfully, and said:
••Father, do you know that yon Ye dread
fully old fashioned r
"I suppose sa Maybe IPs force of habit"
Lucia »! iU wondered. She loved her mother
In the instinctive, not orer Intelligent way of
niUHt young people, but really she could not
see what tliere was about the estimable wo
man that should make her father long to see
her every day of the year and search the
bouse for her whenever he returned. She
had never beard her father
speeches, such as nice married people some
times do in novels; and as for her mother,
what did site ever talk of to her liege lord
but family bills, the servants, the children’s
faults, and her own ailments! Could it he,
•be asked herself, that this matter of fact
couple said anything when alone that was
unlike what the whole family beard from
them daily at the table and in the sitting
room!
“Why are you looking at me eo quserlyr
suddenly asked the father Lucia recovered
herself, and said.
“1 was only wondering whether you never
got tired of looking for mother as eooo ae you
came home.”
“Certainly not," sold the merchant,
“Meet husbands do. sooner or later." Mid
Lncia.
“Perhaps I will, some day," tb- father re
plied. “and 1 can teU you when it will be."
•Tell." said Lucia.
“1 think twill be about the day after eter
nity oods.” was the reply. “Not a day sooner.
But what do you know aliout what some hoe
bon is do, you little simpleton! And what
put the subject into your little head!"
“Ob, 1 dout know.’ said Lucia, dropping
upon the piano stool and making some chords
and diaoorda “It cam* Into my mind; that's
all"
“Well, 1 hope that some day you’ll find oat
to yoar own satisfaction. By the way, I
with you’d get out of that morning gown.
My new clerk is coming to dinner.”
“Ob, dear! then I’ll bare dinner sent up to
my room, I think. I don’t (eel a bit well,
and It's awful to think of sitting bolt upright
in a tight dress for an hour or two.” And
Lucia whirled from side to side on the piano
stool, and looked forlorn and cross.
“I suppose it would be impossible to dine
in a drees that is not tight!" said the father.
“Papa, please don’t tease me; I don’t feel a
bit well; really I don’t”
“What is the matter, childf” asked the
father, tenderly “Too much candy I—too
few parties!"
“Ob, nothing that 1 know of,” said the
girl, wearily. “I’ll feel better when real cold
weather comes, I suppose.” She played with
the piano keys a moment or two, and con
tinued:
“So you have a new dork. 1 hope he’s
nice—not a mere figuring machine!”
“Quite a Sue fellow,” said the merchant
“At least he seems to be."
“Is be—have you given him the place you
intended to offer Philip Haynf’
“Yes.”
“The Iron business is real good for a young
man to get into, isn’t it!”
“Indeed it is. since iron has looked an.”
“And that stupid fellow might have bad
the chance if be hadn’t gone off home again
without even calling to say good-by f”
“Just so.”
“l)b, I don’t want to see him,” sold Lucia,
pettishly. “I’m tired of young men."
“What a mercy it is that they don’t know
It I" said her father. “They’d all go off and
commit suicide, and then merchants couldn't
have any clerks at aIL”
“Now, papal” said Lucia, with a crash on
the lower octaves of keys, followed by a
querulous run, with her thumb, over the
shorter strings. “Is the new dork anybody
in particular! What is bis name!"
“Philip Hayn."
Lucia sprang from the piano stool and al
most strangled her father with her slender
arms
“Gracious, Lul” exclaimed the merchant.
“Your mother’s ’anjily must have descended
from a grizzly bear But why this excite
mentf
“Because you’re a dear, thoughtful old
man, who's always trying to do good,” sold
Lucia. “If tweren’t for you that poor young
man might never have a chance in the world.
I think it’s real missionary work to help de
serving people who aren't able to help them
selves; 1 know it is. for our minister has said
so from the pulpit again and again.”
“Pm real glad to learn that my daughter
remembers some of the things she hears in
church," said the merchant “So you think
young Hayn deserves a chance in the world,
eh!"
"I only know wbkt you yourself have said
about him," said Lucia, demurely.
"Good girl! always take your father’s ad
vice about young men and you’ll not be mis
taken in human nature. Which cut of tho
roast chicken shall 1 send up to your room!"
“Oh, I’ll try to come down, as it’s only
Phil; maybe I can coax Margie to help me
drees."
Lucia slipped slowly from the room, but
wont up the stairs like a whirlwind. The
merchant sat down at the piano and made u
dreadful a succession of noises as the much
afflicted instrument had ever endured. He
bad to do something.
A quarter of an hour later Lucia Boated
down stairs in a robe of pale blue, her face os
fresh and bright os dawn.
'‘Sunrise at sunset I” exclaimed her father.
“Well, girls are possessed to upset the natural
order of things, 1 suppose. But, my dear
daughter, you've put the rouge on too thick:
don’t you think sol”
"Father I” exclaimed the girl, and the flush
of her cheeks spread to her brow.
"Edgar," said lira Tram lay, who came in
a moment or two after, "see bow foolish you
were to think Lucia UL 1 oarer saw her
looking better."
"Tes," said the merchant, dryly; “I told
her the doctor was coming. That's often
enough to cure the ailments of some children,
you know." Then the merchant devoted ten
minutes of business tact to the task of ex
plaining to his wife the reasons of Philip’s re
turn to New York; be also enlarged upon the
Haynton Day Improvement company, and
the probability that if the Tramlays were to
build tho first and handsomest house on the
new property Mrs. Tramlay would naturally
be the fashionable loader of whatever section
or sub-section of society might select the place
as a summer home. Mrs. Tramlay was in
clined to be conservative on the subject, but
when she loomed that Marge was a stock bolder
and director in the company she became quite
cheerful
Phil was not so happy as be should have
been while on his way to the Tramlay#. He
wondered how be should be able to greet
Lucia without betraying the mixed emotions
which bo was sure the first sight of her face
would cause him. He bad a firm conviction
that be would feel awkward and act accord
ingly, and his remembrance of various men
whom he bad seen behaving awkwardly in
the presence of youug ladles mode him quite
certain that Lucia and Margie would laugh at
him when his back was turned. He did not
realise that in meeting, as well as in fighting,
the burden of action does not all rent upon
one person. Neither did be take into con
sideration the tact which some maidens ac
quire in a year or (wo spent in society. As
be was ushered Into the parlor, with a face
which he was sure was sober and set, Lucia
approached him with a pleasant smile and ex
claimed. as heartily and unaffectedly as if she
were a Haynton girl:
"How do you do, Philt Pm ever so glad
to see you back again."
Away went all senas of soberness, hesita
tion and doobt; the young man's soul leaped
to his face, and ha held so long the little band
offered him that Lucia, perhaps remember
ing some impulsive demonstrations toward
that graceful member, withdrew it before
any attempt to release it had begun. Then
the girl I>cgan a rapid series of questions
about Hayn Farm and its occupants, and
Phil made cheery replies, and Tramlay, after
gazing at the couple from the back parlor,
retired to bis library to Indulge undisturbed
tn ns much vigorous and affirmative bead
shaking as tbo situation seamed to Justify.
"How do you think you will like the iron
business. Mr Hayn. asked Mrs. Tramlay at
dinner
“Urcatly, so far as 1 know It," Phil replied.
*‘Up to date my duties have been to go to
lunch, read the morning papers and chat
with a railroad company's vice president
shout off shore Ashing."
“We always try to break hi our young
men pleasantly," said Tramlay, “so they’ll
be willing to promise long service for small
money then we begin to put on heavier
chain*, one by ooa."
“Papa’s clerks have a bard time if they
happen to be nice," said Lada. “They have
to get postage stamps fur Margie and me
when wo happen in at the office, and And
small change for as when we loee oar pocket
book*, and taka ns out to lunch when we
eorae down town and don’t And papa to. and
sometimes they have to come to trains for us
when ws’vo been a few milcao.it of town on
i visit awl llie team doesn’t get in lwfore
dart ’
SUPPLEMENT.
“Then I shall sarasstly strive to be nice,”
said Phil
“There’s some down town place," said
Margie, “where papa get’s lovely candy a
great deal cheaper than up Broadway; bat
be forgets It half the tine, so we sometimes
have one of the dlerks order I* sent to papa's
desk—that Is, clerks who know how to select
candy,” sold Margie.
“My education In that respect," said Phil,
“has not been as tbo'-ougb as 1/ 1 could have
foreseen each necealty for it: but 1 will re
sume my studies at out? ”
“Are you a good Judge of tear asked Lu
cia. “Momma has not been quite herself
since one of papa’s clerks went to Pennsyl
vania to take charge of a rolling mill The
good man used to spend hours in the tea im
porters* warehouses, down near the office,
searching (or the kind of tea that mamma
dotes on.”
“You children are not to worry Phil with
any of your trifling affairs,” said the head
of the house, “1 wont you all to understand
that, besides having a desk in my office, be is
a large operator in real estate—a capitalist—
a sort of monopolist, in fact, for be is secre
tary and a director of the Hayuton Bay Im
provement company, which monopolises one
of the finest bits of shore front on the At
lantic coast”
“Hayuton Bay!” said Lucia, la wonder
“Why, that is where Havn Farm is.”
“Wise child!” said her father; “and that
fine bluff portion of the farm that overlooks
the bay Is the company’s property You’ll
never again cut your shoes to pieces on the
oat stubble on that bluff, for when next you
see the place It will be covered by fine villas,
the handsomest of which you probably will
some day see mentioned in the newspapers as
the country seat of the well known merchant
prince, Edgar Tramlay, Esq., father of the
charming"—
“ Edgar 1 Edgar I" said Mrs. Tramlay.
“And, as 1 was saying,” continued Tram
lay, no purcliaaer’s title will be good without
the signature and official seal of Mr. Philip
Hayn. Candy and postage stamps. Indeed'
Why, such a man's time ought to be valued
at about a dollar a minute.”
Then Phil was rich, Lucia said to herself
She did oot much care, and she knew even
less, about businea details, a fortune ol
paper was os good os any other kind, so far
as she knew; but what she did very distinctly
understand was that no one, not even her
mother, would again have occasion to speak
of Phil as a poor man, or even a country
man Some young men who were accounted
great catches were only secretaries and even
assistant secretaries of one thing or other:
she knew it, because she bad seen their names
in dividend notices and other advertisements
in newspapers, How would the change In
hU fortunes affect her mother, she wondered.
Mrs. Tramlay certainly was more affable to
tbe young man than she ever hod been bo
foro. and after dinner the even took Phil's
arm b> returning to the parlor; the act signl
fled nothing to Phil, but it eet Lucia’s little
heart dancing gayly.
When Phil il 'p-irtod, soon after dinner, to
accompany hU father, by request, to a meet
ing of the "Society for tbe Amelioration of
the Spiritual Condition of Savage Tribes,''
Lucia lost very little time In signaling Margie
with her eyes and going up to her room A
moment later Margie bounced In. closed the
door, and exclaimed:
"Lucia Tramlay I I wouldn’t have be
lieved it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyas.
The idea of mamma, with the blood of a dozen
High Dutch and Mayflower families in her
veins, taking the arm of a countryman!”
“When there was no call for her to take
any one’s arm,” added Lucia, "tbe affair be
ing only an every day family dinner."
" Twas simply paralysing," said Margie,
“but it was a sign that everything will bo all
right from this time forward. Dear me) 1
can imagine Just bow your new visiting cards
will look; Mrs. Philip Hayn.'"
"Margie, Margie.” said Lucia, in a quick
whisper, ‘Mo be quiet I 4®nt even know
whether be really lovss me.” •
“That's because you didn’t sit at tabls
where yon see his faoe all the while, as 1 did.
Besides, a stone image would (all In love with
you to-night you never looked so perfectly
entrancing in all your life."
So, between all she had seen and beard,
Lucia's bead was crowded with pleasant
dreams long before it pressed its pillow
CHAPTER XIX
ETWEEN bis du
ties at the office of
the Haynton Bay
Improvement oom
pany and his earn
est desire to master
the mysteries of the
iron trade, Philip
Havn found vary
little time for drop
ping Into moody
reflections. Like
many another
, young man in buai
* ness, bo became oon
* vinoed that a great
deal of telling work
>- aeai oi leumg wort
might be dons outside of business hours; so
be spent many evenings and occasional days
in endeavoring to forward tbs interests of his
employer, and of tbs Improvement company,
in which Mr. Tramlay was as largely Inter
ested as himself.
He had more than business to absorb bis
thoughte.for bis stock of knowledge regard lug
human nature was at first entirely inadequate
to the demands mads upon It At Haynton it
was a safe rule that a mao whose appearance
and manner were those of a gentleman could
bs safely regarded as, at least an honest
man; to New York he found this assumption
caused some of his plans to bs utterly shat
torsd by Tramlay’s mors experienced hand.
The railroad men who wanted iron, to bs
paid for partly by stock In their roads, be
learned to distrust If they were habitually
well dressed and wore kid gloves when visit
ing Tram lay’s office, but he occasionally saw
bis employer neglect an appointment even
with bis family, and devote his entire time to
some Insignificant badly dressed little fellow,
and even to an occasional awkward man who
souinsd, as be really was, the farmer secre
tury and treasurer of a lot of fellow farmers
who had planned a abort road for their own
benefit The amount of cash that such a man
could pay was seldom large, but not so the
probable profit on tbs stock which Tamlay
received “to boot."
A pleasing relief from the work of his two
offices was Phil's occasional evenings at Tram
lay's boms, which bs had beau so heartily
urged to regard as his own that bs no longer
waited for special invitatioua la spits of Us
pressing dutiss be had devoted himself to
being “nice," aa Lucia had termed the con
Jitioo which made the family avail them
iclvse of the services of Mr. Tram lay's clerks.
He improved upon his instructions so far as
il ways to have in Us pockets enough postage
(tamps for tbs girl’s letters, and to see that
boxes of candies from “the place somewhere
town town" reached the bouse without first
lying neglected for a day or two upon his
■nploysr'e desk. Whan Margie and Lucia
were returning from a short vWt out of
town bs was at elation, wharf or ferry to
nest them, regardlem of what railway mag
sate from out of town might be already oo
Mesibls at a hotel, and the pang of hurrying
sway afterward was always sweetened by
the gentle protesta that no subsequent con
versation could banish from his ear.
And yet, os be informed blmaelf In occa
slonal moment* of leisure, tbe interest that
lay closest to bis heart »u not being ad
vanced visibly. Lucia Kerned always glad
to meet him, always sorry to port with him;
but waa she not ao to all mere acquaintances
whose society waa not unpleasing» She never
made an excuse to cut abort hi* conversation,
no matter If bo talked on subjects of which
she evidently was ignorant; but hail be not
always boon accustomed to pntient listeners I
She sometimes asked questions that seemed
beyond her taste, as the subjects certainly
were beyond her ken. but might not ordi
nary human desire for knowledge prompt
any girl to do the samel
Sometimes be would bitterly Inform him
self that of bis boot's two daughters any
listener might Imagine Margie, instead of her
sister, the object of bis affection Margie,
whose feelings and manner and enthusiasm
lacked the restraint which a year or two of
society will im|ioee on an observing maiden,
was as arti.ws and offiuive and affectionate as
if Phil were au ideal older brother, if not ■
lover Of course Margie was uot in love with
him, fur was she uot continually sounding
Lucia's praises* To bar the world seemed to
live and move and have ita being eolely for
Lucia. Phil bad never before soon such af
fection between sisters, and it seemed all the
more wonderful as be recalled some frequent
passages of words in which the two girls bad
indulged at llayn Farm not a half year be
fore. Margie seemed to have adopted him as
a big brother, and It was quite delightful, as
well as a new sensation, be having no sisters
•f bis own. but be did wish that the same
spirit—not exactly the same, either—might
be manifested by Lucia.
Another disquieting thought came from
the frequency with which Marge visited tbs
Tram lay abode He had beard almost too
much of Marge before he ever saw him. but
now he saw far more It seemed that Phil
never could visit the Tramlays without either
finding Marge already there, or having him
come in Ju»t as a pleasant teto-a-tete with
Lucia was fairly under way. That Marge
did not approve of Uie cordiality with which
Phil was received was quite evident, in spite
of bis impassive demeanor, and Phil felt none
tbe easier that Marge showed him many
courtesies, and introduced him quite freely
among his club acqnuinUncea Marge ex
plained that many of these gentlemen bad
money and might be persuaded to purchase
cottage sites of the ilayiikon Hay company,
but if this was bis purptsw why did bo not
conduct tbe negotiations himself t Occasion
ally Phil sus|iccted that there were dark de
signs hidden in Marge’s invitations to quiet
little games at the club, and bis rather sneer
ing replies, to Phil's refusals, that all gentle
men played cards sometimes; still, such gomes
as he chanced to see were not for large sums,
nor were they attended by any of the excite
ment that is supposed to make inexperienced
players reckless.
Almost ax disturbing was Mrs. Tromlay's
manner At times she was affable and almost
hearty in tier manner toward Phil; again she
was reserved and distant. What did It mean I
Did she divine bis purpose and resent it# or
could it be that she was impatient that b«
did not puy his court with more fervorl
Could be have overheard some of the conver
sations of which ho was the subject, he would
have been enlightened, yet scarcely more
hopeful
"Edgar," said Mrs. Tramlay to her husband
one evening, "young llayn comes here so
mneb that no one else is likely to vhdt Lucia
with any serious intentions,"
"Well, why should they*’ asked her bus
band. "Isn't be good enough for a son-in
lawf"
"I'm not even sure that be aspires to that
position," said Mrs. Tramlay.
“Aren't youf I'm afraid, then, you’ll soon
need to wear glasses, ray dear."
“Don't Joke about it, please; it’s a serious
subject,"
“Yes." sighed the merchant; “one's first
glasses"
“You know very well 1 don’t mean glasses,*
said the lady, with some petulance. “This It
Lucia's second season, and desirable voting
men are rare. Twould be unfair to her tc
have a man dawdling about her, acting fre
quently as bar escort"
“Assisted by her mother"
“That doesn’t alter the oass; It makes it
all the graver In other people's eyes."
“Weil, my dear, 1 see plainly enough that
young Hayn has fixed intentions; and I'm si
fully satisfied that they are entirely to Lu'i
taste."
“Then the question Is. should it bs allowed
to go on T
“Why not. If they love each other, os
want tor
"Because ws want our first daughter U
make as good a match as possible, and I don't
ess that the voung man's prospects art very
brilliant. If the Improvement company
shouldn't sooossd he'll be nothing but youi
clerk, with no certainty nor any expect*
lions."
“I feel entirely easy about the money I'vs
put into the Improvement company," said
the merchant, “and Phil will do as well as L
he having an equal number of shares. U
worst comes to worst with him from that
speculation, and bs and La continue to like
each other, I can tako him into partnership
That would give him financial standing,
there are plenty of young men of good fans
Ulus who would pay well for such an oppor
tunity, for iron Is up, and to stay."
Mrs. Tramlay tossed her bead and replied:
“1 didn't ever suppoee it would be necessary
to set a young man upon bis feet In order tc
get a husband for one of our daughters.”
“Quite right; don’t suppose so yet, either,
(or 1 assure you he Is fully earning whatever
it might ms nsooamry to give him. 1 find
that It makes a very favorable impress!oe
upon tbs class of people who visit tbs Iroc
bouses, or whom the Iron houses look after.
He's already got two or three desirable little
orders, besides being on the track of others.*
“But he’s only a clerk, after all," persisted
Mra Tramlay.
“Say but tbs word and 111 make him my
partner to-morrow," said Tramlay.
“Dent bs hasty,” replied the lady, la some
alarm. “He is not Lada's only chance, yon
know."
Tramlay looked Inquiringly; bis wlfsap
peered embarrassed, and averted her eysa
“Ohl You mean Marge, 1 suppose! Well,
If La should really want him 1 wouldn't Uka
10 make her unhappy by saying na But
really, my dear”—bars tbs merchant pat hb
arm around bis wife-“really, now. don’t
you think that a man who wan a beau of
yours a quarter of a century ago Is rathss
mature-to be tbs husband of aa impultivs
ginr
“Young wives can't five oo impulse alone,*
said Mrs. Tramlay. “Mr. Marge has means.”
“Not to any grant extent, that any one has
been able to discover.” Interrupted the mer
chant
"And be has social position, wfaien Is «f
mors Importance in New York than any
thing else," continued tbs wife “Us knows
many prominent people whom we do not. and
If be ware to marry Lucia it would improve
Margie's opportunities. We haven’t gone Into
society as much as ws should, and Pm afraid
our daughters will have to suffer for It"
“Don’t trouble your bead with any such
tears," mid the husband, with more than his
asual earnestness “Girls like oure-blea
them)—aren’t going to make bed male boa"
“Besides,” said Mrs. Tramlay. retracing
her thoughts, “Mr. Marge doesn't look the
least bit old; bo is not the kind of man to
grow old. I cant see that be appears a day
older than be did years ago. ”
“Bless your sentimental heartT mid the
merchant “He doesn't, eh! Well, it does
you credit to think so, and It doesn’t make
me Jealous In the least”
“If the company succeeds,” continued Mrs.
Tramlay, “Mr. Marge will be as much the
gainer os you or young Hayn. wont her
“Certainly.”
“Then he’ll be that much bettor off than
this young man you’re so fond of f
“Yes, if he does nothing foolish in the
mean time; but 1 have my doubts of the
financial stability of any man who coni
pass a stock ticker without looking at it.
Wall street exists solely for the purpose of
absorbing such men’s money.”
“Mr. Marge is no fool,” said Mrs. Tramlay.
“He’s no wiser than some veterans who
have had to leave their millions In the street
and live on their children forever after.”
“The Improvement company has only about
forty acres, 1 believe you said!”
“Just forty."
“And two thousand an acre Is the most you
hope for!”
“Yea”
“That would be eighty thousand dollars;
four into eighty goes twenty times, and"—
“If I’d known you’d such a bead for boil
newt I would have asked you to put a bouse*
keeper In charge of the family, so 1 could
have your services at the office,” said Tram*
lay.
“Twenty thousand dollars would be very
little for a young man to marry on in New
York—and in our sot.”
“Twenty thousand, and a salary I
must soon Increase in simple Justice; also,
expectations from his father's estate in tho
course of time. I don’t remember to have
told you, though, that the young man was
lung headed enough to suggest that his fa*
tber should buy options on the continuation
of the ridgo—there are several hundred acres
In all distributed among different farml
and the old (e'low bos worked it so skillfully
that we have the refusal of it all (or a year,
at a trifling outlay In money. There’s genu
ine city business capacity in that young
man’s head—eh f"
“It appears so,” Mrs. Tramlay admitted.
This admission might have been of great
comfort to Phil could he have beard it, but
as be never received any information, except
through bis alternating hopes ami suspi
cions, be was obliged to remain In doubt.
HU principal hope, aside from that band
on Lucia's willingness to devote any amount
of time to him, was obtained through the
manner of the head of the family Tramlay
was communicative os wbe merchants usu
ally an* to their employes; he was also con
fidential; evidently he trusted Phil implicit
ly, for he told the new clerk all his business
expectations and hopes, instructed him care
fully regarding every one whom the young
man was to see for binduces purposes, and
throw much important work upon him. It
•rained impossible to misconstrue tiio purpose
of all tbU; at the very leant, It Implied a high
order of respect, and tbe respect of a possible
father-in-law was not an ally to be under
rated. Besides, Tramlay frequently put Lucia
in his charge when she was out for an even
ing; and thU implied a still higher order of
trust.
But. after all, the hopes that were strong*
est and roost were formed in the
Tramlay parlor, while Lucia was apparently
only acting the part of a listener. The young
man occasionally found himself expressing
his own opinion freely, and to great extent,
on subjects that Interested him. and the flow
of language was interrupted only by badly
concealed yawns from Ura Tramlay and
Margie. Where to them could be the inter
est in the latest campaign against the Indi
ans, or rosthods of ventilating school rooms,
or the supposed moral purpose underlying
England's continued occupation of Egyptf
Such questions were fit only for men, thought
Mrs. Tramlay and her second daughter: the
mother sometimes mid, after excusing her
self from impromptu lectures on these or
kindred topics, that the young man from the
country loved to hear himself talk, and Mar
gie half believed that Phil only began what
she denominated "harangues" in order to
clear the room, so that be might have laicia
to himself.
But to all that Phil said, do matter bow
heavy the subject, Lucia listened patiently,
attentively, and often with an air of interest
Sometimes she attained sufficient grasp of a
statement to reconstruct it in words, though
not in facta, and return it to tbs original
maker, who in the blindness of bliss immedi
ately attributed it to Lucia's mental superi
ority to the remainder of the family. Had
be seen her afterward (terplexedly pinching
her brow as she appealed to cyclopedia or
dictionary to make his moaning clearer, he
might have revised his opinion as to her in
tellect, yet be would have been the surer of
what to him Just then was more desirable
than the collective Intellect of the world.
CHAPTER XX
an OLD QUESTION UPKATKO.
r R. MARGE had
breathed a gentle
•igh of relief when
I be beard of Philip
Hayn’s sudden de-
I partore from the
I metropolis: bad be
\ known tbs cause of
l\tb* young man's
' exit be would In
gratitude have giv
so a fins dinner to
tbs male gossip who
had said In Phil’s
bearing that Marge
was to marry Lu
unmM ha <-a]larl
da. Not knowing of thfe rumor, bs called
at the Tramlay abode, ostensibly to Invite
Lada and her mother to the theatre, and
from tbs manner of the ladies bs assumed
that Phil, with the over confidence of youth,
bad proposed and been rejected. Marge's
curiosity as to what IBs bead of lbs family
could want of tbs young man was allayed by
Mra Tramlay’s statement that tbs visit was
due wholly to bar husband’s ridiculous man
ner of Inviting each country acquaintance to
come and see him if beaver reached New
York; Us subsequent hospitality to Philip
was only for tbs purpose of keeping oo good
terms with some old fasUonsd people who
might someday again bs useful os hosts, and
who could not bs managed exactly as pro
fssstooal beepers of boarding houses.
But Marge's cariosity was rearouasd the
very day after be reedved this quieting la
formation, for he chanced to meet the mer
chant with the young man's father, and was
introduced to tbs latter.
Instantly tbs old question returned to his
lips, “What can Tramlay wont of that fel
low f Again bis cariosity subsided, when be
tanned of the cottage city project, and,
while agreeing to assume* quarter of the ex
pense of the enterprise; he complimented
rramlay on bis ability to And something to
profit by. even while ostensibly enjoying an
xcasiunai day’s rest in the country But
when, a day or two later, Phil reappeared
md was presented to him as the old farmer’*
•opreeeutative-ae the real bolder. In (set, «4
i full quarter of tbe company's stork—Marge
looked HuaptekHisly at the merrbaot and asked
bliNHslf-
“What can Tramlay want of that fellowr
Reasoning according to the principles on
which many small real estate companies or
corporations developing a patent are formed.
Marge soon informed himself that Tramlay.
whose shrewdness be had always held In high
respect preferred the son to tbweather, os
being the easier victim of the two The
processes of frightening out or "freezing out”
an inventor or farmer who had put his prop
srty in the hands of a stock company were
not entirely unknown to Marge, and be nat
urally assumed that they would be easier of
application to a green young man like
Philip than to a clear beaded old man as
Farmer Hayn seemed to ha But if the
rural element of the company was to be de
spoiled of its own. Marge proposed to see that
not all the spoils should go to the merchant
How better could be improve 1 Is own posi
tiou with Tramlay than by mazing himself
the merchant's superior in finesse!
He would have lb* advantage of balng
ablo to watch Phil closely, and of knowing*
ttrat when he might bo inclined to sell out at a
sacrifice. should tho young man. tika moat of
his aga and extraction, develop an insatiable
appetita for city Joys that cost money, ha,
Marge, would cheerfully supply him with
money from time to time, taking bis stock as
security, and some day the merchant would
suddenly find himself tea tun at his own game
The mere thought of such a triumph impelled
the deliberate Marge to take a small bottle
of champagne with his midday luncheon—a
luxury which be usually reserved until even
ing at the club.
But again be was startled when alight
headed friend complained that, although the
st«d friend's father bad been promised /a
place fur bUsou in Tramlay’a office when the
iron trade should look up. Tramlay had taken
in a countryman instead. Bis own eyes soon
confirmed the Intelligence, and, as Tramlay
made no explanation or even mention of tha
(act. Marge again found himself asking.
‘•What cau Tramlay want of that fellowr
Evidently it meant either business or Lu
cla. Perhups the merchant during tha long
depression of the Iron trade had borrowed
money of the young man's father, or was now
borrowing of him, to avail himself of hit in
creasing opportunities (Marge had tho city
man's customary but erroneous impression as
to the bank surplus of the average “well to
do" farmar.i If Tramlay wore merely • bor
rower, except against notes and bills receiva
bio. Iron bad not looked up enough to Justify
a prudent man in becoming the merchant's
son-in-law If there had been such transac
lions, perhaps a share of the business was to
pay for them. Inquiries of his banking ao
quaintanoss did not make the matter clearer
to Marge, so be resolved to devote himself to
the now clerk, as be could safely do in his ca
pacity of 00-director of the Improvement
company. The young man bad considerable
self posHussion, Margo admitted to himself,
but what would it avail against the One
methods of a man of twice bis years, all spent
among men who considered it legitimate
business to pry Into the business affairs of
others I
So Marge began operations at once; no
time was to be lost He bad no difficulty in
making bU approaches, and his courtesies
wore so deftly efured that Phil could not
help accepting many of them and feeling
grateful for kindueet rendered. The young
man's suspicions wore soon disarmed, fur, like
honorable natures in general, he abhorred
suspicion. That there was a purpose in all
of Marge's actions Phil could not avoid be
Ueving, but little by little he reached tho con
elation that It was simply to forward the
Improvement company's prospects. As Marge
himself said, Phil knew the company's land
thorougljly, and was tha only person who
could talk of it intelligently. Any vestiges
e( distrust that remained were swept away
when Marge succeeded in having the privi
leges of bis club extended to Phil for three
months, pending application for admission.
It was a small club, and exclusive; Phil
beard It named almost reverently by some
young mou w ho longed to pass its portals,
and among its members were a few men of a
social set more prominent than that in which
the Trainlays moved.
To Margo's delight, Phil began to spAid
money freely at the club; Marge bad seen
other young men do likewise, and there was
but one end to be expected If their parents
ora not rich. Phil drank no wins, smoked
no cigars, yet w ban bo thought it proper to
give a little dinner tha hart that the club's
caterer could supply was on the table. He
did not seem to Itave any other ax pensive
habits, except that be dressed ao carefully
that bis tailor's bill must bo large; still, a
man who gives dinners at dabs must have
plenty of money Prom being a source of
gratification, Hill's free use of money began
gradually to causa Marge dismay. Where
did it all come from! He could scarcely be
earning it in hi< capacity of Junior clerk In
an Iron house. Could it bo that Tramlay bad
him in training for lbs position of son-in
law, and was paying the cost of introducing
him favorably to the notice of some seta of
Now York society to whom ha could not
present him at hit own bouse! Such a course
would be quite Judicious in a father desiring
wider acquaintance for bis daughter when
the should become a bride; but, if It really
were being pursued, would be, Marge, ever
bear the end of tho rallying to which his own
port in the programme would subject bitnf
There was mure torment in this view of
tho ouo than liars* had ever experienced to
his Ufa before, and it robbed him at times of
his habitual expression to an extent that was
noticeable and made him the subject of some
club chat No matter how exclusive a club
may be, no matter how careful in the selec
tion of its Mahan that none bat gentlemen
may be upon iu list, it cannot prevent a
■nail, gradual, but distinct and persistent
aggregation of giesipe—follows whose enor
gies, such as they are. tend solely to invest!
gallon of the affairs of their acquaintance*.
There was not an hour of the day or night
when several of these fellows could not lie
found at Marge's club, lounging as liatlsady
aud inconspicuously as so many incurables at a
hospital, but Marge knew by experience that
these were the only fellows worth going to if
be wanted to know all that was being said
about a member, particularly if It waa un
complimentary And now, confound them,
poesibly they were talking about him, and
intimating that he waa being need to improve
the standing of bis own rivall
still, aa be Informed hinmalf, all hta annoy
ance oaina from a mere support lion, which
might be entirely without foundation. Per
hapa tba young nmn bud means of his own;
ha had nut looked Ilka it whan he first ap
peared In New York. I*ut appearancen aocne
timea were deceitful Margs had beard Tram
ley allude to Phil's father aa an booeat old
farmer to whom fortune had not been any
too generous, but iwrbups he bad been esti
mating the old man's isswendooi only by New
York standard*, was it not the farming clam
that originally b«4i up the greater part of
the government s Kreat issues of bonds I
And. yet. if the young man had money of
his own or of bis fattior s. where did ha keep
ft* Had be ever displayed a check, to ball
cate bis banking place. Marge would have
found ways of ascertaining the aim and na
lure of hb. account. Hut. though ha had sev
era) Him* «vn Phil pay bills which were
father large, the settlements were always
made with currency Was it pomfble. Marge
asked lum-olf. that the traditlwial old stock
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