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cesses By M. J. PHILLIPS
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Berkeley Marshall leaned luxurious-
ly back in the shady chair, hoisted his
feet to the bed and blew a ring of
smoke cellingward from his cigar. “To
recapitulate,” he began, directing his
remarks to the calendar which hung
on the wall and from which stared
back at him the face of a supposedly
beautiful young woman with a fixed
and sugary smile, “your left ear is con-
foundedly out of drawing. I beg your
pardon, I'm not an artist. I'm a eivil
engineer—or will be next June. And
» that isn't what I started out to re-
mark.
“To recapitulate, I have peddled
maps over three states, and the net
, profits of these adventures are $531.62.
I have a steady job during the college
year waiting on table at three per and
found. Furthermore, I have a dress
suit and clothes and ties and things.
Further yet, I have an invitation from
my cousin, Torrence Marshall, to spend
a week with him at Sylvan Cove, the
swellest resort on this little old ocean.
It is now Saturday night, Sept. 15, and
college opens up the 25th.
“The question seems to be shall I go
on peddling maps and accumulating
more fiithy lucre, which I may possibly
need; shall I go home, which is 300
miles away; to college, which is 450, or
to Sylvan Cove, which is under a hun-
dred and where pretty young women,
it is presumed, abound?” :
In due parliamentary form the Syl-
van Cove question was put and carried
unanimously, whereupon the boy-—he
was little more—bowed gravely to the
calendar lady and thanked her for her
kindness in voting with him, Then he
ran down the stairs of the country ho-
tel to consult the time table, for he
was In a hurry to be off. ;
Marshall found Sylvan Cove in the
elaborate simplicity stage of summer
resort development. Everything was
costly, but very plain, for the Cove
was inhabited each season mainly by
wealthy people who had become ac-
customed to their money.
On the first day of his stay Marshalf
naively confided to his cousin that he
believed Prudence Fairchild to be the
prettiest girl at the Cove, whereupon
Torrence grinned and replied, “Stung,
* are you?’ On the second day he learn-
ed that she could swim like a seal and
golf like a Scot. That evening, by vir-
tue of four dances which she generous-
ly gave him at the pavilion party, his
“stock of knowledge was augmented by
the fact that Miss Prudence danced
like a fairy. 2
His approval of the tanned, red lip-
ped and wholesome young woman deep-
ened during a long sail the next morn-
ing, when he discovered that her taste
in books and tennis rackets was iden-
tical with his own. When Torrence in-
formed him later, however, that her fa-
ther, Rufus Fairchild, was credited
with more millions than there were
letters to his name the young man ex-
perienced a novel and entirely unpleas-
ant sinking of the heart.
- His own financial situation did not
trouble Marshall—in fact, he found hu-
mor in his poverty. Marshall's father
had been rich until an industrial flurry
had left him broken and penniless.
Berkeley himself, a natural engineer
and in love with the profession he had
** chosen, felt the prescient stir of genius
within him, vague but real. His teach-
ers predicted great things of him, and
with the knowledge of his own powers
and his burning desire to achieve, fame
the possession of much money often
brings a woman bitter wisdom; maybe
it was a feminine desire to repay him
for his aloofness; at any rate, Miss
Fairchild contrived to give Marshall a
glance at parting, as he held her cool
little hand, that thrilled his every pulse.
It was like the song of a nightingale
or the scent of June roses. And the
memory moved him again and again
that winter as he built theoretical
bridges in the class room or delivered
vegetable soup in the hotel dining
room.
Now, a look such as that from a girl
who is not a flirt dwells in her memory
too. Miss Fairchild’s cheeks were hot
sometimes when she thought of it and
of the answering glance of bewildered
joy that flashed from Marshall's blue
eyes. “He might take advantage of it,”
she sald to herself in brief, delicious
panic when the invitation of a chum,
Nell Burrows, to come for the January
hop of the seniors at Marshall's col-
lege reached her. But she went never-
theless.
The assurance with which he confis-
cated five of the dances on her card at
the ball showed that Marshall remem-
bered. They sat out two, which was
delightful, but dangerous. There was
little sald, and the silence between
them was intimate and significant.
Removed from the glamour of the
lights and the music, from the half
shielded promise of her eyes and the
intoxication of her beauty, Marshall
was not satisfied. “If she were only
poor!” he repeated to himself. “How
can she know that it's she I want and
not the money? Suppose that she
thinks I'm a fortune hunter? And if
the money makes any difference with
her, then she doesn't care for me, I
wish I knew. If you oy could give
me a sign, sweetheart, that you had
faith in my love”—
It was lunchtime, and Marshall was
at his accustomed table in the botel.
His musings were broken by the open.
ing of the door. Miss Fairchild and
Miss Burrows came in. They were
accompanied by Bronson and Carrick.
wealthy frat men of his own class.
Out of the corner of his eye Marshall
saw Miss Fairchild start a trifle when
she recognized him. When the party
had been seated two tables away by
young Condon, another student waiter,
the girl's back was toward him. He
had given her no opportunity for a
greeting. .
For it had flashed over the young
man that the sign, either of favor or
of contempt for his poverty and his
menial occupation, must be given. The
girl would show whether her nature
were gold or dross. If she were
ashamed of him, if she left the room
without a word, he resolved to tear the
love he felt from his heart and trample
it under foot.
Marshall never knew what he did
before the crucial time came, the mo-
ment of the party's rising from the
table after lunch, but no detail of
what followed escaped him. He saw
the amused lift of Bronson's eyebrows,
the scowl on Carrick’s forehead and
Miss Burrows’ undisguised interest as
Prudence Fairchild, eyes softly shining,
came back to where he stood.
“If the mountain will not go to Mo-
hammed,” she said smilingly, “then of
course Mohammed must come to the
mountain, And I mean to quarrel with
you some time for turning your back
when I came in. But I shan’t scold
now; I'm leaving for home tomorrow,
and I wondered if I'll see you again.”
“I will call tonight to say goodby,”
he replied eagerly, “and I have some-
thing important to say, if I may see
you alone. I think I've been waiting
all my life to say it.”
Her glance thrilled him as it had
that September day at the seashore.
“You may see me alone,” she whis-
pered. :
Italian Passion,
The emotional temperament of the
Italians is shown even in their “agony
advertisements.” This is from an Ital-
ian paper: “Yesterday when I saw you
I had not then received your dear let-
ter. Imagine in what state of desola-
tion I had been. The day was to me
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side of the city limits or even very
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who earns $2.50 to twice that sum a
day and who has a family consisting of
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processes in drawing cut whatever of
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urban acre lot for the home of the city
wage earner. The cultivation of that
acre in alternation with his other em-
ployment will bring him intellectual
and spiritual enlargement, while it
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some surroundings in which to bring
up his family.—Maxwell's Talisman,
The Florentine Epicure.
Your typical Florentine is epicurean
to the toe tips. His enthusiasms and
yearnings are quite other than those
of the northerner. Give him 2 francs
a day for life, and he will toil no more.
He may be a marquis and seventh or
eighth in direct descent, but he will be
content to forego the assertion of his
rank go he may thenceforward enjoy
the priceless boon of leisure and inde-
pendence. His leisure he will dissi-
pate at the cafe with perhaps two
three-halfpenny sweet fluids per diem,
and you may study the effect of his in-
dependence in his courtly manners
even though his hat be worn at the
brim and his coat back be deplorably
shiny. He is a pellucid brook, shallow
as you please, yet engaging for his
pellucidity. As he sits on the red vel-
vet cushions and looks forth at the car-
riages and gowns of fashion in the Via
Tornabuoni he shows no trace of envy
on his open countenance. What, in
effect, have these rich ones more than
he save the ennui of modishness and
the Indigestion of high feeding? The
monuments and blue skies of Florence,
not to mention the glorious or stirring
memories of its history, are rather
more his than theirs.—Cornhill Maga-
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Yet the fact of Miss Fairchild’'s | cover a reason for your silence. You Condensed Time Table effective Nov. 6, 19/5, OARDING.—Parties visiting Phila-
wealth depressed him. “I've almost | May guess how I suffered. But at last delphia can have first-class and
monopolized her since I've been here,” | Yesterday evening I again saw your Reas sows ! Ress. vv. centre of og his 125 nnd 0 i
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" the blooming money. 1 suppose half | With the whole of my so. Thus, at No 1/No 8 No 6/No 4iNo? | (Formerly of Bellefonte, Ms. FE WARDS,
this bunch that's ha: around her | any rate, we may part with tranqu 81 : Philadelph
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