The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1903, Page 7

THE SUNDAY CALL. 7 was echoed within the hall. Anne's mald, ed before him. With very little practical to sleep, dropped into a wicker chalr be- set in our ways. It s not as if you were and he will drop out of the place you being only human, poor girl, showed her kgowledge of domestic affairs to back fore her hearth and brought together a eighteen and I had not insomnia.” hold now as completely as a tidal wave joy in every line of her tired countenance. him he had yeckoned possibilities, and few ssticks and ‘a few embers, that soon _We shall live in our own home. mother. had swept over vou —If you doubt it She hastened forward, Bowle, with a they had seemed to glitter alluringly. gave forth a cheery blaze. Nestling into “.f)(°7 Stpulates for that' = Know are drifting out of youth unma hed and radiant face, preceding her. Without meaning it,'while dancing with her ‘blue dressing gown, with its 10N “Anvwhere nswered Anne, impatient. and satisfled not to marry? With the speed of light she was placed Anne early in the evening, he had said & gtole of yellowish lace, she stretched ly. *He: doesn’t care, and certainly “Walter says it's beca in her mother's neat brougham, driven few betraying words. Since then both of forth her feet to the dragon andiorns re- have had enough of mere cabinetmakers’ Selfish to give up by a staid old coachman, The maid fol- them had floated in- the ether that IS fiected ip the tiled hearth and fell to &nd upholsterers’ work."” e T lowed, the door was slammed, the broug- never breathed but once. > thinking. Have you told him, or.shall T, the e!;~ tures, wim g0 round ar and 19 & ham horse pawed upon the asphalt, then There was not much in Bowie's lodglngs It had comé at last her opportunity! ‘g' amount of the income your father left ¢v'}i."sonirrels in a cage. whom a real arted forward, and Walter Bowle, among t> tempt a lover’s reverle, and so sensi- She was 26 and he was 25, a thought that > “\Vas it necessary? T told him I have W2l Wouldn't dream of asking to live be- the little group of footmen and hangers bly he went to bed to sleep off the brief made her wince. Her experience had a trifie of my Own—enough to dress UPOR. Stactid For o ik th m and on still remaining, felt that for him the time intervening before the hour when it shown her the result of more than one to buy books and give Christmas p AL ahout a bock's dist R Pet. 2R sun had gone behind a cloud. was his custom to be in his office, begin- such marriage among her friends. A hus. ents—and that you are not very rich.’ the inspiration came to » call on pas cruel. What do you do When he reached home—which chanced ning his day’s work. band who kept on maturing long after 'Trust other pf!upllsh_m‘ have _z:vlrlihlm Janetta Wether ol Wi Y New ¥ for 5 to be a flat of moderate size, shared with Not so Anne Sherbourne. _After reach- the wife had reached her prime. A hus- thaf before. Tie cant have many Susirs had ma - 1 3 at T do it for? To meet two other fellows—and, after letting him- {ng her own quarters and “dismissing the band whose boyish face, appearing In the 1, know that nothing but a continu the We: 4 J st expir. ) self in at the front door, ran up three 10n€ {jred mald with a good-natured injunction Wake of a “settled” wife, provoked the gjsgusting strain on my part has kept us for ‘b ta veary fiddles Y know vou are tired to death of flights of narrow stairs, he thought he 1.t to show herself till after luncheon USual banal jokes from fidle lookers-on. for years in our proper place her frie e * R u ki w_ hac never seen %o u va rh a fl attern of wall- i, 2t for a moment Into her Already she was speculating feverishly That I 't do anything much for you e w a »aper as sroprie A put Into these - At et e 1a upon the battle she would have to fight @part from myself. To your marriage [ brief space rs pes Dalls. Tis Sittng-room and the cell of a otners belroo s vaoe ~ > 2 %YM (o belong to him, and go ouf of this have lgoked forward as a time when I Janett - A : Jons from that lady’s volce. : 3 : D' oY R o M T et Tt bles w - : s &, whe bedroom off from it, before fairly com- .o AT e house, so filléd to overflowind®with ma- Could fold my hands and rest. I S oo 05" jon . g B t ences fortable from an unattached man’s point Was it a goof bOLS ir: Baxter took -ferial creeds snd petty greachments, into 29 10 Wb T4at Wit FOUT 00Uty Sic & Nft that : s y ¢ view, appeared the abode of dreariness: »Ou to SuF didn’t he? Really, I find’ the new life that Walter would provide §iceruonaly &00d Do o o through » ¥ ' < T ARG - Y he have been <o long satisfied him very clever and entertaining. Quaint, for her. Already she had determined to rme > But the enlo M wortl constdering fastid! o o ‘ you sincer <aying so, or only self- to come in to books and papers piled up I should say fight this battle to the death, and was you have flouted. The opportunity now lated house: h o 3 th erywhere, gathering dust; things “Very quaint,”” answered Anne, blissful in’ so:determining. awaliting you—I do not consider young S?A’ 11 sitting-roou t of the sm g s of 1 Keep I' from the bedroom that should “Is that all you have to tell me, my S VLSRR o0 5 o, S s Bowle an opportunity—while not what I ’CNI';‘:: ,‘: “ 5 d bre > g & Tante were also photographs, a excessively shiny ta ed she . present s herself -~ , and giv ng chair? Why we excepting Om tucled cover, Every Day of lum, already fl look at a t costume, leant husband, rath nance, owing to t bad had to do Tipon rising, A she had been s saturated with t odor, percetved nipresent. It . thera by the maid tening to admit a visit The door at the back and a sound of wa lowed the of skirts advar “It is plained make Some ing bear you remembe: to the Goodwins YOu marry a poor man always spangled net in your trousseau. Dea Haro I ery kno soon as I au Janetta, r smothered 3 ed that t had swallowe bis mamm preoccupat R U fear we are so things except in ou such primitive sati general. ‘Of course to do with it. I pa draw £ house in b T say what everyb: a child there w element in ours and each of in cash, and happy as we a All that night she lay awake cudgeling her brains about the wisdom and philos- ophy. of_her projected move. In the ernoon Walter can dom and philos: melted together, a ed with new light But as soon as he w t of house and her moth anew to re. it ma his career? self, bred i her finger man absor Anne burst into tears. PR TSR R N N A Jay Walter was in by the s a e s sail at on " - immedtate! In London he received a pitiful letter om_Anne, posted on the vesse at ried Him over, bidding him g She d been con b A would be serving his b s freeing him from t T obvious they I again her moth ing her abroa ter was sche was probable t return to Amer! “It 1s over,” Anne her berth near midnight in 1 jent ship that forged forward with almost no motion under the star Atlantic. A midsur have been instead ing winter seas. tween the lines done this dreadful t ; be too proud to answer it - t have hoped originally. that I am neyer, neve: rom 8¢ brilllant one. Mr. Baxt not— bim axain 2 but there are so many husbands in our There was a tap at her door. Anne, in set ore has had to become ustomed Aastonishment, sprang up to answ t to. There outside stood the cap s ow 0 one would have to become accus- Steward, a ma whom he vy e tomed to Walter,” Anne dashed in, smil- had captured, oo - n ing and fearless. “Everybody knows he Whose left she sat at tal is best looking, the best mannered, ““The captain’s complimer L Really, I think we have been kept there: a _meager steam chIM? 1 don't understand why you are ~ A day fater both her falk with Walter the clevirest—he i3’ a man. mother e the steward, smiling broa A ething after a ratt il instead of 1 fire; boots and g0 holdback with Mr. Baxte He has and-her announcement of their engage- is a ¥s welcome In any house. Don’t long as you told n w s p between 11 p. m ) slippers vaga g afar from their certainly a very large nature. Gives un- ment to Mrs. Sherbourne had been ac- You call that good ‘opportunity’ ior much this voyag houg & m hiding places: trousers on chair backs; (4d sums in ail the charitics onet knows complished. me? If he's taken a long time to tell me er have this de " A te! REDINE 5B Uy e Ml R bee ner. over all a smell of stale tobacco AItherto ' ppr s g eneor . gLy e you expected me to ref he. Wants me, and worked guistly along srams just arrived aboard for . You have been ger t ver all 3 im o about and entertains lavishly. Did he tell Of cours e sy P till he felt able to take me off your hands “A ‘telegram nsense, Sew it's Bowie nigh o much so I can't help thinking unperceived. Was it possible that some- ., o wants us to g0 to New Orleans DY coOnsent,” observed that lady. ov does that say nothing for him in your e joke. of ¢ k g here Ix < his v ;3 ants ? . s oW crimping pins now pu 4 3 ; r .some J = ear. In 1 was used 10 Serve a purpos ,-the Whi in- the T of this dawning day 7oU no 0" Gras in his car, we to mame [ Nose brow the cr £ S eves? = Ah. mother dear, be your best oo S o6 ght talk a confusion of Millington Baxter, Sounds there awaited him a home-a place of or- °° "0 olce he will ask? He has b forth a well f"‘“*".h"""‘i"""‘;”,'n' m;}""w‘l" seif. Look at that portrait of my hand- ing her the r A r between like a magazine story, doesn’t {t? Poor der. under gentle rule, a nest, no matter ¢YeTYPOCY € Sde as been 1 am not very much mistake 3 omme youns (hther hangiaa over the man. ' to° Bar h e e like . e e Tvodast=scould he DAt-wlofify: it rith. 38 nice to us I couldn’t well refuse. prepared to be“anlh.?ul}‘ ‘1'\‘ Brunhilda in' teipjece. . You married him because you system from the I w s 3axter e iy ‘ot~ BOW 20DORSLSCON'C 3 4 e 3 jefying me. Well, I shall give you no W o see. o 2 e B o g ¢ to absorb you, though. On the Until now, knowing the world he lived mine,” said Anne, kissing an eyebrow tion8 plainly nd without attempting “Do you want me to tell you that if - An‘n,q fingers = I retract my Christian Impulse in in, and its standards and exactions, Wal- panoplied by crimping pins. “Don’t waste flowers of sm-mh _xmd l)\Pr mjn\ve‘r may En; there'd been a little more money the love her message from the de it w . I ¢ tion ter had .not allowad himself to think of these preclous hours talking about Mr. az’{‘{g;gflfg‘m;;; Iy out of court, asthe would ha’\: 1aisged ‘[?};]sfr({"‘_sdd the older by a familia me A r knew how he oppresses me un- transplanting Anne from the smart, up Baxter. I have a sort of conviction he MUTHCPIH G Knew her mother well, had the world we Jive in that's to i er princi Hemittvel 5 kK t she said, almost in a whis- 1o date little establishment maintained by Will not follow up that invitation to us far rather have been:answered in a! more > been victims of Keeping up appear. lease from ¢ oD, g b me lie nd his pulses gave a bound, more her smart, up to date mamma, into any- to go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras."” = staccato and emotional way. She blanch- ances. When your father died he sald to Well and happy. WALTER BOW] & ntonation than her words thing he could offer. For this cause he When she again reached her bedroom ©d, 2 little in submitting to inquisition. me in that strange way you talk in some- A great wonder and a grealer pea & t of s moment there was a boarse roar had not spoken. But the Increase of in- .and divésted herself of the rather.simple ol inG,irst place; doee Mr. Bowle pro- times_between jest and carnest—‘Wher. passed into her troubled s It ney y p = oft. outside ‘“Miss Sherbourne’s carriage stops come, so long In coming, had come at last, frock she had worn that' evening,.Miss Dorn Timse T the formo have you live ever I'm going at least I can afford N i e s f Ly half the way!” *Miss Sherbourne’s carriage!” and a vista of reasonable prosperity onen- Sherhourne. whn had RE S o v m? In e former case, I must lother. you depress me horribly greatest wiz: n earth and the pow all the dav in which remind vou that you and I are both rather ‘Anne, if you marry youns Bowie you of the air for backers.