The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1903, Page 1

Whitlock. It is stories of written., 1t e-like allurement ipgton ore, d brilliant, largely typical, full of ught s digested and too except that where she now loved the father e 823 " make & lttie touch—fer & pun rwod had already begun shaking his S~ you!" his mother called in &he LoNe" - G g NG Sthet § . Mo sa: *nok e command mothers love t3 use W e N ook or not, w Tle T o orall chilaren for whom they: are SO At SCLegnt . t tand my position~ MAKNE Sucriuces. Wnen ~she had' #e mfiO b -3 7 o g Vived” the aying Hre, Sie' husteied O We've got fear) iy obsel whetr their iR - M A over and see stairs and for Rer = Jorever b laid out cicun Uhuer-gul gents and Gry hose, dnd fhe it hiai watb ab injun finging up his Ainging up the pro scd ou fing the wihet way. 16N, Just 1o dress comuriible and’no - mily, aid, ape | Fr ere’ rackin' What few. braing X, Up:’ . peailig. o hia afteotion by spéake wThe of€ B0 fer a week, an' [ can't tning - Garwood, warm, dry and refreshed. felt 1E Gf merssilin the thiry person ne ang ther way. God. Knows I've a glow of comior. as he wen. duwustars “OR, stay with mother to-nigh u Emerson v is. He set his shippers. H.s mother had tae n.e IUS been so long since you were : Mrs. C. plunged his hani crackdng, and tue tenaelt.e ruciing home ¢ 3 c briskly on the stuve, puming its litue She gnt out her sewing basket fof Turnpike 1 spuuts of sieam Lmportandy. Beside 1t her never {die hands and as Garwood . obe.; obe swod a p with warm water aunost stretched himseif in the wooden ’ ' . she had a sKilet heal ng. i ehalr his father had loved, e nts to the w.ning-rooin; Garwood Jar u h, well, all righ a either, but I could Lear t cuatier of plaes, and he doesn’t K. ' you to-mor- when she busting vith ser tireless, know: 1'm here anynow. plendi policy think I know of & WIry energy out inlo .he Kitchen, he Te- Then, she was content to sit and DAY CALL already out- : 5 | mamed idere, walking up and down darn nis socks and look at him fn the < G B ry,”” said Rankin, get- gussiping with her in a \ay wiuch, whiie great silence of a mother's love. aders get the care where you get it she wus always undemonsirative she he- They sat there for a long time. She the day without any j| only want *v sec tirely iuved. As the dire grew hotter did not kuow how to make conversa- ' dry _Of the wet, aud the ket(le began to sing. tne kitchem tiun, and, remembering the disiike. for Aud he hit Garwood became warm uhu cuzy, and the Min questions he had inherited from - His:) g when Garwood had p found o much wnywhere as in the by e - ety o ¢ e . » fts l‘lf e, 4 i ¥ § Garwood remained silent until he had/ w BB dashias i ..{.r:.,or} told his mother ;:r Is metilg finished his c.gar, dhunsu; to: interrupt’ per i e g Yo lngx, beurm»‘ llle_iw‘fl,fi. \\Yd the, fllLL!‘IllO ) his own pleasure in it by opening 7 . o und Just as Gar- Laa been cumapuiled o' endure at the lit- subject that then was on: his heart But v $ ink, i tle country huteis. of hix long rides "by at iength he began to talk lo her @hout b he went LBBL But he aid no. ta.x tu her of his cumpaign, and It was'a stimulunt . ; o7y SR B Einily, ‘and the old woman warily avoid- to her priue to hear his cuntidences. She = 3 y e n wheky glas £d tae g.il's name und &l top.cs that was mure pleased i distressed when . t alth e i a ? nz Iqm:e ::;r‘\e:;‘y nlu; x‘e‘;rrm\(-‘l;"u:su%l«:un g:“::; he spoke ms: di;ncou ed tone 'or ah:l L with ‘ " fo.m—sa e 8 v 00 vas pro rospecis. e e was of a de- S . 1 then put 3 spoon- o Emily, and while she gloried in that Eponding temperament, another heritage fu < e fuam, 3 pride before the women of her acquaint- from his father, and It pleased her to € e 1 4id as Rankin bade him, and ance she never let her son.see it; she try to cheer him. Rank “The ¥ tg Dowder was floating ou rather distrusied fier own footing in the “Oh. you'li be ‘lected,” she (nsisted. . foam, Rankin gave It to presence of the girl or of her name. More “Your mother's prayin’, my son, and she & < than ail she longed that nigit to keep has - faith in her prayers.™ 2 & i swallow that.. quick: you her son at home with her, and she Garwood laughed. with a touch of thi 3 1 Then y can have your ,\_.l.h;:‘.e;;“:w»',‘ em.(r;e":: .:.:e:::'n‘ A =:nh fim“‘ she was always com- ce o flee bating in him 5 L 3 R o 2 co s«ili 4 s much as ,"" he ; »v. hen Garwood turned in the gate of did not form any part of her culnary "lflm&y?" K.' pausing in her his home that night & weird feeling of accomplishments—and after she had darning, and looking up at him' inquir- . % e detachment came over alm. As he look- 4ropped two eggs inio the tin pan where ingily. 8 miliar yard every black 'De water had iong been bubbling she = “There are legitimate every tree toss.og NS thinued fpmmanded him 1o hold his watch on expenses-in & campsigm: you kuov, LRt 3 hopelessly in the wind that biew tace” Ghs eut the ol ot i o e e e e At omses r ets against the frott of ‘gyady. S " n; '-nl' in r'h-l W ltu wld. her what the iegitimate expeuses v seemed lo belong to somé o concession she seidom muds befuts s Eo : w—Jim Rankin and : . which he vearned, as ah -&pconcession she seldom mude befure “Some Gf the boywJim Rankin an ! Halt way: 5 . Il - “s : even uunl or 1’;‘ e.:- some oth—au“u(edhuu:m ‘v’:',h tn: cas light 'in the sitting-room hud poured her coffes off ahe whished Bad Antined. He had adroily caicumted . : shadow of the drenched the Bupper on the taple:” and ot S g e . Sous Heve - er the ‘Window wheeled Lheres gp b nl:t T e; ;nh l ore the effect this suggestion wnu' ave ulv- s ask and then the light Gle- bureh:éde(lu:)ul 3 :r I‘Jr-hg e had “run - on lier, and he was certain of her reply, v ba ing the window uiack. -Carehieaded out of the kitchen d.'.lor and Go to Mr. FHarkness, would :hey- B is mother hail heard 0. From The T chatn pithp, & the ¥ o e e A e have. the "‘ek. ] nother moment the hall tran- coiifa ™ G0 CUSTICPUTE, 10 She YAl S snorted ths. Cgoin: Lo be bendld. - ne bright, the door opened, & fio'made no move to deter her, ani a8 ‘en o, Arknesses . any | y hank a D ocnin streamed otlt. ou NP she Finwes out the piter or and whiied ou tRaEBL o n.any b he =3 w €r's b Ry ety BB the rattling crank of the pump again, . “That's just what I told them,” said I lamp over her hes st bise "‘ff' ca e(v out of the r.umy' dArKl:ux!!. thfi som, qui 0 & 4 shading her old - eyes to peer Dofft you come out here! You've got An' em just rrlxht she the darkness, and in anmother Yur Elibpers on.” s Sanen oeer He- wan Dottt et sht e e scoiied ber as she came stamping holding up the sock, stretched over her [ amming the door behind him, shutting PACK into the kitchen, the rain drops extended finge betore thc iamp. the rain and the night. " showing on her gray hair, but she stihed _“But I don't know to whom to go," K My, you're drenched to the skin, NS scoldings by reproaches of her own Garwood said presently, “and I've got wiek Jerome!" she exclaimed. “Run right up [OF standing in the open door on such .o g0 to somebody. o = 4 and change your clothe: a night and with such a cold. “Can’t you possibly get along -some- Whew!" he said, “what a night!” He _The son repaid his moiher's efforts by how?” she asked. “Tell ‘em you just & - _ # whisked out his handkerchief and wiped declaring that he did not know how &In‘t got any money to give em. whole his face, wet with the rain and moist hungry he was until he smelied her covk. -, Garwood BRNS & cotiEmptudus D wed he'd with perspriation, for the whisky and ing again, and he made the eyes that . bumphl’ and then, made impatieat by d i t” the rapid walk had heated him. looked fondly across the table gusten her -utter failure to comprehend the Rank ! “And how hoarse you are!" the mother With a brightness that seldom giow<d in Srim necessily of a candidate's H see, w said, wheeling his big body about ana their dim depths, by eating ail the ba- ‘With elgction but a week away, he a - . y pushing him toward the stairs. “You've con she had fricd, and both the eggs, . "Didwt I Just say 1'd. got to Ha got been doing anything for it?" “I took a little quinine and whisky a your death some’ 2 . “Well, mother_don't pretend to. know ‘about politics. - Your pa rever had’ - b "em, kmgr. ‘fi. of cold! and then by sending her to cut mure bread. He urged her to share hls meal, though he warned her that if she did ghe Haven't you a while ago.’ would have to cook him more bacon and thing to do with . 1 . v “Yes, [ smelt it on your breath, boil him another ‘egg She refused, has to say this in mild ypice, to ar Jerome,” his mother said rather severely., though she implored him to let her fry conciliate his petulance with he a 8t was ‘‘lemperance,” as she wouid mWore bacon and boil ‘another egg, but o have put it she did consent finally to drink a cup of Garwood risked an uneasy laugh. He had never been able, grown man that he coffee, in the readiness American women always evince for their national bever- o 5 was, 10 overcome what he considered a age. She said it did her good to see him tretched 2 gaz- boyish “fear of his mother's knowing eat. “‘Feed a cold and Starve a fever,” edHrv:o‘ the cnot‘:m Jown: Nk 0 he drank she quoted. When Ne had eaten, he * % ] of some one, I - But don't stand there the mother threatened to help her wash the dishes, > H C “Go right, upstairs and take-those @8 he used to do when he'was a boy, but X his chair and exclaime 5 duds off #this minute! Have you she.declined this assistance also, sa; :&’ his trousers s ere in clothes as wet any supper?’ she ‘was going to leave them for the b at one with i No: is supper u\'!er‘!” ET replied. {lrl to' dhA;'un l-nxthe r:urmb-:.mzhe ‘had % s R x € = rwc “Let's “Yes just got the table cleared and fear o escaping when eaten, 3 know wha gm‘ - - v 3 ¢ y. Don’t the dishes washed. But I'll get you ‘but he pacifically ll'nned a cigar and she ;‘. ‘was scowling .‘ I;: ce. v‘:- e m ail rig something, by the time youre into dry allowed him to ‘stroll out her he sald th the deep tone of a clothes.”” * . into ‘the sitting-room. . - F bgolute ‘e-w:. x “ “Oh, don't bother to get anything, Though she had said she was not one will Jlend it to you,’ the - mother."” ‘he said.”* - ¢ ing to wash the dishes he heard mother sald, . “You mustn't get so down- She gave the lamp to her son, and as scrape the skillet and a moment la heart b 3 ¢ he went up the Stairs’he heard her rak- knock the coffee pot on the sink out- “Well, I'd like to_know who!” he sald, A P ing up the coals in the kitchen stove. side the kitchen door, and he called to ca #, oyn t her from his eyes. inued,” with a re- Mother! he jcalled, peremptorily. upbraid her for breaking her g omige to- “Why," some o the banks—they loan " e to—but here goes. “Don’t ‘make any N mbnomnhlnx tum. Under hlg*zdmnmonnx e | en- momey.’t i s a2 Y avé money—an’ 1 thought™ ‘cold-that’ll*do “for¥me, "t = » ed ‘through her ‘Work, and when she join- He laughed aloud, harshly, lnfrfly. we might g0 0 old man “You go get your clothes off as I tell ed him in the sitting-room she glanced “The banks!” he said, mocking her “The banks! They'd be likely tolend me any without security, wouldn’t ‘Well, Jerome, “don't got mad with mother,” she sajd. “She’d help you if she could.” He was silent; silent for a long time. She looked up at him now and then, cautously, but she understood his humor, and she thought by the knitting of his brows that he was deep in thought. Out of his cogitations he came after a time, and then to say, with-a mild, hesitating approach to their result: “F can think of anly one thing, mother, I might do.” What's that?” she asked. h ight borrow a little from the bank—and we might give a mortgage on the ouse, His mother did not move. Her gray head was bent over her sewing. The Ught of the lamp made her hair glisten; he heard the sound of ler thread as pulled’ her darning-needle, regularly ‘out to arm’s length. FPresen us ventured to look at her, he thought of how ther had toiled to put this little roof over her head before disease which be knew w hastening his end s away; he thought of the comfort she 8 during the long. years she had worked to keep & school, in the thought that whatever else came ad a_home, asyium for every stress and sto on in silence, and he did not sy for her. And after awhile she sj her head: “You know, dear’—he could not remember when she had permitted herself the tender word before w=‘what I prumised your father before he went he sald, but this really , not that serious; it would be and I'm sure to be elected, I'll have a good man—five thousand a : it would c mont! v 1 could easily pay you'd never know t e, It seems a pity lose such a good chance as I've §ot now for a little thing like did not raise her eye ut your father said, Je- rome, he -faltered, and then he saw a tear fall on the pile of hose in hér lap, and, strangely [\ enough. in such a moment, he saw a pair_of their s vant girl's stocik- ings — he knew the m b ecause their spiendor of color teld er b eiong! to his moth- *And 1, promised. “‘But, mother, Just look here a minute—I wouldn't ask anything out of the way of you, would “You've always been a £00d son to me, Jerome, and a qod provider.” “Well, it isn't as if you were going to get a big sum on it, or as if we had no chance of paying it off right away. It won't be breaking your promise don’t you see?”’ He went on with his smiling, specious reasoning, reassuring him- self every minute. and finally seeming make an impression upon her, for.she sald at last: ““Well, Jerome, you're a man now, and ou know best about such things. You'll ve to take other be- fore long, anyws Bhe took off Her es and wiped &way their moisture on the stocking she was darning, gnd then she raiscd her eyes, their pale depths dim Wwith tears, and through them she smiled at him. He got up and kissed her, and she held him to her, press- her w his had red one, patting for she had ing his chéek close t 2 never hands clumsily, & time to cultivate the She did not, however, give way long to her emotion. 8he urged him to go to ted, because of his cold, and in the new burst of ection the evening had devel- oped in his heart, he obeyed. She tucked him in his bed as if he had been a little boy again, and sald good-night. He lay there for a long comfortable, his ¢lct'on a But he could not get to sle. For from his mother's room there came to him the sound of her quavering, ed voice, in hoarse whispers, d he knew that she was kneeling by her bed, praying. XVIL Garwood found Rarkin sitting in the lobby of the Cassell House, stiff in the highly glossed lin- en his wife decreed f-r his Sunday wear, his face cleanly shaved ard showing its pink under th powder the barber had left on it. He had his hair cut, too, and his cropoed c cause they had been combed by the bart him the appearance of having been_ trimmed d over In another fash on. He had got the ashes of his v ais coat, as he deep a big chair with the papers piled In his 2 1ap, and when be not he also natice 1 jes, and in his ha.te to brush them off, he coull Teeting between the teeih Lhat icned DIS Cibi action he had anticipated for that moment, when time, warm, perspiring, he fe t at last assured. £ m only wheeze out an fnad Garwood did not feel he tw: ““Well, Jim, you may talking of last n{.ht." ) Although Garwood spoke with a politician’s generality, Rankin, before he replied, glanced .over his shoulders with a politician’s wariness, which is like the wariness of a hunted savage, “Well, that's all right then,” Rankin answered, blink g) his because the smoke from his cigar had persisted in creeping Into them. idn’t have any trouble &vout it, did you?" i __*No, ncne to speak of,” said Garwood. He laughed, but it was a laugh with ore of rue than mirth in it. “It only means a little more debt, that's all.” o ‘“Well,” sald Rankin, nipping the wet and ragged end of his cigar with his ':'“::l; “s0 long s you don’t have to mortgage the roof over your head you're all B { .. The words of course struck a pain through Garwood's heart, Jaugh again as he answered: "*Well, I reckon it won’'t come to_that.” ““There’s one thing I'veal’ays done, Jerry,” sald Rankin, leaning over in a more confidential attitude, “‘and that's this: I've al‘ays drawed the line at the little/woman and the kids; I've al'ays said I'd never compromise them or their future, and I say that so long’s a man don’t do that, he’s doin’ all right.” - AFor some reason that mornihg Rankin seemed to be In a soft and tender mood, and showed a desire to talk of his home and its.interests. Perhaps it was becausc it was Sunday, and his wife had been dressimg him for the day with as mucn materrral solicitude. as she had dressed his children. Garwood would have pre- fcrrea Rankin's harsher and more careless note, and because it gave him a chance to get away, was glad when he remembered that he had gromlsrd his mother_to go ‘to chureh with her. He knew how gratifying this would be to her, for in her strict -Sabbatarianism she had disliked his ioln[ down town at all that day; and then, ‘teo, he felt that it would be a politic thing to do. 3 ', He went homeward, recalling, word b; kih, feellg a little hurt-at '?“ seeme iclons and misgivingsythat he- -cnbs‘dc A ner, and .without the“peace of ‘mind election was assured. ¥ Ly - 2 e found his mother with her bonnet on, and her misshapen hands gloved and in anxious waiting. t time does.church begin?” he asked. “Half ‘past ten the last bell rings,” sald Mrs. Garwood. 1 ;:ly as he hurriedly snapped his watch lid shut, “I thoug! The old lady's face winced with a jealous resentment. “You're thinkin’ of the ’'piscopalian church,” she answered significantly; “they te e sa regj gosy, 1 can take care_of that little matter we were but he gave his word, all of his fonversation with Rar to him Rankin's coldne: troubled with toithe influence of nkifi's strange thought he should feel, now that his foi E alvays does.things different.” They walked to ch ringing, rches tolling a note at & time, ts turn, though the different keys which their bells were pitched rang n a sharp dis- harmony their doctr stinctions. Far away over on th ast Side, Garwood ard the chimes of the Catholic church, holding aloof from this dissonance of the clamoring creeds, while the Epis- copalians had no bell in their church, disdaining with a fine superior quality of respectability to enter into the bras- en polemics he last bell had just stopped ringir d dying tones were stiil vibra ding when they res ¢! h, and wer s the afsle to Mrs. Garwood's gh there was a pretense rwood could fe hould great ma « when, would appe mon without m: tne Longworths. congregat fmpressive community found his long as & present and ¢ the would however air castles the pres He th ampalgyd tc ortgag: He was pressed @nd longed for the services end. They seemed to stretch themsely out interm with prayers hymns and anthems, with a ments and collections, fin scrmon, with the sapt L child. He feit as whe n Mt had squirmed during and as a boy was glad w over—he was particular had not proved to be for that would have for him once more to lem; to decide on a cou he was wearled with and decisions. The heavy feeling that od In_church, necked ‘he fei) himself now e mained with Btm. At times he would forget and become happy, but as soon as he was conscious that he was happy, would remember that there was some reason why he should not be happy, and then his memory ) swiftly bring back to him bad done. By afternoon recurrence irritated him, pitied himself, thinking it should .be thu ed when Al . unju made to his r last sixteen hou out _in the clear, s to Emily, he resolve feeling: to cast from done with it for all time rgsolve by ay he set his shou h with the wi be. to by The d was out for her day = and Emily self r Garwoo having shown fme that morn- [z the skirt of which Vouched ket that had been laid a greater comfort of a blue silk bodice, which billowed modestly breast, giving her an air and accentuating the deli- her whole person. Her eyes and cheeks were brig ealth and her lover's coming, so her natural celor, which made the wearing of dark cos- umes an easy thing for her, was there- v heightenec In the mor »nt they lingered in hall, she la :r _soft hands on shoulders, reaching up to him with smile of propitiation to say: “Dade’s here. She ‘was pleased when he frowned his Jjealdtis disapproval the his a “How long's she going to stay?” he said_bluntly “Not long,” she replied. “She: won't stay when she knows you're here. Why didn't you let me know you were coming? “1 didn’'t know it myself.” he said. “I came on a teleeram from Rankim, and [ ought to go right .out again, only—I had o stay and see you.” She _purred an instant in the embrace into which he drew her and then quickly hushed him by pointing. toward the drawing-room. Garwood had never known Dade Emer- son, though he had heard of her from Emily in those confidences with which they tried to atone for the years that had passed before love came to them, by recounting in detail, little by little. ali their happenings and relations. Dade, to be sure, had impulsively declared that she remembered Garwood as a shock- headed boy whose short trousers came abjectly below his knees, and had identi- fled him to Emily as the youth who had thrown & stone and