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By ANNIE L. MUZZEY
(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.')
The Harlands were just moving into
their new house—a tent-like structure
in close proximity to the Queen Anne
cottage of Mrs. Laura Mortimer Law
rence, who had watched the develop
ment of the unpretentious building
with chagrin and disdain.
"Curious, isn't it?” she remarked to
her son Hugh, with a scornful eye on
the household goods unloading at her
neighbors door. "Very curious that
poor people cannot have the sense to
perceive the folly of an attempt to set
themselves up as owners of real es
tate, when the effort to do so results
in an ugly blot, offensive to the refined
and cultivated taste of the beholder.”
Having returned the present eve
ning from a year’s absence abroad,
this was the young man’s first outlook
on neighborhood changes.
wny, reaiiy, <10 you Know mar 1
think that a rather picturesque affair
on the whole?” he resumed, observing
critically, for the first time, the object
of his mother's contemptuous remark.
Hugh leaned forward, his languid
eyes opening wide with sudden inter
est as a girl with a mist of sunny
,hair blowing back against the broad
■black brim of the hat. framing her hap
ipy face, ran out and, catching some
article from the household furnishings
unladen at the door, disappeared like
a flash of light within.
"Ah!” he breathed. “Who are these
Ipeople, mother?” he questioned, pres
ently, vainly waiting for a reappear
ance of the figure which had attracted
his attention. "Have you made their
! acquaintance?”
"I? No, indeed!” was the dignified
response. “Mrs. Thompson, however,
|has volunteered to explain to me that j
they are eminently respectable. The
father is a hard-working, but imprac
tical sort of a person, always dream
ing out Inventions that never meet
"with adoption; the eldest, and only
son is a carpenter aspiring to become
!an architect; one of the daughters is
■ a wood carver, and the other a gradu
ate of the cooking school, and em- ]
ployed at very high prices by some of
our first families to prepare fancy
dishes for special occasions, going to
their houses like a common servant.
Think of that! And the whole family
contributing, 1 am told, to the erection
of this uncivilized structure, which
appears to he the first property they
have ever possessed.”
“A laudable enterprise,” remarked
Hugh Lawrence.
It was not long before Hugh was
on very sociable terms with his new
neighbors, whom, however, liis mother
ist.ill ignored. In every member of
rthe family he found a genial and in
rteresting companion, though he was
unable to approach Miss Ethel in the
friendly relations already established
with the frank, brotherly Sibyl.
True, Ethel was entertaining and re
sponsive in a matter-of-fact imperson
al way, but while the dark-haired
Sibyl would talk of herself as frank
ly and freely as of any other interest
ing topic, Ethel would withdraw with
a touch-me-not air, and remain icily
uncommunicative whenever he ven
tured to broach the subject of per
sonal feelings and affairs.
Even more than by this repellant
(quality Lawrence was piqued by the
girl's failure to recognize him outside
her own house. Time and again he
had met her upon tlie street and she
had given no token whatever of ac
quaintanceship with him: though, per- !
liaps only the previous evening he had
hv her own fireside talked with her of
art, science, literature and kindred
subjects with which she was familiar,
with a sympathetic interchange of
sentiment which had seemed to him
to constitute a bond of friendship.
This fact annoyed him more than he
felt was reasonable. He was vexed
with his own chagrin.
His inward resentment of such rude
ness culminated one day when, ap
proaching his mother’s house after a
morning walk, he saw just nearing a
side gate, the slight, erect figure of
Miss Ethel, attired in a plain stuff
gown, its straight length relieved by a
white breadth of apron, and her sunny
'tendrils of hair pushed under a de
mure cap that encircled her head not
exactly like the aureole of a saint.
He attempted to speak to tier, but she
passed on into the servants’ entrance
with scarcely a perceptible bow.
Discomfited, Lawrence wheeled and
walked around to his usual entrance.
“For what purpose is .Miss Havland
in your kitchen?” lie asked his
mother.
"Eiess you! to make one of her in
| imitable desserts. She is ail the rase,
j don't you know; and to be in fashion
we must employ her ,vhen she will
condescend to favor us, though her
prices are as exquisite as her dishes.”
“Mother, the young lady is not to
come here again in such capacity,”
said Hugh witli authority. Don’t argue
with me, mother," he added, forestall
ing the surprised exclamation that
was coming.
When Lawrence called on Miss Har
land that evening she was found in
the summer quarter sitting under a
rose-tinted lamp shade that gave to
her fair face and soft white gown the
pink glow of the dawn. She gave him
a cordial welcome.
“Are you alone?” he asked.
"Yes, for a little,” she said. “I am
forbidden by the powers in command
to make my appearance in the doines
i tic region, where some mysterious
rK.es are being put in process in honor
of my birthday. The family are ail
engaged in secret preparations.
‘‘In trnth, my sense is closed to
everything but the pleasure of this
fair opportunity to see you alone, and
to ask you why you have so persist
ently and unkindly ignored me out
Btde your own realm of enchantment,”
Lawrence hastened to say.
“Do you need any explanation of so
simple a fact?” questioned Ethel.
"Here I meet you on terms of equal
ity, I think. Outside of my own home
I am a high professional in domestic
service, but a servant none the less.
I know perfectly well how to maintain
my rank. You erred this morning in
not recognizing my insignia, plainly
presented in cooking cap and apron,
and the familiarity with which you
assumed (out of pure politeness), I
had to discountenance in a manner
embarrassing to both. You will not
again subject me to this ordeal."
“No! Nor will you ever again en
ter my mother's house in the capacity
of a servant,” spoke the gentleman,
with repressed passion. “But—but as
my wife—Ethel. I c^uld make myself
a stepping-stone for you at the door.”
The words burst from his lips with
unpremeditated directness and fer
vor. He had not thought to deliver
himself in this impetuous fashion, nor,
indeed, for the present to acknowl
edge an interest he had only begun to
admit to himself; but the speech
made him all at once conscious of
the might of his love.
Ethel’s dark, velvety eyes, under
their slightly lifted brows of gold,
“Curious, Isn't It?”
met in his a look of concentrated will
and power before which her own
quailed, and with a vague sense of
subjugation her gaze fell to the book
she had been holding open in her lap
since he entered.
Just then a musical chime sounded
from the other end of the house, and
with a gush of song and a noisy slid
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offering some great bargain in Men’s Overcoats and Pants. Come in and look
over our stock.
We thank the many good people of Newark and surrounding country who
have given us their trade for the past six years, and while we have many good
friends and customers whom we hate to leave, yet, under the circumstances, we
feel that it is to our best interest to do as we are doing.
Again thanking you, we are Your Friends,
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ing of screens Sibyl appeared on the
scene.
"Here comes the Harland delegation
to hear off the queen of the birthday
fete," she cried.. "Ah, Mr. Lawrence,
an unexpected pleasure this! So kind
of you to have come in to entertain
Ethel in her enforced solitude and
exile! Welcome to the feast, and
will you lead out the queen?”
"I have offered myself to her ma
jesty as a birthday gift,” said Law
rence, who had risen without relin
quishing the hand of which he had
taken possession. “But it does not
seem so clear that I am accepted that I (
may venture on taking an honored
place at the feast.”
With the sweep of a heavy portiere,
the pretty dining-room opened to their
vision, displaying a daintily-laid table,
at the head of which a beautiful iloral
arch indicated the place of the
"queen.”
"What deep-laid scheme is this?”
questioned Ethel, seeing at her side
a vacant seat, into which Lawrence
was bowed by a circle of assenting
heads.
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veled myself at the breadth of floral
canopy which Will was arranging for
so slight a royalty as yourself, Ethel;
and as for the second chair, it is a
work of magic that I will not attempt
to explain. It is a bit of witchcraft
wrought since I left the dining-room.”
A significant glance shot between
the eyes of the lover and brother as
both turned smiling on Ethel, who
looked from one to the other in
grave question.
"It was ‘instinct,’ sis, that myste
rious sense which you reject, pluming
yourself on ‘reason,’ you know,” ex
plained Will. “Now that canopy ex
panded of itself In a most surprising
way as I worked at it. It covers two
in spite of my plan for one. As for the
second chair, that was added in haste
after my inadvertent glance a few
minutes ago at—at a tableau under
the rose, which seemed to indicate—
'■ no objection to—near proximities. Beg
I pardon, Ethel my queen sister. That
glance of reproach rather challenged
me to self-defense, don't you know?
Do you recollect what you said to me
on the day we entered our new home,
about a certain ‘Greek god’ who had
just passed the window, and after
whom you looked with softly inquiring
eyes? And do you recall what I said
about not. being, the keeper of the
I gates and— A prophet, true, or false,
aas I not? Was it 1 that admitted
i Mr Lawrence to the innermost? But
1 'let us have grace!”
! ADAMS BROS.
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All are architects of Fate.
Working1 in these walls of Time:
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.
Nothing useless is. or low:
Each thing in its place is best:
And what seems hut idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.
For the structure that we raise,
Time is with materials tilled:
Our to-days and resterdays
Are the blocks with which we build.
Truly shape and fashion these:
Leave no yawning gaps between:
Think not because no man sees,
Such things will remain unseen.
In the elder days of Art
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part:
For the gods see everywhere.
Let us do our work as well,
Both the unseen and the seen;
Make the house, where gods may dwell,
Beatiful, entire and clean.
Else our lives are incomplete,
Standing- in these walls of Time,
Broken stairways, where the feet
Stumble as they seek to climb.
Build to-day, then, strong- and sure,
With a firm and ample base:
And ascending and secure
Shall to-morrow find its place.
Thus alone can we attain
To those turrets, where the eye
Sees the world as one vast plain
And one boundless reach of sky.
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