Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 11 April 1895 — Page 4

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neighborhood of London, for the admiral "was as fond of ships and of salt water as ever and was as happy in the sheets of a 2-ton yacht as 011 the bridge of his 1(5-l:not monitor. Had he been untied the Devonshire or Hampshire coast would certainly have been his choice. There was Harold, however, and Harold's interests were their chief care. Harold was 2-1 now. Three years before he had been taken in hand by an acquaintance of his father's, the head of a considerable firm of stockbrokers, and fairly launched upon 'change. His 300giiinea entrance fee paid, his three surelies of .€500 pounds each found, his name approved by he committee and all other formalities complied with, he found himself whirling around, an insignificant nnit in the vortex of the money market of the world.

There, under the guidance of his father's friend, he was instructed in the mysteries of bulling and of bearing, in the strange usages of 'change, in the intricacies of carrying over and of transferring. He learned to know wis ere to place his clients' money, which of the jobbers would make a price in New Zealands and which would touch nothing but American rails, which might be trusted and which shunned. All this and much more lie mastered, and to such purpose that he soon began to prosper, to retain the clients who had

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Harold is not quite happy.'" "He looks happy, the young rascal," ^answered the admiral, pointing with his cigar. It was after dinner, and through the open French window of the dining room a clear view was to be had of the tennis court and the players. A set had josfc been finished, and young Charles "Westmacott was hitting up the balls as 3iigh as he could send them in the middle Of the ground. Dr. Walker and Mrs. 'Westmacott were pacing up and down the lawn, the lady waving her racket as she emphasized her remarks, and the doctor listening with slanting head and little nods of agreement. Against the rails at the near end Harold was leaning in liis flannels talking to the two sisters, who stood listening to liim with their long dark shadows streaming down the lawn behind them. The girls were dressed alike in dark skirts,with light pink tennis blouses and pink bands on their straw hats, so that as they stood with the soft red of the setting sun tinging their faces, Clara demure- r:il quiet, Ida mischievous and daring, it was a group •which might have pleased the eye of a jaore exacting critic than the old sailor.

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JiT. Walker nvd M/•.?. Wcstnuicalt. were pacimj nj ami 1 o?r/i, the lnv)t. "Yes, ho looks happy, mother," lie repeated with a chuckle. "It was not so long ago since it was you and 1 who were standing like that, and I don't remember that we were very unhappy either. It was croquet in our time, and the ladies had not reefed in their skirts quite so taut. What year would it be? Junt before the commission of the Penelope."

Mrs. Hay Denver ran her fingers through his grizzled hair. "It was when yon came back in the Antelope, just before you got your step." "Ah, the old Antelope! What a clipper she was! She could sail two points nearer the wind than anything of her tonnage in the service. You remember her, mother. You saw her come into Plymouth bay. Wasn't she a beauty?" "She was indeed, dear. But when 1 gay that I think that Harold is not liapjpy 1 mean in his daily life. Has it never

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ommended to him and to attract fresh ones. But the work was never congenial. He had inherited from his father his love of the air of heaven, his affection for a manly and natural existence.

To act as middleman between the pursuer of wealth and the wealth which he pursued, or to stand as a human barometer, registering the rise and fall of the great mammon pressure in the markets, was not the work for which Providence had placed these broad shoulders and gtrong limbs upon his well knit frame. His dark open face, too, with his straight Grecian nose, well opened brown ejvsand round black curled head, were "those of a man who was fashioned for active physical work. Meanwhile he was popular with his fellow brokers, respected by his clients and beloved at home, but his spirit was restless within him, and his mind chafed unce isingly .against his surroundings. "Do you know, Willy." said Mrs. Hay Denver one evening as she stood behind lier husband's chair, with her hand upon lis shoulder,

srrfiriv vou nvnv iiiou^u in lie is ai times and how absentminded?" "In love perhaps, the young dog. He seems to have found snug moorings now at any rate." "I think that it is very likely that yon are right, Willy." answered the mother seriously. "But with which of them?" "1 cannot tell." "Well, they are very charming girls, both of tin.'in. But as long as he hangs in the wind between the two it cannot be serious. After all, the boy is four and twenty, and he made £500 last year. He is better nble to marry than I was when I was lieutenant." "1 think that we can see which it is now," remarked the observant mother. Charles Westmacott had ceased to knock the tennis balls about and was chatting with Clara Walker, while Ida and Harold Denver were still talking by the railing with little outbursts of laughter. Pre ently a fresh set was formed, and Dr. Waiker, t-lio odd man out, catne through the wicket gate and strolled up the garden walk. "Good evening. Mrs. Kay Denver," said lie, raising his broad straw hat. "Mav I come in?" "(rood eveniiuv. doctor. Pray do." "Trv one of thes:\" said the admiral. Holding out his cigar case. "They are not bad. I got them on the Mosquito coast. I was thinking of signaling to you, but you seemed so very happy out there." "Mrs. Westmacott is a very clever woman," said the doctor, lighting the cigar. "By the way. you spoke about the Mosquito coast just now. Did you see much of the Ilyla when you were out there?" "No such r. :ine on the list," answered the seaman with decision. "There's the Hydra, a harbor defense turret ship, but she never leaves the home waters."

The doctor laughed. "We live in two separate worlds," said he. "The Hylais the little green tree frog, and Beale has founded some of his views on protoplasm upon the appearances of its nerve cells. It is a subject in which I take an interest." "There were vermin of all sorts in the woods. When I have been on river service, I have heard it at ni^iit like the engine room when you are on the measured mile. You can't sleep for the piping and croaking and chirping. Great Scott, what a woman that is! She was across the lawn in three jumps. She would have made a captain of the foretop in the old days." "She is a very remarkable woman." "A very cranky one." "A very sensible one in some things," remarked Mrs. Hay Denver. "Look at that now!" cried the admiral, K-ith a lunge .of his forefinger at the doctor. "Yc-u mark my words. Walker, if we don't look out that woman will raise a mutiny with her preaching. Here's my wife disaffected already, and your girls will be no better. We must combine, man, or there's an end of all discipline." "No doubt she is a little excessive in her news," said the doctor, "but in the main I think as she does." "Bravo, doctor!" cried the lady. "What, turned traitor to your sex! We'll court martial you

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a deserter."

"She is quite right. The professions are not sufficiently open to women. They are still far too much circumscribed in their employments. They are a feeble folk, the women who have to work for their bread—poor, unorganized, timid, taking as a favor what they might demand as a right. That is why their case is not more constantly before the public, for if their cry for redress was as great as their grievance it would fill the world to the exclusion of all others. It is all very well for us to be courteous to the rich, the refined, those to whom life is already made easy. It is a mere form, a trick of manner. If we are truly courteous, we shall stoop to lift up struggling womanhood when she really needs our help—when it. is life and death to her whether she has it or not. And then to cant about it being unwomanly to work in the higher professions. It is womanly enough to st arve, but unwomanly to use the brains which God has given them. Is it not a monstrous contention?"

The admiral chuckled. "You are like one of these phonographs, Walker." said he. "You have had all this talked into you, and now you are reeling it off again. It's rank mutiny, every word of it. for man has his duties and woman has hers, but they are as separate as their natures are. I suppose that we shall have a woman hoisting her pennant on the flagship presently and taking command of the Channel squadron." "Well, you have a woman on the throne taking command of the whole nation," remarked his wife, "and everybody is agreed that she does it better than any of the men."

The admiral was somewhat staggered by this home thrust. "That's quite another thing," said he.-.'n/s "You should come to their next meeting. I am to take the chair. I have just promised Mrs. Westmacott that I will do so. But it has turned chilly, and it is time that the girls were indoors. Good night. I shall look out for you after breakfast for our constitutional, admiral."

The old sailor looked after his friend with a twinkle in his eyes. "How old is he, mother?" •. "About 50, I think." "And Mrs. Westmacott?" 'f' "I heard that sho was 43."

Tlie admiral rubbed his hands and shook with amusement. "We'll find one of these days that three and two make one," said he. "I'll bet you a new boilnet on it, mother."

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A SISTER'S SECIir.T.

"Tell me. Miss Walke r. You know

how things should be. What would you say was a good profession for a young man of 20 who has had no education worth speaking about and who is not very quick by nature?" The speaker was Charles Westmacott. and the time this same summer evening in the tennis ground, though the shadows had fallen now and the game been abandoned.

The girl glanced up at him, amused and surprised. "Do you mean yourself?"' "Precisely." "But how could I tell?" "I have no one to advise me. I believe that you could do it better than any one. I feel confidence in your opinion." "It is very flattering." She glanced up again at his earnest, questioning face, with its Saxon eyes and drooping flaxen mustache, in some doubt as to whether he might be joking. On the contrary, all his attention seemed to be concentrated upon her answer. "It depends so much upon what you can do, you know. I do not know you sufficiently to be able to say what natural gifts you have." They were walking slowly acre-s the lawn in the direction of the ho.. "I have none—that is to say, none worth mentioning. I have no memory, and I am very slow." "But you are very strong?" "Oh. if that goes for anything. I can put up a hundred-pound bar till further orders, but what sort of a calling is that?"

Some little joke about being called to the bar flickered up in Miss Walker's mind, but her companion was in such obvious earnest that she stifled down her inclination to laugh. "I can do a mile on the cinder track in 4:50 and across country in 5:20, but how is that to help me? I might be a cricket professional, but it is not a very dignified position. Not that I care a straw about dignity, you know, but I should not like to hurt the old lady's feelings." our aunt's?" "Yes, my aunt's. My parents were lulled in the mutiny, you know, when I was a baby, and she has looked after me ever since. She has been very good to me. I'm sorry to leave her." "But why should you leave her?" They had reached the garden gate, a"nd the girl leaned her racket upon the top, of it, looking up with grave interest at her big, white flanneled companion. "It's Browning." said he. "What!" "Don't tell my aunt that I said it"—he sank his voice to a whisper—"I hate Browning."

Clara Walker rippled off into such a merry peal of laughter that he forgot the evil things which he had suffered from the poet and burst out laughing too.

I can't make him out," said he. "I try, but he is one too many. No doubt it'is very stupid of me. I don't deny it. But as long as I cannot there is no ttse pretending thjit I can. And their of course she feels hurt, for she is very forifl of him and likes to read him, aleiftd in the evenings.' She is reading a 'pi£fte now, 'Pippa Passes,' and I assure you. Miss Walker, that I don't even tei6w wtiat the title means. You must think me a dreadful fool." "But surely he is not so incomprehensible as all that?" she said as an attempt at encouragement. "He is very bad. There are some things you know which are fine. That ride of the three Dutchmen, and 'Herve Kiel' and others, they are all right. But there was a piece we read last week. The first line stumped my aunt, and it takes a good deal to do that, for she rides very straight. 'Setebos and Setebos and Setebos.' That was the line."

It sounds like a charm." No, it is a gentleman's name. Three gentlemen, I thought at first, but my unit says one. Then he goes on, 'Thiuketh he dwelleth in the light of the 1110011.' It was a very trying piece."

Clara Walker laughed again. "Yrou must not think of leaving your avnt." she said. "Think how lonely she would be without you."

Well. yes, I had thought of that. But you must remember that my aunt is to all intents hardly middle aged and a very eligible person. I don't think that her dislike to mankind extends to individuals. She'might form new ties, and then I should be a third wheel in the coach. It wa.s all very well as long as 1 was only a boy, when her first husband was alive." "But, good gracious, you don't mean that Mrs. Westmacott is going to marry again?" gasped Clara.

The young man glanced down at her with a question in his eyes. "Oh, it is only a remote possibility, you know," said he. "Still,.of course, it might happen, and 1 should like to know what I ought to turn my hand to." "I wish I could help you," said Clara. "But I really know very little about such things. However, I could talk to my father, who knows a very great deal of the world." "1 wish you would. I should be so glad if you would." "Then I certainly will. And now I must say good night, Mr. Westmacott, for papa will bo wondering\Vhere 1 am." "Good night, Miss Walker." He pulled off his flannel cap and stalked away through the gathering darkness.

Clara had imagined that they had been the last on the lawn, but looking back from the steps which led up to the French Avindows she saw two dark figures moving across toAvard the house. As they came nearer she could distinguish that they were Harold Denver and lier sister Ida. Tho murmur of their voices rose up to her ears, and then the musical little childlike laugh which sho knew so Avell. "Iam so delighted," she heard her sister say. "So pleased and proud. I had no idea of it. Yout words were such a surprise and a joy to mc. Oh. n.tu

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