Greenfield Evening Star, Greenfield, Hancock County, 28 August 1905 — Page 4

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Merton's Ambition

By Martha McCulioch-Williams

"So it's a case of the law or the lady," lioinis said. chuckling hard. "I should have no doubt as to which would win if I didn't know about the other lady.''

Merton Hushed angrily and frowned. "You know nothing of the sort. There Isn't any 'other lady' "Which her name it is Henrietta— Henrietta Bruce." Bernis interrupted, still chuckling, but growing grave a9 he added. "And if you let yourself leave her in the lurch. Jack, you're a cad of the lirst water." "There is no question of taking or leaving," Merton began, trying to brave it out. but at the end dropping his head and half whispering: "You—you are right, Ned. Etta loves me. and I love her, better than all the world, except my ambition. 1 want to be somebody—somebody worth while. The way is open—if only I marry Mrs. Grey. She has virtually told me that as her husband her whole million will be at my command. If I don't marry her, what chance have IV The ten years 1 must starve to make myself a leading lawyer will put me hopelessly out of the race. Now I can win almost anything political—if I can afford to take it. Mere money does not tempt me so very much—but power—that is the thing I crave. Besides, I can't bear to think of Etta waiting, working, fading. for me when she might be happy in a home of her own if I were out of the way." "I don't think shfe'd mind," Beinis said dryly. "When may I look for cards, Jack? And does Etta know?" "Go and tell her, you are so sure!" Merton burst out. "As to cards, there will be none. We start—we start for California as soon as the wedding is over." "So you came for my advice—after the fact. I suspected as much," Bemis said, his mouth hardening. "I don't wish you joy, Jack you don't deserve it. You are throwing away a pearl among women because you are vain enough to believe that you have in you the makings of a great man. Etta

"DON'T YOU liEMEMBEli ETTA BKUCE?"

might have made a great man of you at any rate she would have made you a man. This other one will maie you an article ol' 'bigotry aud virtue,r something dearer than her parrot, a little better than her lapdog. You'll have a lapdog ease, but you w-on't lit the position. You're too big and hulking made too much like a man"— "Stop! I won't bear that even from you," Merton said hoarsely. Bemis swung on his heel. "I apologize for saying it—to myself," he said, walking away.

As the door shut behind him Merton was tempted to run after him, to sue humbly, to confess his own weakness, but somehow* he did not quite do it. Instead he took from the mantel his fiancee's hist gift, a miniature of herself, richly framed, Hung it down as if to grind it with his heel, but after a minute raised it and set it in place, with the face to the wall.

Five years after his wedding day he recalled the moment, the trivial action, with a mad longing to treat the original as then he had been tempted to treat the portrait. He had indeed found himself ranking between the household parrot and lapdog, albeit he had the freest possible hand at the Grey money. That was his only freedom. Mrs. Merton laid claim to the greater part of his waking hours. She was a shallow creature, kindly enough, but forever craving change, amusement, the diversion of new faces, new scenes. To her way of thinking the end and the aim of manhood was either to make money or, having It ready made, to spend it. "I won't have you bother me with politics—only low people go into it." she had said airily before the honeymoon

Avas

our. Even the prospect of

being some day Mrs. Ambassador had not made her change. "I want to have good times now—not wait for them till I'm old and haggard," she had said. It was the same with his profession or any business venture. "1 am business enough for you," his wife protested, adding in the next breath. "Besides, what other business would

bring you a million dollars before you have one gray hair?"

She was forever taking up thing- and dropping them. Thus she came to own a fever for coaching. In bright, early autumn weather she planned a long drive across country, one that would take at least a month. Merton fell in with her plan. He knew protest was idle. And thus in the middle of his journey he came to know fully what he had thrown away.

It was a mile out of a thriving railway town when the coach had lost a linchpin and was disabled that a storm drove its occupants to the shelter of the nearest house, a pretty villa, spacious, but unpretentious, with gay autumn flowers all about it and thrifty trees throwing up its red roof aud gray walls. There was a rockiug horse upon the piazza, a baby's cap lying limp on the rail. And the woman who answered Mrs. Merton's imperious knock held the baby itself in the hollow of her arm as she flung the door hospitably open and said: "So the storm is to blow me good—in the sight of old friends. Don't you remember Etta Bruce. Mrs. Merton? I'm Mrs. Bemis now and very glad to see you. Come in. I sh'ill keep you all night. Ned will not be home until almost 'J. lie went to see the governor today, and I know he would never forgive me if I let you go away without seeing him."

Tht'ii she shook hands with Merton as calmly as though they never had been more than casual acquaintances. He found himself catching his brent'.: as he looked ut her. She was less fresh than of old, but so wonderfully, spiritually beautiful, with the beauty of mother love, mother happiness. "I needn't ask you how yo'i are. Etta," said Mrs. Merton. "No wonder you're happy, though, with two cliildren," as a sturdy little lad came shyly through the inner door to ambush hiinself in his mother's skirts. "I's free years old and goin' to be a man when I drows up," he volunteered when Mrs. Merton had coaxed him into finding his tongue.

Merton winced as he heard the prattling voice. The old love was dead, with so much else that was best in him, but still there were some faint stirrings of ambition. He was wondering if indeed the woman he had loved and left might not have made him, too, a man.

SiRlifseers In New York. "Hi, there!" shouted the policeman. "You get off them steps. You don't belong there." "I know wre don't." pleaded a pretty girl in blue silk, but won't you please let us stay here long enough to get our pictures taken? We won't hurt anything." "Possibly you won't." rejoined the policeman, "but that is not the question. The folks that own this house have got so tired *6f seeing a bunch of strangers perched upon their steps getting their pictures taken that they've given me orders to shoo off every party that I see making preparations. "You see, the trouble is you sightseers have run the business into the ground. Most of the millionaires in this street are pretty good natured. but when it comes to unloading a whole bus load of strangers at their house a dozen times a day so that the different members of the party can send a photograph home showing how they looked standing on Mr. Kiehman's steps they show light. At any rate, the man that lives here does. So you'll have to move on. There's a house three doors from here th::* is owned by a man that's woi'tli ,'r.st r.:s many millions as this one. You can \o down there and be taken if you like. His folks are not at home."—New York Post.

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City directories contain many items of interei t. Some of them are in the natflre of revelations others are puzzles. Among the latter class may be mentioned the queer case of the man whose Christian name was withheld from the publishers. His surname is there, all right, and a good, respectable name it is. too. of two syllables and a German prefix, but the name bestowed upon him at the baptismal fount he refused to make public.

The directory says that he refused. It is then- in big letters, inclosed in parentheses (Refused). Then follows the honorable patronymic. That reticence in regard to the Christian name is the source of many subtle reflections on the part of the r«ader. Why was the name refused? Was it uneuphouious. unpronounceable, unspellable or was it— But those suppositions lead one into a maze of conjecture thai Is positively bewildering so. although the subject is fraughj with interest, it is perhaps best to leive'to his own consciousness the reason why Uiat man's Christian name wasp "Refused."—NewYork Press.

Outwardly an enviable mortal, he was sick ami tired of everything—most of all himself. Now aud again he sighed for the stings, the limitations of the old time, and caught himself wondering how it won id seem to be free, lie knew nothing of Henrietta. There was an agreement between him and his wife upon one point if no other. She was linn that they would neither ask nor hear anything of his okl friends, his native place. So was Merton—albeit down in his heart of hearts he was hungry for tidings, lie wondered sometimes how Beinis had fared. He wondered still more if Etta were married. Thought of her did not give him a heartache, but rather a slnumed self contempt. He tried hard to deaden all feeling. Apathy was the best shield against the evils he endured. But sometimes when he saw other men in the full tide of manly activity his heart rose up hotly against the woman who had bought him to be the slave of her caprice.

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