Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 187, 20 August 1908 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1908

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Todd. Mead S3H Company

George Ban McCutcheon Author of "Beverly of Graastarfc," Etc .

CHAPTER XXVII.

IARLT In March a great

transport sailed from Manila bay laden with sick and disabled soldiers the lame, the healthless and the mad. It was not a

merry shipload, although hundreds were rejoicing in, the escape from the hardships of Vie in the Islands. Graydon Bansemei "was among them, weak and distrustful of his own future, albeit a medal oC honor and the prospect of fln excellent position were ahead of him. His dlscltarge was assured. He had served his country briefly, but well, and he was not loath to rest on his Insignificant Jaunils and to respect the memory of the; Impulse which had driven him Into service. In his heart he felt that time would make him as

strong as eveiv despite the ugly scar In his side. It vras a question with him, however, whether time could revive the amblton tat had been smothered during the Uswt days of despair. He looked ahead wf th keen inquiry, speculating on the uncertain whirl of fortune's wheel. Jane was obduracy itself In respect to hit, pleadings. A certain light in her eyes had at last brought conviction to his soul. He began to fear, with a mighty pain, that she would not retreat from the .stand she had taken. She went on board with Mrs. Harbin and Ethel There were other wives on board who had found temporary release from Irksome but voluntary enlistment- Jane's ' resignation from , the Bed Cross society deprived her of the privileges which would have permitted her to see much of Graydon. They were kept separated by the transport's regulations he was a common soldier, she of the officers' mess. The uestrlctlons were cruel and relentless. They saw but little of one another during the- thirty days, but their thoughts were busy with the days to come. Graydon grew stronger and more confident as the ship forged nearer to the Golden Gate, Jane more wistful anti resigned to the new purpose which was to give life another coloring. If 'possible. TSiey were but one day out from San . Francisco when he found tho opportunity to converse with h.er .a? Pile j)aseedthrough jfhe. quarters

of fbe facaiess" ones. "Jane, I won't take no for an answer this time," he whispered eagerly. "You must consent JOo you want to ruin both of our live??' "Why will you persist, Graydon? Tou know I cannot" "You can. Consider me as well as yourself. -1 want you. Isn'tthat enough? You can't ask for more love than I will give. Tomorrow we'll be on shore. I have many things to do before I am liberty to go my way. Won't you wait for me? It won't be long. We can be married in San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Cable are to meet you. Tell them, dearest, that you want to go home with me. The home won't be In Chicago, but It will be home just the same." "Dear Graydon, I am sorry, I am heartsick, but I cannot, I dare not." Graydon Bansemer was a man as well as a lover. He gave utterance to a perfectly manlike expression, coming from the bottom of his tried soul: "It's d d nonsense. Jane!" He said It so feelingly that she smiled even as she shook her head and moved away. "I'll see you tomorrow on shore?" he called, repentant and anxious.

"Yesr The next day they landed. Graydon waved an anxious farewell to her as btt was hurried off with the lame, the halt and the blind. He saw David Cable and his wife on the pier, and in spite of himself he could not repel an eager, half fearful glance through the crowd of faces. Although he did not expect his father to meet him, he dreaded the thought that he might be there, after all. To his surprise, as he stood waiting with his comrades he saw David Cable turn suddenly and after a moment's hesitation wave his h&nd to him, the utmost friendship in his now haggard face. His heart thumped joyously at this sign of amity. As the soldiers moved away Cable paused and looked after him, a grim though compassionate expression in bis eyes. He and Jane were ready to confront the customs officers. "I wonder if he knows about his father," mused he. Jane caught her breath and looked at him with something like terror in her eyes. He abruptly changed the subject, deploring his lapse into the past from which they were trying to shield her. The following morning Graydon received a note from Cable, a frank but carefully worded message, in which be was Invited to take the trip east in the private car of the president of the Pacific, I.akes and Atlantic. Mrs. Ca-

ttoaT One of the sore spots in Graydon's conscience was healed by this exhibition of kindness. Morever, Cable stated that his party would delay departure until Graydon's papers were passed upon and he was free from red tape restrictions. The young man on landing sent telegrams to his father and Ellas Droom, the latter having asked him to notify him as soon as he reached San Francisco. Graydon was not a little puzzled by the fact that the old clerk

seemed strangely at variance with bis

father in respect to tbe future. In both telegrams he announced that he would start east as soon as possible. There was a letter from Droom awaiting him at headquarters. It was brief, but It specifically urged him to accept the place proposed by Mr. Clegg and reiterated his pressing command to the young man to stop for a few days in Chicago. In broad and characteristically uncouth sentences he assured him that while the city held no grudge against him and that the young men would welcome him with open arms his groundless fears to the contrary he would advise him to choose New York. There was one rather sentimental allusion to "old Broadway" and another to "Grennitch," as he wrote It In conclusion, he asked him to come to the office, which was still in the U building. adding that If he wished to avoid the newspaper men he could find seclusion at the old rooms in Wells street. "Your father," he said, "has given up bis apartment and has taken lodgings. I doubt very much if be will be willing to share them with you, In view of the position he has assumed In regard to your future, although he says you may always call upon him for pecuniary assistance." A draft for $500 was inclosed with the letter. Graydon was relieved to find that there would be ho irksome delay attending his official discharge. When he walked out a "free man." as he called it a gentlemanly pension attorney locked arms with him and hung on like a leech until the Irritated soldier shook him off with less consideration than vigor. He went direc Uy to the Palace hotel, where he knew the Cables were stopping. David Cable came down In response to his card. The two men shook hands, each eying tbe other inquiringly for an Instant. "I want you to understand, Graydon, that I am your friend. Nothing has altered my esteem for you." "Thanli.yo."..jfr. jnabJe. I hardly ex

pected It" "I don't see why, my boy. But well let all that pas. Mrs. Cable wants to see you." "Before we any farther I want to make myself clear to you. I still hope to marry Jane. She says she cannot become my wle. You understand why, sir. I only want to tell you that her objections are not objections to me. She is Jane, and I love her, sir, because she Is." "I hope yon can win her over, Graydon. She seems determined, however, and she is unhappy. You can't blame her, either. If there were base or common blood In her, it wouldn't make much difference to her pride. But she's made of other material. She's serious about it and I am sensible enough to get her point of view. She wouldn't want to marry you with the prospect of an eternal shadow that neither of you could get off of your minds. 1 sometimes wish that I knew who were ber parents." "It doesn't matter, so far as I am concerned." "I know, my boy. You'll never know how It hurt me to find that I had no daughter. It hurts her worse a thousandfold to learn that she has no mother. I trust it may not happen that you will lose her as a wfe." "If I really thought I couldn't win her, sir, it would ruin my ambition in life. She loves me. I'm sure." "By the way, Clegg tells me he has offered you the New York office. It is a splendid chance for you. You will take it, of course." "I expect to talk it over with Mr. Clegg when I get to Chicago." "Come up to our apartments. Oh, pardon me, Graydon, I want to ask you If you have sufficient money to carry you through? I know the pay of a private is not great" "Thank you. I have saved nearly all of it. My father has sent me a draft for five hundred. I don't expect to use it, of course." "Your father?" asked Cable, with a quick, searching look. "And then I did save something in Chicago, strange as it may seem," said Bansemer, with a smile. "I have a few of your 5 per cents. I trust the road is all right." The Cables left San Francisco on the following day, accompanied by the Harbins and Graydon Bansemer. There was no mistaking tbe joy which lay under restraint In the faces and attitude of the Cables. David Cable had grown younger and less gray, it seemed, and his wife was glowing with a new and subdued happiness. Graydon, sitting with the excited Ethel, who was rejoicing in the prospect of New York and the other young man. studied the faces of the three people who sat"atTue otuerend of the coach. Time had wrought its penalties. Cable was thin and his fae had lost its virility, but not its pov or. His eyes never left the face of J me, who was talking in an earnest, impassioned manner, as was her wont in these days. Frances Cable's face was a study in transition. She had lost the color aud vivacity of a year ago, althought the charge was rot apparent to.t.h cast.-1 . ?..-r. '""?rdon.rould

aee that tCe hi J suffered "In "many ways. The keen, eager appeal for appreciation was gone from her eyes; in Its stead was the appeal for love and contentedness. Happiness, now struggling against the smarting of a sober pain, was giving a sweetness to her eyes that had been lost In the ambltions glitter of other days. Ethel bored him, a most nnnsnal condition. He longed to be under the tender, quieting influence at the opposite end of the car. He even resented his temporary exile. "Jane." Cable was saying with gentle Insistence, "it Is not just to him. He loves you. and you are not doing the right thing by him." "You'll find I am right in the end." she said stubbornly.

"I can't bear the thought of your go-1 lng out as a trained nurse, dear," protested Frances Cable. "There is no necessity. You can have the best of homes and in any place you like. Why waste your life in" "Waste, mother? It would be wasting my life if I did not find an occupation or it. I can't be idle. I can't exist forever in your love and devotion." "Good Lord, child, don't be foolish:" exclaimed Cable. "That hurts me more than you think. Everything we have Is yours." "I'm sorry I said It, daddy. I did not mean it in that way. It Isn't the money, you know, and it isn't the home, either. No; you must let me choose my own way cf living the rest of my life. I came from a foundling hospital. A good and tender nurse found me there and gave me the happiest years of my life. I shall go back there and give the rest of my years to children who are less fortunate than I was. I want to help them, mother, just as you did only it is different with me." "You'll see it differently some day," said Mrs. Cable earnestly. "I don't object to your helping the foundlings. Jane," said Cable, "but I don't see why you have to be a nurse to do It. Other women support such causes, and not as nurses, either. It's" "It's my way, daddy, that's all." she said firmly. "Then why. In the name of heaven, were you so unkind as to keep that poor boy over there alive when he might have died and ended his misery? You nursed him back to life only to give him a wound that cannot be healed. You would ruin his life. Jane. Is it fair? I'm uncouth and hard in many ways I had a hard, unkind beginning but I really believe I've got more heart In me than you have." "David!" exclaimed his wife. Jane looked at the exasperated man In surprise. "Now, here's what I Intend you to do: You owe me something for the love that I give to you; you owe Graydon something for keeping him from dying. If you want to go Into the "ursing business, all right But I'm going to demand some of your devotion for my own sake before that time comes. I've loved you all of 'your life" VAnd I've loved you, daddy," she gasped. -' "And I'm going to ask you to begin your nuxplnc. .cs.reer by attending, to

me. rn Islck Tor' want 6t J,ir liTre. I'm giving up business for the sake of enjoying it unrestrained. Your mother and I expect it We are going abroad for our health, and we are going to take you with cs. Right now Is where you begin your career as a nurse. You've got to begin by taking care of the love that is sick and miserable. We want it to live, my dear. Now. I want a direct decision at once: Will you take charge of two patients on a long contemplated trip In search of love and rest wages paid in advance? She looked at him, white faced and stunned. He was putting It before her fluently and in a new light She saw what it was that he considered that she owed to the in tbe love of a daughter, after all. An hour later she stood with Graydon on the rear platform of the car. He was trying to talk calmly of the country through which they were rushing, sm she was looking pensively, down the rails that slipped out behind them. "We'll be in Chicago in three days," he remarked. "Graydon. I have decided to go abroad for five or six months before starting anon my work. They want me so much, you see," she said, her voice a trifle ascertain. "I wish I could have some power to persuade you." he said. Changing his tone to one of brisk interest, be went on. "It is right, dear. It will do you great good, and It will be a Joy to them. I'll miss you." "And I shall miss you, Graydon, she said, her eyes very solemn and wistful. "Won't you won't you give me the promise I want Jane?" he asked eagerly. She placed her hand upon his and shook her head. "Won't you be good to me, Graydon? Don't make it so hard for me. Please, please don't tell me again that you love me."

LARGE AUDIENCE HEARD ADDRESS7

Historical Society Held Interesting Tent Meeting. The Wayne County Historical sod-" ety held Its August meeting in the large auditorium tent at the Chautau

qua grounds this afternoon. The

chief lecturer was S. B. Huddleston of . Dublin who gave a very Interesting talk on 'The Altitudes of Wayne County and the Making of Its Landscapes. Mr. Huddleston is an Interestlng speaker and his talk was very much enjoyed by the audience that greeted him. The society expects to make the holding of the August meeting at the Chautauqua an annual affair. The meeting this afternoon was one of the most successful that the society has -held this year.

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