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She was young and had lived always
in the suburbs, where life rolled smil
ingly under clear skies, sweet enough,
to be sure, but just a trifle uninterest
ing. There were times even when she
was that little girl when she had crav
ed the tonic of the world's uglier
moods, burned td see it at its fiercest,
as indifferent to human beings as if
they were ants.
This may have been mere youth and
inexperience or it may have been be
cause she was surfeited with beautj.
Was not her home the vinost imposing
in Farville? Inside the. house an exqui
site quiet reigned, a sort of hallowed
stillness that made her want to shout
and whoop in defiance.
Her sisters were "the beautiful King
girls." She herself, as a . chance re
mark had Informed her, was, "the plain
one." At the moment she ha felt deep:
ly mortified. She hadn't supposed it
was so bad as all that. Prom this time
her distaste for beauty grew more
marked and in one of those heated mo
ments that will occur even between the
best of sisters had sakl plainly that she
was "sick and tired of their everlast
lngi beauty! With this observation she
had made a rapid but highly character
istic departure from the room, and the
family beauties had grinned at each
other knowingly.
"She's a funny little sister," observed
Elaine indulgently, a remark that was
met by Bertha's" thoughtful "I wonder
why she is so bitter against beauty?
She's not half bad herself. She's unu
sual, the restless little monkey!"
And, indeed, this view of her appear
ance was shared by" a man who had on
more than one occasion allowed him
self to look at her the second time,
though she was unconscious of his very
existence. Her trips to New York in
variably led her to one destination, and
there he had come to watch for her. ;
The mother and the beautiful sisters
never knew, any more than they knew
her keen interest In the gloomy in
teriors visible from the elevated trains,
that their youngest was In the habit of
rushing through her shopping at the
high class stores where they had credit
and then betaking herself pellmell to
a great Sixth avenue department store,
where, as she passed through , the re
volving doors, she felt with a shiver cf
delight that she plunged into the
stream of life'.
v The jostling and crowding, the teem
ing exhibits that overran counters and
were forever falling to the floor, the
near silk, near silver and near gold
commodities that . filled the place so
lavishly, far from ' off ending her taste,
stirred her fancy oddly, and she saun
tered up and down the long aisles
alive with that suppressed excitement
that is one of the keenest emotions
life had to offer and indifferent to the
buffetlngs of the crowd which seemed
to her delightfully good natured if a
little bit lacking in form.
But the spot that she kved best of
all was the broad landing of the mar
ble staircase that swirled grandly up
ward from the center of the first floor
with a magnificence that Was dazzling
even for a department store. This
landing formed : a balcony, rich with
oriental rugs and upholstered furni
ture, and, most desirable of all, it
commanded a panoramic view of the
floor beneath.
Here "the youngest" often sat for
an hour or so at a time, with her chin
resting on the railing and her eyes
fixed greedily on the scene below, I a
fascinated spectator' of one of the best
theatrical productions that the big
round world has to offer.
The man he was an artist, and he
haunted the balcony on the lookout
for types had noticed that she usually
came out of her absorbed contempla
tion of. the scene below her with ; a
start, glanced in a dazed way at the
bold faced clock near by and then fair
ly scampered down the flowing marble
stairs and melted away in the crowd.
Not being a mind reader, he could not
know that she was wondering if there
was any chance of catching the 3:50 !
or bow on earth she should explain her
absence since 9:30 by the purchase of
six yards of val lace.
But the pfrrrties of her face and head
In his" small sketehbo&k multiplied,
and the oftener he drew her the more
dissatisfied he becamet Always he
Just missed catching the spirit of her,
the youth, the Interest, the ardor and
the Innocence of her glance, of every
line and movement, for It seemed to
his artist's eye that she was a very
marvel of expression.
It was about this time that the pub
lishers for whom he did more or less
work sent him a book for Illustration,
and as he read the manuscript It
seemed the very girl of the balcony
who had wandered Into its pages. By
some strange fate the lines that he
selected as the pictorial points told a
tale. "She stood looking down at the
throng below her, bathless, absorb
ed,' was one; "Malvern, watching
her, recognized that of the thousands
she was the one," was another, and
the pictures composed themselves In
his brain with a precision that could
not be gainsaid. J
He had watched for ber before with
dreamy pleasure. Now hla watching
became, eager, 'intense. His fingers
Itched to tell the story tell it, as he
knew he could, as he had never told
a story before. Once, Indeed, she had
glanced toward him. with a mute in
terrogation that went from his book
and pencil to his face. : But he had
quickly feigned an absorption, that
must have convinced her, for she
turned away and glanced toward hiui
no more. . " .;. . -if i-
It was not until after the pictures
had gone from him, not until the ab
sorbing work of weeks was ended,
leaving his mind temporarily as blank
as a room denuded f ojf its furniture,
that any doubt of vlhait he had done
assailed him. Then,!; with some con
sternation he realized I that the 'world
is very full of people, la fact that for
the past weeks had escaped ; him en
tirely. He had thought " of It as pecFj
pled exclusively like the garden of
Eden simply herself land him. Now
a sudden consciousness that his story
lay in an open- bojk for others as
well as her to ijead, made him
tremble. It had seemed the only way
to bring her out of Ithe vague atmos
phere and into the ij circle of known
things. Now he Wondered Lf his
method were not too blatant if it
would not make her shrink farther
back Into the 'crowded outer circle,
and with a sort of miserable, hope
less patience he awaited the appear-:
ance of the book. .
"Who is the girl?'! j
Kendry, an artist jfriend, was look
ing at the proofs, andhe scowled and
narrowed his' eyes ip "an effort to re
call the face in the! picture before
him; then a light dawned and his brow
smoothed. -
"I say, It's uncommonly like that lit
tle King girl,.; the sister of the beau
"ties. I didn't know that you knew
them.' - -J i . ' .
The maker of the jfiifctures shook his
bead; with well assumed indifference.
"Never heard of th(jm, I think. Where
do they live?". J 'i '
His voice didn't sound natural to him
self, but Kendry was -absorbed In the
pictures and apparently did not no
tice. .. I I -
"farville, he answered absently, and
the other took courage!
"That's -a mere face in the crowd,"
he tossed off airily ! "Found ,it in a
Sixth avenue department store.
Kendry showed : bis disbelief.' If
they have that sort in department
stores," he observed, "I think I'll go
to one of them to get me a wife." To
which his listener had: the temerity to
answer: : ;.v M-. ,-d-4a ':
"Do you know, the same thought has
crossed my mind.", J
The next post carried an advance
copy of the ! book! fo IMIss Katherine
King, Farville, N. . 4- J As she glanced
at the pictures she, tingled with delight.
The great, swirling! ;ryer of life had
caught her up at last, no longer passing
her by as If she were but a part of its
smiling shore. She swept into ,her
mother's room withplit; ceremony.
"Mamma," she said breathlessly, "I
must, I really must,) go td town tomor
row for a' clay's sbbppfng."
Something told her, he would be wait
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When tlie man and the woman start
ed down, the subway staifS the man
.felt in his pocket for tickets.
"By George! he said. "Isn't that a
shame? Tve got to top in all this mob
and buy tickets!" J i ' '
Oh, no, you won't" said the -woman.
"I have them. VTetj I came down
town I , remembered jwhat you said
about those people, who buy only one
ticket at a time makjng such a nui
sance of themselves, so as I had 15
cents to spare I bought three tickets.
I have two left. We can go right on
through. s - '
So the man and the; woman drifted
along with the pushing crowd to the
point where the ticket chopper held
them up and demanded tribute. Then
the woman looked
tickets." Suddenly
painful blankness.
"I I haven't got
in her purse for the
her I face assumed a
iem, she faltered.
T was in such a hurry when I came
through that I must! have dropped all
three tickets into the uptown box."
New York Press. I L f
Homely Abraham Lincoln,
In Colonel Clarki E. Carr's book,
The Illini," he teilsl of his first
glimpse of Abraham Lincoln and of his
impressions of him at that time. He
says-: "Rapidly as tne coach had swept
by the hotel I hadj noticed that the
driver was not alone on his high seat.
He had a companion, and before any
of the other passengers could alight
this companion had flighted, stepping;
as it seemed to me, from th6 high coach
box clear to the ground! he was so very
tall and his legs were, so very long.
My first impression ) was that he was
the homeliest manI bad ever seen, but
as he' moved and spoke this impression
was gradually changed.f He was awk
ward and ungainly, bony and angular,
his body abnormally extendeJ, bis long;
legs and arms terminating In big feet
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survey every, oblectfl about him. His
head was covered TTitti thick, matted
brown hair." I
A Borrlfled Cnbnan.
Henry Herman, the English theat
rical manager, bad 4 glass eye, which
on one occasion ilgured prominently in
a joke he played upon a brutal cab
man. " '; i -1
"Cabby was driving Herman home
to his. residence at Hampstead and on
the way mercilessly thrashed his horse.
Herman objected to the man's cruelty,
says Mr. George B. Sims in his interest
ing book entitled "Among My Auto
graphs,, but said nothing until he got
out of the cab. Haying first carefully
removed his jrlass ejre, he .held It out
between his finger and thumb and ex
claimed: - I ' s
ThatB what yoti have done, you
scoundrel! Toa have cut my eye out
with yotir whip! I shall give you into
custody!" - '
' The cabman gave one horrified glance
at- the eye," exclaimed, "Oh, crikey r
snd. without waiting for his fare, whip
jed up bis horse and drove off at a
furioos rate.
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