THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASIORIA, OREGON.
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1007.
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Copyright, 1M, by M. M. Cunuluglim
With chin uplifted and lips flrmlr
compressed, Margarvt advanced to
meet fate.
Fate In this particular Instance was
represented by Margaret's father, a
eclf opinionated, self made wan with
a grievance. Margaret realized fully
that she was a factor In the grievance.
Her three sinters constituted the re
maining factors.
John Leofeie felt that he bad bwu
played a scurvy trick when, having
proved that be could surmount obsta
cles before which the average man fell
back dismayed and could rise from
nameless, penniless obscurity to a posi
tion of power If not popularity among
men and affairs, nature bad aent btm
daughters Instead of sons. Ills wife
bad died of very shame for having
failed so signally to fulfill ber duty In
this respect
The eldest daughter bad tried to ex
piate her mother's offenses by enter
lng ber father's office as bookkeeper.
Today she ranked as his right hand
man. She wore mannish clothes, too,
and talked shop with ber father from
eoup to coffee and was tremendously
bored when her sisters proposed enter
taining a few friends at dinner.
The second daughter had chosen art
and bad opened a small studio in a
western city. Anything, In her estima
tion, was preferable to being told
whenever she met her father that if
the bad been a man she might have
built iron bridges Instead of air castles
In art
One thing John Leckle had done he
bad given tbem the best educational
'advantages money could buy, and then
be had said, "Xow go out and do
things." j
Margaret, fresh from the trip abroad j
which Leckle considered the essential
finishing touch of a girl's education,
knew that she would be expected to
"do things." Her father had given her
time to unpack ber trunks, to call on
he few relatives and the intimate fam
ily friends and to recover her equilib
rium, so to speak. Now, when be sent
for -ber to join him in the library, she
knew what bis question would be. Nor
(Kas ber surmise Incorrect
John Leckie leaned back in bis un
tufted leather chair and stared frankly
at the tall, slender girl who from some
unknown and far distant ancestor bad
inherited a grace almost patrician.
"Sit down, Margaret I've spent a
good many thousand dollars on your
education. What d'you expect to do
With itr
"I think I eball take charge of the
bouse," she said, calm, without quak
ing within.
"Take charge of the bouse V echoed
ber father harshly. "I pay Mrs. Jen
kins to do that"
"And the whole bouse looks as if It
were bandied by a hireling," replied
Margaret meeting his angry gaze
rithout flinching. "Bought: Hired!
The words, are stamped all over the
place. We nave no home life, no borne
atmosphere, and I want to make things
more pleasant more like some of the
homes in which I have visited. I think
that la my forte."
A deep purple nusb mounted to Leo
kle's forehead, and his fist came down
on the table with a ringing thump.
"Bo, after all the money I've spent
on you, after all the plans I've made
for my grls to take a place In the
(world as good as their father made for
himself, yon have no bigger ambition
than to mend socks and bake pies.
That will add to the luster of our fam
ily name, won't itr
Margaret bit her Hp. Leckie had
epoken as if the name had been handed
down through ten generations Instead
of-one.
"Now, see here! That gag doesn't go.
You're going to do something! Think
of your sister Harriet"
' Margaret did think, and then she al
most shuddered. She remembered
Harriet's untidy room, some cigarette
stubs she had seen lying on the unpol
ished brass tray. Harriet had said that
after the long day In the office she
simply had to smoke to quiet her
nerves.
"Harriet Is a credit to her father.
Men down street call her a wonder.
And you want to mend socks! Good
heavens! Say, do you think you could
sell goods? I'll start you in a millinery
ehop a lot of society women are going
In for that sort of th!ng-or a tea
room, if you like. But you've got to
do something."
Margaret rose and half timidly laid
ber arm around her father's thick neck.
"Father, dear, I'd so mujh rather
Just make tea for you and your few
friends. Perhaps we might have more
friends if-
He flung aside the encircling arm.
' "Now, see here, you're not going to
alt back on your haunches and do noth
ing Just because I have money. You've
got to make a name for yourself at
something." He was brutal now In bis
disappointment. "If yon can't do any
thing else, you can teach. I know a
man; helped him out of a tight place
about three months ago; name Is Gray
don. He lives somewhere out In West
chester county and Is on the school
board. He has pull enough to get you
a job at teaching out there, and you
can try your hand at that. If you I
can't earn five hundred a .year giving
out some of the education that I paid
you're a disgrace to the family. I'll
see Graydon lu the morning. Sshool
must open out. there In a week or so."
He bent over his desk as If the sub
ject were closed. Margaret paused lu
the doorway. Her face was very
white. Her eyes burned like tvd start
in the gloom of the curtained doorwuy.
"I'll do what you say, of course, fa
ther, but t warn you lu advance that
I will be a failure. I was not mount
for that sort of thing."
Her father flung back his big head
aud stared at her.
"Perhaps you thluk you were born
to play a lady, but I will fool you. You
dou't come from that tort of stock."
And so It happened that Margaret
Leckle was placed In charge of dis
trict school No. Id The one redeem
ing feature of her new position was
the long walk to ami from the depot
for she commuted dally rather than
take board In the small village
around which homes of millionaires
were clustered. These long walks
steadied ber nerves for the lalwr of
teaching the unkempt and Insolent
children of gardeners, coachmen and I
truck raisers who fell to the lot of !
school No. 1$. She had spoken the ;
truth when she said that she would i
fail. The power to organize aud dls- j
cipline children lu numbers Is not giv
en to all. not even to the woman who '
by the magic talisman of maternal love '
may develop Into a model mother In '
her own household. To Hie problems j
of undisciplined youth and unclean ;
persons and untutored minds she gave
the best energies at her command, but
she worked with the seuse of failure
She was not surprised, therefore,
when one particularly dull and lower- j
luff ft,.rnnnn Mr RmviW mnt.w Mr
.'row tin nt tho aW.llmns,. It to
be an investigation by a committee of
one. She had felt it coming ever
since Billy Dobslm bad put red pepper
on the stove and school bad been dis
missed for the afternoon. -She rose,
very straight aud girlish and big eyed,
as Homer Graydon entered the door.
It was his first visit to the school, and
she was surprised to And a clean cut,
youngish looking man Instead of the
side whiskered, portly personage she
bad somehow pictured this arbiter of
ber money earning fate to be.
Quite some time passed before he
referred to the Billy Dobsou Incident
and Homer Graydon bad taken meas
ure of the woman before the matter
came up for discussion. By this time
Margaret was herself once more, and
she did not strive to dodge the Issue.
"There Is no use talking about the
matter, Mr. Graydon. I was not cut
out for a schoolteacher. I know my
limitations, but my father refuses to
recognize them. There Is only one
thing I want to do, aud he will not
permit that."
She never knew bow it happened,
but before Homer Graydon left that
schoolroom be knew what her simple
ambitions encompassed, and be knew
just bow she would attain them.
The, lowering clouds had lifted sud
denly, the autumnal colorings on the l
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trwiTshoue In the sunlight, and bis
owi) heart sang In nionsura to the on
ward plunge of his car. Ho was MUii
the unsuccessful schoolteacher to the
depot tn the village, uml It was all be
could do to refrain from telling her
then and there what 'he had brought
Into his money grubbing life.
The world says that love at first
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