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THE MORNING AST01UAN, A STOMA OHEGON.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1908.
JUST A
POSTAL.
... ty LESTER ROSE...
OwvNffAt. ifif, bv Utmer SprutfHa,
Jimmy propped the card against the
sogar bowl, and while be hnrledly ate
his breakfast h's eyes seMom wan
dered from the picture. Delia, the dia
log room girl, regarded him scornfully.
What TO the use of mooning over a
plctura postal with uever a word to
ten who It was from?
It iu rather a pretty picture, a
quiet little town nestling ou the bank
of a broad stream, but tt might have
been a love letter from the way Jim
any tared at It. Twice Delia had to
remind him that he must leave the
house by three mluutea past 8 in order
to catch the last car that would laud
him at the office on time.
Delta knew to a fraction of a second
when each of Mrs. Beeman's twoscore
boarders must leave. Drlggs Jestingly
called her the "bumau alarm clock."
Recalled to earth by the second sug
gestion, Jimmy thrust the card into hi
breast pocket and sprinted down the
street to the corner. Once on the car
be took out the card again and bad to
walk back three blocks because he
was carried past the office bulldlns
till studying the picture.
After all, it was a picture well worth
the study, for Arlington was one or
the prettiest towns in his native state.
Postal cards with local views were
something new for the little town.
Jimmy could remember the stir which
the first illustrated postal received by
aa Arllngtonian had made. Sarah
Coyne, to whom it was addressed, had
let the postmistress keep it for a
whole week that all might see the curi
osity. It had attracted mora attention
than the first Philippine stamp.
Now. It was evident that some ama
teur photographer had taken a picture
f Arlington from the hUX Jimmy
could almost locate the exact spot
where he had often stood. It was over
H WAS JIMltT WHO STEPPED FOB WARD.
In tta tfuyn lot, where the boys used
to coast in winter. ' It was too steep
for the girls. One could easily run
clear to the river on a good pointer.
But there was no hint of snow in
this picture. The trees that fringed
the river bank were in full leaf, the
lone willow that grew on the tiny is
land was draped In green, and Jimmy
could fairly smell the mint and the
sweet fiag in the marsh where the
creek through the Newmans' lot form
ed a confluence with the river.
Somehow It brought Arlington back
with startling distinctness. He had
supposed that he had forgotten the
town in his two hurried years of city
life, but with the picture before him
It was as though he had just climbed
the hill from the little red house that
was hidden in the picture by the new
brick Methodist church. They were
Just finishing the steeple when he had
come away. Now It proudly roared Its
bead above all the other buildings.
Jimmy turned the card over and re
garded its face. The blurred post
mark seemed like an old friend. He
could look through the glass partition
where the boxes were empty, down in
the corner nearest the drug store, and
see Emma Sherman industriously
stamping the mall.
He could hear the double thud as
she struck first a letter and then the
ink pad. He could hear the com
ments of the men waiting for the mail
to be sorted. lie could even see the
recruiting poster with its gaudy pic
tures of uniformed soldiers, a glory of
blue and red and yellow, in the midst
of the more somber bills announcing
auction sales and the prim handwrit
ing of the notice of the social of the
Ladies' Aid society.
But, most of all, the neat writing of
the address held his thoughts. It need
ed no signature to tell him the name
of the sender. Only Bessie Brewster
wrote like that. He recalled the long,
ttapp; years when they two had plan
ned to seek the city together. He was
assured of a position through his nn
le's influence, and Bessie would keep
house for him and perhaps in time be
able to write for the magazines. The Ar
lington Tlnjes had used some of b.er
stories and bad called etiTtortnl atten
tion to them.
It had all been a glorious dream, but
Bessie's mother had died, and when
they graduated from high school and
he spoke of going to the city she bad
gently said that her duty was to cam
for ber bereaved father.
He bad used the argument that her
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SITUATION WANTED.
SITUATION WANTED BY A
young lady of experience, a position
great duty was toward herself, but iho j as stenographer ; has own machine.
turust tne met rrom ner. anu iu.uie.A, thij o(j-lce
end he bad flung away from her, do-1
daring that she did not love him, else
she would see that he had greater
rights than her father, for whom she
had worked all the best years of her
life.
He had not written after that, not
even to tell of his success. This was
the first time ho had seen her hand
writing since he had left Arllugtou.
and his eyes grew soft as he studied
the chlrography. Then his chief en
tered the office, and Jimmy had to
bend to his work.
But thoughts of Arlington were
strangely mixed with the details of ac
counts, and when the noon hour came
he sought an Interview with the head
of his room. The latter was looking
for an opening for a cousin and was
glad enough to let Jimmy go without
the usual two weeks' wait Three days
later Jimmy was In Arlington.
IIU first call was on the B re waters,
but the tiny maid told him that Miss
Bessie had gone to town for a shop
ping tour and would not be back until
evening. When the evening train
rolled up to the little platform and
Bessie descended from the car steps,
her arms loaded with bundles, It was
Jimmy who stepped forward to relieve
her of her burden and who guided her
through the little knot of station
loungers.
"You are back for a visit T asked
Bessie wheu they bad cleared the
crowd. Jimmy shook his head.
"I came because of your postal," he
explained. "It made me homesick, and
1 just had to come."
Tm sorry" she began, but Jimmy
topped her.
"I'm not," he declared. "I'm glad. I
never was so glad about anything be
fore. It was like a message that I bad
to answer."
"But now it may make yoa only
dissatisfied to go back," cried the girl.
"That's just the beauty of it all."
explained Jimmy. 'Tm not going
back. I guess Arlington's a big
enough place for me to stay in, espe-cially"-
Tspecially?" she repeated as Jim
my paused.
"Look here," be said, speaking rap
idly and with a voice that betrayed the
Intensity of his feelings. "I know I
don't deserve to be permitted to speak
to yon after the way I acted about
yonr staying here when I wanted you
to marry me and go to town. I've for
feited all right even to see you, but If
you could only know the time I've put
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In since I got that card you'd be sorry -ortunitv for a first-class hotel ma.
- t . T Ji 1 .1 Ill,, m V.. ... . ' ' .
for me, even if I did act like a brute.
You were right Bess, in staying
with your father. I was all wrong.
But I am sorry. Do you think that
perhaps some time we might be
friends good friends once more?"
"We are friends now," said Bessie
softly, "else you would not be walk
ing with me."
"I don't mean that," objected Jim
my. 'It's not Just friendship I ask.
It is something more. I want a chance
to regain your love. Do you think
that there would be a chance for me
in timer
Something in his toues told the girl
of his sincerity and his loneliness. He
bad hart her cruelly in those old days,
but she had felt sure that be would
come back to her. Her face grew
softer as she laid a band upon his arm.
"Why wait, Jim?" she asked. "You
have learned your lesson."
. The bundles fell to the hard packed
snow as Jimmy rapturously caught
her in his arms. As he recovered the
bundles one crushed under bis grasp,
and there was the tinkle of broken
glass.
Bess gave a cry of dismay.
"You've broken the lamp I bought
for the parlor," she reproached.
Jimmy laughed happily. "I'll buy a
dozen lamps for the parlor our par
lor," he promised recklessly.
Thackeray and the Scotch.
A glimpse' of Thackeray Is given iu
"Memoirs of a Londou Club," by Da
vid ilasson.
At all our meetings at the Garrlck
and at Our club Thackeray always
seemed to me, In spite of bis light hu
mor and his habitual nickname of
"Thack" among his friends, to be a
man apart, a sad and highly sensitive
man, a man with whom nobody could
titUe a liberty.
It was at one of the larger dinner.!
of Our club it may have Leon a
iiUakespeare birthday dinner about the
year liUO-that I chanced to Kit n(!.;t
to Thackeray, and in the intervals of
the speeches we had a good deal of
quiet talk. But in Our club gathering.-:
there was often n lapse into what we
'a!'cd the "war of the nationalities,"
',!ii'h consisted of good humored nm
toil chaff and banter between the En
;;.;h members and the two or three
Scottish and Irish members of tli"
club. It may have been this that some
how suggested the following bit of
Thackeray's talk with me:
"D'ye know," he said, "that, though
I can describe an Irishman perfectly,
I never could describe a Scotchman?"
I reminded him of Mr. BInnle.
"Oh," he said, "that's not what 1
mean; that's a mere facsimile of a
man I know, a mere description from
life. But what I mean is, I couldn't
Invent a Scotchman., I shonld go
wrong. But oh, I'm quite at home
with the Irish character!"
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