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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1908.
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A. V. ALLEN
Phonis Branch Uniontown
Main 711, Main 2871 PhoneMain713
Sole agent for Baker's Barrington Hall Steel Cut Coffee.
Settlement
In Full.
By LULU JOHNSTON.
Copyrighted. 1907, by N. E. Daley.
Dick Staley, perched on a furniture
crate; looked disconsolately at Billy
Blaine, who was regarding the wall
paper and trying hard not to laugh.
la aptt of Blaine's efforts the twitch'
servant problem, ana m naa worrieu
greatly. Tbla businesslike girl offered
even to take that trouble off his hands.
He was rapidly coming to regard Mar
Ion Wadlelgh as a tailor made angel.
Be dropped In the next morning on
his way to the office and found a pa
per banging crew already lustalled
removing the paper that bad proved so
disappointing. Marlon was there In a
gingham apron even more becoming
than the cloth costume of the night be
fore, and Dick's heart beat faster In
answer to her greeting.
There was something "homey" in
her appearance that appealed strongly
to the man who for years had enjoyed
bat an occasional glimpse of home In
In comers of his month curved, and
as ba met Staley's eye he exploded In 1 vacation time. The soft dark hair was
a roar of laughter which served only ! hidden oy a cap and tne piquant race
to deepen Staley's gloom.
"Laugh, confound your growled Sta
ley. "It's funny to yon. It's not so
fanny to me. I've got to get this place
settled In five days, and upon my soul
I don't know what to do tret!"
The first step Is easy," chuckled
Blaine. "Get a man in to scrape the
walla. The paper Is the worst I eVer
aw." .
"It looked aU right In the book," said
Staley defensively. "It was the pret
tiest thing In the whole book of sam
ples." "It may be all right In s sample,"
admitted Blaine, with another glance
at the flowered monstrosity, "hut there
Is only one square yard of the sample.
It looks different, Dick, when you have
a roomful of it"
"I know It," admitted Staley, "but
that doesn't help matters. It only
serves to make themworse. I want
ed to surprise the matter by bringing
her to her own home instead of tak
ing her to a hotel. She hates to give
an her old home, and I wanted to
make the change as easy as possible."
The smile died from Blaine's face at
the allusion to Mrs. Staley. He was
Dick's chum, and he knew how tender
ly Dick loved the gentle faced woman
who within the month had lost both
husband and daughter. Now she wss
coming to live with Dick, and for
weeks he had planned to take an
apartment that she might not feel too
keenly the loss of the home that had
been hers since marriage.
Til tell you what we'll do, Dick,"
suggested Blaine. "Let's go downtown
'for some lunch. I'll phone Nell for one
of those professional fixers for you. j
She knows a crackerjack, a girl who
ased to move In good society and
whose father lost his money. She
knows what's what and how to do It,
and Nell will get her to do It for you."
Dick patted bis chum on the back
while bis eyes glistened. Nell Blaine
"OOMPLETH?'
CATCHIKO HIS MEANING.
was flushed with exertion, but the
heightened color only added to her
beauty, and the cap did not shadow
the tender light iu the brown eyes.
Dick went to his office with his head
In a whirl. Ever since be had come
to the city he had sunk himself In
work. Fortune had come his way rap
idly, and np to the present he bad
found work all sufficient Now he be
gan to realise that the years had been
lonely.
Marlon was not at the bouse when
be dropped In the following morning,
nor did he see her again until Friday
afternoon, when be went to make his
final Inspection of her work.
Dick gasped as he entered the apart
ment In place of the gaudy paper
the walls were now covered with quiet
tones and the flowered carpets had
been exchanged for ruga whose soft
tints harmonized with the new paper.
Instead of the solid officelike furniture
were lighter and, mora tasteful places,
and the whole apartment saggested a
feminine presence.
Best of all, Marlon Wadlelgh was
there. The print dress had been ex
changed for an afternoon costume,
and Immediately Dick decided that aft
er all a print dress was not the most
becoming costume which Marion could
wear, though that bad been his impres
sion since he bad seen her last
Quietly she moved about the place.
giving an account of her expenditures,
and Dick followed, bearing only the
rich voice, full tones, without caring
what she said. At last the tour of
the rooms was ended, and she return
ed to the parlor.
"If you like," she said, "I can buy
the material for dinner tomorrow and
be here to welcome Mrs. Staley when
she arrives. Mrs. Blaine wanted to
come over, but she had to leave town
last night with her husband."
I should be delighted if you could
arrange to be here tomorrow," said
Staley. "I am sure that my mother
will wish to add her thanks to mine
for the beautiful home you have pro
vided. You will stay to dlnnerr
"I only suggested being here to wel
come her," said Marlon, her face flush
ed. "You see In business It Is best
to maintain strictly business relations.
You don't have to thank me for what
I have done. My charges cover all
services, you know."
"But money could not pay for pull
ing me out of a hole and settling me,"
insisted Dick. "Besides, I don't want
to maintain a purely business relation
ship unless you Insist, Miss Wadlelgh."
"I don't insist," the girl answered
softly. "I have been much interested
in your devotion to your mother, and I
am sure that I shall be glad to know
B,t85"??,?T vaTn ! her better. She must be a dear old
lady to deserve such affection."
I want you to know her very well,"
explained Dick. "You see you have
only partly settled mother. You have
provided her with a home, but I want
a home of my own, and I want you to
furnish It complete."
"Complete?" she asked, not quite
catching his meaning.
"Even to a wife," explained Dick. "I
don't ask an answer now, but will you
consider the proposition?'
"As a business woman I have always
considered propositions,' she said,
with a laugh, but the look In her eyes
belied the briskness of her words, and
Dick realized that when they should
know each other better there was a
prospect of being settled "in full," ns
he termed it some months later when
he placed a solitaire on Marion's finger.
to obtain tne pence necvaaary to bo.
food. At last ha yielded to despair,
and having tor some days saved up
all ha could earn, be devoted tt to the
purchase of a single dose of laudanum
sufficient to end his troubles. With
this he retired at night to his haunt,
the rubbish plot lu Covent Garden
market Then by his own narrative
the followlug luclilont occurred: Be
had already taken half tho fatal draft
when ha felt a haod upon his arm and,
looking up, saw one whom ha recog
nised as Chatterton forbidding him to
drink tho rest, and at tho same Instant
memory came to him of how, after
that poet's suicide, a letter bad been
delivered at his lodgings which, if he
bad waited another day, wquld have
brought him tho relief needed.
It happened so with Thompson, for
after InQnlte pains the editor of
magazine v. ho had accepted and print
ed an essay ami a poem of his. but
could not discover his address, hntl
that very morning tracod Thompson
to the chemist's shop where the dru
was sold, and relief for him was close
at hand. London Academy.
H uot tne ico.
He called at the house and asked lf
she had any carpets to beat, nddlu;:
that he had been In the business for
over twenty years.
How much to beat that parlor car
pet?" she asked.
"Four shillings."
'Why, that's awful! There was v
man here yesterday who offered to !
the Job for 2 shillings."
'Exactly, madam, but how was lit'
prepared?"
He had a stick lu his hand."
I presume so. He intended to take
the carpet out on a vacant piece of
land, didn't he?"
Yes: our yard Is too small, you
kuow."
Exactly. That Is a tapestry bms
s-e'.s carpet, it is bauiy worn. ue
would make a great show In getting II
out and In here. Out on the piece of
land he would give your name to every
one who asked who the carpet belonged
to. Is that the way to do a job of this
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was the most accomplished matron of
his acquaintance. She would extricate
him from his trouble. Together they
left the apartment, and while Staley
ordered lunch Billy Blaine bung over
the telephone In the restaurant
"She'll bring her over tonight at 8,"
reported Billy as he took his seat.
"Eat with a good appetite and con
alder yourself settled already."
Billy's words restored confidence,
and when Dick Staley met Marion
Wadlelgh that evening his last doubt
vanished. The girl did not laugh at
bis blunders nor even at the wall pa
per. She listened with sympathy and
took from her chatelaine the tablets on
which to make notes of what she
wanted. With increasing admiration
Staley followed her through the vari
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like way in which she condoned bis
errors and approved his successes.
"I can do It over in four days," she
said briskly when she had shut up he;
memorandum book and returned to the
parlor where Nell Blaine, Billy's sister
in-law, still sat In rapt admiration of
the garish wall paper. "Suppose. Mr
Staley, that you drop in here Frldaj
afternoon? Then you can suggest any
last changes you wish made, and tht
place will be ready for your mother
Saturday evening. Shall I get you 1
servant also?"
- .ifCtffl Spur. Staley had beard of tin
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