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Other Girl.
By R. A. BEALL.
Copyrighted, 1009, by Associated
Literary Press.
To nil their friends there seemed to
be something essentially incongruous
lu the iden of their marriage. Friends,
of cour'-o, ns is well known, have the
right to decide those things.
Grace Ormiston was a New Eng
land girl of an old Boston family,
who knew her Emerson by heart. It
was even reported that she knew
wlmt Itobert Browning meant when
he wrote:
Sotcbos and Setebos and Setebos.
Jim Garrison had been born and
reared on a big Kentucky plantation,
mid bo bad obtained bis education in
that school which not only believes
but vows that a gentleman’s education
Is complete when he lias been taught
“to ride, to shoot and to speak tiie
truth.”
Vet their marriage had turned out a
happy one, for with all Jim’s Igno
rance of books he was a gentleman,
every inch of the stalwart length of
him. He did feel a bit oppressed,
though, at times when his clever and
learned wife let him “slide out of the
conversation,” as he expressed It. and
showed by her manner that she knew
It was over his head and that she ex
cused him In sympathetic kindness.
The truth was that Jim would have
been quite a hit the better for it If he
had possessed more of a share of that
of which most men have too much
conceit.
Poor Jim didn’t have n bit, nml be
used to rub Ids handsome head i te
fully and with very genuine sorrow at
the harassing thought that he was not
good enough for Ins brilliant beauty of
n wife and that she must feel some
degree <>f shame for him when she was
surrounded by the wise and.learned
] oople who called on them contin
ually.
When they had been married n little
more than n year a telegram came for
Jim while he was absent in Kentucky
looking over some of bis land. Mrs.
Garrison hesitated before .site opened
the yellow envelope, for she was not
a woman who believed in letting her
etiriosity got the bettor of her, al
though, site had her full share of J|hat
delightful i'.Tafi tof! . , l reeding.
However, sin* finally decided Unit
f*io should open the telegram to see if
it war. Important enough to forward to
Jim. Surely every one will forgive
that. Women ought to be curious, it's
part < f their charm. Think of what
the world would bo without woman’s
delicious curl sity 1
The message was short. Rut few as
the Words wore they were sufficient to
cause something very much like her
little world tumbling bi adn u.-ly
down around I'm pretty cars of Mrs.
Garrison. The tele.••ram was dated
from a village on flung Island and
sa id:
The Girl Is dying Como at once.
It was signed Jack Farrington.
Grace recognized this name as that of
one of her husband's friends of whom
she had often heard him speak, but
whom she had never met.
Grace was not a naturally Jealous
woman that is. nothing mere than to
say that she was not any more jealous
than Is any good, true, warm soulcd
woman. She tried to remain unsusyi
cions; but, try as she would, she could
find but one interpretation for the
message.
Her faith in Jim was too absolute to
believe that “the girl’’ referred to
could be her rival since tlielr mar
riage. Fhe never gave place In her
mind f r one moment to any idea that
her Jim was capable of the shameful,
disgusting treachery such n surmise
would presuppose.
Bat she c ould not help but see that
this girl lmd some okl claim on dim
and the* thought of such a claim on the
man whom she loved so passionately
was sullied cut to dilve her nearly fran
tic.
She perceived that the sender of the
telegram had taken It for granted that
Jim would not hesitate to “come at
once." And then she recollected wit ha
keen sense that gave her new pa In
now that Jim always had spoken shy
ly and hesitatingly about Farrington
and had evaded all her attempts to
induce him to Invite lids friend of his
early days to their home.
Her feeling was one of total desola
tion. She moaned at the thought there
could be anywhere In the world n
woman with such a claim upon her
Jim that he must go to her deathbed.
Mrs. Garrison realized now and all at
once how deeply and helplessly she
loved her handsome husband and how
empty all her world of knowledge and
art would seem to her if that love
were destroyed.
At last, however, she began to think
of the unknown girl who lay dying.
With a mighty effort she put aside her
own grief and telegraphed to her hus
band:
Mr. Jim Garrison, Phenlx Hotel. Lexing
ton. Kj\ - • - -i
Conic ’ 'home Immediately. A matter of
life and death. GRACE.
Bhe could not bear to telegraph to
him that “the girl” was dying. To re
fer to her In such a way was repug
nant to every Instinct, and she was in
total ignorance of the girl’s name.
Before noon she received the ex
pected reply. It read:
Leave at noon. Arrive tomorrow noon.
Grace Garrison, having forced her
self to sacrifice her own emotions and
her own wounded love and anguished
pride, was not the woman to shrink
from making the sacrifice complete
and deep, however her feet might
bleed on the weary way.
She telegraphed to Farrington that
Jim would reach home at noon of the
next day nnd would come down to
Long Island Immediately and mean
time determined to expedite Ids trip
In every manner. Whoever this wom
an was to Jim, Grace resolved that
Jim must reach her bedside before
death closed her eyes if she could
make It possible.
The railroad time tables showed her
that connections could not Ik? made
until very late In the evening, and she
decided that he must be hurried down
In her automobile.
It was a swift machine that hau
been bought especially for her use by
her mother. Jim had steadfastly re
fused to learn to drive it. But Grace
decided that it would not do to have
the chauffeur drive Jim on such an
errand, fur fear of gossip among the
servants. She came to the brave de
cision that she would drive the ma
chine herself.
It was a very worried and excited
man who ran to her at the gate of the
railroad station. “Tell me what it
means, Grace!” cried he.
Grace Garrison had faced the sacri
fice, but she was a woman. Ilcr face
grew stern and cold. She replied that
a crowded station was hardly the
place for such confidences and waited
silently till he was in the automobile.
Then, when they were whizzing on
tlieir way to Long Island, siie looked
fixedly at Jim and without a word
handed to him the telegram from Far
rington.
Jim read it silently. His face de
noted some distress, but it denoted
more bewilderment.
‘Tin awfully sorry The Girl is dying,’
he said. "It sort of breaks me up.
But if she had to die I wish that I
had been left in peace till I had fin
ished business in Kentucky. I was
just clu. ing a very profitable little
transact ion."
Grace looked at him in shocked
amazement. Jim stared at her and
opened his mouth to say something,
but thought better of it. Grace turned
her fa< e away to bide her tears, which
she could not repress, try as she
would. Bite did not trust herself to
speak except once or twice* to ask tin*
direction from Jim. The last time she
fancied that she heard him chuckle,
but dismissed the Idea as a morbid
fancy.
Farrington met them with a cordial
handshake and a strange cheerfulness,
which was explained when he said
hurriedly to Jim that The Girl wo
much hotter. Then he asked coldly if j
they would not like to see her.
Jim' replied in the affirmative with
out a moment's hesitation, but Grace
held back. Then Jim chuckled. It was
an unmistakable out and out chuckle.
Bewildered; wondering, Grace fol
lowed the two men as Farrington led
tHo way to the stables.
A rather feeble looking mare whin
nied when she saw Jim and made a
weak effort to get upon her feet.
On the wdy back Jim said with a
happy smile: ‘•You'll have to read up
on one subject, anyway, darling. Any
body who knows anything at all about
racing knows The Girl. She's the win
ner of the Shenandoah sweepstakes,
the Cumberland futurity and the Gold
cup, and she belongs to the racing
firm of yours truly, Garrison & Far
rington. I'm glad she is better; but,
sweetheart, even if she had died I
would have considered her well paid
for by the knowledge I've won through
your misunderstanding about that tel
egram. Am I very stupid, darling, if 1
think that you love me, even though 1
don't know much of literature and art?”
And Grace Garrison gave him a re
ply that convinced him that he was
not stupid.
Preparing Robin Beefsteak.
On a certain occasion I saw a sturdy
specimen of the robin tribe on the
lawn searching for provisions for his
family of clamorous gonuands. At
length, by tugging and perseverance,
be succeeded in extracting a lu ty
angleworm from the tough sward and
was making the effort to fly to his
nest with the prey. But Mr. Worm
rebelled. More than that, he writhed
and squirmed with the greatest en
ergy, and the bird that had come to
market so bravely was in danger of
finding his provisions so unruly that
he could not reach home with them.
But he was not to be defeated so
easily. Stepping to the board walk
near by. be deliberately began to pound
Mr. Worm down upon the hard surface
with an emphasis that bade fair to
finish all protests and writhing. And
so it did. A dozen pecks, and uot only
was the little fellow’s beefsteak ready
for transportation, but it was ready
pounded for the broijerr-or la this case
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