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I $ I Want All That’s Coming to Me * SR. Copyright, 1912, by National News Ass'n. By Nell Brinkley |
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□ NE day 1 sat in a little mountain hair shop where a round little woman with
a rolling gait that belonged Io the wet denies of a ship at sea - stead of to
the dark green velvet carpeting of her “Dry-Bone Gulch’’ “Emporium"- was
shampooing my best chum’s gold-brown hair. My best churn is a wise and cheer
ful little girl. She has a "heart for any fate.’’
The round little woman talked. She talked of her many beaux--of what she
liked ajrd didn’t—where she was “horned'’ and almost how old she was; Ami we
listened with our gray and blue eyes wide and our sense of humor entranced. And
the little round woman ended up (with a slant in the glass at her marvelous,
dyed, wooden-curled head) in an explosion of real feeling:
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TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
Oswald shuddered Orlando had spoken
truly; she had always been blindly, arro
gantly trustful of her eldest, son No
fault could she see tn him; and now
Impetuously Oswald struggled with his
v> ealcness, raised himself in Mr Challon
er's arms and cried In loud revolt:
‘But God is Just He will not let you
escape If He does, I will not. I will
hound you to the ends of this earth and.
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If necessary, into the eternities. Not with
the threat of my arm —you are my mas
ter there, but with the curse of a brother
who believed you innocent of his darling’s
blood and would have believed you so in
face of everything but your own word.”
“Pea.-el” adjured Orlando. “There Is
no account I arp not ready to settle. I
have robbed you of the woman you love,
but 1 have despoiled myself. I stand
desolate tn the world, who but an hour
ago could have chosen my seat among
the best and greatest. What can your
curses do after that?”
I want to know love and,loving. I want all there is in every year. Why, I want even to be a grandmother some day," she said.
“Nothing.” The word came slowly like
a drop wrung from a nearly spent heart.
“Nothing; nothing. Oh, Orlando, I wish
we were both dead and buried and that
there were no further life for either of
us.”
The softened tone, the wistful prayer
which would blot out an immortality of
joy for the one, that it might save the
other from an immortality of retribu
tion, touched some long unsounded chord
in Orlando's extraordinary nature.
Advancing a step, he held out his hand—
the left one. “We'll leave the future to
Itself, Oswald, and do what we can with
the present." said he. "I've made a
mess of my life and spoiled a career
which might have made us both kings.
Forgive me. Oswald. 1 ask for nothing
else from God or man I should like that.
It would strengthen me for tomorrw.”
But Oswald, ever kindly, generous and
more ready to think of others than of
himself, had .vet some of Orlando's tenac
ity. He gazed at that hand and a flush
swept up over his check which instantly
became ghastly again.
"I can not.” said he “not even the left
one. May God forgive me!”
Orlando, struck silent for a moment,
dropped his hand and slowly turned away.
Mr. Chailoner felt Oswald stiffen In his
arms. and break suddenly away,
only to stop short before he had taken
“I'm tryin’ h> keep just as young as I kin. You’d never guess how old I
am. would' you? Well. I'm older’n I look. I am! I hate —I detest to get old
ever! I hope I may never see the day when 1 have a little white nubbin on the
back of my head and can't get a beau!’’
My little chum ruminated. And then she murmured gently (and 1 knew she
saw fancies of the varied years ahead in the mirror). “Why, I want everything
that's coming to me! I want to know love and loving. I want al! there is to
come in every year. I want even to be a grandmother some day when I’ve done
everything else! I want everything that's coming to me!’’
NELL BRINKLEY.
• one of the half dozen steps between hint
self and his departing brother.
, “Where are you going?” he demanded
in tones which made Orlando turn.
“I might say, ‘To the devil!’ ’’ was the
sarcastic reply. “But I doubt if he
would receive me. No," he added, In more
, ordinary tones as the other shivered and
again started forward, “you will have no
trouble in finding me in my own room
tonight. I have letters to write and—
other things. A man like me can not
drop out without a ripple. You may go
to bed and sleep. I will keep awake for
• two."
"Orlando!” Visions were passing before
Oswald's eyes, soul-crushing visions such
as in his blameless life he never thought
could enter into his consciousness or blast
his tranquil outlook upon life. “Orlando!”
he again appealed, covering his eyes in
a frenzied attempt to shut out these hor
rors, “I can not let you go like this. To
morrow—”
Tomorrow, In every niche afid corner
of this world, wherever Edith Challon
er s name has gone, wherever my name
has gone, it will be known that the dis
coverer of a practical air ship Is a man
whom they can no longer honor. Do you
think that Is not hell enough for me; or
that I do not realize the hell it will be
for you? I've never wearied you or any
man with my affection; hut I'm not all
demon. I would gladly have spared you
this additional anguish; but that was im
possible. You are my brother and must
suffer from the connection, whether we
would have it so or not. If It promises
too much misery—and I know no misery
like that of shame—come with me where
I go tomorrow. There will be room for
two.”
Oswald, swaying with weakness, but
maddened by the sight of an overthrow’
which carried with it the stifled affections
and the admiration of hie whole life, gave
a bound forward, opened his arms and
fell.
Orlando stopped short. Gazing down on
his prostrate brother, he stood for a mo
ment with a gleam of something like hu
man tenderness showing through the flare
of dying passions and perishing hopes;
then he swung open the door and passed
j quietly out. and Mr. Chailoner could hear
the laughing remark with which he met
and dismissed the half dozen men and •
women who had been drawn to this end
of the hall by what had sounded to them
like a fracas between angry men
Five O'clock in the Morning.
The clock in the hotel office struck
three. Orlando Brotberson counted the
strokes; then went on writing. His tran
som was partly open and he had just
I heard a step go by his door. This was
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nothing new. He had already heard it
several times before that night. It was
Mr. Challoner’s step, and every time it
passed, he had rustled his papers or
scratched vigorously with his pen. “He is
keeping watch for Oswald,” was his
thought. “They fear a sudden end to
this. No one. not the s<jn of my mother
knows me. Do I know myself?”
Four o'clock! The light was still burn
ing, the pile of letters he was writing in
creasing. ,
Five o’clock! A rattling shade 'betrays
an open window. No othbr sound disturbs
the quiet of the room. It is empty now:
but Mr. ChaJloner, long since satisfied
that all was well, goes by no more. Si
lence lias settled upon the hotel—that
heavy silence which precedes the dawn.
There was silence in the streets also.
The few who were abroad, crept quietly
along. An electric storm was in the air
and the surcharged clouds hung heavy
and low, biding the moment of outbreak.
A man who had left a place of many
shadows for the more open road, paused
and looked up at these clouds; then went
calmly on.
Suddenly the shriek of an approaching
train tears through the valley. Has It
a call for this man? No. Yet he pauses
in the midst of the street he Is crossing
and watches, as a child might watch,
for the flash of Its lights at the end of
the darkened vista. It comes—tilling,the
empty space at which he stares with
moving life—engine, baggage car and a
long string of Pullmans. Then all is dark
again and only the noise of its slacken
ing wheels comes to him through the
night. It has stopped at the station. A
minute longer and it has started again,
and the quickly lessening rumble of its
departure is all that remains of this vision
of man's activity and ceaseless expect
ancy. When It is quite gone and all is
quiet, a sigh falls from the man's lips
and he moves on, but this time, for some
unexplaintable reason, in the direction of
the station. With lowered head he passes
along, noting little till he arrives within
sight of the depot where some freight is
being handled, and a trunk or two
wheeled down the platform. No sight
eould be more ordinary or unsuggestlve.
but it has its attraction for him, tor he
looks up as he goes by and follows the
passage of that truck down the platform
till it has reached the corner and disap
peared. Then he sighs again and again
moves on.
A cluster of houses, one of them open
and lighted, was all which lay between
him now and the country road. He was
hurrying past, for his step had uncon
sciously quickened as he turned his back
upon the station, when he was seized
again by that mood of. curiosity and
I stepped up to the door from which a light
, issued and looked in. A common eating
room lay before him. with rudely spread
tables and one very sleepy waiter taking
orders from a new arrival who sat with
bis back to the door. Why did the lonely
man on the sidewalk start as his eye fell
on the latter’s commonplace figure, a
hungry man demanding breakfast in a
cheap, country restaurant? His own
physique was powerful while that of the
I other looked slim and frail. But fear
! was in the air, and the brooding of a
tempest affe< t< some temperaments in a
; totally unexpected manner. As the man
| inside turns slightly and looks up. the
master figure on the sidewalk vanishes
and his Step, if any one had been inter
! ested enough to listen, rings with a new
| rote as it turns into the country road it i
lias at last reached.
But no one heeded. The new arrival
munches lus roll and waits impatiently
I tor his coffee, while without the cloud's
Hile soundlessly in the sky. one of them
‘king tl-e form of a huge hand with '
clutching fingers reaching down into the
I rivlb'u void beneath. I.
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Makes clothes last longer because you
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to pieces on a hard metal washboard.
Follow the easy directions on the red
and green wrapper. Use any time of year.
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