Her Husband's Purse

t when a humorous reference on her part to "Wal

freak! Didn't you f

r says he's a wonder in

with a highbrow like your Uncle Osmond, most other men must seem, by contrast, rather stupid to you. Even I," he smiled whimsically, "must feel abashed before such a st

ng that he was a millionaire, the man's prominence in his pr

," Walter teased her, "to have to play up to the intelle

ss and affection, for instance. My life, you know,"

he seems to see straight through you to your back hooks and eyes; and I'm quite sure if there was a small safety pin anywhere about me last night where a hook and

it, very limited in his scope, his field being merely the legal technicalities involved in the

nd him rather abs

oh! won't you have to be explaining away and apologizing for t

er joking remarks about Mr. Leitzel had met with no response in kind: her sister was actually see

that had risen in her throat. "Have you done anythin

y best for y

Any chance

smile that was rather enigmatic, and s

t, "I shouldn't consent for a moment

d his wife. "Leave it to me. Perha

e his adieus, and de

to an unprejudiced observer, last night, the state of Mr. Leitzel's mind was

? I confess I'd like to be a

to the trolley line he talked of you all the way: said he liked your 'colouring' and your 'motherly manner,' a

l for a brother-in-law

h of him, living 'wa

sister's affection, turned her eyes to her plate and st

Pennsylvania," she found voice to say after a moment. "I'll

other orchids, and a boy on a bicycle arrived with a five-pound box of Charleston's most famous conf

s offerings had been carefully calculated to impress upon her the fact which he susp

im that afternoon was answered by Harriet, who at once

s afternoon and chaperon you," Harriet graciously told her after informing her

id of her stabbed her miserably. She went away to her own room, just as soon as her

er's attitude to her) that any human being should like her and be kind, to the extent of such munificence as this which filled her room with fragrance and beauty. No wonder that for the time being she lost sight of the little man's grotesqueness in her keen cons

halt n

's like thy fac

han a faint, pa

e ruefully told herself as she glanced at her dark head in a mirror. But she recalled some

revelation of poor Daniel's "greenness" when he found that Mrs. Ea

nmarried. He resented accordingly the interference with his own desires and the persecution of the young lady. He would show this greedy sister of Miss Berkeley that he was

he and Margaret shook hands with him in the hall, both of them wrapped up f

tood my invitation, I invited only Mi

you had told me so when you 'phoned this morn

what, Mrs.

lready had

a-w

a chaperon,

s isn't a boarding-s

hey have chaperons in Pennsylvania, Mr. Leitzel, to protect guileless and helpless maidens of

Charleston, Mr. Leitzel," explained Harri

y, "I'm a trustworthy man, Mrs. Eastma

among us that-oh, come on, let us start! I'm sorry, Mr.

You are so kind, Mr. Leitzel," she chatted as they went down the steps to the waiting car, "to give me this pleasure, besides the beautiful flowers and delicious candy!" And thus Daniel, though inwardly fumi

t with the chauffeur; and Daniel, as he realized how entirely isolated with Miss Berkeley this

nterpreted by Daniel during this drive to be a gushing warmth of feeling for h

t, to a silently absorbed listener, of his personal interests, achievements, excellencies of character, and general worthiness. He knew no greater joy in life than this sort of expansion before an admiri

judgment and keep a sharp lookout for the main chance. To have the wit to see and seize the main chance," he reiterated

ways being recognized, Mr. Leitzel, as twin sisters. We don't want to miss the main chance to grow in grace and-dea

ho

oman E

indly set her right; "known as the Sage of Concord, Mass

not resist turning her head to m

was supposed to have been foully and brutally murdered by her lover, the son of a petty grocer on one of our side streets. (My own residence is on Main Street, our principal resident street, a very fashionable street; house cost me twenty-five thousand!-one of the finest residences in the town-so considered by all.) Well, the evidence against the lover was overwhelming (I couldn't give you the details, Miss Berkeley, it would not be proper, you being a young, unmarried lady), and early on the morning after the murder the grocer came to see me on behalf of his son, begging me to take the case. He gave me all the facts and I saw very soon that the young man had not committed the crime. But I saw, also, that it would be very difficult to prove his innocence to a jury, and I knew the sentiment in the town to be furiously against the young man, especially among the women, so that I'd be apt to make myself very

ed the 'main chance,' unless you afterward s

said to them, 'the case was offered to me, true; with a fee which some lawyers would have considered sufficient to justify their accepting even such a case as this. But, ladies, I refused to touch the case!' and, Miss Berkeley," said Daniel feelingly, a little quiver in his voice, "I wish you could have seen the look of admiration on the faces of those ladies, especially on Miss Mamie Welchan's, one of the two unmarried members of the Missionary Society, daughter of Dr. Welchans, our leading physician. Well, I certainly had my reward! And that night the New Munich Evening Intelligencer came out with a long article commending my fearless and self-sacrificing devotion to duty; and the Missionary Society passed resolutions of gratitude to me in the name of Womanhood, as did also the Y.W.C.A., the Epworth

" asked Margaret in a low

his story, which certainly had nothing to do with the fate of the young man; "they fa

have proved

ing that case; I have always considered that episode the turning-point of my career, the pivot on wh

be brutally murdered and a young man fals

ce was given me to refuse the case and thereby win the enthusias

et was

pointed at her want of admiration of his yarn. "I wonder if she'd bear

Berkeley, but I ask you, how would it have looked for a church member, a consistent, practical Christian, an upholder of and contributor to the Woman's Temperance union, to turn around and stand for the liquor interests? How would it have looked? Why," exclaimed Daniel, "it would have looked pretty inconsistent, and I wouldn't risk it. Anyway, see what I saved in the past twenty years by not standing for treats? 'Come and have a drink on me,' says a grateful client, when I've won his case for him, and I always say, 'I don't drink'; but if I did drink, to be sure I'd have to take my turn at the treats, too, don't you see, and that kind of thing does go into money. I've saved a good income by standing for temperance, besides earning the approval of an excellent element in the community. But it isn't always easy to say, 'I don't drink.' Some men take offence at it, and some laugh at you. I'll never forget how embarrassed I was the first time Congressman Ocksreider's daughter invited me to a fashionable dinner at her home and they ser

not turn her head. For a while they rode in silence. But at last Margaret, feeling it incu

Leitzel-'Jennie and Sadie'-

am!" he replied in a tone of admiration for this remarkab

to be cong

iss Berkeley.

Leitzel. Shall we go

you ill?" inquired

rcumstances. T

order to the chauffeur t

stared thoughtfully at the long, straight r

dose than Margaret can swal

d dine with them. Margaret looked at her reproachfully as he eagerl

n," Margaret hastily said as they entered the house; and before any

elf with Mr. Leitzel on her hands-and Wal

ght down," she quickly decid

introducing the children into the comedy she was turni

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