The Coleman Voice. (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 27, 1909 Page: 7 of 8
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THE COLEMAN VOICE. JULY 27. 1909
The Man
From Home
A Novelization of (he Play
of the Same Name
By BOOTH TARKINGTON and
HARRY LEON WILSON
Copyright, 1909, by Amertcut Press
Association
(Continued From Page Four)
trifle as be f&Hi'st bis bands into fill
pockets.
“I guess she’s going to niarry and
settle down, Tow, ail right,” be said
slowly. “From what i bear she’s go-
ing to marry one of those dukes or
earls I was mentioning.”
“Marry a foreigner!” cried Perkins,
jumping to his feet. “Why, 1 thought
she”—
"Never mind what, you thought,
Tom.” returned Pike. “I’m telling you
' she’s going to be married. That’s wfcy
I guess she won’t he likely to come
back to Kokomo. I guess Kokomo’s
, a pretty poor looking place after some
of those other places she’s been see-
ing.”
"How do-you know ?” asked Perkins,
drawing his chair forward.
Pike lifted the letter he had folded up.
"I got this from her.” he said sim-
ply. “Want to know what’s In it?”
"Yes," answered Perkins.
“I can't let you read it, but it’s from
a place in Italy—Sorrento.” he went
on slowly, mouthing the unfamiliar
word. "She says she’s gglng to marry
the IJon. Almeric St. Aubyn, heir to
the ancient house of Haweastle. And
she wants to make a settlement on
him. She can’t marry without my con-
sent. you know, Tom. If she does the
mouey goes to the Kokomo Orphan
asylum.”
"Going to give yor.r consent?" in-
quired Perkins.
“Don’t know," answered Pike. “Pve
got to look tire young man over first.
I promised John Simpson I’d always
look after her. That was when she
was born. He said girls sometimes
got into a tight place and they’d need
some one to pull them out. Sounds
good, doesn’t it. Tom? Hon. Almeric
St Aubyn. Must be a member of con-
gress or something over there. Maybe
he’ll be a senator some day. I can’t
object. Tom. If he’s got a show to
make a good living for her, can,.I?
Say. what is a settlement anyway?
You don’t suppose Pve been keeping
her short of money, do yon. and she’s
had to borrow?”
Perkins shook his head gloomily.
"Don’t ask me." he said. "I don't
know anything about women. Why,
Dan, I thought you'd mapped It out
to marry”—
"That’ll do for that.” said Pike
quickly. “We’ll not talk about that
now. Tom. Suppose you go down to
Archie Toombs and ask him about Sor-
rento and how to get there and when
^fellow gets there after he starts. I’m
going to write a letter to Jim Cooley
and get him to hunt up this Haw-
castle.” •
When Perkins had gone Pike palled
open the letter and read it once again.
It was the most formal of notes, be-
ginning “Dear Mr. Pike" and ending
“Yours siiMjrely.” It contained a brief
'notice of the writer's intentions, or,
rather. Intentions in the event of a
certain contretemps that to her seemed
inevitable, and trusted that the end
would meet with his approval.
He sighed as he folded it and re-
turned it to its envelope.
“And that ends the guardianship.”
he muttered, “Wonder what I’m go-
ing to do with the old bouse now?”
Prom a drawer in his desk he pulled
a framed picture that showed a deli-
cately featured girl, with big. frank
eyes and a wealth of light, curling
hair that was half hidden by a big
garden hat. There was a smile about
the lips that seemed very engaging,
and the muslin dress she wore had
been accentuated in its simplicity by
For heaven’s sake, marry the little 1
fool! What if her scurrilous name is
Simpson? You can make her forjjpt it. j
t
We arc i. , b<. u
she hie . ..!:y lieu.
That will kce, . uii# 1 i' another
year or'two, ami if lieietie can eg pt lire
the young ass. Horace. I'll force her
to divide wil !i me."
“But it’s such a beastly bore, gov-; month,
ernor." drawled Almeric St. Aubyn.:
and he flicked idly at the rbododen-;
drun hushes with his stick.
He was a pale, washed out youth,
with an inimitable drawl and a shim-
mering of Intellect that might, if it
DIRECTORY
MASONIC ORDERS •
Coleman Chapter No. 287 lioyal
Arch Masons meets second Saturday
in each month. c
D A Padpeford, H. P.
Coleman Lodge No. 496 A. F. ft A
M. meets fourth Saturday in each
L. E. Collins, W. M
D. A. Paddlefoud, See.
.1. O. 0, F. flo. 263 meets every
Tuesday night. W.G.Taylor,N. G.
T. W. Rush, See-
the art of the London photographer.
PtXi
ke had preserved the picture, which
had been given to him by old John
Simpson the day before he died, and
be sighed as lie looked at It.
Then he laid tt face down upon the
rcwl^^ tselTinto^'gc^ working j 8^^ and tW^^Mon^^n^htTtjMaSli
Itatlon of a brain. To> his friends he rn‘ ,,1h ^a.B.muIek. K. of R.4S.
was "that hopeless asS” and to his ' _
enemies and debtors—of the latter not W. 0. W. amp No. 49 medi is
a few—“that beastly bounder, St. An- Coulson building the first and third
byn.” ' Friday nights in each month
‘You see, governor,” the honorable! E. R. Sewell, Con. Go
Almeric went on, “it isn’t as if I cared '
for the little gal. I’m a queer beggar.
Jerry Harbour, Clerk.
"SUE'S 001 SO TO MARRY THE HON. ALMERIQ- ST. A.UBYS|."
on ner.
“I'll go, Tom," he said. "Maybe
you'll drop in bore once in awhile and
tell folks that ask for me that I'll be
back in a month or so.”
Then he sat down and wrote to Jim
Cooley at London.
At 8 that night he stepped"aboard an
eastbound train and the nest after-
noon was in New York. Sorrento
seemed n long way off, and it was
with a heavy heart that he walked up
the gangplank of La Provence.
CHAPTEU II.
THE EXILES.
years of l(fe abroad, and these
during the most impressionable
period of their young lives, had
left an Indelible imprint upon
the two young people.
Horace Simpson bad taken to him-
self the manners of the Harrow and
Oxford youth. He had eschewed the
society of what he had learned, with
parrot like aptness, to call those “vul-
gar Americans” and bad confined bis
social Intercourse solely to such of the
European “haut ton” as be could man-
age to scrape acquaintance with.
And this Inst was a somewhat uphill
task. for. whatever else one may say
about the English, they are Inclined to
view with very little favor the pos-
sessor of no other attribute than
money. True, there are exceptions,
and these but prove the rule.
Ethel, who had grown into a really
beautiful young woman, had followed
Kult. so far as in her modest powers
lay. Sncli of her school friends as
would permit the half formed ac-
quaintance to ripen she bad retained.
Such others of her own modest begin-
nings she Imd quietly but emphatically
dropped. From plain democracy sbej
had sought the antithesis, and the leap
was all the more an earnest one be-
cause of Its breadth.
\t
desk and droppeu »-mi into
band. It may haw i ecu an hour tInti
he sat there, aud in Unit time ne.e: ,i
thought of his legal business mismi
his mind. He was busy with a fanci-
ful picture of an unknown city that In
spite of his desire seemed to take on
-he aspects of a larger Kokomo, and in
bis fancy be could see a big. well knit
young fellow bending eagerly over to
look into the face of u girl, and he
heard her call him Almeric.
“Must be a mighty fine man,” be
raused-“a fine big man—to capture
her.”
Then Perkins came In to ask if BUte
wished to sail from New York for
Havre in two days’ time, stating that
it would be necessary to leave that
night If Pike wished to take passage
%
Ethft in u IHq garden hot
The Slmpsotis—and they had added
their mother’s maiden name nnd linked
it to the paternal nomenclature with
a hyphen—bad been deeply bitten with
the aristocratic virus nnd after a long
and arduous-struggle had managed Jo
meet Lady Creech.
This titled mondalne had the mlsfor- ■
tune tb be viciously short of patrimony j
and inordinately long of lineage, and,
while her life of self denial had doubt-!
less Iniblttered her. she had a most
Inordinate value of birth and a distinct i
appreciation of cash: hence* when it,
came her way to pick the Granger-
Si mpsons out of the slough of com-
monplace acquaintance she did It with ,
a royal favor and for a stipulated con- j
s (deration.
"Really, my dear Haweastle”—she
pronounced it as old sailors pronounce
“fo’c’s’tle”—she was wont to say.
"really, of course, they are quite im-
possible. but the girl Is an adaptable
little thing, and I may be able to make
something of her in time, while the
boy—ah. I fear I shall have to leave
him to you and St. Aubyn.”
“Do as you like.” replied the Earl of
Haweastle. with some cboler, “but
keep them out of my way as much as
possible. I iKisittvely will not be badg-
ered by these unbaked colonists.”
“One might stand n quantity of
badgering. Haweastle, for £300,000.”
nt which the genial earl would squirm
nervously.
At any rate, the Simpson children
began to be seen in the second stratum
of London society nnd met endless
numbers of the shopworn nobility, but.
sad to relate, never one of the truly!
respectable. To those who know their
London there are several layers of no-
bility. and the layer the ordinary in-
dividual meets, who has no social pres-
tige to begin with, is composed of that
peculiar class that lends Its nfime to
doubtful directorates, to queir prW^j
pectuses. to struggling milllnelts with
an eye on the'main chance anii wmo;
gladly extend unlimited credit to\»lr
patrons In return for modest and Wqjl
put advertisement.
Strangely enough, the Hawcastle-
Creecb combination did not drag the
willing Simpsons into the glittering
presence of the real set.
On the contrary, with a somewhat
dog In the manger policy, they awak-
ened both the earl and his sister-in- ‘
lnw to the fact that they wished no
sharers to those American dollars that
John Simpson hnfl sweated his brow
for. and as a consequence they pro-
posed n little trip—a quiet, ante-season
trip—to Sorrento, where not a guest
would disturb them and where mat-
ters might be given a chance to right
themselves.
And there, strangely enough, tbe i
Simpsons met the Comtesse de Chani-
plgny nnd were quite delighted to find ,
the gifted and brilliant Frenchwoman!
an intimate of the earl’s. The second
morning of their arrival tbe gay com
tesse put in an appearance and with n
promptitude that was astonishing took
young Horace under, tbe widowly wing
and marked hlth for her own. And
that same morning tbe noble earl took
Ms equally noble son into tbe shrub-
bery and spoke to him.
“You’ve got to do It, St Aubyn," he
■fitS. "The'fanf.ly' bOnpr is at stake.
Order of the Easters Star Ne.
meets third Monday night in eseb
month at Masonic hall.
Mrs. Beatrice P. Hickman, W-M
Miss Chloe Bell, Sec.
Unity Temple No. 74 Py rhino 15 to-
I ters meets second Monday afternoon
' at 3:30 and fourth Monday /light at tJI
o’clock of each month.
Mrs. R. I. Bowen, M. E. C.
i Mrs. J. P. Delleney, M, of R. C.
Mystic Tie Rebecca Lodge M« J6t
meets every Thursday night at8:3Bi
T. W. Rush, N. G.
Miss Chlog Bell, See.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
G. D. Hines
Estate and Jxkum
OFFICE
t&f Over the Farmers State itenk.
jQr. (J. A. Ueaunionf
SURGEON DENTIST
"The family honor is at stake.”
m
you know, and it’s fearfully rough on,
All branches of Modern Dentistry
we’re awfully hard up and nil thal : -
sort of thing, but”— OFFICE OVER GARRETT’S DRUG STOW
His noble father seized him roughly __ ^
by the arm.
"You don’t have to live with her, you PHONE 185 - ■ -COLEMAN, TRIAS
know.’’ he said wavagely. "It wilt be
easy enough ,to make it so unpleasant,
for the minx that she’ll be glad to go
back to tbe States, and she can’t gfet
back a penny. We’ll have that tight
enough.”
The Hon. Almeric laughed.
“Oh. all right, old chap!” hdidrpWled.
lal seventh
Dr. R. H. Cochran
Physician and
Surgeon
“I’ll lift her to the Infernal
heaven, or whatever you call it Don’t —. . _ . . ...
expect me to moon over her, though.” ; | \ f J I r—“_ jXJX <f~\
And that compact being settled, the; L—• U Jl VI I I * *
earl went off for his-morning walk _
along the cliff and Almeric to keep
his engagement for a morning ride
with Ethel Grnnger-Slmpson.
lm t
Office Phone
Residence M
128
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CHAPTER 111.
IN DISGUISE.
AN hour later Mariano, tbe maltre
d’hotel of the Reglnfi Marghe-
AnW rita, stepped out upon the ter-
* race and began to lay a cloth
upou one of tbe small round tables that
stood close to the white marble balus-
trade. On the other side of the wall
could be heard the mandolins and gui-
tars of the fishermen, and Mariano
glanced up crossly as tbe song arose
upou tbe morning air.
"Sllenzio!” he cried, and for a mo-
ment tbe music died down.
Mariano went nt once to the table
upon which he had spread the cloth
and placed silverware and delicate
china upon it. and he was thus en-
gaged when Michele, tbe commission-
ualre, appeared at the top of a flight of
marble steps that led Into the eastern
wing of the hotel, fronting on the ter-
race.
"Here is M. Hibiere to see you, sir,”
be said softly, with a backward glance
over his shoulder, and Mariano
straightened up instantly, with u smile
of welcome, for ltibiere was an old
and valued accomplice in the gentle
art of soft Italtun legal stealing.
A tail, alert young Frenchman, clad
in an English walking suit of gray
and carrying a portfolio beneath his
arm, ran lightly down the steps and
approached the maltre d’hotel.
"Ah, Mariano!” he cried as lie ap-
proached. .
The genial Mariano bowed graceful-
ly and rubbed his flexible hands to-
gether.
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•M. Hibiere!’’ be^ chattered ga.vly.
•This is one of the days of days’’—
The music hurst forth again, and he
whirled about angrily la the direction
of the lemon grove.
"Sllenzio!” he cried, with Waving
hands. “Slleuzlo!” trod turned again
to Hibiere. Michele, with a glance at
them, went hack within tbe hotel.
Rlhiere turned n warning glance to-
wahl the hotel and whispered In Jul-
ian:
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