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Show 1 In the Extension Course By ROBS.rYERJ Iijj Hampton fait as though he had been , j'Aj "to the end of tho world nnd looked over : j , ihe wall" as lie strode along to IiIb old r i .' ! home. His mother declined to negotiate i with him nor would she, apparently, per-j per-j i jnlL her secretary, who hnd enrried on I the correspondence, to quote her other " t . : than in tho most non-contnilinl words. Jlo was Jinnoyod at the turn of affairs : unci also Ihm a stranger, a woman, '. , should he appointed to deal with him in a private- and painful piece of busl-,. busl-,. I 1)053. ; Perkins, the butler, admitted him when ho set in commotion the hell whoso but- Ii ; ton was at tho door. Imt of oourso Per- :.' kins showed nothing hi his well-drilled countenance. Ask Perkins for his mother ,.j and stand the chance of a. probable ro-." ro-." I fusalV His pride refused to do that, and . he asked to sco Ml86 Carroll, the secretary. secre-tary. And now he was here to sue through ; a strnngcr for his mother's recognition ; of his claims upon her to bavo a sort of ' i '"heart-to-heart talk" with his mother's secretary if his mother rcfusod to see ! hlui. Would his mother sec him 7 If she would only meet him and be reasonable and stop arguments that . led to nolh-. nolh-. . inc. . i Lie slopped abruptly. In tbe doorway Flood a slight young lady whose brown , eyes set upon him, had a twinkle In ; .' them. , "Why," ho said, "you arc Polly Car roll, whom I used to see here six or seven years ago. 1 did noL recognise In the 'Mary Loo Carroll' of your notes the llt-llo llt-llo lrl 1 used to romp with." "I am tho same Klrt." sho returned. I demurely, "the daughter of TIrs. Ha.mp-ton's Ha.mp-ton's school friend." ' Ho saw that sho intended to revive no old acquaintanceships with him that sho ' wished to bo merely tho business agent of his mother. "My mother has been Informed that I am hero?" he asked. "Mrs. Hampton." she said, "deputes mo to say that sOe Is not well enough to , , moo you this morning. Sho has had a bad night." "Then." he frowned. "I suppose 1 am to communicate with her through yoij?" , "Most of your communications have '; been through m" she answered, j "I am tired of such communications," t he retorted. "I Tefuso to reply any fur- ther to letters written by hor deputy." . , There was nothing to say to this, so ' she remained silent. ,i i "I presume then," pursued Hampton, "I am not to seo my mother today?" Miss Carroll nodded dryly. "I have repeated her message to you," she said. ' , He regarded her darkly. "Of course." ho blurted out, "you know : everything about thin or this urgument . between my mother and mc?" ' "Merely In a business capacity," she . , affirmed. "Certainly," hp responded stiffly. "But . ; even so, you will acknowledge that this matter should hnvo remained strictly between be-tween the principals?" ; "I have no personal opinion In the mat- i tor." sho said. "I am only a business agent." "In othor words," he retorted almost brusquely. "It is none of vour business is that it?' "That's the worst of it," she smiled: "It is all my business I am Mrs. Hampton's Hamp-ton's secretary." "And my mother sent no message to me?' i "She asked me to say that if you had any business with her you might communicate com-municate with her about It through me." , "And suppose T refuse to do so?" , ! "If that Is what you wish me to say -' to her. I will (ell her." ' i, Hampton bit his lip. He felt iremon- t", dously burly beside the girl. He smoothed his glove, i . . "I will not trou'-fa you fnrthcr." he said. "My mother is well. 1 presume? 1 II ,, nave not scon ner lor inrec months. ; Miss Carroll's eyes dropped their twinkle twin-kle for tho first time during this intor- vlow. "She is not well, as T informed you." she said. "It is all J can do to keep ; hor from becoming entirely despondent." "I hope there is no danger," lie rc- . turned quickly, "of her health going ini-v ini-v 1 der." , , Hush overspread the secrctarv's face. t J.. "The medicine you administer." sho ro-, ro-, : lorted. "is scarcely calculated to build Iter health up." j Hampton gave her a sharp look." , "Do you mean to tell me," he demanded, de-manded, "that my mother blame's me for i i . . er recourse to the polite fiction of 'not . "v feeling well".'" . "There is no fiction In this case." came i tho reply. "Mrs. Hampton has been Ih bod nearly a week she has worried a , great deal." ,! "She never let mc know." .he said. j 'Then she holds me accountable and in--; sisls that I am opposing her?" J "Any form of opposition distresses Mrs. Hampton, ": said tlm secretary, seeming to think she had gone loo far. -"It Is she who is opposing me," Hamp-. Hamp-. ; ton cried. J ' "She loves you.," said the girl. K, "Therefore." ho smiled, "she refuses mc :i happiness." iV "H'to thinks this happiness might be , n secured through other means than those ' .(( you suggest." she said. '.;',( "Sho would oppose iny marriage with , , .! anyone," he rejoined. "She is like so ; ir.'l many other women with onlv sons. As . V ; soon as sho knew I was interested in Miss she put every obstacle In mv wav." ' Wl ..S"? msIs,s "'at you persist In your I j,,.- attentions to the lady because vou know , . that she objects to them." tentatively ob-, ob-, ;i served .Miss Carrol. . "Ves." ho said, ''she calls her a for-b for-b j : lunc-hunter " Ho checked himself. "I ' .Tn should not speak to you like this. T forget thai, you wish to regard yourself merely as my mothcr'n secretary. As to tho rest of It, 1 am glad that my mother Is not alone. 1 bclluve yon enmc to her shortly after I left the houso your notes are so dated." "The following weeic." sho said. "I wo.? here for the I'nlvcrslty Extension course. I am taking up psychology. I am greatly interested In the action of one will upon another. It Is n smattering way of getting knowledge but I am learning learn-ing a little every day. An I say. J was In the city. I called on Mrs. Hampton, nnd ns I wished to do a little living on Iwcauso I refused any longer to ho treat- cd llko a child and be told what J should and should not do. she throws the responsibility re-sponsibility of her illness upon mc." For a week ho heard nothing Troin his mother. Hnrassejl. nnd fearing that tho illness was serious, he on day went to the house. As luck would hnvo It. Miss Carroll was just Issuing forth. "Mrs. Hampton will bo pleased to know that you came to inquire so soon again," sho told him In her formal manner, and I added lliat tho invalid was Improved, "And did you." he asked, "deliver mv message.' that 1 took her Illness as the roa- I Do Not Wish to Stay Here Any Longer." my own account, sho asked me to stay as her secretary, to look after her bills, write her notes and the llko. Js there anything1 I may sav to her for you?" He look this as tantamount to a dismissal. dis-missal. "I regret that she is not well." lie said, "and J accept her physical condition condi-tion as hor reason for not seeing me." Miss Carroll lowcd, and .he lert the house. During this time of suspension his visits vis-its to Beatrice were scarcely cheerful. The lady plainly showed that she did not relish tin' position In which she was placed that of a woman who could not marry until tho mother of her fiance gave her consent. , He Informed Beatrice that his mother was ill. She vouchsafed a perfunctory "i'es?" and spoke of something else. It hurt him; his mother had hitherto had all his love and duty and never he-fore he-fore according to his recollection had she been sicje. "While he told himself that she could blame hcrsflf for that illness, yet something hinted to.hlni that he was not entirely Irresponsible. The next day. however, he wont to the house to inquire as to his mother's condition. con-dition. Me had intended to go no farther than the door, but when Perkins facfd him he felt that even the butler's look would reproach him if he did not go Inside. In-side. Miss Carroll entereiJ the hall from another an-other part of tho house as he stepped in from the vestibule. In answer to his query she said that there wns no good news. "Vou do not mean to say that she is 111?" he asked. "Certainly not." she rolurncd crisplv. "She Is not happy, and from all I can gather she Is not used to unhappiness." "Xo." he said witli bitterness. "She Is accustomed to having her own way. And son that she could not soc me the other day?" "Oh, yes," she answered. "And she said?" lie queried. "Really." she said. "I do not sec whv I should tell you what sho said. That was for me, not for you It "was not said In a business sense." "I take It." ho retorted, "that It was not complimentary to me." "It was equally uncomplimentary to herself." she replied "if you tuko it that way," "T wish you would tell mc what it was." he persisted. "Mr. Hampton." she said, puckering hor brows. "I wish 1 might be left out of all this. I do not see why you should tnJco it or granted that L have anv Interest In-terest in it. J presume a mother has the right to call her son a donkev. but tho reflex action of the accusation Is not complimentary to the mother herself." "Was she laughing at him? Ho looked down at her. Her faco was soft plnlc. and eyos directed straight in front of her. "I feel that I am a donkey," he said. "Hut everything seems to bo so con-Tuued. con-Tuued. My mother is a great deal to me, and yet she grieves Miss Ash." "Mls3 Ash certainly has cause to feel aggrieved," she assented. lie caught at that. "Thank you," he said, "thank vou.'' She glanced up at him. "Yes," she said. "I express a personal opinion. J never was a socroary before, and 1 am only slowly losing my identity. That Is the way some people make haste slowly." "BcsiUcs. we have known each other a long time," he said. She was tho onlv one In all this miserable affair whb scorned to have any sympathy for him. "When I was "a gawky child " she laughed, "you used to throw mo up In tho air to show me how strong college athlct- les had made you. Sometimes you bumped mo ;Lgnlnst ihmgs." "You remember thoBe. times?" he asked pleased. "Do you." "Quite distinctly," sho answered. '.'My anatomy has not boon so frequently Imperiled Im-periled that I should forgot them." Hampton hail a long think that day, and once or twice he hanged a door. That evening he Informed Miss Ash that he Intended In-tended to go Into business. Sho lauglHid- "What enn a man tlo," she asked, "who has been trained to a life of golf ami yachting"? How In your mother?" Ho told her tluit his mother was better. bet-ter. "You have boon there again?" she asked. "f met hir secretary this morning," he answered. 'Ton did not ti-ll nu- that Mrs. Hampton Hamp-ton employed a secretary." she said. "I think I might be told' a few things now nnd I hen." Hampton sighed desperately. "After I left tho house.", he explnnled. "I suppose ohe had to get some one to look after things I used to attend to for her. She has known tho young lady a Jon:? while, and " "Ob." Bentrico snld ooUlly, "so It la a young Indy7 I suppose you havo known her a iong while, too. What Is sho like?" Ho told her about Polly Cairol, and how he had seen her a couple of times since she haxl been In his mother's cm-ploy. "jnd she sympathizes with you." ho ended. "It Is because sho thinks my position ridiculous lhat I mean to get somolhlng to do." He saw his mistake a.; f-jon as the words had loft his lips. "Arthur," she said "the position Ik ridiculous. We cannot go on like this. Your mother Is txoatlng me abominably. For what does sh take me? Vou should Induce her to rveive mo If you have anv affection for me. People must no longer ngrop with her that I throw imsclf at your bend. -You know lhat Charley Rex was almost engaged to mo khen you In-tf!.-fercI and no. I don't mean to accuse vou or anything mean, I never do. Only. Charley Itox called .on me today, and I could see that h. too sympathizes with me. You should seo your mother, not her secretary, and oxplaln matters to her In no equivocal forms. Write lo hei tonight. Tell her tlial you must see her tomorrow you nwr that much to me." and hor fan broke in her hand. Hampton went to the club and wrote tho letter, and sent It by a messenger. 'Hie following afternoon he went to his mother's house. He was expected, and Instead of ushering hlin into the drawing-room drawing-room Perkins told him that his mother was up in her dressing-room- "You know the way. Mr. Arthur." the old fellow said genially. Hampton went slowly up the scarlet stops. The passage through the house Impressed him It was his old home, everything ev-erything was so familiar and restful after these months of feverish disquietude. The door of his mother's dressing-room was open. A faded faco was directed his way. expectant, wistful. "Arthur!" Ho wont 1o her. holding mil his hand. Instead of tho old pride and haughtiness she was trembling and weak. She drew his head down lo her and kissed him. And lie had come to upbraid her! She seemed to mistake tho expression on his faco for one of shock at the change in her appearance. "Never mind," she said. "I shall soon be well ncaln now. I looh worse than u.sual todav because I have had one of mv battles with Polly Carrol. Ah there Is' a qulck-tompcrcd girl for you! rfhe forced rne to receive yon, she has forced me lo see that you still have a lingering linger-ing feeling for mc She tried to force me to seo some other things," he knew that she referred to Beatrice. 1 "At any rate, she has forced mo to see that 1 was wrong In bringing you up as T have done, and says that 1 ought to thank providence that you have not gone to the dogs with such a training. My lawyers were with mo this morning: they agree that you . are not too old to read Jaw If you cam to do so. As it is. L will allow you three thousand a year." "And Miss Carrol is responsible for this?" he demanded. "All except the amount of your allowance." allow-ance." answered his mother. "She refused re-fused to discuss that sho said it was none of her business. But you arc not to live at homo again. Polly has made, mc see that 1 must not expect that until 1 receive Miss Ash." "Which vou will do?" he took her up. "That is why I am here today." She shook her head. "You must not expect too much at once." sho told him. "I take hack nny unkind remarks 1 may havo made derogative deroga-tive to tho young lady, but you must not ask everything at once." " nd so." lie retorted. "I have to thank Miss Carrol for aH that has come about?" He laughed. He went to Beatrice. Naturally, he did not refer to the secretary s part in the now arrangement. "You to read law'." laughed Beatrice. "Nonsense. 1 will not havo It there Is no necessity for you to act like a poor woman's son and work every day for vour living. And three thousand a year? "What will that do? You must sec your mother again and havo the amount doubled, at least." "I will do nothing of the sort, he replied. re-plied. "You do not know my mother, and what these concessions have cost her pride. Besides. I am not a beggar. "I fear." she said, "this might degenerate degen-erate Into a vulgar quarrel if we keep on. Suppose you leave mc now ajid think It over." Vfn did so. But ho concluded that his mother had given in sufficiently, and that be coidd not debase himself by making mak-ing undue demands upon her gener-OHlty. gener-OHlty. In the evening ho told Miss Ash as much. She slipped a hoop of brilliants from her finger. "Yon do not mean It?" ho said. She held the hoop toward him. "No," he said. "1 will not take It. 1 will ask you what you asked me to do this morning I will leave you and let you think It over." He went tn the club. The first man he saw there wns Charley Ucs. Hr been very much tried. Perhaps, she added, ad-ded, thoughtfully, "it hi an well that you do not soo your mother today. Come tomorrow." to-morrow." , ., , "lTos." ho replied, "maybe that would be better." ... , . Toward evening he took tho packet containing the ring and went onco more to Uoal rice's house. This timo she saw him. "1 I'ancv," she said, "mat Miss Carrol has told you that I would sec you. ' "Miss Carrol!" he repeated, lost. "Do vou mean to toll m.M Beatrice de-manded. de-manded. "that you have noL seen her? ''I Was Never So Insulted iu My Life Before." thought ho detected a covert smile on tho man'a faro. Rex knew whv he had not ratified his engagement with Beatrice. Bea-trice. Had it boon because Rex had opposed op-posed him that he h.-ul determined to win Doairlce? Had It been that, as much as the opposition of his mother? in iho morning, after a sleepless night, he went to Beatrice's homo, onlv to receive re-ceive a message that she could 'not sec him. At that, in opposition to her expressed ex-pressed wish, ho went lo his mother's lawyers, and mjde arrangements for his reading law. He felt guilty that he did not feel unhappy over Beatrice's treatment treat-ment of him. Ho turned his steps in the direction of his mother's house. But when he had prcsse1 tho button at the door ho -wondered If he ought not to go to Beatrice nnd express at least polite sorrow at her decision. But Perkins opened the door and he asked for Miss Carrol ought h to disturb his mother first of all with hLs news? and passed Jnto tho drawing room. "What havo you been vdoing to yourself.-" were Miss Carrol's first words, when sho renched him. "I. have taken to tho law." ho laughed, and told her of his determination to read. "It will be of service to vour mother's estate." she said, unlntereslcdly, "to havo you grounded in the lav,-." He was standing directly under hl portrait on the wall. Sho looked from the portrait to him. "I remember you like that " sho be- ban. and then stopped. ""Whv did" vou ask for mc?" she burst out. angrily "You knew your mother would be glad to see you." "My mother would bo sure to find out the truth." he returned "that Miss Ash has broken with he." She gave a little gasp and seemed to shrink away from him. Tiicn she called herself to order and ho told her the story. "Sho hnd much to irritate her." she said at tho end of the narration "What between you and your mothor, she has "I saw her tliis morning," he answered, "certainly." "Yes." sho retorted, "you -went to her as soou as you could after receiving vour ling. You told everything. When you left It appears that she had an interview inter-view with your mother, who Is good enough to say that she will double the Income which nho has promised you apparently ap-parently because you informed Miss Carrol Car-rol that I hod suggested such an increase. Armed with this fortifying Intelligence the youn.g lady called on me. For so" level-headed a girl as sho seems to he. this was rather Idiotic. Think of it! I never was 50 insulted in all my life before, be-fore, T will never wear your ring again. And now I must ond this Interview .Mr. R:x is in tho library, and ha3 been left alone too long as it Is." He was ashamed, bitterly ashamed, of the way things had turned out. Still, there was ono woman who would not sec him as tho other two women did. and It was tho woman he had treated the worst of all his mothor. Miss Carrol was In tho dressing room with her employer -when he got there. ".Mother." he said, "if you'll have me. 1 shall live here now." Then he hold up the ring. "I have just come rrom Beatrice." Beat-rice." Tho secretary glided from the room. Sho knew that he stayed with his mother for hours. She waifed till she heard them separate for tho night. Then she went down to hor mother's old school friend. . ,,m,e;onK" home." sho said rapldlv. mm 11 9 l, vnsh to sUl hcr0 anv longer!" I he older woman regarded her fixedly. Is it because you love him, roily?" she asked, gently. ...VI7oLdrirc yo.l,:" Mfss Carrol cried out. How dare you! You have not been fair with me. In my conceit. I thought vou gave in to mc. You knew what I was studs Ing. and my interest In the action of one will upon another. Then I thought .M.,iy2U hi.soi,i 1 ,U fmmo ''onnection .iiid a like idea led me lo wish to see Miss Ash. who I thought must be a1 good subjectshe had conmu 1 your son no erfectimlly t. 6?4 you went plnrhiff against v?11-vaj( v?11-vaj( not itinri." sl Ml; "Well?" calmly ld the oft, 3 "1 meant only for hl v' the girl. "It a all h.be"' Htupid psychology studW1 I have only contempt for . "Stop!" said Mrs. IlV7 In your studies wemSj oddls'. lu as PoII''n spirit rose 1 "You are quite mlstab.. .. v with splrll. "I havS bS'nC ' tim of psychology alone-l 11 Ull. IHU' "I urn very fond of vam . ,?J old lady, quite, gently, "r duty to tell you how JN want you to have the S Art hor For 1 give vo,"1 honor that he shall nevm-1 of this through me." 0r "1 am going home." vi "Now that tho Extens'CS over, there Is no reason J$ remain. I am going hom" & were pink nnd her eyes"?! Hampton, forgetting' n U.F had for his mother, return? at this moment. Mrt?.!4!'-; a catch in her voice, bad good night and walked waiT vi the room with her head In "Before I came In." j I henr her say something ,1 home.' H W "Certainly not," repllt hlJ "she Is not going home-i S2Lj all iheno years not to know!! has these little IrrlUbCS! her psychology .She js not scientist. Now. dear. I wfl5lt .ill that Is unpleasant hSllJ to think only of a LTwfa here and let mc hold your haW$ to mo about tho law. Lm'fc-tlmes Lm'fc-tlmes to sit like this'-' k lk ITamnton sat down and mntC mother; hand. II0 UI&Ffffc a man's life and a man's Ji nod of using the ahllUy on? refusing to accept the flat nVf! mailo a man an Idler, w 52 should refuse to allow fato tn a beggar or a slave. Anil, other, at the same time h ia? Ing if his mother would m nhg Polly Carrol from go tig tho Extension lectures5 S hoped so. BiJ "Because," he said In nnwS1 mothor. -who asked hlm whriS thoughtful. 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