Show man a girl and a cable BY BISHOP HOWARD copyright 1902 fry by dally daily story pub co ca theodore van aldine was a bocky dog at least everybody said so and what everybody saya says Is true according to an old saw but old saws sometimes miss fire in this practical work aday world with its ever changing conditions and truth be told theodore van aldine did not possess halt to keen appreciation of his inherent luck as the great world about him in doted upon true he was the child of 0 wealth true he bad had never known a care true bis his pockets bad had always bulged with money and no wish had been ungratified and right there was the trouble when one can have ones hearts desire at all times and places it palls on one and interest Int orest in life and affairs dies lies out at least it had so proven with van aldine he ile had always been teen fed on the daintiest of fare been clothed in the finest of raiment driven the fastest horses led the cotillion at the swell est balls been favored by the most beautiful maidens mal dens owned the fastest yachts in short had bad bad had the very cream and pick ot the good things of the world but ne was not happy in fact he was distinctly discontented and miserable at 28 he has tasted all there is to life from the standpoint of the sen viallat and the epicure and had found it after all to be a bore he ho was a clean cut rut well equipped joung young fellow was van aldine and born to an humble estate where re he would have been compelled to work out hia his own Eal salvation might have carved out a great career or have been the founder of a great fortune as had bad been hie his paternal grandfather with the dutch blood and thrift but the tates had willed otherwise and he had been born to purple and fine fille linen with a care only to perserver pers per orve serve the family pride and act always the gentleman and this came so natural that no effort was required and the consequence ton sequence was that the boy had rev er been permitted to put forth effort enough to interest him in lr existence and he bad had tired of it all the luxury and the convention conventionalities om alit es and bad had become moody aau ezi discontented even to the point of seriously considering the losing of his identity and enlisting for service in the philippines or for elvire with the boers doers in south af tica ca in this frame ot of mind he flun flung 11 asell onto a cable ca car to get aw away a y id A C j K the child of wealth acm the dilettante life he eo so despised alid tet a little fresh air and motion this was at in the after oon on the tho e rear 1893 fourth day of october in mally conan had been born bom to poverty arid aa arvice 8 b aou thero there was good bak ack it bilut of her no question about in a tho the lt it was the bloch of the patriot c martyr and not that it ta i t the ful ul trader and an and her oney maker father who hab been 4 gentl always elar at the expense of carry inz even life in insure urr nce had died mourned and regretted by hundreds hun dreda of friends and sincerely mourned too and but leaving nothing but the of always having been a good fellow and a gentleman that is 1 nothing excepting a select assortment of debts and a largo large quota of regrets res rots then the mother a trifle more practical as mothers are hut but more inore a lady than tham a manager sincerely loving hur bar husband bad had pined and died and tho the upshot of it all va was as that milly had been left as a very early age to tho the tender mercies of a noa no overly cordial world with no visible assets except I 1 the one girl in all the world tor for him ng a very sensitive nature tho inherent instincts of a ady ad and a healthy appo appetite tite not counting a face of considerable sid erable promise from the standpoint ot of Ile beauty auty a figure and a als disposition position of barn sweetness it was fortunate indeed and very charitable on the part of aunt martha that billys mothers sister having amne nearly blind and being the relict of old grigsby who bad had departed this life ilfe prematurely tat not before he had essly ls sly invested in life lite insurance to the amount of a few thousand dollars felt the he need and necessity of a companion to CU floer her about and selected milly for that important post thus combining charity with business to be sure the post proved exceedingly trying not only enly from the standpoint of physical work aa as may be imagined when the querulous nature of mrs grigsby Is but also because of the exceeding patience and tact required of the young girl in order to get along it at nil all with the relative who more and more as the months relied rolled by strength onel her hallucination that she was cuing an act of exceeding charity in reeding and clothing her niece in payment for work which ahe could not hare hare had dene for ten times what Itt illys keep cost her things being at this pass one day when had reached the age of IS 18 and had stifled all the aspirations that camo to her and settled down to a life flap ump of benumbing service the latter decided to go across the city to make a call and accompanied by her niece boarded a babli ar this was at in the afternoon on the fourth day of october in ha the year 1893 smoking his havana lava na some somewhat want sulkily on the rear seat sent of tho the cable car theodore van aldines attention was attracted by an old woman accod earled pax led by a young girl who boarded the car the woman was querulous and the girl patient and cheerful the borsan was nearly blind and the girl took every pains to see that the she was bade made comfortable for table for which she received only complaints the girl did not show resentment but looked out upon the aun oun shine and smiled stalled at radiant nature and anil such a smile as it wasl was it rivaled the sunshine itself vac var aldino aldine observed her curiously here was a girl tied to a cross and selfish old woman and she seemed to bo be extracting from the fresh air and the sun more enjoyment than ha 11 van aldane millionaire e and son sort of at wealth aai luxury could begin beala to understand what wa it she had that he had n not ot the question made ado him inalle and served to keep his eyes on the girls girt lace face the more he looked ha he more ale interested him the play at color and the panorama 0 ot changing espres slona not only fascinated him hut but gave him some suggestion of the alive intelligence behind the mobile features of 01 a sudden the thought came tc to him my bly god where caong the daughters of wealth and fashion in our set and who are 3 assiduously mailing making themselves agree agreeably ablo Is there one ao so dainty and so Intelli intelligent gentT and where Is one who has the philosophy to carry a load lorld buch such as this girl la Is carrying and do it with a cheerful face the more he the more mote interested he becala while he was galeng at her with gravo grave and intent eyes she turned her eyes shyly that way and their eyes met soa arely ely sho she dropped hers and a slight flush suffused her pale cheeks hardly less soon than sho she dropped her eyes his sought the floor of tho the car and a cloud of embarrassment colored him of course it was ridiculous and he realized it quicker thin than anybody he ile lit a fresh cigar and looked stev steadily dily out of the window dut but he could not forget and in the space of two minutes he had roada mado up his mind that tho the pretty little blue oyed eyed girl 11 carrying her load eo so bravely was the one girl in all the world for him tho the idea stimulated him and gave him a trip grip on interest in life and affairs he had never had since ho he could remember well about all there ere la Is to the story he was too wise and ex perlen perien ced of course to frighten her by any bold moves but ho he took very rood good care and expensive to learn her ier name address and limitations he ile contrived to meet her and become ft millar with all the humiliations of ber ter position then he became indignant and went after the matter in hand with all the force and directness that character iced his paternal grandfather in the up building of his fortune the result wad was that within a month van aldine and milly conan were quietly married much to tho the disgust of vans immediate famal but more to the dismay of old mrs grigsby who never bad had contemplated the possibility of losing her and the strange part of it ie Is that it Is the happiest marriage on record bailly not only made a good wife 1 A model wife from the standpoint of domestic economy but she made the kind of a wife of whom her husband Is proud nearly to the point of worship and strangest 0 of all known 11 11 ll u 11 phenomena from the fourth day y 0 of t october in the year 1893 at about 30 p m or shortly thereafter vrn aldine acquired au an interest in life of which be he never had bai hae a conception before and which he never lost thereafter at least up to the present timo time and van aldines have now beer a married for nearly eight years |