Show we e mak making ing 19 of a man i by HENRY FOSTER s jv jn af copyright by W G chapman steve and ills his wife had talked it over for a long time before the legacy it nr r rived so unexpectedly ironi from ills his uncle harry it was only for but it clinched steves resolution an uneducated man leaving the primary school at twelve to work for ills his mothers support steve was at heart a gentleman but a mans heart counts for very little against a mans manners and steve was not rough for lie he NN was as altogether fineness itself but ill bred ile he would not pass muster except among the laboring class netta was something higher she had worked in a department store where steve was one of the packers pac kera lie ile had come to know her by knocking down a masher who was pestering the girl with ills his attentions and neten natta struck by the kindness of the man gradually came to care for him and they had been married three years there were two babies a girl and a boy and steve was still packing case at 15 a week they had talked over their own and their childrens future so many times and the same blank wall stretched before them there was vas no future already every penny of their little earnings went week by week then came tile the legacy theres no chance for an uneducated man like me steve said the only way for me to make money Is to find it to find it dear asked netta in ili the ground said steve im going to alaska andonetta And Netta dearest oil oh steve stev I 1 cant have you go she sobbed its for little ellen and tom lie he answered answered d weve got to make the sacrifice flee netta she brought herself to ills his viewpoint for the sake of the babies to give them the advantages which dhigh their lather father had never had steve must go lie ile set two years its as the limit of his absence ile he took a hundred dollars and left netta with four hundred that would last her forty weeks with great economy anil and long before that period had elapsed steve would send her some move more so lie he prowl promised sed and so lie performed at the end of six C months steve was making ills fifty weekly in alaska ile he was working in a store but he wrote that lie was keeping ills his eye open for opportunities and at the end of IV 4 11 6 C 4 1 at last he S settled down grimly to making his pile the year he be meant to go out prospecting he for netta two hundred dollars thereafter she got twenty five weekly she little guessed the cheapness of money in alas alaska or what steve was denying himself and gradually she settled down to accustom herself to his absence steve wrote that he was going into the interior and she might not hear bear from him for a while but he was not going into any danger and she was not to worry A letter came two months later inclosing five hundred and announcing that steve had struck a rich claim netta wrote out of the joy of her heart and he answered much later that was the last letter steve received from netta As the months slipped by and none of steves letters were answered he became desperate at last he settled down grimly to making his pile ile he trusted netta and he believed that it if she ehe were dead somebody would have written he did make inquiries about her but people do not trouble to interest themselves on behalf of those who anre distant and nobody answered him when the two years yeara were ended steve saw a fortune within ills his grasp if he remained a third year ile he remained a third and at the end of hint time it was a case of ofa a cool million if he remained a fourth so he stayed a bourth and then bubines went to the logs and it meant a fifth year at the ud ld of the fifth steve sold out tor for three millions and n pair ann went home ile he hail had had little hopes of finding netta in ili alib flat they had occupied and so ho he was spared that disa disappointment p point but the old lold lady who came to the door ran after steve as ho ba turned away aw ay are you mr stephen jackson she bho asked steve jackson yes maam maa iii sold steve 1 I can tell you where your sour witt Is she said she comes here eveaj three months to tell me that it if son boit ever come back here heie slie she has tile tho house bouse nt at chestnut street steve almost whooped with gladness but he only thanked her und and hurried away and in nn an hours time lie was in ili the suburban district find and had found it was a trim little cottage covered with a flowering flower hig vine and steve suddenly found himself too shy to enter and ua as he hung outside the door in an agony of and joy jov two children entered the gate of the little garden they were ellen and toni tom steve knew ills his own adv anywhere where and they were N ere dressed as lie he had never hoped to dress his children where are aie you ou going goings 1 asked the man at the gate were coming from school answered tile the little boy you are aie tom jackson arent you vou Ys yes this Is ellen and ana does docs your 5 our mother live here yes sir A and na your sour father fa fathers Fa theis away but hes coming home soon said the little girl gill mummy prays for foi litin him to come every night and we pray pi ay too steve looked at the house and at the gh children ildren these were ills his everything was its as lie he had dared danied to dream that it would be and yet now lie he was afraid lie ile was afraid that lie he a common man would bring ills his commonness into their lives ile he had been away so long why kli lie he ever eer return in that moment for the first time in spite of what his child had said he had a doubt of netta lie ile wondered whether site had stopped writing to him because of this thib because b aube lie he would drag her hei and lier her children down and he turned miserably away lie ile would go somewhere to think it all over lie he went down the sunny street slinking like a whipped dog wh why had lie he not spent those five years vears in educating himself to make himself worthy thy of lilb ills wife and children steve it was netta she wad standing before him and site threw herself into to ills arms arins steve it Is you dearest netta I 1 ane many doubts dissolved at the sight of her radiant face steve my iny dear liow how I 1 have longed for you vou I 1 I 1 have been working as a stelio grapher and the bables babies you vou must in list see ou ott babies why you brite steve lian she grow more moie coherent ex follow followed pd steves letters had not been received perhaps the mall was lost netta had not known while where to write him all trace of him had been lost when lie hu wont into the interior intel lor nd the letters lie ho had sent to her hei address had not been forward foiw aided many tenants had conle come and gone before the wd old lady whom steve had seen find and the post office does not always remember member ic why were you going away from the house steve asked netta 1 I was ashamed lie he burst out 1 I saw our bables babies netta and I 1 thought god forgive me an uneducated man like me would drag them down jim dear said netta it Is better to be a good man than a learned one but please god you sou are aie going to bo be both jim because I 1 ani am making good money and you vou and I 1 can live as we want to live and study together then he told her about lie he fortune foi tune |