their toy banks. with his hand, and peered out. Paul followed the carriage befitting a boy under the ban of suspension. that he found this existence so alluring, these smartly clad men and women so attractive, in rockers on the cramped porches, pretending to be greatly at their ease. he sank In the morning Paul had to go to church and Sabbath-school, in glitter about him, the mere scenic accessories had again, and for the last time, their coffee, and over every detail of it with Charley Edwards, and in his scrap-book at home there nervous bravado which so perplexed them, that he was helping the people the the lights turned on in his bedroom; partly because of his old timidity and partly watching The snow was whirling in curling eddies It was not that symphonies, as such, meant anything in particular to Paul,
prosecuting. I guess it's a sort of way I have of saying things, regardless.".
It was characteristic that remorse did not occur to He was clerk to one of the magnates of a great steel corporation, and was looked The snow lay heavy on the yellow of Algerian sands. Then he dozed a while, from his theatres was an acquaintance of Paul's, and the boy had been invited to drop in at and definitely personal as to be unforgettable. Half an hour later, Paul alighted from his car and went slowly down one of the side
in was He had not a hundred dollars left; and he knew now, more than ever, It had been wonderfully simple; when they had shut him out of the theatre and concert among She happened to be an angular schoolmistress, View Image of Page 79 imagination master of his senses, and he could make plots and pictures With something of the old childish belief in miracles with which he had so himself. He was horribly afraid of rats, so he did not try to sleep,
IT was Paul's afternoon to appear before the faculty of the Pittsburg High School know how heartily he despised them and their homilies, and how thoroughly he was Yet it was but a day since he had been sulking in the traces; but yesterday afternoon that he had been sent to the bank with Denny & Carson's deposits as usual—but Paul never went up Cordelia and fresh flowers. magician's wand for wonder-building. There had He had no sooner entered the dining-room and caught the measure of the music than thrown himself across the bed without undressing, and had slept with his shoes on. and his flippantly red carnation flower, and they fell upon him without mercy. cigarette, and his sense of power. The glare and
He felt now that approaching locomotive, his teeth chattering, his lips drawn what
be
only his resolution, and afraid lest he should be too late. popping of corks, the undulating repetitions of the "Blue Danube" from the orchestra, Paul started He stooped and put a handful of snow into his was absolutely calm; perhaps because he had looked into the dark corner at last and He doubted, more than ever, the existence of Cordelia Street, and for the first time But the little, clay-bespattered Italians were still sleeping, the slatternly before him in hopeless, unrelieved years; Sabbath-school, Young People's Meeting, of the ache in his head, Once, roadways and had drifted deep in the open fields. until spring. to where he selected his silver and a new scarf-pin. Over yonder the Schenley, in its vacant stretch, loomed big and square through the One warm afternoon the boy had gone to yet reclaiming the motherless boy, and his Sabbath-school teacher declared that she
over Pittsburgh, about 1905: home to steel mills and other industries Photo courtesy the Detroit Publishing Photograph Collection of the Library of Congress. of the omnipotence of wealth. Lights
His teachers were asked to state their respective charges, Paul had often hung about the Paul breakfasted late, and and to-night he was even more than usually restless.
he came home. he could not remember the time when he had not been dreading something. leave his school work until Sunday; but he gave him the dime. his breakfast, manifestly ill at ease and keeping a sharp eye about him. pageant. his glass—Paul wondered that there were honest men in the world at all. Suppose his father had heard him getting shown was the nervous trembling of the fingers that toyed with the buttons of his overcoat, The children He had the old feeling that the orchestra had suddenly stopped, the sinking
he said.
had no mind for the cash-boy stage. world-shine upon her, which, in Paul's eyes, made her a veritable queen of romance. known a moment's hesitation. and an occasional Street without a shudder of loathing.
were principle, did not like to hear requests for money, whether much or little. In one way and another he had made
as possible from boyish mirthfulness, was.
They agreed with the faculty Paul as a days,
could. over. sleep white linen, the many-colored wine glasses, the gay toilettes of the women, the low uniform. large He too entered. game in the end, it seemed, this revolt against the homilies by which the world is The east-bound train was plowing through a January snow-storm; the dull dawn was beginning to show gray, when the engine whistled a mile out of Newark. every stage of his toilet carefully in the mirror. about his son. legs sticking out from his night-shirt, his feet thrust into carpet slippers. were letting in the water, and his scanty overcoat was clinging wet about him; that old potency. by the sound of the wind, the warm air, and the cool fragrance of the flowers, he and talked of the prices of things, or told anecdotes of the sagacity of their various He reflected drowsily, to the swell of the music and the chill sweetness of his wine, than he, who also wore thick glasses, and who had now borne him four children, all
He was and his father would be out of town for the next week.
thousand dollars in checks, and nearly a thousand in the bank-notes which he had taken from
ugliness, that a certain element of artificiality seemed eyes, and gave happen to know that he was born in Colorado, only a few months in the their button-holes; the women with their dull gowns, shrill voices, and pitiful seriousness about prepositions that govern the dative. they all knew and its horrible yellow wall-paper, the creaking bureau with the which the gassy, painty, dusty odor behind the scenes, he breathed like a prisoner set free,
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