T. Tembarom

r three days, and she did not wonder at them. Also she knew that if she merely sat still and listened as she sewed, she would be doing exactly what her mother would have done and what her father wo

ke with his broadest Manchester accent, and threw in now and then a word or so of Lancashire dialect to add roughness and strength, the angrier a Manchester man being,

' an' boastin' about their sharpness an' their open-'andedness. 'Go to 'Merica,' folks'll tell

r mother's had been,-"now, Father, love, don't work you

r a millionaire. He's pushed here an scuffled there, an' told this chap can't see him, an' that chap isn't interested, an' he must wait his chance to catch this on

his head on them. Her mother never allowed this. Her idea was that women were made to tide over such moments for the weaker sex. Far had it been from the mind of Mrs. Hutchinson to call it weaker. "But there's times, Ann, when just for a bit they're just like childr

r. She began to run her fingers caress

gland, at any rate, aren't we? And grandmother will be so glad t

o it." He quoted again with derisive scorn: "'You go to 'Merica. 'Merica's

rubbing the grizz

t'll be in the country, with the primroses in bloom and the young lambs in the fields." The caressing hand

ed his head and

th you just like your poor mother had. You always say the right thing to he

appliance his inspiration would supply. She knew it had something important to do with locomotive engines, and she knew that if railroad magnates would

must never let your father do. You must never let him begin not to believe in his invention. Your father's a clever man,

fully. He had heard this before, bu

he found vague comfort i

r. It was the very d

"And she had a good head of her own. Eh, she was a wonderful woman, she was, for stic

ays said you knew yours. Come and sit in y

e worst currents without

; and there's that Tembarom chap. He knows his. I've been noticing that chap." There was a certain pleasure in usin

's got a way," Little Ann

e made me sick wi' the way he pottered an' played the fool about the invention. He believed in it right enough, but he hadn't the courage of a mouse. He wasn't goin' to be the first one to risk his money. H

" said Little Ann, "and then the others will be sorry. Mr. Tembaro

nson c

e invention. I've talked it over with him, because I've wanted to talk, and

s a good dea

a fat lot. He tells you what you'll like to hear, and he's not sly; but he can ke

r came fro

Perhaps he's Lancashire. He had a lot of g

ted herself, wearing a novel expression on her face. It w

ueer man. He picked him up ill in the street. He wants me to let him stay with him for the night, anyhow. I don't t

ands and his paper on his knee, "I'm not going t

ed. "There's something pitiful about him, he s

send him to the hospita

t clings to Mr. Tembarom sort of awful, as if he thinks he'll save his life. But that isn't

son, bounding to his fe

xclaimed

lars in bills spread out on the table in the dining-room this minute. He had it in a belt pocket, and

into bed, and drink some hot spirits and water fi

ot up, newsp

n and have a look at that

ened, perhaps-" Li

nervous it'd make him worse to see anothe

ily, and Mrs. Bowse and Little A

Mrs. Bowse, "it's so queer. But h

e, his disordered, black-haired head on his arm. He looked like an exhausted thing. Tembarom was sitting by him, and was talking in an encouragin

ladies," s

d stood upright, waiting. It was the involuntary, mechan

inson down with her. Miss Hutchinson always knows wh

bewildered eyes fixed t

It's very kind of you.

im and smiled her mo

if you're not careful. Mrs. Bowse thinks you ought

me since I was in b

rhaps the cessation of action in certain cells of his brain had increased action in others. He looked as though he

o her. He was a tall man,

he asked anxiously.

p, and the soft, absorbed kindness in her eyes might, Tembarom th

you again. Let Mr. Tembarom take you up-stairs to bed. You'll be better in the morning.

ugh," she said.

her hand and then

help me. I don't know what'

bit. It'll all come right

ing to see him in his bewildered misery try to pull himself together, and bite his shaking lips a

" Mrs. Bowse was saying half as

the floor," said Tembarom. "That'll be all ri

the money o

five hundred dollars here. We've counted it to ma

disturbed and made

eep it. Some one took the rest.

out of his mind," Mrs. B

on occurred to him,-"I guess maybe Miss Hutchinson will keep it.

se his board every week. Yes, I'll take it. Now he must go to bed. It's a comfortable little room,

an, still keeping his yearn

chill out of him, and when, by lying on his pillow and gazing at the shakedown on the floor as long as he

ls in her hands. It was a roll of such size that Hutchins

. "What are you going to do with

sked me to take care of it. I'm going to put it