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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 13 Dec 1923, p. 8

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• T -Sy JANET A. FAOBJUtt Cufi^ttrTheBcbtg-MwrfflCh. "DO YOU LOVC HI Ml" ITNOPSIS--Returning- to h«r imt in » small town, MUton inter, from a visit to New York, the widowed mother of ten-yearold Ann Byrne announces her wedding to Hudson Cortlandt, socially and politically prominent. Her husband has not been told about Ann, and the new wife fears he will be displeased. With Ann, Mrs. Cortlandt returns to New York, to the house of Hendricks Cortlandt. her husband's brother, with whom the latter is living. Hudson practically refuses to have anything to do with Ann, and the child is gladly adopted by Hendricks Cortlandt. Ann's mother and stepfather are lost at sea. Ann fills a gap in Hendricks Cortlandt's lonely heart. The situation is resented by Mrs. R«nneslyer, Hendricks' sister, whose son, Hendricks, has been looked upon as the natural heir of the Cortlandt wealth. The Civil war breaks out. CHAPTER IV--Continued. A nubbub of exclamation arose •boat him. Young men dropped their (dinging partners, and drew together, frowning nervously. , : » Ann looked at Hendricks with a new ifespect. "Oh," She cried, Iwere •toly a boy!" f "Yes," he said importantly, "I shall flght, of course." As he spoke he took In, for the first time, her new maturity, ' «nd his face dropped. Of all the Strange events of this curiously unreal Evening, the change In Ann was perfcaps the strangest; there was something about her that awoke his sluggish spirit, something beyond his Whispered comment to Fanny, "Why-- Ann's grown pretty!" In the crowded, overheated room, with its drooping hothouse roses and Its flaring lights, a new sentiment was suddenly diffused. A little group of men burst from the supper room, Mr. Bennesiyer in the lead, flushed of face •nd noisily threatening; they were louder than any in their resentment. Ann pressed through the crowd to where the musicians stood Idle, their Instruments dangling in their hands; She whispered a direction to the leader and suddenly the opening strains of . "America" rose, insplrlngly, over the -ardent confusion. Here and there a daring v6ice took up the words, but a leader was needed, and the song would have died had not Mr. Renneslyer, who was standing near the musicians. Chanced to turn his roving eye on Ann's •xcited face. Without a moment's thought he caught her up In his arms, ••uad swung her to a chair, where she Stood above the crowd, tremulous and frightened, until the thrill of the mom tnent caught her again; then she laughed down at Mr. Renneslyer's effbrts to lead, aw* began to sing the Words which Mrs. Allen had taught her long ago. Before the aid every one was singing with her, in a great burst of sound that was strangely satisfying to the (motion of the moment. When It was Over she paused, and drooped, suddenly abashed, and there was young Hendricks below her; in his eyes was an expression that bewildered her. He held out both his hands, and she would have Jumped lightly down, only he caught her clumsily in his arms, and Set her carefully on the floor again. Bhe thought that he was trembling. Or was It she who shivered, nervously? "Gad. Anni" he said feelingly. "What a beauty you are!" She looked at him unbelievingly. **1?" she demanded incredulously. Her amazed face was distinctly provocative. There had been a sudden sweep of guests toward the door, and in the corner where the nfusiclans had played the two were momentarily alone. The boy was breathing unevenly and hard, as though he were quite carried away by the extraordinary events of the evening. He reached out suddenly, and drew his companion be* hind the window curtains; meeting no' opposition from the startled girt, he bent and kissed her. ; ning. he was sorry he had left Oam- : bridge and Its sate remoteness, He : wondered, aa he lay blinking at the dazzle of the sunlight reflected from the bowl of water on his washstand to the white celling above him, if Ann would tell his uncle that he had kissed her. And war I The thought came harshly athwart his softer recollections, and abruptly he Jumped out of bed. He knew that his mother would expect him to accompany her to church, and he dressed with some expedition. There was a great crowd at church; people looked very solemn, Hendricks thdught, and they Joined in the service with an extraordinary fervor. Behind him Ann's voice rang distinct and clear in the hymn, and reminded him, first of her song the night before, and then of some revival meetings long ago. He began to dislike her again, under the force of this reminiscence, and he had lost himself In wonder at his behavior at the ball,-" when the minister gave out the text of the sermon. "Matthew tea, thirty-four--"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword'!" Hendricks Jumped in his seat, and a flutter of nervous movement agitated the congregation. "1 came not to send^eace, but a sword." Up above him the minister stood, white-robed find remote, speaking in a deep voice that reached some far place in his soul, 4nd tortured It.. "My brethren, this is no ordinary Sabbath; foday Is a momentous one in the history of our nation. Fort Sumter has fallen." Every one Inside the church already knew of that appalling fact, but in spite of that, a suppressed outburst of emotional sounds arose. H$»<lHcks frovsed. He' hated this atmosphere of hysteria; he didn't think much of the way the minister was talking, extemporaneously, without his usual sedate notes. . . . Nevertheless, he couldn't help listening. '. . . As a matter of fact, he couldn't remember ever listening like that In church before. . . . The old boy evidently believed there would be a war, all rigfat He would just as soon go to fight, he thought, but be didn't hold with stirring up a fellow like this. . : . He supposed Ann was .in a great state over it.-being only a silly girt. . . . At last It was over. The boy breathed deep in his relief. He turned half round, and met with Ann's eyes; they were blazing with excitement, but at the same time there was something humid about them, and he swung back reluctantly. She was pretty, he Hallzed, above the tumult of his sensations. Outside, he found his ancle waiting for him. "I won't talfe yon home with me today, my boy. Your mother will want you." Ann did not look at him at all. She stood demurely beside her guardian, tense and remote. She gave the- young man only her profile, but he found her irregular little nose charming. He was very gloonty as he dutifully accompanied his parents home, for the giddy sweep of his emotions had Ijft him rather cross. In the morning he amazed his mother by coming down to breakfast before nine o'clock--he who ordinarily slept until noon, when the tyranny of chapel at eight was removed from bis life. "Where are you ofT to so early?" she asked. MI thought I would go over to Uncle Hendricks',"-the boy said, flushing.' He dumbly resented his mother's penetrating gaze. "What did you think of Ann?" Hendricks lifted his cup, drank hastily of the too-hot coffee, and said, "She's pretty." Mrs. Renneslyer nodded. "She Is all of that. . . . Your uncle Is devoted to her, Hendricks." She looked rather sharply at him, as she continued, "There is no use shutting otir eyes to the fact that he adores her. We Shall •V" - •Cc V |-v mr life'" V,' * CHAPTER V • A Promise. . * At seventeen the loss of a night's ;leep is a comparatively unimportant # matter, and no one would have known, the morning after her birthday party, - that Ann had not been plunged In dreamless slumber. Instead of that, however, she lay wide-eyed in the dark, the music of "America" running through, her head', accompanying her rioting thoughts. From the tangle of them one astonishing fact arose clear: u man had called her beautiful. She would not frankly face the fact that she had been kissed, and net for worlds would she have admitted to £ - herself why she lay with her hand against her cheek. She determinedly tried to think of ^ the momentous fact that Fort Sumter w bad been captured, but instead she i* found herself recalling the expression on young Hendricks' face when be £ said that she had grown to be a ; beauty. Over the trees In Washington v square the dawn soared up on rose and silver wings, but Ann found that by p, closing her own eyes she could see ^ Hendricks' quite plainly, with their Intent and troubling expression. In the meantime, the young man 5 feimself had not * been enjoying his usual complacent peace. It is true that his sleep fras not Interrupted, for Hendricks was not the sort of person to be kept awake by mere emotions, spd the Sunday morning church bells loosed him about ten o'clock. He swoke with the consciousness that Something was wrong, and as he ressffsd the climax of Ids eventful eve- As be crossed from Union square to his uncle's house he fonnd the city Ib a tumult; now that he had grown accustomed to the idea of the fall of Fort Sumter he thought that It was rather silly to be so excited, and he wondered at his own exhilaration on hearing the news. He bought a paper from a boy who was Felling them as fast as he could deal them out; in the headliness he read that the president had Issued a call for seventy-five thousand men to enlist in the army. "D--d nonsense!" he said to a man who also paused to buy. The Mew York police could do 'em up! That man Lincoln is scared." "Scared?" echoed the stranger jiugilisti dally.v "I reckon, Btlb, he's ibore'n likely to be mad!" Hendricks walked on, with an affectation of a great and superior calm. "Bub" indeed--and only that morning he had cut himself while' sharing! Ib Washington square he found Ann pouring her guardian's coffee; she handled the big silver urn with a stately little air that impressed him. He looked furtively at her, in her bright green taffeta dress, with a black velvet Greek key pattern on the enormous skirt, and he saw, with a distinct shock, that she was still charming. Unconsciously he bad been counting on her returning to her old days of gawky girlhood, and he was unable to cope with this fresh beauty In the morning sunlight. Mr. Cortlandt smiled across the table at his ward. "You may tell him, Ann," he said. The girl kindled immediately. "What do you think uncle has done?" she demanded. "I don't know,"- the boy answered sulkily. He was * cross because she would not look at him. She flung an announcement at him with the suddenness of a bomb. "He has found you a place In the Seventh regiment!" she cried triumphantly. "Ann made me do It," Mr. Cortlandt said, laughing. "I had to send a note over to my friend "the colonel before I was dressed!" \ "Think of it, Hendricks--you can fight!" the girl cried. /'Oh--I wish I were a man!" /--- ^ Her gtiardian r smiled. "H^ndrfcks will fight for you, my-dear." J • For the first time that mofhlng Ann looked full at the uncomfortable young man. His enthusiasm grew under her eager eyes. "How long before we can start?" he asked his uncle. Mr. Cortlandt frowned • impatiently. "I am afraid that it will take four or five days." "Oh," • Hendricks said, crestfallen, "the war will be all over in a week!" His uncle rose. "We shall hope so," he said dully, and added, "Come with me, Hendricks. I wish to talk with you." • The young man followed him miserably, with reviving fears. He lifted a nervous eyebrow at Ann, on his way to the door, but she Was apparently Interested only in the contents of *ber coffee cup, and he. left her unreprieved. In the library Mr. Cortlandt faced him with considerable sternness. "I am not satisfied with you, my boy," he said. Hendricks* faee lengthened. "Bat," he stammered, don't know what you mean." "Your work at Harvard has been poor," bis uncle went on. MYou have wasted your time at college, and I am not sorry to have you leave. A campaign will harden you, I hope. . . . You must do me credit, Hendricks. Thirty-five years ago I was an officer In the Seventh." "Oh," murmured Hendricks, vastly relieved, "I'll do that, of course, sir." "And when the war Is over--soon, please God--I want you to understand that you are to come back here to New York, and go to work. Yon have your own way to make." Hendrlckif magnificent little 'air shriveled. "You expect to do nothing for me, sir?" he managed to inquire. "Well--I won't say nothing. . . • Ann Is to have the bulk of my fortune, of course." "Mother said so," the boy blurted out "In that case, my slater has shown her customary acumen. She will not be disappointed." V "Oh, yes, she will," young Hendricks exclaimed. "It Is one thing to suspect, --and quite another to know!" He made his way gloomily out of the rtSmjib find himself actually cut offiwas catastrophic. He stood for a moment In the hall, trying to adjust himself, and to recall what It was that hl« mother had said to him a* breakfast, in regard to this calamity. She had appeared to have in mind some panacea that was not clear to her son. Suddenly, as he stood frowning, Ann appeared on the stairs above him. She Hendricks Renneslyi** Walked Home With His Head In a Whirl. leaned confidingly down from the landing. "Uncle scold you?" die demanded, smiling demurely. "No," Hendricks fcald shortly, as he glanced about for his hat. ~ Ann sidled down a step or two, sliding her hand along the stair rail. "You'll have to get your uniform," she Btiggested brightly, "and all that." "I suppose so." She looked at him with eyes' that were starry with fier new appreciation, and she came down the last remaining steps in a little rush. "Imagine It--a uniform and everything. You will sleep in a blanket, Hendricks. I Just wish I had the chance to!" Young Hendricks was conventionally shocked. "A girl!" he protested. • "It Is not my fault that I'm not a boy. I am sare I wish I were!" A sudden consciousness of his manhood rose in Hendricks. "I am glad you are not," he said stoutly, And caught her hand in his. Ann stood arrested; In her perfect stillness there was the threat of one poised for (tight. "You shouldn't!" she gasped, her glance holding his. "Why not? You are the prettiest girl I know." Her lips drooped, and In her eyes were all tlfe sorrows of the world. "I am not, really," she pleaded. It seemed to Hendricks she grieved that he should be so deceived. He slipped a blundering, unaccustomed arm about her waist, and an acrid little shiver ran through the girl; suddenly she turned to him, and buried her face in his shoulder. The boy held her for a moment, half frightened, half cautious; then he bent, and pressed his lips to her hair. She felt his touch and started back; as she lifted her face, he caught It la both his hands, and kissed her coot lips. This time she fought him off valiantly enough, and faced liim furiously, with flashing eyes and uneven breath. He was frightened, as he met her accusing glance. you* Ann," he add<tfp$e«!fti situutjtoe imiBds& somethe nature Of S "Wssllyr she quartsd/ "Bacsn if you are--It's all right I" "Then't am," he assured, her. "4ml--and we are engaged?" demanded, her eyes very wide and innocent, as they searched his. "Why--why--" He was wondering if this had been what his mother had meant "Do you wantfto be engaged to roe?" v "I don't know. , . . I guess so." Be wanted to talk with his mother. He was sure that she jnuststtgpnve ot what he was doing. "Weil, then,* he said condescendingly, "we will be." "It doesn't seem right---so quick like this," Ann protested. MI thought It took a long time to get engaged." "Oh," reassured the boy, "It is always quick, when a woman llk«e' a fellow." He swaggered pardonably. "We had better not tell any one until I get back." 'A secret engagement! . . . I should like to tell Fanny, though." - "Better not," he hinted darkly. "Why?" "Well, I don't want to seem conceited, but I do think she likes me quite a lot." "Oh," exclaimed Ann, "that Is romantic, too!" And In her voice there was envy of Fanny, and her unrequited passion. Hendricks Renneslyer walked home with his head in a whirl. He had left college, and was going to war, he was disinherited, and he had engaged himself to be married. He felt that he hatj.put In a full morning's work, look It as he would. Times That Are Tremendous "Fort Sumter Has Fallen.* Just have to meet it. . . . If She gets It all she will be a great catch. There will be plenty of suitors-- when people see how devstfld your uncle Is to her." "I suppose sot" * * S Mrs. Renneslyer allowed felftrigbn to eat In peace for a moment. Then she shot a question unexpectedly across the table at him. "Do you her, Hendricks?" The young man ftushed again. "She Is pretty," he said, appraisingly. "And she is a bit soft on me, I don't telling you." "Well," she said crisply, "worse things than that could happen to you!" And with these mystifying words she allowed him to escsyfc " A I. • Views of Those of the Present Age May properly Be Said to Belong to the SuperthinkefS. That we live In an age that for sheer tremendousness ond dynamic crash has never been seen before is very evident, observes the Boston Evening Transcript. When we go to war nowadays we are shabby if we do not put half a dozen million men into action and our transatlantic liners are skyscrapers on keels. And when it comes to expression and description naught bat superlatives will content. It Is the public that gets the benefit of these last, and Is told what to eat and drink and wear, and, above all, to read, in terms that for striking magnificence are as a Persian rug to a potato sack. Thus, for instance. Is the outpouring of one periodical in which you arte urged to read It, as inducement, you are almost commanded to read one beautiful tale that you may behold "life as red and real as ever lived" Aside from the objection of precisians that the imagery reminds disturbingly of rare beefsteak, even uncooked, a generous public will not fail to be attracted by this appeal. Looking upon life when it is red anc! real is something which must stir the blood of any but a hopeless misanthrope, a mugwump of the emotions, a confirmed highbrow. But the reader is warned In this notice that rugged and tempestuous ways Prt feeling are before htm, and is plainly told that if he lose control of himself he most distinctly must not blame anybody but the author. "It may be that you can follow this strange pair and restrain the cheers; you may not be as successful with the tears," says the notice; and we call this very handsome. Possibly, on your way home to mother and the girls on the f> :47 you may be able to keep from standing <on the seat and delighting the other passengers with "Several ringing cheers. Possibly. But the probabilities are more than good that other passages in the story will make you weep copiously, and If you are unhappily a little self-conscious you had best leave the story alone. If you do not you will he melted In tears, and let the public think what it likes. We have this In literature and we are equally endowed with the drama, for in a city near to~ Boston a large streamer describes a film play, as a "super drama of flesh and steel," which we think a deal pleasanter than the harsh Bismarck's "Biut and Risen,' although there is the same suggestion of meat in this as in the literary announcement. But no matter : the su perlative is with us, and it Is a gigantic age wherein the dimensions are thoae of the spheres and the conceptions those of the superthlnker. View of Sleep by Frenegi Sclsqtiet Women sleep more ligbtiy and require less Sleep than men, according to a Trench scientist--Indianapolis Man Mr. Cortlandt was standing at the window of his library, looking out into the faintly misted green of Washington square. His upright figure was drooping; he looked old and discouraged. "What is ItT' Aon cried from the threshold. "Has there been a defeat?" Her guardian turned, a Steady melancholy in his deep eyes. "No," he said, "It is not that . Is this true--what my sister tells me?" "What?" "That you are engaged--and to young Hendricks?" "Yes, uncle." She crossed the room to him with lagging feet. "If--I hated to tell yon. ... He wants me to be engaged to him." Engaged? So soott'i And young Hendricks! Why?" Well--he thinks T aim--rather nice." Good lord, of course yon are rather nice! Is that all?" Ann slid her hand into his. "No," she confessed confutoffly. "If you won't laugh, I'll tell you." She put her fresh lips very near his cheek, and murmured, "He thinks I am--pretty i He really does." Mr. Cortlandt took her by her slender shoulders, and looked Into her shamed eyes. "It is my fault," he said heavily. "What Is your fault?" . "You are in love with him for that! Pretty? ... I have brought yon up wrong, Ann. Instead of trying to keep you unspoiled, I should have told you each morning that yon are a beau? tlful creature! I should have protected you in that way." , "Do you mean it, unclej^J Am I really--like that?" "My dear, you really are!**;: She smiled at him radiantly. "Now Imagine!" she paid quaintly. "And I hate been so afraid tfcat Hendricks would wake up!" "Do you love him?" £ ^ "I think so, uncle. . . . He says I do." . "It m6y«*>e years before be cffii-#fford to marry. He must make hty,o^n way." ,*• •, "\.. "There's no hurry," Ann said hastily, and then added sweetly: "Aren't yon a little glad to have me marry Into your family?" Mr. Cortlandt looked deep Into her lifted eyes. "My dear ehild," he said unbelievably, Vmy family isn't good enough for you." And he kissed her smoo|jL jgheek, and sighed^ . f£|jt CHAPTER S! y' Out and In. •£he Seventh regiment volunteered for one month only; In five weeks it was back again In New York. Ann was enormously glad to'see Hendricks, but she had been looking forward so ecstatically to bis return that when he appeared she was possibly a trifle disappointed. In her thoughts she had endowed him with extraneous charm, and looking at him she was conscious of a sudden sinking of her spirit. She made him tell her all about his brief campaign. They spent hours in the high dim library talking of it, and Ann glowed wltb martial excitement. She always thought of Hendricks as a soldier, ready, at the call, to sacrifice his life for his country, and she felt that It was only right for him to have everything he might want, including her, as that was his strange wish. She was extraordinarily supple and unselfish with him in these days, but, while she understood that the Seventh regiment was to be demobilized immediately, she would not frankly face the fact that once her lover was mustered out, he would be -merely a civilian again. When he came In one day. his uniform exchanged for a smartly checked coat and waistcoat and loose snuff-colored trousers, she looked at him aghast, and turned in his arms so that his Hps pressed her hair Instead of her cheek. How queer yon look," She said querulously. "It is good to get oufof that uncomfortable uniform, I can tell you," Hendricks returned Indignantly. "Now you listen to me. I have something to tell you." She looked up eagerly; already the members of the Seventh were volunteering into other regiments and she thought Hendricks was about to announce that he had dons the same thing. "You have re-«alisted already !" She clasped both her hands about his arm and lifted an adoring facei "Don't be silly I lbs president will kaTS stsfcty-av» "fsn--or tbs: dors^Mir of the w«r, |Tou1l aei^ *llfTi>e oter in Th» girl s hand* bleak. indifference "snppi ? bsr fi*e. Hen&rteka'ton* ~ sive as he added, *TS»-:fot a p4Mf§ In a bank--third assfitaiit reamfiftaller-- and I am going to woffc'tifr' inonwy morning. They win pay m* abc^r dollars a month." "WTO they?" Her tone WSS as Onconcerned as a mere strangttfe. "Well, you might take jus Interest, Ami TM la seven twenty dobirfs a year. W hetTFm mifc ing nvthooSand I think ws might bs married." J Ann drew her arm away precipitately. "Oh, married I" she said, aa startled aa though the idea wars en> ^rely new to her. "Plenty of people live on that." "I suppose so. . > ,. I don't know much abotit it, Hendricks, but things Qo seem expensive." "It Is the war," the boy said importantly. "When that is over they'll come down again." But 1 can't think about it with the war still going on! Really, Hendricks, I can't talje an interest -In marrying anybody whjle we are fighting." And this was a fairly accurate description of her state of mind. Her Imagination was entirely caught by the great drama and she had little Interest In self-centered lovemaklng. Late in May the Union army moved on Alexandria, where the Confederate flag flew In plain sight of all Washington, and in the successful occupation, Colonel Ellsworth, the leader of the New York Fire Zouaves, was killed. His death made a great sensation in New York, where he had been a popular figure, and as a result, there was a great rush for enlistment. As soon as the regiments were ready, they were, sent off to Virginia, where the Federal army was advancing slowly, and engaging in Unimportant clashes with the enemy. " The North was eager for victories, and hailed the taking of Fairfax Court- House-as an Important event. Great crowds hung about before the newspaper bulletin boards, . following the movements of the New York troops engaged In the advance; enthusiasm was In the air, and the women at the Sanitary commission redoubled their efforts. Ann scraped so much lint tn a day that she was, herself, amazed. In July, In an engagement at Manassas Junction, there came the first deaih In the war of any one Ann had known. Young Philip Vanderdyken, with whom she had danced at her debut, was shot and buried on the field. This brought the tragic thing close; she was greatly shocked, and for a time she seemed almost to have transferred to him her feeling for her lover. Hendricks and his bookkeeping Seemed incredibly remote. The boy dropped into the Washing1-' ton Square house one hot afternoon when his work was over and fonnd only his cousin Fanny. Mr. Cortlandt's felling*®* VMS hm YfWft very Aiway» "She Knew 1 Was CsHUiif Today.* darkened library was gratifyingly rv freshing, and as he sank into the most comfortable chair, he allowed hlmnrtf the luxury of complaint. "Where Is Ann?" he demanded M* cusingly. Fanny flushed sensitively aa she answered that she did not know. "She knew I was coming today," ha said, darkly irascible. "I can't think where she can be," Fanny murmured sympathetically, again and again. The outer door opened and there was a murmur of a girl's clear voice in greeting. Old Joseph's footsteps receded, but still the culprit did not appear; there was something reluctant in her delay. It i^as a good rainute bsfore her slim figure in wide crinoline was brilliantly outlined against the gloom of the doorway. She was apparently unaware of the disapproval she faced, for she smiled impersonally at the two cousins. "Hello," she said. "Where have yon-been? R la sis o'clock," The Twenty-fourth * Infantrj marched away today," Ann observed impersonally. There was nothing to show that this fact had constituted the proverbial last Straw on die load of her endurance. 'I know," Fanny said placidly, "we had hard work to get their havelocks finished In time. Even Ann worked on them," she added brightly, In as effort to lighten Hendricks' gloom. "I am glad to hear that," liendricka said, in heavy approbation. "You don't know what else I dH* Ann said defiantly. She was sonably irritated at the sight of d ricks' lounging In his uncle's most comfortable chair, lemodbde In Fanny Interposed nervously, .able In the face of a situation that waa becoming strained. , **Yea worked all the morning." B E S T BY T E S T Couldn't Foot Son. "I never smoked when I was your age," said "father. "Will you be able to say that to your son when you grow up?" ' "Not with such a straight face. ss you do, father," replied William. 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