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Meantime they did not rescind their instructions to their Paris correspondent, and so for some days to come the young people were reduced to absurd straits for the want of money. After Pussy had gone, with her threat, Adelle burst into tears and accused Archie of not supporting her in this battle. Was she not giving up everything for him? etc.
Men like me won't get married, nor have children to slave for the rich." "What do the girls do?" Adelle asked, thinking of her own fate if she had been left in the Church Street rooming-house. The mason shrugged his shoulders and came out with another brutality. "Some of 'em go into the houses for your men to use there's always that for 'em," he added, with a disagreeable laugh.
"Perhaps I'll blow in what's coming to me in goin' East to see where my folks used to live in Alton." He spoke half in jest, but Adelle replied faintly, "That might be a good idea." "I heard from one of my sisters while I was gone. She's in Philadelphy married to a feller there that works in the carpet mills. I ain't seen her for more 'n ten years might stop in Philadelphy, too."
The tone of the stranger was exactly as if he had asked, "Is that the bundle of clothes we were talking about?" Something was afoot of momentous importance to Adelle, as we shall shortly discover. Fate once more in the person of a feeble Clark was about to play her an unkind trick.
Miss Thompson quickly gathered from his tone and his words that Miss Adelle Clark's expectations were such as to insure her the most careful consideration in every respect, and if Herndon Hall could not provide her with all the advantages to which wealth was entitled, her guardians would quickly remove her from the school.
"I'll do everything I can to make it easy for you to get it soon, and that is why I will go to Alton." The mason rose from the doorstep and walked nervously to and fro in front of the shack. At last he muttered, "Guess I won't say nothin' to the folks about the money until it is all settled it might make 'em kind of anxious." "No, that would be better," Adelle agreed.
Thursday was the day of their appointment with the probate judge. Mrs. Clark, of course, had not forgotten this important fact, but not having yet made up her distracted mind she had purposely ignored the appointment to see what her niece would say. Thus Adelle quietly settled the point: they were to keep the appointment with the judge.
Adelle did not censure him for drinking, not as she had censured Archie, because she felt that he drank in a different spirit, as an outlet for his realization of the sardonic inadequacy of life, not as a mere sensual indulgence. If the keen spirit of the man were satisfied with work, he would never drink at all, she was sure.
It took place in the woods with a lot of folks in armor, but the music was fine, and there was one place where they had a castle upon a big hill, like that where my shack is, way off towards the clouds, and a river down in front going by with women in it swimming," and he described with relish the last act of the "Rheingold-dammerung," which Adelle recognized because she had seen it many times in Europe and been horribly bored by it.
He gave the elegant Miss Thompson to understand clearly that Miss Adelle Clark was to have every advantage that money could buy, not merely music and art as extras, but horses, he even put it in the plural, a groom, and if she wanted it a private maid, which he was told was never permitted.
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