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Vanderpool remarked to Zora as Zora was combing her hair on the Wednesday after election. Zora murmured an indistinct response.
Perhaps they, too, are searching for the Way," and the tears blinded her eyes. Mrs. Vanderpool lay in the quiet darkened room with a puzzled smile on her lips. A month ago she had not dreamed that human interest in anybody would take so strong a hold upon her as her liking for Zora had done. She was a woman of unusual personal charm, but her own interest and affections were seldom stirred.
"I wonder what I shall make out of her?" queried Mrs. Vanderpool. "Do you know, I believe I could mould her into a lady if she were not black." Mary Cresswell laughed. "With that hair?" "It has artistic possibilities. You should have seen my hair-dresser's face when I told her to do it up. Her face and Zora's were a pantomime for the gods. Yet it was done.
The girl did not shrink, but she paused. "Yes," she said slowly, "we must help him." "And after he rises " "He will marry." "Whom?" "The woman he loves," returned Zora, quietly. "Yes that is best," sighed Mrs. Vanderpool. "But how shall we help him?" "Make him Treasurer of the United States without sacrificing his manhood or betraying his people." "I can do that," said Mrs. Vanderpool slowly.
It was not simply the unpleasant things that kept happening, but the continued apprehension of unknown possibilities. Then, too, she began to realize that she had had nothing to eat. Travelling with Mrs. Vanderpool there was always a dainty lunch to be had at call. She did not expect this, but she asked the porter: "Do you know where I can get a lunch?"
Vanderpool, a little surprised at the turn. Then she added pleasantly: "I think I shall see it through, from speech to ball." "Yes, I do usually," Miss Wynn asserted, adjusting her furs. Mrs. Vanderpool was further surprised. Did colored people attend the ball? "We sorely need a national ball-room," she said. "Isn't the census building wretched?" "I do not know," smiled Miss Wynn.
"Why not? provided, of course, they were well, gentlefolk and associated accordingly." "But one must associate with one's pupils." "Oh, certainly, certainly; just as one must associate with one's maids and chauffeurs and dressmakers cordially and kindly, but with a difference." "But but, dear Mrs. Vanderpool, you wouldn't want your children trained that way, would you?" "Certainly not, my dear.
"No five years is not long; it is all too short." "Five years: it is very long; but there is a great deal to learn. Must I study five years?" Mrs. Vanderpool threw back her head. "Zora, I am selfish I know, but five years truly is none too long. Then, too, Zora, we have work to do in that time." "What?" "There is Alwyn's career," and Mrs. Vanderpool looked into Zora's eyes.
Cresswell subscribed to a clipping-bureau and tasted the sweets of dawning notoriety, and Mrs. Cresswell arranged a select dinner-party which included a cabinet officer, a foreign ambassador, two millionaires, and the leading Southern Congressmen. The talk came around to the failure of the Senate to confirm Mr. Vanderpool, and it was generally assumed that the President would not force the issue.
Then he awoke to the lighted church and the moving, well-dressed throng. The hand on his arm was not so small; but it was well-gloved, and somehow the fancy struck him that it was a cold hand and not always sympathetic in its touch. Twenty-three "I did not know the world was so large," remarked Zora as she and Mrs. Vanderpool flew east and northward on the New York-New Orleans limited.
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