. Ray Burton : a Chicago tale. father, who had an extensive prospects, therefore, were somewhat betterthan those of the average beginner. At this time Arthur was a frequent caller atthe home of the Wentworths. Grace washighly pleased, I was sure, because she hadasked me questions about him and his pros-pects in the most innocent way possible. Iwas the older brother, you see, and she treatedme as such. Never did I allow this artlesslittle sister to know that any other kind of lovehad ever found lodgment in my heart. was just too tickled to conceal thefact,—but that wa
. Ray Burton : a Chicago tale. father, who had an extensive prospects, therefore, were somewhat betterthan those of the average beginner. At this time Arthur was a frequent caller atthe home of the Wentworths. Grace washighly pleased, I was sure, because she hadasked me questions about him and his pros-pects in the most innocent way possible. Iwas the older brother, you see, and she treatedme as such. Never did I allow this artlesslittle sister to know that any other kind of lovehad ever found lodgment in my heart. was just too tickled to conceal thefact,—but that was quite motherly and natural,for Arthur was good, manly, rather prepossess- RAY BURTON. IIQ ing in appearance, and back of all that was thefact that his father was a wealthy man. , I believe, was rather passive on thesubject, but of course he could raise no objec-tions. Arthur had interrogated me, too, quiteas artlessly as had Grace. There seemed to beopen to me a remarkable opportunity—a doublerole of CHAPTER XXI. UpLYSIAN FIELDS would have been alL good name for Jackson Park during thesummer of 1893. White City was very ap-propriate, Dream City was much written of,but Worlds Fair was the everyday name bywhich it was called, notwithstanding the factthat officially it was the Worlds ColumbianExposition. Here it was that I put in six or sevenmonths of steady work that came more nearlyto being amusement than anything that I hadever done. Not because my work was light,certainly, but on account of the think this was pretty generally the case withall classes of workers on the grounds. Aposition here was looked upon as an opportun-ity and not as a task. Why, I was told thatamong the sweepers in the Illinois buildingwas an ex-congressman. If that were the caseI am confident that he never has had occasionto regret the fact that he accepted, for a time. RAY BURTON. 121 SO humble a position. He is none the less re-spected to-day because he worked
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