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It was a cold, almost curl, note
in which Jessie Howie aeknowlcdg
ed the honor he lind done her in
1' offering to make her his wife, an
honor she declined, regretting that
there had been anything in their
friendship to lead him to believe
that the friendship might grow to
greater intimacy.
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Thomas Homier:-,on Howie step
ped grandly l'ro:ii the elevator,
rail
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ru.netImitr
Eg a
or resentful of (lie elevator
boy's patronizing pat on the head.
Men who eoine down! own on busi- run wa.- anil
ness slionld not lie palled on the
head oven if their molhers do pos
sess foolish ideas thai curls are
cute. Men on business hent
ways act. important ly and should lie "Thonia- I li-nderson 11,
treated with deference. said quietly, "1 pledge von
The pat had the effect of s(iMeil
ing Thomas I lenderson Howie's
small hack hone to an unusual de
gree of ramrod si ilfness, and it was
a very pompous .six
-y a
r-old who
entered Durrington's olliee.
Tim Dorrington looked up from
a pile of papers willi a genial smile.
"Welcome lo our eily, Mr. Thom
as Henderson Howie," lie cried.
"And what good fori une brings you
to the oll'ee? Surely you are not tor.
about to he sued for 11 reach of "You
promise I am afraid of thai lit lie ness," began Tim. "but I
Houston girl, or perhaps it is I lie I had 11 letter from .le-.-ic
embezzlement of preserves again!" an offer of marriage, fi
"It's a letter/' explained Tommy Tommy savs I imagine th
stiffly, as lie delivered the square
white envelope into Tim's trem
bling hands. "I will lie going now,
he a'dded as lie turned away.
raised his hand.
quaint, old fashioned gravity, while
•Dorrington opened and rend the
note.'Twice the man read it, though
the first time the words had seared
themselves intojijs luain.
r'~ reai the last few lines. Surely he ments. Naturally Jessie is grateful
had had every reason to hope for a
favorable answer to his letter. Jes
sie had been tenderness itself. With
a sigh he thrust the letter into his
pocket and turned to his small visi
tor.
"I regret, Thomas Henderson
Howie," lie said in the playful ban-
"I don't want to' go with you,"
said Tommy stolidly. "I don't like
you any more. You make Jessie
cry."
"That," said Tim, "is what they
call an inversion of facts. Your
sister has made.me cry."
"I'm glad of it," said Tommy
cruelly. "You made her cry lots."
"You arc sure asked Dorring
ton quickly.. 'She was crying over
my letter?"
"Lots," declared Tommy with a
»weeping gesture that suggested a
Very flood of tears. "I went to her
room to get her to sew the tail on
my dog again. She was crying aw
fully, and she was kissing your let
ter and saying things."
Dorrington moved closer to the
boy. "You don't remember what
•he said, do'you?" he pleaded gent
ly. "See if you can't think, Tom
toy, boy. Try. hard, laddie."
Thomas Henderson Howie knit
ted his brows thoughtfully and as
Bisted the mental process by sol
.' emnly wriggling his right foot.
.-•|Ä'1t was something about a mean
^[•^Sacrifice," he said at last. "Sacri
-fices," he added informatively, "is
.^where the Indians kill people and
jjjf burn 'erri up."1
A? "The operation is bloodless and
the fires are internal nowadays,"
j£
::said
Dorrington softly. "What else
say?"
'How can I do it?*
ahotit Mr.
hind, Inn I
Bowen, and
Je-.-ie cni'd lots more, and then slit'
wro'n- I lif ii't I or, nml she.' gave me
Ii [K'iiin I'm' n:\ si'l I' iiin) kiSM'ii inc."
for iihi'iiviii I
)urringlon ^iit
st im :ivil. Howie I invented v
i!y in snliurli.iii n- iI et,ite. niid
iii 11 -11 ol' hi- in 11 t.i
I v.u.- I i-I
I ii|i in
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inglmi
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not guess-
c.! I Im Mr. I i'l.vii',- \v is mi
great thai hi- had hi-cii 11111 111 1
I I I I
I or nearly a _\rar l'vre,.- Unwell
had ,-itughl I ma kv ihr
fourth is. I
Imvi'ii. Mr-. Howie
id favored his -nil. for the imi
for her ilaiigh-
I
er, hut il iint.-l lia licen 11 re
need I
hal cau.-ed lilunt llenrv
Howie lo add his inlhieiive. I
)or
1 rington I ur 11-d 10 'I
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will par,
he
I
lie word
of one man to anoihcr that I did
not make .1
r--ir cry. Will vou mind
I lie oiliee a moiueiit
lie .swung the youngster into the
lug chair he fore I
lie roll top desk,
supplied him with a pencil and pad
and .»lipped from 1 he room. It was
less than a block to the olliee build
ing in which 11 en rv Howie had his
»nil. and »liortlv I
lorringtoii enter
ed the private olliee of the opera-
111
abrupt.
ave jusl
refusing
what
it her re-
isal is inilueneed by the fact that
you need Bow en's assistance, and
I she is the bonus for the loan. Am
Tim I right
"or
a
"Wait a moment, please, he ask- hands elinched and unciinclied
64. "There njay Iks. «in answer." themselves nervously. The bUint
Tommy climbed into Hie biggest statement of facts roused him lo
chair and settled himself with
moment. Henry Howie's
1
imger, but the while, tense face of
the man before him restrained him
from pitching Tim out of the of
fice as lie longed to do. lie liked
'Ilm, and it hurt him to give pain
to the young fellow.
"You are not entirely correct in
your premises," he said at length.
"I believe that .Jessie does contem
plate marriage with Mr. Bo
wen.
Bo wen has promised to come to my
aid in an extremity. That Deep
dale tract has been a heavy burden
to me. Bowen will take it at what
1 paid and pay cash. This will
a a a t-
to the friend who has come to my
rescue and looks with favor upon
his suit. 1 lull you this that you
may understand. Of eourse it will
go no further,"
"I thank you for your confidence,
which will be respected. But I
want to ask what you arc getting
UW'I vv It IM« Vll 1
ter that had been suggested bv the for your Decpdalc holdings.
child's quäint dignity—"I regret Howie looked at the younger
that my pleasurable anticipations man in surprise. "I presume that
of a wild dissipation in soda water you have a reason for asking," lie
and candy in celebration of an im- s.iill "Tim cum nnn ti...,
-v .... said. "The sum is $10,000. That
portant event have been dashed to is $200 more than I gave for the
Till4- tnAtt «M.i .1 _! I. It.
earth. But man turns to drink both
to express his joys and drown his
sorrows. Therefore 1 pray you to
descend with me to the drug store
't on the ground floor and assist me
in the latter ceremony. They have
hot chocolate "With-whi pped cream."
thank you," said Tommy
'politely. "1 don't want any soda."
"Perhaps you prefer the stronger
tipple of beef tea?" suggested Dor
rington. "It is a cup that cheers
with but inebriety and can be ren
dered quite palatable if you use
enough celery salt to disguise the
flavor of the beef extract. Shall
land.
"Bowen is generous in the ex
treme," said Dorrington, with a
sneer. "No doubt you arc aware
that the Central and Suburban
plans a,cutoff to the main line thai
strikes the property That will be
better than the trolley which was
not built. 1 am junior counsel for
the road and I know that Bowen
has known this for two weeks."
For a moment Howie shrank
back, stunned at the treachery of
his fancied benefactor. Bowen
would make a handsome profit
from his supposed charitable ac
tion.
"I suppose this is the reason you
seek Jessie's hand," sneered "the
elder man, stung to a retort as an
outlet to his feelings.
"Not at all," said Dorrington
calmly. "My reason fer speaking
now is that they purchased my old
homestead for a model town. They
are to build their shops there. I
had not thought of your holdings.
Do you want a loan?"
Twenty minutes later Dorring
ton burst into his own office.
"Tommy—boy," he cried, "for
your great services let us get sous
ed on soda and then buy out a
candy store and take it up" to Jes
sie. You've enabled me to beat
Bowen at his own game and wipe
Jessie's tears away. 'Soused' is a
vulgar word, Tommy—boy, but it's
expressive of my feelings, and to
your uncanny powers of observa
tion I owe the fact that I've re
versed the decision."
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Wooing the Wind.
Mary Stuart's house at Roscoff,
a little village on the coast of
Finistere, now the property of the
French nation, was built as a chapel
marking the spot where Mary,
queen of Scots, landed in 1548 to
•marry the dauphin. In the chapel,
which is named St. Ninian, a curi
ous custom has grown up among
the Roscoff women. They gather
the dyst from the floor and care-
•ied some more," fully, blow it in the opposite direc
ib. ^T^Ä'n" ""f WawA" Hrtll fTA¥Y1 wllftTfl .fJiflif IIIIOVXOTIZI a- nn/1
"Then there
|ut for father's
kmc in and said
fifty
and then
•tion from where their husbands and
sweethearts are out fishing. This,
they believe, will assure a fair wind
home.
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I Merry Moments!
As We Journey Through
Lile Let Us Lai gh
by the Way
4 4 $ I I
Done Deliberately.
"Willi is I hi' li'e
11 oil I iie d'l-l 11
a
of I
hat I'ig
a-keil 1 he new
The hauithlv I'm
an replied:
displayed on
I la iiim'!. lie 11
the du.-t bin denote
spairing doiiiest ii
domicile desire 1
es I
hat. the ile-j
of I his detached
it the deserving
dust men during their daily diver-!
.-ions will deem it their delightful:
dnlv to dislodge deliberatelv and
deftly the dirt and dust deported
in that disagreeable dustbin."—
London Tit-Hits.
Jim—The last I heard of Spike
Vegg he was being tried for bur
glary—did his lawyer get him off?
Jem—lie did. He gave Spike
I he measles, and Spike escaped
from the hospital.— Boston Globe.
Common Sense.
Sunday School Teacher And
when the prodigal son come borne,
what happened, Tommy
Tommy—IIis father ran to meet
him and hurt himself.
Sunday School Teacher Why,
where did you get that?
Tommy—It is said his father ran
and fell on Iiis neck. I bet it would
hurt you to fall on your neck.—
Stray Stories.
In Doubt.
An insurance agent was filling
out an application .blank.
"Have you ever had appendi
citis?"' he asked.
"Well." answered the applicant,
"I was operated on, but I never felt
quite sure whether it was appendi
citis or professional curiosity."—
Ladies' Home Journal.
By Right of Purchase.
"Pa, what does it mean when they
say a man is 'the life of the
party
"The life of a party, my boy, is
a man who buys while the other
fellows arc hanging back trying to
remember whose turn it is."—De
troit Tree Press.
All That Was Necessary.
"Can you support my daughter
and give her everything that she
wants
"I can support her and give her
her principal want."
"And what is that?"
"Me."—Houston Post.
In Duty Bound.
"Do
you eat your daughter's
cooking?"
Of course,
replied Mr. Meek-
ton. "I've got to. Observing the
effects on me constitutes a part of
her course of stud v."—Washington
Star.
Acknowledgment.
"You were always a lau It finder,"
growled the wife.
"\es," responded the husband
meekly, "1 found you.''—Philadel
phia Ledger.
Discerning Youth.
Adolphus—It's an awful shame.
My little nephew got hold of that
poem I wrote to you and tore it
to shreds.
Augusta—So the little fellow can
read already!-—London Opinion.
I
a
i, A Self Evident Fact.
"How do you like my new skirt?"
asked the sweet young thing. "Isn't
it perfect
"Well, there isn't -much room for
improvement," replied the grouch.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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