Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-01
young Mr.. Gordon, -
[Chicago Tribune Prize Story.l

week, Pansy."
! Miss Mollie Henderson, Familiarity known
as "Pansyn- presumably because she did not
in any respect resemble that flower OF
thoughts" being of an exceedingly vivacious
| temperament, and addicted in the earlier
days of her existence to top-spinning, marble
playing, and other amusenents popularity
| supposed to be the exclusive property Of
boys-looEed up in a very placid manner as
her father made this announcement, and
answered it fully and effectively by an eZ-
pressive shrug of her pretty shoulders and
q very decided pouting of her small moutI.
Then she placed the book which had been
| engaging her attention On the sofa Ly her
side, caused her small feet to swiftly describe
a semi-circle and when the fash of brown
bose and prettily -turned ankle was over she
| had assumed a sitting posture, her previous
| attitude having been one OF comfortable but
rather undignified redundancy. She then
placed her elbows on her knees, regarded her
father complacently, and said:
/ us the Arapahoe coming, too!'
! Mr.. Eenderson's manner changed at once
| "Yes," he replied, I" Mr.. Gordon viii accom-
pany his son; and want you, Margaret to
! treat him with every respect-in fact, shall
| expect you to do So"
1
| had been made early in the campaign. When
| her father addressed her rs q Margaret it
meant serious G:spleasure on his part. 1t
| also meant that he must be placated at once,
| for Mr. Henderson was one of that rather
numerous class of men il whose minds real
OF fancied injury continues to magnify with
each succeeding instant, until it finally wraps
their whole existence in an artificial but none
the less effective gloom. Moliie was well &C
quainted with the disease, and OF equally init
matet terms with theremeiy Consequently she
! atonce bounded from the so2a, flung her arms
around the paternal necl. squeezing that
useful portion Of mans anatomy until q
| fracture of the cervical vertebra seemed
imminent, bestowing at the same time upon
her sire large number Of kisses, these being
punctuated with ejaculatory and highly
| lncoherent remarks to the effect that the
object Of this tidalwave Of OSCILLATION WAS
the dearest, darlingest old papa in the world,
30 he was. and that the oratrix, on the con
traFy, was a naughty, wicked girl, who
| Didn't deserve to have such sweet, Lovely
papa, who was always doing everything in
| the world for her. And then, having fin
ished this wild fiutter Of disjointed English,
| Miss Mollie nestled closely in her fathers
arms and indulged in that never-failing pan
acea for all the woes to which female flesh is
| perpetual heir-a good cry.
| cts all right, Pansy, darling" said Mr.
Henderson, stroking gently the mass of
brown hair that lay upon his breast, the re-
mainder of the head to which it belonged
having been thrust violently under his LETT
arm in an apparently wild endeavor to dis
| cover by burrowing any stray suspender or
| other article of gents furnishing goods that
! might be concealed there. 81 was little
hard on you, perhaps but you know Mr.
| Gordon is a lifelong friend of mine, and
don't like to have you allude to him in a
| careless or jesting manner."
! The face was slowly withdrawn from be-
meath the paternal arm and looked up at Mr.
| Henderson. 1t was not exactly a pretty
| face, there being a tip-tnted nose somewhere
! about the middle of it, and the features were
not at al regular or claSsic. But the big
brown eyes and their long Iashes would have
| attracted attention from any one not pro-
fessional cynic or misanthrope, and when
! these, looking up appealingly, called to their
aid dropping mouth, white, regular teeth,
and lips that seemed quivering with the
agony of great mental suffering, the imme-
date and complete capitulation of whoever
constituted the opposing force was matter
of course.
And here little explanation is necessary.
From the days of her infancy, when, her
mother having died. she was relegated to the
care of maiden aJpst whose spinsterhood, in
view of the fact .nat Mr. Henderson had
| loved his wife very dearly, and did not at all
desire to replace with another helpmeet. ap-
peared to be special dispensation in favor
of the motherless little girl, Mollie had been
treated by her father to remarks concerning
| Mr. John Gordon, who, she was informed,
had gone to the far west several years preyi-
| ously, and been left widower with one child,
a boy about five years older than Mollie One
| of the first facts impressed upon the child's
mind was that Mr.. Gordon lived in Idaho.
Subsequently in her infantile perusal OF the
, apeTS-which at the age of ten she
read regularly, and with great fidelity 10 de-
tail-she CLEANED the information that Idaho
was the home of the Arapahoe Indians, and
at once identified NJ. Gordon with the noble
| sons Of the forest, and pictured him to her
| self as ferociouS person OF car.nine hue
! (having seen Indians alluded to in the public
! prints as red mem carrying constantly with
him large supply OF tomahawi,s and other
destructive cutlery, while there dangled at his
belt long string of particularly CORY scalps.
| When, with increasing years, came the
knowledge thather fathers friend was not an
Indian, Mollie stuck heroically to the name,
and persistently alluded to him as 'sthe
! Arapahoe."
1t had always been fancy of Nj Hender-
sons that he should like to see his daughter
| married to the son of his old friend. and he
had not failed to mention the fact to AIollie
when that young lady reached the age at
which the feminine mind is supposed to take
more or less interest in such matters. But
Miss Mollie only shifted the air disdainfuIly
| through her ''retrousseF nose, and replied that
She hoped papa would succeed in getting rid
| of her to some aborigine, throwing out at the
same time dark hints to the effect that in case
tne child of the prairies should suddenly be-
come deceased, she had no doubt Mr.. Barnurn
I; would part with one of his wild men from
| Borneo, in order that all hopes of a suitable
alliance for her might not be frustrated. At
| the close of one OF these oltbursts, she would
| generally weep copiousiy, which action al
ways reduced Mr.. Henderson to q state of
serviia humility, and insured Miss Mollie i'm
nlunsy from further allusion TO matrimony
. for at least month.
/ But now the young man who had fitted in
such will-o'-the-wisp fashion before her
mental vision for SO many years was coming
| to New York The trip was to be made,