The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-12-20
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''Then shall earnestly strive to be nice"
said Phil
There's some down town place. said
Margie, "where papa gets lovely candy
great deal cheaper than up Broadway; but
he forgets IL half the time, so we sometimes
have one Of the clerks order it sent to papa's
desk-that Is, clerks who know how to select
candy" said Margie.
'My education in that respect" said Phil,
.has not been as thorough as il could have
foreseen sucn necessity for it,; but will re-
sumo my studies ut oncen
"Are you good judge Of teag" asked Luz
cia. mamma has not been quite herself
since one OF papa's clerks went to Pennsyl-
vania to take charge of a rolling mill. The
good man used to spend hours in the tea inn
porters' warehouses, down near the Office,
searching for the kind of tea that mamma
dotes on"
"You children are not to worry Phil with
any OF your trihing affairs" said the head
OF the house. II want you all to understand
that, besides having desk in my Office, he is
a large operator in real estate-a capitalist
a sort of monopolist, in fact for he Is secre-
tary and director of the Haynton Bay I'm
provement company, which monopolizes one
of the finest bits of shore front on the At
lantic coast"
"Haynton Bayi" said Lucia, in wonder.
"Why, that is where Havn Farm is"
"Wise child" said her father; land that
fine BLUFF portion OF the farm that overlooks
the bay is the company's property You'll
never again cut your shoes to pieces on the
oat stubble on that bluff, for when next you
see the place it will be covered by fine villas,
the handsomest Of which you probably will
some day see mentioned in the newspapers as
prince, Edgar Tramlay, ESQ.,, father of the
charming
"Edgarl Edgari" said Mrs. Tramlay.
sand, as was saying,n continued Tram
lay, no purchasers title viii be good without
the signature and official seal of Mr.. Philip
Hayn- Candy and postage stamps, indeed!
Why, such mans time ought to be valued
at about dollar a minute."
Then Phil was rich, Lucia said to herself.
She did not much care, and she knew even
less, about business details; fortune on
paper was as good as any other kind, so far
as she knew; but what she did very distinctly
understand was that no one, not even her
mother, would again have occasion to speak
or Phil as a poor man, or even q country
man. Some young men who were accounted
great catches were only secretaries and even
assistant secretaries Of one thing or other:
she knew it, because she had seen their names
in dividend notices and other advertisements
in newspapers. How would the change in
his fortunes affect her mother, she wondered.
Mrs. Tramlay certainly was more affable to
the young man than she ever had been be-
fore, and after dinner she even took Pills
arm in returning to the parlor; the act signi-
fed nothing to Phil, but it set Lucia's little
heart dancing gayly.
Whan Phil danorfad o<>o,, alton d;coor IL,
accompany his father, by request to meet
ing of the Society for the Amelioration of
the Spiritual Condition of Savage Tribes"
Lucia lost very little time in signaling Margie
with her eyes and going up to her room. A
moment later Margie bounced in, closed the
door, and exclaimed:
Lucia Tramlay! / wouldn't have be-
lieved it IL hadn't seen it with my own eyes,
The idea of mamma, with the blood of a dozen
High Dutch and Mayfower families in her
veins, taking the arm Of q countryman!"
"When there was no call for her to take
any ones arm," added Lucia, 'the affair be-
ing only an every day family dinner"
"'Twas simply paralyzing," said Margie;
"but it was a sign that everything will be all
right from this time forward. Dear mel
can imagine just how your new visiting cards
will look; Mrs Philip Hayn.'"
"Margie, Margie," said Lucia, in quick
whisper, ''do be quiet. don't even know
whether he really loves me-"
"Thats because you didn't sit at table
where you see his face all the while, as did.
Besides, stone image would fall in love with
you tonight you never looked SO perfectly
enhancing in all your life."
So, between all she had seen and heard,
Lucia's head was crowded with pleasant
dreams long before it pressed its pillow