Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-09-21

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pooriy nor Gays. ana doesn't seem to have
any spirit"
''Im sure she's lively enough when she's cut
OF temper said Mrs Tramlay, (which she
Is nearly all the while, She's snapped st the
children until they hate the sight oi her, end
can't speak to her without bsing crested BY
food Of tears Margis sssms the only ons
who can do anything with her."
"UmphI" muttered the merchant, taking
much time to arrange bis hat before the mir
ror Of the hat rack.
Meanwhile the old farmer and his son were
having long chat In hotel bedroom.
$50 you see how the land llss" aid the
old man Though never held that part OF
the farm at over two hundred an acre, the
soil bein' thinner than the lower lynn land,
an requirin' q good deal more manure TO
mako decent crops, Tramlay says it'll fetch Q
clean two thousand an acre when its cut up,
II the sci mo takes hold AZ It's likely to.
That's why he advised me to retain an In
terest, instead Of sellin' out an out I'm to
get five thousand In cash for the forty acres,
an have quarter interest in oil sales; that
means twenty thousand In the end, II things
turn out as Tramlay thinks"
"Myp calculated Phil, his eyes opening
very wide, and going into q brown study
The old man contemplated him for some
time with smile Of supreme satisfaction.
Finally no said:
makes you feel little bit as II you was
rich mans son, don't II, old boyr
Indeed 1t does," Phil replied. "But don't
see how can help you about It,"
Don't, ehi Well, I'll tell you," said the
old man, eyeing his son closely. "That forty
acres Is about quarter Of the farm land In
value, calculate, counting out the house an
other buildin'a II | was maxim my will an
dividin' things up among the family, I'd
leave Just about that much land to you, with
an interest In the house, stock, etcetery,
when the Lord sees flt to call your mother.
So'-here the old man intensified his gaze
"fve arranged to give my quarter interest
In the enterprise to you, as your inheritance;
thatn make you director In the comp'ny,
with as much say as anybody else. 'It'n
keep you In York good DEAL though"
Father" exclaimed Phil
"An'," continued the old man, dropping his
eyes as soon as his son looked at him, and
putting on the countenance in which he
usually discussed the ordinary affairs Of the
farm, "as it may need some money for you to
keep up proper style with the people whom
you'll have to deal with, propose to put the
five thousand in bank here to our joint ac-
count, SO you can draw whenever you need
cash."
The old man began to pare fine shavings
from the tooth pick which he had cherished
| ever since he left the dining room, but Phil
compelled suspension of industry for mo-
ment by going over to his fathers chair and
| pressing the gray head to his breast
! ''Tho other principal stockholders" said
the old man, as soon as he was able to resume
his whiting, ''are Tramlay an a man named
Marge."
''Margel" Phil echoed.
! "You seem to know him, said the farmer,
looking up from under his eyebrows.
j., ~ should think So" said Phil frowning
| and twitchins his lips a great deal. "He's
the mani
"Welli" asked the old man, for Phil had
not finished his sentence. There was no re-
ply, so he continued;
"The man you thought had caught the galw
Phil nodded aflirmati,ely.
snow you see what mes Of goin' of at
half cock,n said the fari sr. "Iost your ex-
penses two ways, to say nothin' Of peace o
mind"
81 heard one man telling another it," said
Phil quite humbly; $50 what was } 70
I "H you believe evrythin' you hear about
men an women, my boy, you'll be off your
course all your life long. Take a good grip
on that"
Again Phil went into brown study, from
which he emerged suddenly to say:
| ats just what you did when you supposed
you learned she wasn't engaged, isn't itf You
believed it and wrote it at once to me-"
"Oh, no" said the old man, with an airrof
| superiority, as he put q very sharp point, on
what remained of the toothpick. Mot
much. I've learned always to go to head
quarters for information"
1 hv fotb ~ axc1at
"you don't mean to say, after what you
promised me, thai you went-and-and"---
"Poked my nose into other peoples busi-
nessl Not !. Mr.. Tramlay took me home
to dinner-say, what an outlandish way thssa
city folks have got Of not eatn' dinner till
nigh onto bedtimel an after the meal, long
about the edge o. the evenin', when Tramlay
had gone for some papers to show me, an the
old lady was out of the room for somethin', ]
took 'casion to congratulate the gal on her
engagement; that's the prope. thing in such
cases made an purvided, you know. She
looked kind o habbergasted an at last she
said twas the fust she'd heerd OF it. tried
to git out OF 1T by sayin' If it want true II
oSt to be, II young men In York had eyes in
their heads. But 1t didn't seem to work. She
asked how heerd OF 1t, an had to say that
! somebody In the city had told my son abou,
it"
Phil frowned.
Then" continued the Old man, "she bus
out cryin'."
Oh, dearp' sighed PHI.
well /" said the old man, II see somethin
had to be done, SO put my arms arount
her
why, fatherl' said Phil, in alarm.
~ ~ put my arms around her, an said THAI
when q gal was cryin' she ort to have'he
parents to comfort her, an, as neither O
EN- was present. hoped she'd make biev,
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