The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-02-14

showed him some water-coiors she hae
sgetched In the vain hope OF selling them
he had the unblushing mendacity TO declare
that he knew q picture dealer who was ach
ing TO secure just such things, offering, Il
she would entrust them to him, to transact
the business for her-which he did much q
hec wondermenf and satisfaction.
Then he pleaded that she must have pity
on his loneliness in the city and "show hin
about bit,n and even succeeded in in
weighing her to dine with him at his hote
and drive In the park with him, and alto
gether conducted himself in such repro
hensible manner, that am sure the reader
has lost AZ confidence m him.
The next day was repetition Of the pre-
vious one, and the more he saw Of the
charming girl the more his heart warmed
towards her, and he became so demonstra-
tive in his affection that he scandalized Mrs.
Wilson, Kate's landlady, so that she felt
II her duty to warn the young lady against
the danger of the elderly gentleman's I'D
mirntion, which brought the first smile she
had seen in Kate's face for many day.
By and by they became more confidential
and she told him many Of the struggles
through which she had passed and her man
nor of encountering them, all of which tend
ed TO more deeply impress him with the fact
that she was a jewel of girl who could
hold her own under any difficulties.
But the crisis OF the Captains inconsis-
tences came upon the third day of his visit
to New York. Bright and early he was at
Mrs. Wilson's house, for Kate had promised
to accompany him or a trip to Staten ISL
and. As he sat in tho little dingy parlor
ha,.
out the feminine weakness of being q wee
bit behind time in getting ready-he saw a
scrap Of paper lying on the floor and recog-
missed at once Harry's handwriting. make
no apology for the indelicacy of his action,
for am simply historian, but the wicked
Captain picked it up and deliberately read
ii through. 1t was portion of a letter con-
tanning the following:
while / acknowledge that he is the best
father man ever had, / am deeply panied
TO add that thcVe Is no sign Of that unrea-
sonable animosity 10 the name of Frobish-
am welring away; and il, las you say, you will
not be my wiie until he of his own free ac-
cord asks you TO consent TO our union, our
happiness is indeed far off,
"Ho-ho,r the Captain chuckled, so the
young dog has been making me the bug
bear all this whlei
And quite forgetting the young lady who
was hurrying her preparations upstairs,
he slipped out at tho door and sped to the
nearest telegraph Office, whence he dis
patched peremptory message to his son in
Indianapolis:
Come at once to the Grand Union Hotel,
New York Reply"
Then he sheepishly returned to the lodg-
Il; a.
the young lady the desperate step he had
taken.
Thirty hours afterwards, father and son
were clasping hands in tho Office of tho
hotel.
What is it, dadl'' the young man asked,
eagerly. "You can not tell how your tele-
gram has upset me, for the least thought
was that you might be sick, or in some
scrape or other What in the name of con-
science brought you to New Yorkl''
Just little matter of business, Harry,
that's all; but felt couldn't conclude it
without your assistance. In fact. there's
person now in the ladies' room want you
to see-wouh you mind stepping in therei
I'll join You in a few minutes"
If the clerk Of the hotel had CHANGED to
notice the portly figure of his guest when
his son left him, he would have had grave
doubts of his sanity, for 1t is not usual
for cid gentlemen to walk about grinning
and chucl1ling and every now and then slap
ping their thighs in perfect ecstacy of un-
controllable delight. Presently he con-
qlered his emotions and walked demurely
upstairs into the ladies' reception-room.
.'Well, Harry, how's businessl Have
you and the other party come to termsl'
uo, ptbr II fat