Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-11


have read you the letter. This Is 1t:
.rdessrs. Shaw 81 King.
{" 'Gentlemen:-Your,f favor OF Mon
day was received in due course. Got
that down, sweetness? In reply, we
would say-I'd like q sweet Kiss from
those ruby lips-say that the goods you
mention-you charming creature, why
YOU are so cold TO me?-mention, were
shipped yesterday morning Your
birdlike voice thrills me through ana
through Why do you never smile on
your adorer? Hoping that they have
arrived in good condition-Give me just
one kiss, Mabel darling, won't your
and that they gave perfect satisfaction
Got that down, little beauty?-we
beg to remain, yours very truly-one
kiss now, insist. What are you strug-
CLING for?
"'Your obedlent servants.
"'PoPLIN e Son."
Nipple turned alternately red and
white while his employer read this let
ter in icy tones, and said nothing when
il was concluded. The occasion aid not
seem to be one for the display OF ornate
English composition.
After painful pause the senior mem
Der OF the firm went on:
"Mr. Nipple, l think III attend to
the correspondence OF this firm here
after myself, and what love-making it
is necessary to do to the typewriter l
will also look after. The cashier Will
give you your salary to date. Good
morning, Sir,
"The ideal" exclaimed Mr.. Poplin to
his son, the junior member, half an hour
later, when he had laid the whole mat
ter before him. 1.-THE idea that a
womanly and modest girl like Miss Eos
dick should be so grossly mistreated In
my establishment exasperates me. She's
pretty and sweet, and altogether admir-
able"
81 rather admire Nipples taste," said
the son.
"Oh, you dol" exclaimed the father:
'sThen suppose / have done wrong in
discharging the scamp, even when he
knew his attentions were distasteful to
the girl?"
mo, father, you did quite right OF
course it would not do for that sort OF
thing to continue"
s.Of course it wouldn't 1t would be
persecution of as sweet a girl as l
know"
"Why, you are not in love with her,
yourself, are you father?"
81? a widower Of fifteen years stand
ing? The idea! Can't an elderly man
defend helpless young woman without
such an imputation as that?"
Oh! certainly"
Then the conversation dropped.
Old Mr.. Poplin was in love with Miss
Fosdick, nevertheless, and he resolved
to ask her to be his sons stepmother on
the first opportunity. He thought,
moreover, that he would make that OPP
portunity when she should report for
duty.
Miss Fesdick returned to the store at
the appointed time, and proceeded
straight to the private office. The
elder Mr.. Poplin was alone.
"Good evening, Mr.. PoDlin," said
Miss Fosdick, with her sweetest smile.
"Oh, It's you, is it?" said Mr.. P'oplin,
raising his eyes above his newspaper.
"Sit down, Miss Fosdick, please Be-
fore you take the lid of the typewriter
| have something-er--to say to you
ather-er-important. 1 have been
thinking of you constantly since you
went away, and wanted to-er-ask
you-"
Zone moment, please, Mr. Poplin,"
Miss Fosdick interrupted him TO say,
''you must pardon me, but L have not
come back to work"
"Eh? What's that?"
mo, sir. Fact is, l - that Is - your
son. sir has done me the honor TO -
to - propose, and - and -"
1.-THE sly young rascal!" calculated
Poplin, not giving her a chance to fin
ish. "WelI, l suppose I'll have to DE
rather to lou, and 1 will say am proud
of my new daughter"
Then he thought:
81 wonder if she really suspected what
I was going to say?"
WILLIAM HENRY SIvITER.