New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-10-04


face. Bob looked ct her, and hissheart.
failed him. But he remembered q Ger.
tain Thomas Anderson. who report
said had loitered beneath the honey
suckle for the last few nights, and
| brought back his oozing courage.
! They wuz talking about you last
night down at the pump, he remarked,
with assumed cheerfulness.
Talkin about mee'' said Minna angri-
/ II. How dared they?''
! 'sOh, Lordr' gasped Bob to himself.
j IF she gets mad before beginr'
They wuz sayin-sayin''
WellY' sharply, ''what wuz they say
IMP
They wuz sayin how as you'd never
marry any one-you wuz that uncertain
like and f1ightylike."
! ''Who said that?' said Minna, turning
wrathful eyes upon him.
II don't exactly remember" faltered
| Bob.
| Most likely yourself" disdainfully.
Bob could not truthfully disown the
remark, as he had made it frequently, in
confidence, to his near companions in
the village. So, after this unexpected
home thrust, he remained uncomfortable
! silent.
! Minna pursued her advantage.
Mice doings them, fur man!'' she
went on contemptuously. 'sTalking
about girls when they can't talk back
| for themselves!"
If the reported conversation had not
been wholly imaginary, Bob would have
been stricken with remorse. AS it was,
however, although inwardly trembling.
he saw an opening and took it.
! But spoke back for you, Minna,
F.: did"
J "Oh, you did, did you?" was the dis
, couraging comment. ''Since it wuz you
! said the worst, seems to me it wuz all
! you could do.''
''They said a lot more'n l did," Bob
continued with fictitious courage. 'sThey
said as how needn't be hangin around
here, fur ye'd allus scorn me till the
! Judgment and not marry me at ALL"
"There wuz some truth in their re-
marks" remarked Minna snubbingly.
"But there's wusser nor that" he said,
with well forced gloominess. 81 said as
how knowed you would marry me"-
'Who made you so wiser interrupted
Minna sarcastically.
cana man bet me you wouldn't, an
! an bet hi1, would
"Beasts!" lated the much in
censed Mini
IAN bet. ...iiul lot. Minna. Gosh!
Pm scared to think of it. If got to
give him all that money, the farm ull
have to go sure"
Minna looked frightened.
Chow much?" she asked family.
"Wonder how much she'll stand?'' Bob
asked himself perplexedly. Then he
glanced at her tentatively.
I'm most afeared to tell you. It's
it's-gosh! Minna-it's 800.
| "Oh, my!" calculated Minna. "You
never did"
"A hundred dollarsr' repeated Bob
chokingly, and overcome by the feelings
he had aroused he buried his head in his
hands. From this safe retreat he con-
tinued disjointed remarks broken by
emotion.
Don't care for myself. (Sigh.) don't
want to live anyway, but the farmll
have to go sure, and poor mother and
father" (Sob.)
'@Oh, no, no." said Minna tearfully.
"They're old now to start over agin
"a protracted sigh), but kin work for
EN-. I'll do IT, and Bob's shoulders
shook with nobly suppressed emotion
lit u'l come hard to lose the old place
now -{sobe after all them years."
"Oh, don't, don't, don't, Bob! can't
bear it!' gasped Minna, choking down
the tears. "Tu-rll"-
Bob waited moment. Then he went
on:
''Poor sister can't go to school or moth
ing" rocking himself to and fro in ap-
parent deep grief, IAN there's NO wood
got for the winter"-here he wept aloud,
and seeing this Minna, too, wept aloud.
"Oh, Bob" she cried. show could you
be so-so"- and she burst again into
tears.
Dunno, Minna," he said in choking
voice, "but there amt no help for it
now. It's all got to go-farm an ALL"
''Never!" said Minna Historically. Il
will marry you-1 wiil!'
"'Tain't right to ask you," Bob said
( sadly and hypocritically. "You don't
care nothin about me-" >...-
Il didn't afore,' - said Minna tearfully
and shamefacedly, "but that was an aw-
full lot of money to bet on me. like you
for it, Bob, dor
IAN you will marry me?' ...>. 49,. Il
She nodded. .s..% 49,
''Thank you, Minna, Bob said mourn
fully. Its awfully good in you"
Amoment elapsed before he started on
the real business of courtship-heh had to
proceed carefully land IN that moment
Bob looked up at q very jester Of twin
king star and silently exchanged with
it a knowing and prodidous wink
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