Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-03-09


doing something to support myself. ]
have just been learning shorthand and
typewriting but l have pretty good
memory for the one and my piano
playing made the other easier" she
said with a smile. "But II you must
have a man, why won't bother you
any longer" and she rose.
"Oh no, no. replied her companion,
by no means. That advertisement
| was mistake / guess" Her brown
eyes were getting him more and more
embarrassed.
! What! Then you don't want type
writer after all?' said the girl.
"Oh nor' the lawyer responded quick
| ly. Il meant the part about our speci-
flying a man must have been wrong"
''Oh, l see," said Miss Hawthorne,
and she sat down again Pm afraid
L can't give any business references,
she said, las l never have been in bus
mess before" gravely.
Er-wAen could you begin work.
| Graham said. He felt as though he
! had to say something.
Il can begin tomorrow morning. she
replied brightly. I'm ever so much
obliged to you for giving me the posi-
tion," and with a charming little bow
and nod she swept out the door, leav-
ing the astonished lawyer speeches.
in his chair, as Mr.. Stone entered.
What was that met on the stlirs?'
he said,-"breach Of promise!"
NO." said Graham slowly, that was
our new stenographer StenOghra-
phcss.'
Our new what? Say, what have
you been dOing!'
She'll begin tomorrow morning she
says"
You don't mean to say you've en-
gagged typewriter without letting me
even have look att, and girl too"
he added in a tone of horror. Then re-
covering himself a little, is she any
good for her job?'
Il didn't try her. She said she had
never been one before"
"Oh, that's an old bluff to excuse
some OF the million OF two mistakes
she'll make the first week. What
wages are you going to pay her?'
why, pom my word, forgot to ask
her what she wanted. She didn't say
:" Well, Graham, I'll take back some
of that rejoined his companion dryly.
Il guess it is her first job after all
And so Miss Grace Hawthorne be-
came stenographer to Stone, Graham y
Stone, and filled the place to the en-
tire satisfaction of all parties con
cerned.
Six months passed and both partners
dritted into liking and respect for the
girl who had SO quickly filled her pc
sition 50 well, and who still brought
her womanly grace and winning smile
into the office and unlike most business
women did not severely leave her sex
outside the door each morning.
One evening Stone sat alone Ill his
Library. The club had palled Oh him
There had been d bolt from the nomi-
Mating committees ticket, and he
couldn't step inside the door without
being buttonholed by some eager par
tisan of one side OF the other. So he
had come directly home from the office
expecting to enjoy quiet dinner with
! his son and then spend the evening
among his books; but MIR. Mitchell had
gone out, the servant informed him;
Said he was going to dine with some
Yale men from Chicago who were III
town, and then go either to Harrigan's
OF Rosters, SIR C.koSter's I'll bet u
hat the father muttered with GRIM
But us he sat in his easy chair after
dinner, Il feeling of loneliness came
over him and his reflections turned
back to the days when another chair
was drawn up before the glowing CRATE
and his wife was beside him during the
happy evenings long ago. And then
with lightning change, his mind
| flashed into thoughts OF Grace HaW-
thorne and in his dreamy brain the
| illogical combina ton was formed into
picture of Grace Hawthorne sitting In
| the chair beside as Inn as his wife.
He wakes from his reverie with a
start, and half-annOyed, haf-amuSed
| fixes his tired eyes on magazine he
holds passively i'll his hand. But his
thoughts kept on the picture which his
brain had composed. 1t wasn't so llog-
| zeal after all, he unused. "A pretty,
womanly, gentle sort of girl-why
shouldn't l marry her: Got the right, l
guess, if want to. Mitchell Il be well
OFF after I'm gone, and he's a bright
young chap and sure to make his mark
at the bar. Make 4 nice mother fol
him, won't she:' he chuckled grimly
/ Then coming back, 'There'u be plenty
of this worlds goods left after Mitchell
has taken his share for-Grace, too,
he pondered softly as he looked around
the library and watched the soft light
simmer and play on the richly colored
rugs and bindings. And then rousins
himself with disgust, "Oh say! wha
am going Oh here as If l was an ole
man going to die in year or two
W y, I'm likely to live to be a hundred
BY CAD, if l am going to marry TIT
girl, l must fix things up in hurr.
for any fool could see old Grahhln's il
!, love win her. Jove! how it'll fool ole
Duncan if l cut hun out. By CAD,
will marry her. How'll / propose,
wonder? Go down to her house an(
ask her? No, that wouldn't do. Som
: boarding house probably where sh,