Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-24
HARRY.s NOBLE ACT

Harry Lyln's intimacy Win une
Aay3a r family dated from the old
gentieMan's retirement to live wholly
ct Hampstead In accordance with bis
doctors prescription.
-Give Up business. and you VIII live
Tor years. but city air. my dear sir,
lf you call II air. where gas consumes
what little ozone fogs coutain-"
'Ts 4 the air. or the work, or both,
you think bad for mer' Mr.. Maynard
bhuntiv asked
~Bo<h. ing dear SIR. beth-"
'-rhen you're wrong. II gave up
work mould drop. like the old horse
In Pickwick' that was kept up only by
the shafts"
Wei. perhaps" began the doc
Tor. hesitntingiy. only to be again
sharply interrupted by bis patient
"Bst, IL you're wrong about hard
rork. ysn may be right about London,
and I'll compromise with you By doing
business from Hampstead"
To this perempt0ry made concession
che doctor gave In his hasty adhesion,
Cor, like most people. not excluding the
old gentieman's family. he stood IN
ucrvous Of his saturnine patient
Henceforth Mr. Maynard did blsi-
ness from his villa, Elmount- Harp-
stead. with the help Of a telephone
and Of q confidential secretary. Harry
Lynn. He chose Harry for h post
no wholly or chiefly because he was
the son OF an old and dear friend, but
because he had what the old gentle
man called faculty" a favorite word
comprising his favorite business quail
ties Harry, In business. showed him
self fertile in suggesting. quick In
eeizfng and terse in expressing ideas,
pertinent In his questions and laconlc
On his But when, at Hamp-
stead. the suspicious and austere old
gentleman found Harry socially the
reverse OF what he appeared to be In
business, he begun to distrust him.
Harry lunched daily and dined week
Nv at Elmount, and on these occasions
instead Of IN old head, he showed a
yegng heart, and showed ID moreover
on Its sleeve. being as frank and fluent
and bright end breezy In the drawing
room as he was dry, terse, s~elf-con-
tanned and laconic In the office This
contrase set the suspicious old gentle
man wondering whether his secre-
tary's business faculty" was NJ a
mere office assumption. put on to Sc
cure the good will of his employer.
Or, hal intimacy with his worthless
son, Fred. demoralized young Lynn
Fred certainly was a black sheep,
and as cx rtainly Lynn seemed to be an
intimate OF bis; but Mr.. Maynard
should have gone anothc? step back
ward to find I'm his daughter, Bell,
the origin OF the evil. Harry Lynn
was intoxicated with the beauty and
brightness OF this young lady, and
talked always to her ears whether he
was addressing her or not. OF her,
too, alone, was he thinking when he
cufusauea ner worthless brother, FREQ,
and when ne submitted TO be her help
LEES, thriftiess mothers commission
aire.
such were Harry Lynn's relations
TO the Eimount household when Mr..
Maynard one morning, in spite of
Hampstead air, was obliged by his
old enemy to keep his bed. He rough
Iy interrupted his wife's anxious In
qulries and suggestions by bidding her
peremptsriiy, Take my keys to Lynn.
Tell him 10 look through and sort the
letters; answer the unimportant ones,
and send me up after lunch those Of
urgent importance"
My dear, you're not 1T"
The keys are there" he cried, I'M
patiently, pointing to the table.
Mrs. Maynard took the keys, went
Gown stairs and into the office sane
tum, where she expected to find Harry,
but where she found only the house
maid busting the room.
SHOW MIR. Lynn, when he comes,
into the breakfast room"
-Yes. ma'am."
At this moment Fred entered. Hal,
ioa! Lynn no come YETI"
Good morning, Fred. No; your
father sent me down to him with the
keys. He's got a bad attack of the
govt this morning and must stay In
bed all day"
THANK Godr' muttered Fred. ooh
I say. mother. I've got into"
Here a Significant giunce or mis-
mothers at the maid silenced him
She knew too well what was coming
and did not wish that Fred's las
ecrape should be the talk OF the kitch
en-. Accordingly, they retired to wha'
Fred called his "sulky," a little smok
ing den or the dining room, to have
their troabled conference.
Nearly half an hour later Harry ar
rived, and was shown, according Il
orders, into the breakfast room, where
however. he found only Bell.
'Did you want mer' be asked, wit
breathlcss eagerness.
'Ir' she exclaimed, raising he
arched eyebrows In coquettish sur
prise.
I'll thought, perhaps-she said sh
was 10 show me In here"
81 suppose mother wants you-sh
always does. You're probably I
choose a new bonnet for her, or brin
her home q leg OF mutton Did 20
never hear the italian proverb, NJ
Lynn, Fatti al mieele e Il mangiera
lie mosche,' Make yourself all hone
and the files will eat you upr"
81 am one OF the files What Pc
kistent bcres they are. They CON
back egnin and again to the honey, n
matter how often you brush thel
away. he said. pointing his parabI
with appealing eyes.