The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-02
HARRY'S NOBLE ACT

Maynard family dated from the old
gentleman's retirement to live wholly
at Hampstead, in accordance with his
Doctors prescription.
"Give up business, and you will live
for years, but city, air, my dear sir,
II you call it air, where gas consumes
what little ozone fogs contain"
us it the air, or the work, o both,
you think bad for me" Mr.. Maynard
bluntly asked.
"Both, my dear sir, both"
"Then you're wrong. If I gave up
work l should drop, like the old horse
in 'Pickwick' that was kept up only by
the shafts"
swell, perhaps" began the doc
tor, hesitatingly, only to be again
sharply interrupted by his patient.
"But, If you're wrong about hard
work, you may be right about London,
and I'll compromise with you by doing
business from Hampstead"
To this pcremptory made concession
the doctor gave in his hasty adhesion,
for, like most people, not excluding the
old gentleman's family, he stood IN
nervous awe of his saturnine patient.
Henceforth Mr.. Maynard did bust
ness from his villa, Elmount, Hamp-
stead, with the help Of a telephone
and Of a confidential secretary, Harry
Lynn. He chose Harry for the post,
not 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
selling and terse in expressing ideas,
pertinent in his questions and laconic
in his answers. 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 began to distrust him.
Harry lunched daily and dined week
~ at Elmount, and on these occasions
instead of an old head, he showed a
young heart, and showed it moreover
on it's sleeve, being as frank and fluent
| and bright and breezy in the drawing
room as he was dry, terse, self-con-
! tanned and laconic in the Office. This
| contrase set the suspicious old gentle
man wondering whether his secre-
tary's business faculty" was not a
mere Office assumption, put on to Sc
| cure the good will Of his employer.
| Or; had intimacy with his worthless
son, Fred, demoralized young Lynn.
Fred certainly was a black sheep.
and as certainly Lynn seemed to be an
intimate of his; but MI. Maynard
should have gone another step back
| ward to find in 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
vas addressing her or not. OF her,
| too, alone, was he thinking when he
| culrIvareu her worthless brother, FRED,
I and when he submitted to be her help
less, thriftless mothers commission.
| aire.
Such were. Harry Lynn's relations
| to the Elmount household when Mr..
| Maynard one morning, in spite of
Hampstead air, was obliged by his
| old enemy to keep his bed. He rough
~ interrupted his wife's anxious in
! quiries and suggestions by bidding her
peremptorily, "Take my keys to Lynn.
Tell him to look through and sort the
letters; answer the unimportant ones,
| and send me up after lunch those of
urgent Importance"
"Mv dear. You're not fit"
1.-THE keys are there" he cried, i'm
| patiently, pointing to the table.
Mrs. Maynard took the keys, went
| down stairs and into the office sane
| tum, where she expected to find Harry,
bat where she found only the house
maid busting the room.
"Show Mr.. Lynn, when he comes,
into the breakfast room"
eyes. ma'am.".
At this moment Fred entered. 'Ha1-
loa! Lynn not come yet?",
"Good morning, Fred. No; your
father sent mi 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 Cod" muttered Fred. ooh,
1 say, mother, I've got into"
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mothers at the maid silenced him.
She knew too we'll what was coming
and did not wish that Fred's last
scrape should be the talk Of the kitch.
en-. Accordingly, they retired to what
ing den off the dining room, to have
their troubled conference.
Nearly half an hour later Harry ar
,,{~ol nv1 ~ a c3,o uyn s. o1oo,I{~p -
orders. into the breakfast room, where,
however, he found only Bell.
"Did you want meY' he asked, with
breathless eagerness.
ZIP she exclaimed, raising her
arched eyebrows in coquettish sur
prise.
I'll thought, perhaps-she said she
was to show me in here"
II suppose mother wants you-she
always does. You're probably to
choose a new bonnet for her, or bring
her home a leg of mutton. Did you
never hear the Italian proverb, Mr..
| Lynn, tFatti di mieele e tt mangieran
lie mosche,' Make yourself all honey
and the flies will eat you upY"
II am one Of the flies. What per-
sistent; bores they are! They come
back again and again to the honey, no
matter how often you brush them
away" he said, pointing his. parable
with appealing eyes.
"How can you be SO ungrateful! I
am sure no N is SO glad to see you
as ENTHUSIASTICALLY when she wants
something in the city. I muststell her
you are here"
And through sheer nervousness, rath-
er than coquetry, she hurried away.
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