The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-13
NECK OR NOTHING.
By JEANETTE II. wALwoRTH.
copyright. 1897. by the Author.l
ITO BE Continued

seer on Governor Strong's plantation. Sans
Souci, attends college with the governors
grandson. Adrien Strong He is suspected of
some college thefts in the closing term and is
ostracized by the faculty ana his fellow Istu
dents, Mamie Colyer daughter OF professor
alone stands by him CHAPTER III.-Gover-
nor Strong's daughter-in.law, the widowed
mother of Adrien has made Liza Martin.
Strong's sister, her protegee and educated her
beyond her station. WINS. Martin talks
plainly TO Mrs. Strong about spelling Liza
The case is discussed at sans souci Liza
must be helped, but not brought in contact
with Adrien.
''YOu know S.le Oily has her mothers
business for support, and now the
bonnet business don't amount To much.
Her brother, little Fred Welsh is in
the army. Only q years old. Think of
It'll Father is in it, too, fighting in Vir-
ginia. This with proud uplifting of
her head. Dear me, l hope he ism {
faring any worse than we are at home
no -four, no coffee, no sugar, lots of
patriotism, sweetened with glorious an
ticipation. Dry diet, though. And, as l
tell Annabel, when she has got to a
pass when she can't even keep her boy
properly shod, it is time she was put
ting him where he belonged, in the af-
fections of his grandmother and his
great-grandfather l am going to leave
them III that grand house we passed
this afternoon. l really did not have
the courage TO stop with Annabel look
ing so frouzy and the boy acting like
young Comanche. -
She summarized the situation crisply
with practical acceptance of the inevi-
table
"Of course we must expect scene,
but L prefer daylight for pitched bat
tie always.
1t was then that Seth suggested Liza.
Liza was the saving clause in the Mar
tin family. No affair involving tact or
sensibility could be- carried TO an effect |
i've climax without her supervision.
Both of the men regarded the resolute
face of Annabel's little champion anx-
iously. She looked supremacy self reli-
ant and adequate, but would she prove
adequate TO 1.-THE madam
Il think I'll fetch our Liza. She's
got IA headpiece worth havin. and i'll
there is anybody on this green football |
that can stand up 10 the madam when
she mounts her high horse it is our gIrl |
Liza.
In union there is strength Fetch
our Liza, by all means, Mamie had
said, with tragic eagcrness, and Seth
had gone away, promising faithfully To
be back promptly in the morning with
that potent damsel.
1t was with sense of infinite graft.
tude to destiny, which so rarely played
him kind trick, that Strong had mend
ed the fire, surreptitiously blown the
dust off the wooden mantelpiece with
one blast from his powerful lungs and
essayed a general betterment of his
shabby sitting room while Mamie "touk
a peep at her sleeping charges in the
still shabbier bedroom.
What "a qualification the world had
magically undergone for him Even the
dismal pattering of the rain ON the
CRASHES dOOryard had suddenly grown
musical. The monotonous thud Of the
locust branches against the closed wood.
en- shutters had lost their power To irri-
tate. The sparks danced upward in the
black thrOated chimney with fascinat
ing scintillations. Neck or Nothing haa
been glorifed by the unexpected coming
of a girl
He scared in temporary superiority
TO all that was rasping and incongruous
in his daily life. The silver lining e.
his cloud was beginning 70 show Ros,
tinted possibilities began 70 float i'll daz-
cling multiplicity before his eyes. From
this precarious exaltation of spirit ne
was suddenly hurled by that chalIeng-
ing question, and you:'
She looked at him with cool inhex.
Utility, settled herself so far back in the
big splint bottomed rocking chair that
only the small pointed toes of her well
worn boots touched the sunken bricks OF
the hearth, folded her plump hands
with the air of one prepared to listen
long and attentiycly aud said, "Wellr'
IN coaxing, encouraging tone.
But IL 10 not easy to relax sharc
locked lips. She beat an inpatient tat
too with one boot.
81 have told you all about myself,
Strong, all about darling old daddy,
fighting like hot headed boy. and he
63 years OLD, all about the closed col
lege, every. professor in the army. all
about Annabel troubles, and now i
think am entitled to some return cen
fdences. -
81 have nothing to tell you"
Nothing to tell!'
"Nothing."
Nothing to tell in these stormy
times, when just to be a man is an OK
ira privilege"
Nothing. 1"
What have you been doing since
you carried off the first honors at col
legeY"
Nothing.
"What are you going to dor
Nothing"
"Wellr'