The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-01


D To the ex-governor. plantation affairs
were secondary and incidental State
, affairs were absorbing.
my daughter in laws steward" was
the facetious way in which he referred
10 Eben Martin among the neighbors
Eben Martin and his wife and his sons
{ were among the many things that were
} simply tributary TO the fuller freer life
of the big house Therefore it presented
itself in the light of duty that Mrs
Strong should see that the domestic ma
chinery of her overseer's house was kept
i'll smooth working order
AS a conscientious sovereign she was
minded TO look into everything fearless.
ly She was seriously disturbed about
this vivid, csoteric girl. who was given
10 violent horseback exercise and be.
witching red pompons Under the given
circumstances she considered her father
in laws selection of the word "meddle"
as not only inappropriate but bordering
ON the offensive.
Finding a discussion Of the Martins
and their domestic affairs inevitable,
the governor resignedly laid his spec
tacles across the pile of unopened papers
and went into the subject with some
| acerbity.
Eyes, NEEDLE That was the word /
used. l have come to look upon the
whole Martin brood as an ungrateful
and stiff necked lot Really, l have,
Adele, my dear. +"
why"
well Eben stood ont so stubbornly
| for reduction in the price 1 had placed
on Neck or Nothing. / never would
have sold the land at all had not that
boy Seth stubbornly refused to remain
on the place unless l would sell him
land to start small place for himself
AS for the second son, my namesake,
Strong, his attitude is nothing short of
incomprehensible. He refused point
blank to be Adrien's travelling compan-
ion, although the fellow is so quick and
intelligent would rather have paid his
expenses twice over than to have sent
Adrien off with that dullard, Spencer"
"Mr. Spencer belongs to very good
family, father, and he is not likely to
embarrass my son by any social blum
ders. Perhaps young Martin thinks he
has accepted enough at your hands.
Moreover, it is quite time he was get
ting to work l believe the plan is for
him to study under DR.. Whitcomb?"
WAS, but, hang it all, he positively
refuses to go into Whitcombs office
Refuses? Refuses to study medicine
under one of the best practitioners in
the south?"
$50 Eben told me yesterday"
What does he propose to do, pray?''
He is going to move Oh to the Pc
ninsula F."
Meek or Nothing? Impossiblel What |
would he do there?"
open it for Seth, is the plan. AT |
any rate, he is going there to live or
work or rust"-the governor gave an |
impatient outward sweep of his delicate |
hands-"or rot there. Confound the fell |
low, / never was more disappointed in |
any one in all my life.
but there is no house ON the Neck. |
1t is brambly wilderness, dreary, |
fenceless, out of the way hole
1T is all that or little less. Zeke's |
old cabin is still standing on it. Rather
IA dilapidated mansion to be chosen by
college valedictorian, with all the world |
before him"
Upon my word and honorp' Mrs
Strong's amaZement was boundless. "He /
must be lacking i'll ordinary perception
of his duty as man of education and
ability. Totally without ambition, i
suppose. His class generally is. "
The governor caressed his chin reflect
lively
"No, his entire college record is
against that theory l am afraid he has
left Singleton under something of q
cloud. l saw Redmond in town yester.
day and was talking with him about
Strong He would not speak out plain
ly, but limited darkly that Strong, in
the last months of his stay at Single
ton, had furnished brilliant record and
stripped himself of well won laurels."
II wonder what he did? Strange that
Adrien should have given you no hint.
Not strange, either My son could never
be ungenerous to a comrade. -
Il did not inquire further If it had
been Adrien, / should have compelled
Professor Redmond to be more explicit.
But, to come back to this little girl of
Eben's, I really do not see that she
comes within your province, my dear
Then / must bring her within it,"
she said haughtily, and turned toward
her waiter. Drake, you will watch for
Miss Martin as she rides home Stop
her, and tell her that want to see her
very particularly this morning. She
will find me in the morning room You
can clear off the table
The governor accepted these orders to
Drake as his own much wished for dis
missal and rose with alacrity. Piling
his arms full of newspapers he went off
briskly in direction of his study Once
inside of its heavy, carved door no
sound, no intrusion of petty local af-
fairs, would disturb him.
TO BE CONTINUED