Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-10-12

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er, said typewriter being nineteen
years old and pretty.
What is good family, Mr.. Dunlap"
asked the typewriter one day.
"Why, why, my dear. what do you
mean?" stammered Peter Dunlap,
"were-were you reading my
thoughts?"
"Oh, no." said the typewriter, Miss
Sweet, smiling demurely. II was only
thinking little for myself. Is your
family good family, Mr. Dunlap?"
'The finest in the country" said
Peter Dunlap, putting out his cheeks
and swelling out his chest, "and we
have been bankers in the city of St.
Louis for sixty years, one Dunlap fol-
lowing the other"
"And-and-were your wives also
bankers?" murmured Miss Sweet az
sweetly as her name.
Peter Dunlap looked at her sharp
~ and coughed.
'My MOTHER" said he, twas bank
er's daughter; her mother was the
daughter of Lady Cadogan of Eng
lam; her cousins were related to an
earl, and the earl's children intermar-
ried again into our family. We are, I
! might say, Miss Sweet, of noble de-
scent"
eyes, yes, thought So" lisped Miss
Sweet, very sweetly.
It was no secret of the office, nor to
Peter Dunlap, nor to Miss Sweet her
self, that there was something more
than the clicking of the keys between
the proprietor and his pretty type
xxyyfRa
Miss Sweet had touched the heart OF
her employer at the same time, and
for the last six months matters had
been coming daily to a crisis between
them. Miss Sweet thought she loved
the proprietor, indeed she was pretty
sure that she did, and as for Peter
Dunlap, he was very certain that his
heart was only in one spot, and that
spot was under the neat shirt waist
worn by Miss Sweet.
Most young women under the cir
cumstances would have felt yerv
much unified at the thought of being
loved and rejected for reasons whic h
they could not help, but Miss Sweet
was not like other pirls. She viewed
the fact of her poverty with equanim-
1ty, and was undisturbed by the
knowledge that it was only her poor
social position tina: kept the banker
from proposing to her. Not that she
was unaware of the state of affairs,
In fact they had talked it over.
You see, my dear" for Peter
Dunlap called Miss Sweet "my dear
1t is this way: My sisters are very
proud. Elsa is the wife of an admir-
al, Clara married a millionaire, nv
only brother is yachtsman and cup
holder, and must uphold the family
name. Now my dear-for the TWEEN
tieth time-I repeat to you that love
you very dearly, and if I could. l
would ask you to be my wife, but
but-you see just how it is"
ITO be sure" said Miss Sweet with
ready show of that sympath for
which the banker loved her among
other qualities. "I understand ali
about it. Mr.. Dunlap, the rich bank
er of st. Louis, of the proudest family
in the West, cannot create a social
sensation and shock family tradition
by marrying a poor typewriter, who
was SO penniless when she came to
him, that she had to live in a work
ing girls home"
Yes, yes, exactly, that's the way II
is, though you put it rather harshly'
Otherwise you love me?"
Better than my life"
Il see. So my life is to be spoiled
and what is left of yours?" Here Miss
Sweet laughed so merrily that Peter
Dunlap looked confused, and shortly
after he put up his ledgers for the
afternoon and went out.
1t was nearly three days before the
subject was alluded to again, for il
was an old matter with Peter Dunbar
and his typewriter, and one which
though they discussed it often, did
not come up every day. This wa.
more Miss Sweets fault than Mr.
Duniap's, for the banker would hav,
talked 1t over with the young lady
ana would gladly have come to some
arrangement by which he could mar
ry without shocking his family. "Yor
see they would take it so dreadfully
nard,' he said to himself many times
II l should marry beneath them"
MISS Sweets view of the matter wa.
this, which she often expressed in 81
many words:
You see, sir, have worked for yo,
two years and have given you salts
faction. From an assistant I hay,
come to be your chief clerk, and I'M
oerstand your affairs. I write you
letters and do your work we'll. 70,
trust me. and-well, I certainly trus
you. II am more fond of you tina,
typewriter is supposed to be of he
employer, well. that is my bushes
and yours. y you don't object no
body else can. You are a widows
and can look where you please. Now
am satisfied; I am willing to 60 on
working and to have you pay me ev-
| cry week. Let us be contented and
! let the matter rest there"
This is all very well" said MI
| Dunlap,''but don't like it.
what is good family, Mr.. Dunlap
repeated Miss Sweet twice in one day
81 think / have asked you that once
| before"
"Why one that is-er-why q good
family is-a good family, don't you
know"
Yes, exactly" said Miss Sweet
but was wondering If we agreed on
the subject. NoH mE family is-wslI