Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-04-14
R. ROBERT BUCHANAN call

i Uu HIS Olu OuC
- afternoon In answer to a note.
He was not in a particularly pleasant
frame of mind. AS he rang the bell he
was thinking what very weary world
this is for young medical gentleman
who has not enough of this worlds
goods to fell justified in asking the
loveliest girl in the world, Enid Hum
phrey, to become his wife.
When ushered into the library, how
ever, he answered his uncle's greeting
with as CHEEKY a nod as he could man
age, the two being really fond Of each
other.
"Well, Robert" said the old gentle
man, getting down to business at once.
IL want to talk to you about your med
ical practice; how is it progressing"
II am glad to be able to say that
progressing Is the right word, Uncle
Tom, but 1t Is SLOW"
"Of course 1t Is slow; what else did
you expect? Let's see, you have been
back from the university three years"
"Yes, SIR"
"Now, will tell you what the trouble
is: you need wife. You must marry
and settle down."
Il have known that for some time,"
DR.. Buchanan gloomily assented.
"Have you? That Is good sign.
When man knows what he wants he
Is halfway on the road to its posses
sion. Why don't you get you a wife"
"Money" said DR.. Buchanan, brief
ly.
you mean lack of money, 1 suppose?
Now, how much would you consider
necessarily
with $4,000 and my practice-for
that Is sure to increase-I would feel
safe In making the venture"
"Yes, that ought to start you. sup
pose you haven't picked out the girl
yet? Now, | am going to make you
an offer. The day you tell me some
nice, sensible girl has promised to
marry you l will give you my check for
$4,000, along with my blessing. What
do you say?"
81 say it is a co." and Robert grasped
his uncle's hand.
Every good but that is not all. OF
course, my boy, do not want to inter-
fere in your affairs, but-you know
Enid Humphrey, Of course?"
"Yes."
"Well, her mother and were great
friends; 1t amounted to deal more on
my part, and that Is your old uncle's
romance. Now, my boy, could not
get the mother, but If you, my nephew,
should happen to get the daughter
should be very glad-and Robert. not
meaning to use any undue influence,
you understand, would make that
check, say $25,000"
Robert seized his uncle's hand and
worked 1t up and down 500 to the min
ute, his face beaming with delight and
gratitude.
Uncle Tom,' he gasped, you are a
brick OF purest ray serene. You sit
right down and fill out that check, and
Twill he back for it in twenty minutes"
and he was gone.
Lord bless my soulr' said the aston
ished old gentleman. 81 was evidently
mistaken about his not having yet pick
ed out girl"
Twenty minutes after leaving his
uncle's house he was sitting by her
side, an engaged man and one of the
happiest in the universe. He told her
the exact day and minute when he first
knew he loved her, she reciprocated, all
was bliss.
Finally Robert declared that he must
go. You see" he said, 81 have n very
Important engagement with Uncle Tom.
In fact, my dear" with grin, ''it is a
matter of bread and butter for two.'"
81 don't understand"
"Of course not; women never do un-
derstand that part of 1t. But | am
going to clinch that very necessary ad-
junct to matrimonial happiness this
very afternoon.
What on earth are you talking
about, RRobert?"
ut is very simple. About an hour
ago Uncle Tom made me an offer:
promised to give mo check for $25, 900
the instant that | could tell him that
you had promised to be my wife,"
"Oh, indeedw
YES, real clever In the old boy,
wasn't itT' said Robert, with dim
perception that somebody had blum
dered.
VERY clever, indeed. And very clever
In you to take such quick advantage
of so generous an offer"
"Why. great goodness"
"But you are not so shrewd," she hur-
ried on, 'fn telling me so soon of the
great inducement that brought you
here this afternoon"