Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-02-23
CHAPTER X.
TOMS RICHES TAKE WINGS.

TOMS RICHES TAKE WINGS.
When Tom Broxton's two years Of
travel and study on the other side of
the water had nearly expired, two let
ters crossed each other on the high
seas. One was emphatically and ex-
clusively love letter, ardent, eff
fusive, persuasive, boyish if you will.
Hethad written it to Olivia Matthews
as concession to his own heart hun
ger. The other was as emphaticaliy
and exclusively a business letter, d.
rect explicit, hard, convincing. Toms
guardian had mailed it to him on the
very day he had dispatched his to
Olivia.
Said Thomas in his letter:
My Darling Oie-What I say to you in this
letter am quite sure Is already we'll known to
you. love you, and want to marry you just
as soon as practicable after my return 10 Amer
lea. What mean by ''practicable" you and
Miss Malyina and the dressmakers will best I'M
derstand.
When l went to tell you goodby. dear, few
nights after you were thrown from that horse,
you were in one OF your exasperating moods, and
I went away feeling pricky and downcast When
tried to tell you how loved you. to ask you to
give me some pledge that you would wait for me.
YOU laughed in my face, called me q silly boy
and treated me to some OF those superior aim
that always made my cheeks Jingle as If they had
been boxed.
1 famed out at you like the unmannerly cub
that was and told you that when next spoke
to you OF love you would be reader to listen, all
OF which goes to prove the crudity you charged
me with and the need there was for me to meas
ure myself by other standards You were right
in everything you said to me- my dear little
monitor, and even while chafed and sulked !
went on loving you tremendously.
A few more months now, and I shall be back
at dear old Broxton Hall to stay. In all my
wanderings my heart has been staid on it and on
you. My plans for the future have long since
crystalized into fixed purpose. They all radiate
| about, from, to, for you my sweet
OF course we want no drones about. Just be-
cause my dear father left comfortably provid.
cd for feel all the more impelled to emulate
his industry and enterprise. All my studies on
this side have been pursued with an eye single
to become an electrician. The study has taken
an immense hold upon my fancy, and as this Is
essentially the age Of electricity expect to do
something along the line Of invention and dis
covery. My original purpose OF studying law,
with a view Of being taken into partnership by
my guardian, he has discouraged from the very
beginning. Perhaps he is right in saying that
the bar could we'll dispense with two.thirds Of
Its numbers and still leave . good working force.
Luckily, my darling, we will not have to wait
for business to be built up. Broxton Hall is
waiting for its fair mistress There are jewels
and plate in its strong boxes, all for you, love,
and the fondest OF lovers thrown in.
You would smile, my sweet one, II were to
try to tell you half the visions have INDUCED in
Of you as mistress Of Broxton Hall. ! have seen
you at the head OF the table in the breakfast
room, darling, with the roses my mother planted
wreathing = gorgeous background to your pretty
hair. I have handed you into the old family
J coach and taken my seat beside you, while the
old family hoEaea-i ingled their glitteripE silver