The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-23
Contra P0rrazO.
The Colonal'a RnaA a..A IT. UaaA-
pceted Result.
by Philip Flrmin.

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The winter climate Of California ia
very delightful especially at the great
Hotel Balboa, but even there clouds are
not unknown, and storms occur at
times. Similarly the relationship be.
tween Colonel Talbot and his deugh.e.
Josephine was said by their sentiment
tai friends to be q beautiful one, for
they loved each other devotedly and
we're seldom separated; nevertheless II
had its periods Of disturbance when
they failed to agree and when each
spoke freely according to .he family
custom.
The colonel waA q man OF large
means, whose home was In an eastern
city. He had taken q suit Of rooms In
the Balboa Tor the winter for a party
which consisted Of himself. his daugh-
ter. aged %, and his sister, q mntron of
about his OWE age. There was also q
maid.
The season was about half over when
the trouble between the colonel and
Miss Josephine began. The storm GEN.
ter at the outset was a certain Harry
Grandin. Some time later a second
area Of disturbance was created around
n widow, q Mrs. Bronson, but this was
declared by the colonel not to be a
genuine casus belli. but merely q coun-
ter irritant and ON attempt to get up a
side issue.
According to the material provided
at that time on which to tIase n judg-
ment Harry Grandin was either a
handsome fellow, with exquisite man.
ners, who could talk to your very soul
and whom oil the other girls wanted,
or he was pestiferous nuisance that
no one knew anything about, fortune
hunter most likely, who should be run
off the place If the colonel had his way
about 1t. And the widow, from the
same sources, was either sly, design
ing creature that penciled her eyelasll-
es and pretended not to know that she
was flirting or she was an estimable
person. who minded her own affairs
and was nothing to the colonel nor he
to her and who ought not to be drag
ged into this matter.
"It seems very strange" said Joseph
Inc, that the person ! love best In all
the world. my own father, Is the only
one that thinks am perfect fright"
81 don't think anything Of the kindw
cried the colonel Indignantly. ''You
are an exceptionally handsome woman.
rs your mother was before you. and
know it as well as-as you do" He fin
ished with grin.
"Then why do you always assume
that every man who pays me the slight
est attention does so merely because OF
your money!" She beamed on him us
one does who has scored.
II don't assume it Of every one be-
gan the colonel.
'That is not sich and bald and stu
pld."
my dear" said the colonel solemnly,
there are some things in this world
that your old dad knows a little more
about than you do. and money is one
OF them. There are two parts to get
ting rich. One Is to make money. and
the other is to hold on to It. The first
or these is easy enough. but the second
is deadly hard. Who was the English
man who said that whenever he woke
up In the morning in the city Of Paris
and suddenly remembered that the
place contained, according to police
statistics. over Go.0cG people who
would rob him if they got a chance It
threw him into blue funk? Now,
nave some money, admit. There is
enough to allow us to take life easily
and to do pretty much as we please
within reason. hayeaput It IN the
best possible shape to leave to you
when l pass out. But how long do you
think 1t Will ali last IL some rascally
young spendtbrift should have a
chance ut 1t as your husband? So
would rather suspect 90 innocent ones
'han have you caught on the hundredth
one who would play the mischief with
Your happiness.'
You must he crafty we'll through
With the 90" said Josephine.
mat case cur young friend Grandin
must be the hundredth thnt is specially
10 0e looked out for.' Y
Now. to go back to- the point from
which this talk started" said Joseph
.ne. Il believe I told you that there
was to be fishing party tomorrow and
uat Mr.. Grandin asked Aunt Harriet
ana me to go. What do you think7"
:, DO Just as you please about II, - said
sns colonel. You can't lure me into
.ofoidding things so as to make It In
,s.testing. am merely giving you a
h.ue tip. Dodie, my dear. because I
love YOU" Il
MISS Josephine flung herself over the
Nfrx, -.
asm a Of the colonel's chair and put her
asms about his neck. aOh, dad, love
tou ~. TOO. Sometimes almost wish that
.w nere wasn't any money for sna 70 sess
81 iied mixed up about
q. stick to that almost, Dodie.r
all. Anc say, dad. You don't mind me
sM,ng Nj you a tip. do you?''
tortable -. -
.r Its about the widow, you know"
z MI, Whom do you menn?" lie asked,
".m dignity: Mrs Bronson Z,
;, VINO else? You ayss not interested
: more Han one widow. nre your I