The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-01-04
CONTRA PORRAZO
By Philip Firmin.

the 8reaU Hotel BALBOA, DuU even
there clouds are not unknown and
storms occur at times. Similarly the
relationship between Col. Talbot and
his daughter Josephine was said by
their sentimental friends to be a
beautiful one-for they loved each
other devotedly, and were seldom sep
arated-nevertheles it had its peri
DDS of disturbance, when they failed
to agree, and when each spoke freely
according to the family custom.
The colonel was man of large
means, whose home was in an eastern
city. He had taken a suite of rooms
in the Balboa for the winter, for a
party which consisted of himself, his
daughter, aged %, and his sister, q
matron of about his own age. There
was also maid.
The season was about half-oveI
when the trouble between the colonel
and Miss Josephine began. The storm
center at the outset was a certain
Harry Grandin. Some time later a
second area of disturbance was ere
ated around widow, Mrs. Bronson
but this was declared by the colonel
not to be genuine casus belli, but
merely a counter-irritant-a an at
tempt to get up a side-issue.
''It seems very strange" said 10
sephine, "that the person I love best
in all the world, my own father, is the
only one that thinks I am a perfect
fright"
81 don't think anything of the kind!'
cried the colonel, Indignantly. "Yor
are an exceptionally handsome woman
as your mother was before you, and
know it, as well as-as you do" He
finished with grin.
''Then why do you always assume
that every man that pays me the slight
est attention does so merely because OF
your money! She beamed on him, as
one does who has scored.
81 don't assume it of everyone" be.
gan the colonel.
THAT is not rich and bald and stu
pid"
"My DEAR" said the colonel, solemn
ly, there are some things in this world
that your old dad knows little more
about than you do, and money is one OF
them. There are two parts to getting
rich. One is to make money, and the
other is to hold on to it. The first of
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 sta
tistics, =. 10000 people who would
rob him if they got a chance, it threw
him into blue funk? Now I have
some money. admit; there is enough
to allow us to take life easy, and to
do pretty much as we please, within
reason. 1 have put it in the best pos
sible shape to leave to you when pass
out. But how long do you think it will
last, if some rascally young spend
thrift should have a chance at it, as
your husband? So would rather sus-
pect 80 innocent ones than have you
caught on the hundredth one who would
play the mischief with your happi-
ness"
you must be pretty well through
with the &c." said Josephine.
Like enough" said her father. Gin
that case our young friend Grandin
must be the hundredth that is spe-
cially to be looked out for"
"Now to go back to the point from
which this talk started" said Jo-
sephine, 81 believe told you that there
was to be fishing party tomorrow,
and that Mr.. Grandin asked Aunt Har-
riet and me to go. What do you
think?'
do just as you please about it" said
the colonel. "You can't lure me into
forbidding things, so as to make in in
teresting. I am merely giving you a
little tip, Dodie, my dear, because I
love you"
Miss Josephine flung herself over the
arm of the colonel's chair, and put her
arms about his neck ooh, dad, I love
you, too. Sometimes I almost wish
that there wasn't any money for us to
get all mixed up about"
''Stick to that almost Dodie."
"And, say, dad, you don't mind my
giving you a tip, do your"
The colonel looked little uncom-
Portable.
cts about the widow, you know"
"Whom do you mean?" he asked,
with dignity; "Mrs. Bronson?"
"Who else? You are not interested
in more than one widow, are you? I
heard the other day that her first was
a butcher. Think of 1.-THE poor little
lamb!"
''He was Kansas City meat man."
said the colonel, Indignantly; "and I
should think you and your aunt might
find something better to spend your
time in than mere gossip"
Whenever the conversation shifted to
the subject of the widow, Col. Talbot
felt himself at a great disadvantage, as
is always the case with simple limo
cence, when it is called upon to face
adroit insinuation and the suspicion
that turks in tone rather than in the
spoken words. tits true that he admired
Mrs. Bronson, for she was pretty, and
dressed in modest, becoming style, and
she was a bright and entertaining talk
er. Yes, he must admit that he liked
her best of all the women at the Bal
boa; the others, who were of suitable
age for his companionship, were, too