The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-06-20

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!" Why don't you know tho msanins9'
Asked hef. Haven't you ever had any
pleasant dr6Amst Don't you worry ! bit.
and you'll wake up none the worse tomor-
row morning In the little room hired ct
strawberry shortcake No had ct the wedding
was dangerous
why. che demended. In ! voioe like
Ellen Terry In Lady Macbeth do they
call me Mra. Vandercamp?'
Why, said. don't you understand
Yhat'a merely part Of the joke, or the
dreamer the-the system at this particular
asylum. =
But Elsie didn't wake up In Farmer
Clemm's. She had coffee and rolls in her
bedroom with an eight-foot plunge In the
middle Of It and more sorts Of apparatus to
make cleanliness virtue than the New
York nre department owns. Later In the
morning We played golf on private links
and tn the afternoon took drive Ia the
v1ctoria. We got back In time for dinner.
We were on q honeymoon, but We missed
no meals while We were Ii that house
We didn't always ride in the victoria.
We tied dogcart. tandem. and an au-
tomobile runabout, and horseback rides
the head groom almost -wept With pleasure
at having just the mount for Elsie At odd
moments we struggled with the mystery
But after two or three days even Elsie
grew used to being called Mr.. and Mrs VAN
defcamp.
STRIKES GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEME.
Toward the end of the first week /
thought I'd like to behold again something
I'd know In my previous existence SO
had the coachman drive US over by Far
mer Clemm's. When we came in sight OF
the house an athletic-looking chap in q
golf suit and stunning girl were sitting
out on the front steps. They seemed inter-
ested in us as we drove by.
BY jove!' I said to Elsie, .Clemm's got
some other boarders. Well suppose the
young things enjoy their simple, rural life.
Perhaps they're backwoods relation OF the
Clemmmses and on q honeymoon too.
They may be on a honeymoon said
Elsie, but they're not backwoods relations
on cost 500 IL 1t cost cent
I'VE saw the couple several times after
that One day we came across them as we
were driving home at the beginning Of a
storm and carried them to Farmer Clemm's
front gate. They appeared to be very nice
people, though at the time they seemed
little awed by our magnificence.
THE middle OF the second week curious
thing happened. was smoking one of those
cigars on the side piazza after luncheon,
watching three or four gardeners setting out
rose bushes, when the butler came out and
the telephone. hurried in. It would be the
first message we'd got from the outside
world and might prove interesting.
How are you, my boy?' came a voice
when l said Hello How are you getting
along?
THE voice was terribly familiar, but for
the moment couldn't place it.
= oh. pretty fair said.
"'Well, I know It's rude trick for me
to break in on your heavenly solitude, but II
you can spare few moments just send up
to New York and take on few shares OF
O. K. & c. It's going to close at about 40
this afternoon, and there's deal on that'll
make it open around 125 tomorrow morning
That's all. Give my regards to your better
half, and heaven bless you Good bye
"And there came the sound of a receiver
being hung up on the other end, wherever it
was. hung up my receiver and staggered
over to a chair.
lowed me to the telephone.
!. I don't know gasped. holding my
head In both banda. The voice is horribly
familiar. But who would give me tip like
that Who even knows who we are here?
4 don't suppose ~ telephone company has
GOt = cQnnsef16n In A.
~ where. demanded Elsie.
n & Roasting department said ringing for
Y nm hickey
Thea suddenly / jumped up and grabbed
Eleie 50 hard she squealed.
FELL INTO A FORTUNE.
what is itT she cried trying to get
away.
"'Do you know whose voice that was?
| shouted. That was Pendenning-Pen
Junior member of Zenas Wildfoot
& Co., one of the biggest firms on the street.
I've heard him many time speaking to the
boss. He juggles railroads and plays hand
ball with trusts, and il he says O. X. G. is
going to 125, it's going.
Elsie squealed again and had black and
blue shoulders when she went to bed.
What, l screeched. What is he tele-
phoning his tips to me for, and here? He
doesn't know me from a hole in the ground
Take that back said to the ub-butler
who just then came in with the rickey, and
make it highball without and soda. And
have the dog cart brought around in
hurry.
Three hours later was on my way back
from New York with my 5000 savings gone
and 80 shares credited to my account on a
81 margin. The next morning l used the
telephone again. l called up the brokers
who had my order. They'd sold for me, ac-
cording to orders, at 1875 opening, and had
SIG, 200 credited to my account
"I don't like the architecture of this
house,, l said to Elsie. I shall tear it down
and build new one, or move
ELSIE wept. She wept more two days
later when we went back to New York for
good l left $500 with the butler to be d.
vided up among the servants. From the
number of them should Judge they got on
an average CT nearly 81 a piece
my desk is in the boss outer office. I
was behind it the next week when In came
Then 1 had a slight apoplec
tic stroke, for with him was the chap we
had seen enjoying the simple rural pleas
ures of Farmer Ciemm's piazza.
LET me introduce said Pendenning to
the boss, my wifes cousin, Mr.. Wander
camp Mr.. Vandercamp has done two
lucky things lately-he's got married and
he's come East and put couple Of mill
lon dollars in the firm of Wildfoot & Co.
"The boss shook hands cordially and / got
lower behind the desk.
And l hear, said the boss, that Mr..
and Mrs. Vandercamp have been enjoying
The pleasures of Pendenning hall, at Para
disc on the Hudson
'Pendenning laughed
They've been enjoying Paradise on the
Hudson all right he said, but not Pen
1enning hall
No. said Vandercamp, we were kid
mapped. An aged farmer grabbed us and be-
fore we could say word Pens coachman
had carried off a shabby young couple from
he other end of the platform. After that
the stray couple started in to enjoy their
stolen fruits with beautiful, calm nerve
hat was altogether too amusing to spoil.
So we laid low and lived on farm products
Tor two weeks
Il stuck my head lower behind the desk,
But when Vandercamp said we were .
shabby young couple he lied"
A Shattered Ideal
At Sixteen.
''oh. the man whom ! wed must be handsome
and tall
Said maiden just out OF her frocks;
Il can't love man who In stature Is smah.
And l won't marry houses and stocks
Of course, he must keep me as papa does now;