Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-09
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CONTRA PORRAZO
By Fl Philip Firmin.

I 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-nevertheless, it had it's peri
DDS of disturbance, when they failed
to agree, and when each spoke freely
according to the family custom.
The colonel was a man of large
means, whose home was in an eastern
city. He had taken suite of rooms
in the Balboa for the winter, for q
party which consisted of himself, his
daughter, aged 49, and his sister, q
matron of about his own age. There
was also maid.
The season was about half-over
when the trouble between the colonel
and Miss Josephine began. The storm
center at the, outset was certain
Harry Grandin. Some time later a
second area of disturbance was Gre
ated around a widow, a Mrs. Bronson
but this was declared by the colonel
not to be genuine casus belli, but
merely counter-irritant-a an at.
tempt to get up side-issue.
According to the material provided
at that time on which to base judy
ment, Harry Grandin was either a
handsome fellow with exquisite man.
ners, who could talk to your very soul,
and whom all the other girls wanted !;
or he was pestiferous nuisance, that
no one knew anything about, a fortune
hunter, most likely, who should be run
off the place, if the colonel had his way
about it. And the widow, from the
same sources. was either sly, design
ing creature that penciled her eye
lashes 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
dragged into this matter.
1T seems very strange" said Jo-
sephine, ''that the person 1 love best
in all the world, my own father, is the
only one that thinks 1 am a perfect
fright
II don't think any thing of the kind!'
cried the colonel. Indignantly. you
are an exceptionally handsome woman.
as your mother was before you, and l
know it. as we'll 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.
II don't assume it of everyone" be-
gan the colonel
THAT is not rich and bald and stu
pid." 80,
my DEAR" said the colonel. solemn
1y, "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, over 10000 people who would
rob him if they got, 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. I 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 hundred tn one who would
play the mischief with your happi-
uess.''
"You must be pretty we'll through
with the 99,' said Josephine.
Like enough" said her father. ssIn
chat case our young friend Grandin
must be the hundredth that is spe-
cially to be looked out for.''
Snow to go back to the point from
which this talk started" said Jo-
sephine, II 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
love you"
Miss Josephine flung herself over the
arm of the colonel's chair, and put her
arms about his neck. ooh, dad, love
you, too. Sometimes 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 tip, do you?" ~
The colonel looked a little moon.
Portable. ~, :. ~. 49,. 49,.
4, TITS about the widow, you know"
Whom do you mean?'' he asked.
with dignity; 'tMrs. Bronson p"
I Who else? You are not interested
IN more than one widow, are. you? d I
heard the other day that her FIRST W. was
butcher. Think of it the poor little
lamb!' Viii 'yx .s ,;,s .zs e. /.
HE was a Kansas City meat man, !"
said the colonel, indignant lys;; ...and /
should think you and your aunt might
find something better to spend your
time in than mere gossip SIS
ss# Wheneversthe conversation shifted ia
the subject Of the widow, Col. Talbot
felt himself at great disadva Il
VS. g ways the case with simple inno-5
IS scence, when II Is called upon to face.
Z. 81.