The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-09-19
CorneIa's
Deception
and the Outcome

fORNEL had two invitations t(
Il go to the Country club on Satur-
day afternoon. The Watsons asked
her to meet them at their house at Z
o'clock and drive out for dinner, and
Archibald Clever wanted her to &c
with him. For reasons very obvious tc
all who had given Cornelia's case ever
superficial consideration, she decided
to go with Archibald.
Archibald, being a lawyer, put his
instructions clearly.
''I'll be fearfully busy all the fore
noon," he said, "and shall possibly
have to work an hour or two after
luncheon, but I'll make desperate eff
fort to meet you by 2:30 o'clock, which
will enable US to get into the country
in time to see game of something OF
other. l don't like to ask you to &C
dangling around places by yourself
but if you could make an exception in
this one instance and meet me some
where convenient for US both-say the
Fifty-ninth street station of the Sixth
Avenue Lit would save me the trip
over to your house and give us much
earlier start"
And Cornelia being % years old
and fully capable of taking care of
herself, was in nowise shocked by this
unconventional proposition, and prom
ised to be on hand at the appointed
time and place.
81 wish, though" she said, "that you
could make it Pollock instead of $3.50
1 really think that you ought to let
work go by the board for this one
;;me and give me the first considera-
tion.''
But Archibald was unyielding. ''The
matter I have OH hand is very impor-
tant," he said, "and must be attended
to on Saturday. I'll hurry it through,
however, with all possible dispatch,
and will Join YOU at $3.50 little
later"
1t was 2:25 o'clock when Cornelia
sat down to catch her breath in the
Fifty-ninth street station. 1t took
several minutes for her to recover
from the putting fit superinduced by
climbing the stairs, but tolerable
degree of composure being finally
regained she looked around for Arch
ibald. He was not yet there, but as
his additional clause, cor little LATER
allowed him still few minutes of
grace, Cornelia was neither surprised
nor disappointed. AS the time sped
by, however, and still no Archibald APP
peared, she began to feel worried AT
the end of half an hour worriment had
deepened into stiff resentment.
'He has no right to treat me SOL
she stormed. "Just because Archibald
has known me since was inches high
he thinks he can trifie with me as he
chooses. I'll teach him better. His
talk of extra work was only bluff
He just wanted to find out how big a
goose he could make of me- I'll wait
no longer. I'll go up to Mary Wat
son'sl still have time to get there
before they start-and go up to the
club with them. That will show him
that I am not dependent upon him
for my pleasure. I wonder what he
will say then?"
Cornelia's comminatory esoliloquy
was accompanied by decided glare
that meant business, but notwithstand-
ing this fine squirt of spirit it seemed
for a time as if she would be deferred
from putting her threat into exeeu-
ton. In short Cornelia was destitute
of carfare. The position was peculiar
iy embarrassing under the circum-
stances. Still she was not entirely
without resources. Although it was
her first experience of the kind, abiect
poverty, so far as ready cash was con
cerned, was situation with which she
had long been familiar through hear
say, and she ran over in her mind a
dozen ways by which people thus tenn
porarily and unexpectedly impover-
ished gained transportation to the
desired point.
While debating which of the make
shifts thus recalled would be most com.
patible with her dignity, Cornelia's
attention was attracted by woman
who rushed out onto the platform
dropped her ticket into the box and
craned her neck far out over the
tracks for sight of the oncoming
train. These maneuvers occupied
but few seconds, Suddenly the wom-
an drew back from fhe edge of the plat
form even more quickly than she had
reached it and returned in haste to
the ticket choppers chair
Dear me-" she said, TI've forgotten
something that must take mp town
with Inc. Won't you allow me- to go
back, please, and get it2e dropped
my ticket into the box not minute
400 and don't want 70 howe 70 pox>