Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01
VOL. LXVII.

Two years previous John Doyic mac
retired from the grocery business WEI
a tidy income, substantial brick res,
aence and chronic rheumatism, When
!. ever the malady iooscnea i!s grip
Doyle wandered back 10 the ccenes o.
his commercial achievements. His sue
cessor always gave him cordial wei
come, and 4 comfortable chair back oi
the cashiers booth was at his disposal
When too lame to walk as far as the
Store, he ccnsoled himself by h'syins
innumerablc games o. p;aochle, i'll tie
rear of Simpsons cigar store, jus:
across the street.
1t was from a disastrous defeat al
Dinochle that he came home 10 hear
that Louise was going to business,
The moment was inauspicious.
II never heard tell of such tomfool-
ishness. My girl going to chase down
town six days in the week, like the
daughters OF that no-accourt Tom
Saunders? Pcople'n be questioning my
credit next. And she wont make
enough to pay forEt new feathers
and fixing she'll want, to say nothing
of the shoe leather she'll wear eGt
traipsing back and forth in oil kinds
of weather."
Mrs. Doyle, WAC in SPITE Of the fact
that she never Joined Mothers club
nor studied household economics, had
succeeded in making John Doyle COM
Portable and content, calmly set a
gusset in her husbands new Shit as
she replied:
II doa't know about that, JOAN.
think tnas if more girls knew now hard
it is to earn money, and to make e sue
cess in business, we'd have fc&er shift
less and grumbling wives"
Mr.. Doyle groaned at his wifcs de-
sertion to the enemy.
'.And as for her wasting her money,
I don't believe Louise'll do, anything
of the sort. She's got too much of her
fathers blood in licr Besides. she S
going to pay her board-says It's only
right, seeing that she won't be home
~ uSlD ulS Will tLS WOiA
Mr. Doyle fairly gasped in his furE.
"Pay her board! Minerva Boyle,
have you gonc daft? Or are you turn
ing miser, like your Uacle Sam? My
daughter shan't pay ner board, so long
as I'm here to rrevent it.
But Louise had her way. Every
Saturday night che paid her board, and
every Monday morning Mr.. Doyle car
ried the saaney straight to the savings
bank AID deposited it to the credit of
Louise Doyle.
Three years rolled round and Louise
failed to fulfill any of the dire predic-
tions set forth by her parent. She did
not take pneumonia from facing keen
nol.thwestsfs. She did not catch
;saplal llnas from ill-ventilated
cass And she refused to elope with
the junior partner. : But she had risen
steadily in the estimation of her en-
ployers, until, when George Shaw came
to the city, she was confidential secre-
tary to the senior partner OF Delaney
& Griffin.
In his secret heart, John Doyle was
wonderfully proud of this self-poss-
essed, capable young woman, and when
Young Shaw from upstate, vigorous,
well set-up and well-p Used, appeared
on the scene, Mr., boyle groaned
afresh.
'If Louise hadn't that business bee
in her bonnet, there's the man Ia pick
out for her husband. Why On earth
any sensible girl weuld rather take
dictation from snarl:ng, bald-teaded
old crank downtown than to make
z. nice nome for a fellow like George
Shaw, don't Sec"
But as a matter OF fact Mr.. Delaney
was neither bald nor ill-tempered, and
George. Shaw had come to the city
with but one we'll defined ambition
to gain a business foothold. John
Doylets successor IN the grocery trade
bej-g second cousin to George. Shaw's
mother, he had taken the first thing
at hand, a position as clerk in the
store where Doyle had once ruled with
an iron hand.
Perhaps the happiness of Louise was
not the enly thing at stake, in Doyle's
mind. He might have cherished a Sc
cret longing to maintain cTen distant
family connection with the scene of
his commercial success. At any rate,
MIR. Shaw was in due time invited TO
call, and Mr.. Doyle fairly hugged him
self when he saw the admiration in the
young mans eyes on meeting Louise.
But for six months matters progress
ed no further. Mr.. Shaw called at ir-
regular intervals, and was courteously
received by Louise-in the presence Of
her parents
2 From MS point of vantage behind the
cashiers booth Mr.. Doyle studied the
young man whom he coveted as soI-
;in-law, and decided that an occasional
cigar could be offered his idol with i'm
punity. In the meantime George Shaw
was studying the uncertainties Of Gus
toners and markets, to the profound
satisfaction of his mothers second cou-
sin.
When Mr.. Shaw invited Louise to ac-
company him to the theatre, John
Doyle went into the seventh heaven of
delight. The calmness of Louise irri-
tated her eXuberant father.
The theatre-going became an estab-
Iished weekly event, and Mr.. Doyle
beamed, even when defeated az pin
ochle Each day he spent less time in
the rear room of Simpsons cigar store,
and longer visits we're made to the
grocery store. He bought better
brand of cigars, too, and proffered
them at more frequent intervals.
i But when Louise imperturbably an
nounced that Mr.. Shaw had invited her
to see Bernhardt in "L'Aiglon," and
followed up the information with the
prosaic observation that her rally
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