Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-26
MeadoWcroft's Mild Onions.
MeadoWcroft's Prime
Potatoes


People all had it fixed that Frances
Marvin was to marry James Parker.
The girl half way thought so herself.
She knew that several times Parker
was on the point of declaration.
mot yet" the girl had said to her
self, and she had averted diplomat
cally the crisis, though she was begin
ming to think one day it would come
and she would, say yes. Her mother
urged her and her own knowledge
told her of an easy future as the wife
of man who had what was needful
and plenty more.
One day the board of managers Of
the Mortimer Pierce Hospital for Grip
pies held meeting. Funds were
needed and a number of the young
women of society who were interest
ed in the charity agreed to ask some
of those whom they knew were we'll
able to give to help along the cause.
Frances Marvin was one of the solicit
ing committee. Perhaps the mother
was wiser than most in her genera
ton, for she suggested to Frances
tribution. She and her mother went
downtown and at the mothers sug-
gestion went into the Office of James
Parker, stakeholder. Mr.. Parker was
not in. The office boy, who was new
and not up to snuff, said that Mr..
Parker was in his other Office further
down the street. you'll find him on
~, u h. cs0i1 hn
boy.
Mrs. Marvin and her daughter did
not know that James Parker had two
offices. They reached the third floor
of the corner building. 1t was dingy
place and on a rather dirty glass door
appeared 81. Parker, Loans" They
entered. There was an ante-room with
two smaller rooms beyond separated
from the first by a glass partition. A
boy told them to sit down and Mr..
Parker would be at leisure in a few
minutes. Then-they couldn't help it
they heard a conversation. The
voices were those Of a man and
woman, and the mans voice was that
of James Parker The conversation
ran like this: 81 can't help it, mad
am; ten per cent. month is what
you agreed to pay and what you are
bound to pay by this writing. You
have already paid me, you say, an
amount equal to the principal. That
has nothing to 90 with it. If you can't
pay you shouldn't borrow
I'VE are in trouble at home, Mr..
Parker, and I wish you could be a
bit easy with us"
"You should have thought of all
that before madam. This debt Is le-
ultimate, and the law can't pick hole
in it. l want and must have my mon
ey or your furniture goes"
There was something like dry sob
from the inner room. With common
impulse Mrs. Marvin and her daugh-
ter rose and left the room, though not
till each had placed a card before
the Office boy, saying softly: Tell
him we were here" When they reach
ed the street and were hurrying along
as though to get away from neigh
borhood of contamination, the girl
said: Mother, I have heard of such
things, that men in business made
much of their money in other bust
nesses of which only a small part OF
the world knew anything. l did not
know that Mr.. Parker was one OF
these"
Some time after this a little party
of people went to Bowmanville to see
the flowers. John Meadowcroft met
the visitors at the gate. He had a
wounded squirrel in his hand. There
was a tender solicitude in his eye as
he examined the little animal and at
tended to its injuries. Miss Marvin
thought of something else that had
happened in a downtown office not
long before. Something like thought
of comparison went through her
mind, and not even the fact that
faint odor of onions came from the
acres beyond the house could turn her
from the full knowledge that here was
the man.
People don't know yet how it came
about, but Just before Ash. Wednesday
some one who didn't know about it,
ouizzed James Parker about Frances
Marvin, and asked when it was to be-.
Don't you know" said Parker, and
his face was a bit white. "She mar
ried the man with the hoe Ed
ward B. Clark, in the Chicago Rec
| ord-Herald.