The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-19
CHAPTER xxvlI-contlnued,-

A. sensational Turn IN the Mhprey For
tunes.
Horace said his wife,; impressively,
"Avice has. had offer of marriage
from
He looked up with new interest
From Rulon Shepler.
He dropped knife and fork. Shepler, the
man of mighty millions! The undjsputed
monarch of finance. The cold -blooded
calcula ting sybarite in his lighter mo-
ments. but a man whose values as a som
in-law were so ideally superb that the Mil
brey ambition had never vaulted high
enough even to overlook them for one
daring moment! Shepler whom he had
known so long and so intimately, with
ever the audacious thought of union SO
ttiupendously glorious!
~ Margaret, you're jesting"'
reMrs. Nlilbrey scorned to be dazzled by
wSr triumph. ~
nc Nonsense! Shepler asked her last
Of ght to marry him. .
Colts bewildering.. I never dreamed"
Tive expected It for months. could
cell yon the very moment when the idea
irst seized the man--on the, yacht last
summer. / was sure she interested him,
even before his wife died two years ago..
Il '.Margaret, it's too good to be true!,
"A "IfIyou think 1t is I'll tell YOU something
that isn't: Avices pra ctically refused him. >
Her husband pushed away his plate; the
Its treasures betrayed the strong emotion
under which he labored
This Is serious" he said, quietly "Let
us get att. Tell me If you pleased
rJShe came to me and cried half the
night She refused him definitely at first
but he begged her to consider, to take
month to think it over
Milbrey gasped Sheper, who com
rnhnded markets to rise and they rose, or
I'd fall and they fell-Shepler begging, en-
t,-ea-sng a child of his! Despite the soul
s1ckening tragedy Of it, the situation was
not without it's element of sublinity.
she will consider; she will refiect?"
"Youre guessing now, and you're as keen
at that as l. Avice is not only amazing.
ly self willed, as you intimated a moment
since. but she is intensely secretve. Wher
she left me could get nothing from hel
whatever. She was wretchedly sullen anC
tae-iturn." ,.,.ta.s.. -r.s S;.,4
but why should she hesitate? Sheplel
-Rulon Shepler My God! is the CIR
crazy? The very idea Of hesitation is pre-.
psterous!
II can't divine her. You know she ha.
acted preversely in the past. I used tt
think she might have some affair of which
we knew nothing-something silly and no
nantic But If she had any such thing
I'm sure it was ended. and she'd hav,
jumped at this chance a year ago. Vol
know yourself she was ready to MARI.
when he didn't propose. && Ssl
But this is too serious" He tinklet
the little silver bell. -
Find out if Miss Avice will be down t,
breakfast"
Ties, SIR
up declared Mr.. Milbrey when the mar
hal. gone. 49, i'll 49, ,.s.. ,...tts
t.ss.She's stubborn" cautioned his wife
2tGad. don't I know 1t
Jarvis returned.
Miss Avice won't be down, sir, and I'm
ttfetch her up pot of coffee, sir. at s
.sS..Take 1t al once, and tell her shall b
srpy to see her presently" Jarvis vanished
ja'I think I see way to put pressur
On her. that is If the morning hasn't al
ready brought her back to her seneses
At o'clock that afternoon. Avice Nil
isbrey's ring brought Mrs. Van 5Gest.
Ilbutler to the door.
#s "Sandon, is Aunt Cornelia at home z"
yes, Miss Milbrey she's confined to he
room h'account h'of a cold, miss.
"Thank heaveni"
Eyes, miss-certainly! will you go h'u
I to her?'.
"And Mutterchen, dear, it was regula
bombshell" she concluded after she ha
f1uttered some of the November FRESHNESS
into Mrs. Van Geist's room, and breath
lessly related the facts
.sYou demented creature! I should sa
1t must have been.' 81
Nov don't lecture!'
But shepler is one of the richest me
in New York"
Dad already suspects as much.
.tAnd he's kind he's big-hearted cha
q man of the world, generous-a-
GA woman fancier," Fidelia Oldakt
calls him."
my dear if he fancies YOU h
There, you old conservative. I've heal
all his good points, and my duty has bee
written before me in letters of fire. Ds
devoted three hours to writing it tn
morning, so don't please, say over ar
of the moral maxins I'm likely to hay
heard = u ss5. =
But why. are you unwiling?"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. I'm wild fancy.