The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

vanished into gloom as he sat down
on the arm of the chair and put his
arm about, her. &'s3@s "a: }.4 80 -
''This thing of parental affection
isn't what it's cracked, up to be- he
remarked with newborn cynicism.
I'm astonished at the governor!
Didn't suppose he was that sort of
mani"
"And I've always humored papa
when [ could" chimed Rose, as her
grief began to give way to sense of
injury. .'That's just the reason he
takes this advantage of my good ma
ture! He couldn't expect me to give
You up just because he quarreled
with your father before I was born
l leave it to you, Tom, could hep"
Il should think not replied her
husband with emphasis.
There was more talk of this sort
and then they decided that spin in
the open would revive their dropping
spirits and that there was no use of
worrying, anyway.
Only you may be sure of one
thing Rose said firmly, as she pinned
on her VEIL that when papa has
cooled down and writes for me to
come home, l shall not do tor that
iS-not right away! I think he should
have lesson and half hour later
| they were Swimming through the park
as radiant and carefree as if there
| were not /, speck on the horizon, let
alone two wrathful fathers.
Six months passed and still the let
ter from q humble and repentant
father which each secretly looked
and longed for did not come.
Il fear madam" said Tom one
morning, ''that we shall have to leave
these luxurious apartments and find
| something little better suited to
honest poverty. We have lived up
poor Snowflake and the auto is prac-
tically exhausted and the governor
seems to have forgotten us!''
Underneath his cheerfulness, Rose
saw signs Of real chagrin and black
fear lowered over her heart. Could
it he possible that their seniors were
never going to forgive? She had
never hated anyone and she tried in
vain to conjure up the feelings which
had set at odds the two dearest peo-
pie on earth to her and Tom. But
| she could not make it seem other
than ridiculous. She thought of her
father - elegant, reserved and
haughty-loving but few persons, but
those devotedly. From what Tom
had told her, his governor" was the
very prince Of good fellows-warm-
hearted and generous to fault, but
Il very fiend for obstinacy. once his
pride was aroused. In youth they
had been warm friends: then a break
came and each believed the other
guilty Of treachery. Her brow
wrinlllcd with the worry of it,!
them-~but how to do it, that was the
question.
Both were stubborn. both as proud
ats Lucifer. She thought and thought
and at last an idea came to her.
''Toln.' she cried, with kindling
eyes. crossing the room to where he
sat enyrossed in the paper and tax
ing it away from him, Il have a plan
for bringing papa and your governor
to terms,' and she sat down beside
him and talked rapidly for some time,
scarcely pausing for breath.
"The notorety!' he objected once,
but she siienced him by demanding
what he had to suggest, since he did
not approve of her plan.
A month later the superintendent
Of the Manhattan Island Street Rail
way company was heard to remark,
as an athletic, clear-featured young
nan in uniform passed across his line
oil vision, that conductor BOA was ':cer-
tainly 4 corker.' And indeed the fact
was SO obvious that within week
several people who patronized the
- street car commented upon the
distinguished appearance and courtly
manners Of this paragon of a con
ductor. Shop girls forgot to open
their novels when they boarded his
very elements of romance-anc
straightway fell to dreaming OF
princes in disguise. Even the less ap
preciative masculine contingent gave
him second look and paid him the
tribute of moments reflective won
der.
The people who went to the end OF
the line noticed that out where the
houses dwindled away to mere little
boxes with. a good deal of ozone
floating between, very trim young
woman in a checked bingham dres:
and the same indescribable air tina
distinguished No. 3O4, was in thu
. habit of meeting his car and handing
him shining dinner-pail.
An increasing number of specta
tors viewed this homely domesti,
rite each day. and the number O.
; those who rode to the end Of tn
, line and back just for fun, abou
that time, ought to have convinced
, the company that conductor No
, 3o4 was a valuable man. He and hi
pretty wife were creating mild sen
, satiOn, and though they were aDDar