Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-26

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your devotion and do YOU more GOOD
than if you were actually skating AMI.
enjoying yourself
don't take we'll to sitting en- a
snow Drink IN the dark, said KentIanf..
Il look nicer in front of CRATE. with
the ruddy freight bringing my noble
pronie INTO strong relief against the
dim background beyond
Kitty rose WITH great hauteur:. "As
said in the beginning. Mr.. KentIand.-
said KITTY, L say again: You are an
IDIOT. Iwash my hands of YOU WANT
ed to. help you. I don't care any more
Ii / were Violet I don't think would
ever took at you again. Then she
marched sternlv out of the room. and
henuiand heard her tell the rest OF the
house party gathered at the foot of
the stairs that he was too lazy to 60
skating. a--.
Ihe front door slammed and Kent.
lano, looking cut Of the window. saw
the party tramping away to the park
L suppose ought to CO. he said. giv-
ing another dismal glance at the CRATE
He thought about it for awhile and
then sadly went downstairs. put on
his overcoat and cap and the white
wooten mittens that Violet had given
him, and went out into the darkness.
"Wow''' said kentIand to himself
"confound skating, parties. anyhow"
fiease,> mister whineG a voice at
his SIDE, gimme a dime; I'm freezing
to DEATH
hentiand. looked at the tramp for
awhile. Then a brilliant inspiration
seized him.. You come with me- he
said to the tramp. He led him back to
Mrs. van Dolah's kitchen and gave him
TWO cups OF hot coffee and a generous
silce OF steak. Then he described to
MIN certain party of ten people who
would be skating in crowd in Lincoln
park. lie put his overcoat on the
tramp. and the white mittens. and the
cap.
/ You go up to the park" he said,
sterniy, land sit down near the bank
III the snow somewhere SO that YOU
can be plainly seen from the lagoon.
Don't sit near enough SO that the
skaters can come up and talk to
you, but not too far away SO that
| they can't take notice of this coat.
and this hat, and these gloves Sit
somewhere near the electric light.
but not too close. When this party
sees you and waves at you. why, you
wave back, and when you see them
going to take their skates off you
cut for this place as fast as you
can, Don't try to talk to this party
or LII have you sent to the peni-
tentiary for life, And don't run
away with this coat, for if you fol-
low my instructions I'll give you one
OF my old suits and overcoats to-
morrow that will be just as good,
and pair of shoes and fve-doIlar
bill into the bargain, and maybe you
cam hlackmail me into doing some
thing else for you. Now go on"
| Kentland fairly pushed the tramp
out of doors and then with a sigh
of joy went back up the stairs four
steps at a jump. He reached the
den unobserved, and moving a screen
| SO that he would not be seen from
| the billiard room he noiseIessly Sc.
cured pack OF cards and, lighting
a cigar, sat down in front Of the
CRATE fire and gave himself up t.
the delicious abandon of solitaire
| After he had beaten the 13 game
| twice he got down his favorite book
and read it through. Then he sat
| in the window seat and smoked his
| pipe in silent comfort while he
watched the falling snow outside.
| Suddenly he heard knocking at
| the side door. He hurried down and
found the tramp outside. He hur-
| riedly received back his overcoat
| cap and gloves, while the tramp
breathlessly told him that he had
followed Instructions to the letter
They seed me lots of times" said
the tramp, land waved their mitts at
me-, and L give EN- the glad han
rite back agen. They're a-comin'
home now" Kentland handed the
tramp fve-dollar bill and gave him
an address to call at the next day to
get the promised old clothes. With
a. gurgie OF joy the tramp faded
| away down the street and kentland
| thoughtfully walked around in the
snow on the top, step and then
rubbed his face with handful of
snow, until his countenance, was a
good, ruddy color. He hauled on
his coat and nlihtens and reached the
front hall just as the house party
| returned.
why in the world didn't you come
home with us?'' asked Kitty. "We
all went over to where you had been
sitting, but you were gone
Yes" said the, Harvard boy, '.you
ought, to have helped carry all those
skates home. I say, we're just about
turned to ice. Really, that was
about the coldest skating ever did y
Well" put in Kitty, II suppose
Mr.. KentIand is even colder than the
rest of u.s.. We were moving about
while he had to sit still up In that
terrible snow bank. Poor boy, I
suppose he's just about frozen to
death"