The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
A 7CHMAKER
BY w. x. ROSE. 4
BY W. z. ROSE.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


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nnEAR Brother Jim: This is a very
~ nice place, and I am enjoyin
1T accordingly. We are about a mile
from the village and the road is good
and Miss Laura and I drive over twice
q day. Miss Laura lets me drive sum-
times, bat she's afrade lie get the horse
his name is The Dook-out of The
stile Of driving that women prefur
And when I titen up on the lines and
The Dock strikes a lively clipp, she
says 'Steddy, Tommy and then l have
70. pull him in. But she is a nice girl
notwithstanding She has the prettiest
Drown hair, and such depe darlle eyes,
and such Il sweet way OF speekin'.
And they have a butiful home. It's on
q hill and you a see miles around it.
From my window | can catch site of
the lake thru a gap in the hills. It's
a very nice lake tho not dope enuff to
drown me-and Laura's father owns it.
they say he is pritty rich. MI. Rum
,~amidge-he sells books in the village
and lets you borrow them for too sents
a day-says Laura's father is a viii
age Creeses. 1t tells about Creeses
somewhere in a book and he was the
richest man In the state, but l think
he is dead now l CESS you must have
heard about him. He was a HISTORY
lal caracSter. I wish you was here
Brother Jim. We'd have CRATE times.
Iaura's most as good as a boy for hav-
in fan. Thare / heer her calm. The
Dock is a-champin on his bit and
waitin' impashent at the easel gait.
That's the way Laura talks. She's
most as good as a play actor. Aunt
Emmyline says Laura's romantick.
So must close. Write just as soon
as you hear from papa end mamma.
From your loving brother. TON"
James Thornton, rising young at
torney, smiled overthis epfstle and
laid it away carefully in a pigeonhole
OF his desk, whence it would be taken
and inclosed with his next letter to the
absent parents across the sea
There was a long gap between
brother Jim, aged 81, and brother
Tom, aged 10, and this gap had seem
ingly drawn them closer together. To
brother Jim, brother Tom had never
seemed the aggravated nuisance that
little brothers usually appear. in the
eyes of older brothers. Jim had
looked with amused Tolerance on Toms
widest pranks, and as for Tom-weil,
there We're few heroes of childish ro-
nance that did not .suggest his clever
kin gtspN{h lr A nd EVtND,aaL oJ I>,a,, J,F+
in Jim's care while the father and not
s6verstrcfig mother went abroad for
the latter'a health. 1t was a hot sum
mer, and Tom was conyalescing from
a severe case OF measles, and so Jim
thought it wise to pack him of to a
little village that nestled in the woods
of the upper Hudson, where he was
sure TO receive the best of care at the
home OF a slnerannlatad haakkeane.es
the firm of which James Thornton was
the newly admitted Junior member.
And it was from Bookkeeper Barclays
home that Miss Laura Garman had
fairly Kidnapped him. True, she
wrote a model letter to Jim, in which
she requested the loan of his young
kinsnaan, but before his answer could
be received she had him installed at
Greycrag. and in q position to add his
petition to hers,
He was such a delightful boy, she
wrote, and he would make the hours
at Greycrag seem SO much less lone
some. Saving for the presence Of a
maiden aunfsshe was quite alone
there, her father and mother having
gene 70 California, to take an invalid |
sister OF the latter. Besides she was
sure the altitude Of Greycrag was
quite certain TO hasten the return Of
sTommy.s strength. She hoped this
Wal not taking q liberty, but she had
never = q boy who charmed her
SUITE as NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. he re-
minded her OF q little brother who had
passed away In his seventh year.
What could Brother Jim do? He
wrofe q aslaliiied acceptance 81 this
letterspf Invitation. She must promnt-
III returnsFso ON il sle tiredsof him.
Hiaesxouatn' tolerate Him II be proved
Hassaseags aie eraunrnanageahie Ant IL
sEnuld ask itasa PARTICULAR favor if
voul AT once communicates u h;,,,
fafractson 81 conduct 81 which