Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-06-23
pERILoUa EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Instance Of Pluck and Ds-
termination in q Young
Woman Employee.

"Mr. Osgood wishes to see Miss Lind
say"
The girl rose from her typewriter and
entered the private ONCE OF the presi-
dent, relates Youths Companion.
How soon can you be ready to start
for Mexico?" was the abrupt question.
The look OF establishment on Kath-
arine Lindsay's face was instantly fol-
lowed by one betokening mental calcu-
lation.
"In two hours"
81 will give you until tonight" said
the president, with 4 smile. THE fact
is, we must have somebody In Mexico at
once. The matter Is urgent. You are
the only one In our employ who speaks
Spanish, and you have had our cor
respondence long enough to know the
workings OF the business. Moreover.
you have pluck. tact and level head.
and those are what we need. One thing
wish to impress upon you-you must
get the order you are sent to obtain!
Don't come home without It! At five
O'Clock your instructions shall DO
ready"
On the night Of her. arrival at the city
of her destination Katharine was sud-
denly seized with q distressing cough,
and the following morning found her
exhausted after having passed an al
most sleepless night. Nevertheless, she
set about the business at once.
In three days time she could not see
that she had made any gain with Signor
de Mendoza. Meanwhile her illness in
creased, and q Mexican physician gave
her no relief. She grew desperately
homesick, and longed to take the first
east-bound train. Then she would
clinch her teeth, and resolve to fight 1t
out to the end.
Another three days left her greatly
Frustrated. She decided that as soon as
her errand should be accomplished she
would make her way instantly to the
nearest hospital. 1t was IN Arizona, 600
miles away. She was sure that, in her
present condition, she could not en-
Gure the Journey to her own home,
across the continent
On the seventh morning Of her stay
she was alarmed at an overpowering re-
alization of the instant necessity of foIc-
ing the Mexican to q favorable decision.
Although weak in body, her mind was as
bright, her manner as pleasing, her
tongue as tactful as ever, and when she
left the Office of Signor de Mendoza she
almost forgot her pain in the Joy that
the coveted order was hers. A tele-
gram of half a dozen words carried the
glad news to her employer, and inside OF
an hour Katharine had hidden good-by
to. Mexico and was on her way north
ward.
After SO hours of distressful travel.
ing she was set down among the green
alfalfa-felds of Blue River valley
scarcely able to stand. At the rospital
she told herself: II will write to moth
er in the morning." but the morrow and
the week following were blank.
When she came to consciousness her
mother and sister were at her bedside
Her luggage had been searched, Mr.. Os-
goods address found, and a telegram,
stating that Katharine Lindsay was ly-
ing in a precarious condition from
pneumonia, had brought her friends TO
Arizona on the first through train
1T was risking too much" said Mr..
O;good, shaking his head at Katharine.
Nevertheless, we were delighted with
that order!"
Pluck and level head-eficient pair!
They will carry one safely through
many a peril.