The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-04-29

went over 10 the nOtel ana maue n note
of all the arrivals for the last week and
the departures too? l noticed that Mr..
Harkless always filed two or three
sticks. isn't iti-with them and things
about them. and somehow 1t read very
nicely. You must ask the landlord all
about them, and IL there aren't any, we
can take up the same amount of space
lamenting the dull times. just as he
used to. You see, I've read the Herald
faithfully. Isn't it a good thing 1 al
ways subscribed for itt" She patted
Fisbee's cheek with her soft hand and
laughed gayly into his mild, vague old
eyes. 1T won't be this scramble to I'LL
up much longer. 1 have plans, gentle
men, and before long we will print
news; and we must buy plate matter
instead of patent insides; and / had
talk with the Associated Press people
in Rouen. but that's for afterwhile.
And l went to the hospital this morn
ing before left. They wouldn't let me
see him again, but they told me all
about him, and he's better, and got
Tom to go to the jail, and he saw some
of those beasts, and can do a column
of description besides an editorial about
them, and / will be fierce enough to
suit Carlow, you may believe that. And
I've been talking 10 Senator Burns
that is. listening TO Senator Burns.
which is much stupider-and / think ]
can do an article on national politics.
I'm not very well up on local issues
yet. and T. She broke of suddenly.
I raf nttt
rows number without any trouble. BY
the time You get back from the hotel,
father. I'll have half my-my stuff
written-'written up l mean. Take
your big umbrella and go. dear, and
please ask Mt the express office IL a
typewriter has come for me-"
She laughed again with sheer delight,
| like child, and ran to a corner and
got the cotton umbrella and placed it
in the old mans hand. AS he reached
| the door she called after him, "waitv'
\ and went to him and knelt before him
| and, with the humblest. proudest grace
| in the world. turned up his trousers to
| keep them from the mud. Ross Scho-
| field had never considered Mr.. Fisbee a
particularly sacred sort OF person, but
he did from that moment. The old
1 man made some timid protest at the
/ girls action. but she answered: ''The
| great ladies used to buckle the Cheva-
lier Bayard's spurs for him, and you're
great deal nicer than the Chev-
You haven't any rubbersi l don't be-
lieve any of you have any rubbersr'
| And not until both Fisbee and Mr..
Schofield had promised to purchas Sc
| overshoes at once and in the meantime
not TO step i'm any puddles would she
let the former depart upon his errand
He crossed the square with the strang
est. jauntiest step ever seen in Platt
vile. Solomon Tibbs had a warm ar
gument with Miss Selma as to hi:
identity. Miss Selma maintaining that
the figure under the big umbrella-only
the legs and coat tails were visible te
tnem-was that or a stranger, probably
an Englishman.
| In the Herald office the editor turn
ed, smiling. to the papers remaining
vassal. mir. Schofeld, / heard some
talk in Rouen of an oil company that
had been formed TO prospect for kero
sene in Carlow county. Do you know
anything about it,"
Ross. surfeited with honor. terror, ane
possessed by a sweet distress at find
ing himself tete-a-tete with the lady
looked at the wall and replied, "Oh
fits that Eph Watts foolishness."
do you know il they have begun 4
dig for it yet:"
"Ma'amg' said Ross.
"Have they begun the diggings YETI
"No. ma'am, | think not They'v'
got contrapshun fixed up about thre
mile south. don't reckon they've be
gun yet, hardly. They're gittin' IN
machinery in place. / heard Eph sa.
they'd begin to bore-dig, mean
ma'am; / meant to say dig III
stopped, utterly confused and unhaI
py, and she understood his manly pun
pose and knew him for a gentlema
whom she liked.
"You mustn't be too much surprised,
= she said, but in spite of my ignoranc
t | about such things / mean to devote
2 l good deal of space to the oil compan.
L | 1t may come to be of great importanc
t TO Carlow. We won't go into II in e
morrow's paper beyond an item or s.
D but do you think You could possibl
: find Mr.. Watts and ask him for som
I information as TO their progress and
n | IL would be too much trouble for him
| call here tomorrow afternoon or th
). day after? l want him to give me
4 interview II he will. Tell him, pleas
II he will very greatly oblige u.s."
Il "Oh, he'll come all right" answere
Il her companion quickly. "Pll take Tibb
Il buggy and 90 down there right ol
II Eph won't lose no time gittin' here
e And with this encouraging assuran'
:. he was flying forth when he. like Il
e others. was detained by her solicitor
IA care. She was a born mother. He pr
le tested that in the buggy he would
10 perfectly sheltered. Besides. the
n wasn't another umbrella about Il
a place. He liked to get wet anywa
,d had always loved rain. The end OF
was that he went away In sort
p. tremor wearing her rain cloak over B
~ shoulders, which garment, as II CO
~ cred its owner completely when s.
10 wore it, hung almost to his knees.
m darted around n corner, and thei
,t breathing deeply, tenderly removed
n. then borrowing paper and cord at
.. neighboring store wrapped Ii neat
N and stole back TO the printing office,
40 the ground floor of the Herald buildiI
IN and left the package in the hands
:, Bud Tipworthy, charging him TO ca
!. for II rs for his own life and not
- open il, but IL the lady so much as |
I. one foot out of doors before his retu
-, To hand II to her with the MESA,
"IIe borrowed another off ]. Hankin'
- Left alone, the lady went to the de
- and stood for time looking gravely
- i II,.t.ln....s nI,nir Sho tn,trhad IL gent