Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-11-17
ent smile and quick reference to busi-
ness matters in hand that left him
feeling neatly and beautifully snubbed.

the air of Il person in deep thought.
Then. with q scornful smile playing
about her lips, she dropped the paper
into the machine. gave the roller a
quick contemptuous turn and muir
INJURED TO herself:
"a perfect cad.'
Fight the conviction as he would.
Oglesby became Lore and more con-
vinced as the days went by that
dire thing had happened to him.
Why, otherwise, was lie forever fur
lively watching her clear. pure outlines
with satisfied delight?
Yet his very soul WINGED at the
thought Of an Oglesby in love with
| typewriter girl-and one, moreover,
who scarcely noticed him! With that
| thought the queer, unreasonable ex-
| ultation that he had experienced before
at being snubbed darted through him.
| He was proud of her-proud Of her
as If she had been himself.
| For two generations the Oglesbys had
| married bellies of their day. Indeed, to
| be born an Oglesby--and a man-was
much the same thing as being born a
| prince of the blood.
And now the head of the Oglesby
| family was absolutely dependent upon
| a girl of the people-a young woman
who earned her living by means Of the
| skill by which her long, white fingers
licked off the letters that pertained to
the vast Oglesby interests.
Admitting that the impossible could
| happen, he reflected, wouldn't it be
sweet? Glaring headlines in the daily
newspapers: "Oglesby WEEDS His Pref
| ty Stenographerv' Romance In a Wall
| Street Officer The thought was too
| that lay on his desk with his lips shut
| in a cruel smile She must go.
| "She is a queen, all right" he was
thinking as he held a portentous docu-
ment before his eyes in the delusion
that he was reading it. She's a
| queen. but we Oglesbys cannot marry
queens who have got lost from their
| Queendoms"
| At that moment there was a tap at
| the door, and in response to his mum
| bled Come inr the lady of his
| thoughts entered In less time than it
takes to write it the Oglesby pride
| skunk out Of sight After all she need
| not go! The mere thought of some
| round checked girl with beligerent
| pompadour filling her place made him
| feel murderous.
| He rose to place Il chair for her. dim
| IL aware through the confusion of his
thoughts that she had expressed wish
to speak to him upon a personal mat
ter Then Il shiver of intuition caused
him to look at her keenly.
| "And | should like to get away as
soon as l can, Mr.. Oglesby, without in
conveniencing the firm in any way"
were the first words that Oglesby
heard clearly as he recovered from his
dazed surprise.
For moment he did not speak. For
the first time in all his elegant AFRO
giant life Hubert Oglesby felt forlorn,
| bereft, In that moment the Oglesby
] pride was forgotten.
",day l ask why you have decided to
leave us?' he asked at last, very hum
bly, and with a fear clutching at his
heart as very probable reason for her
action suggested itself to his magma
ton.
'Of course" he went on soberly, not
waiting for her to speak Il do not
need TO tell you how much I-how
much we have appreciated your pres
ence here. We
She interrupted him by a little ges-
ture at once imperious and girlish.
Now that she was about to leave, the
cold reserve of her manner had dis
appeared.
you've all been so very kind to me
here that
Something in the intense gaze that
he bent upon her caused her to leave
her sentence unfinished. Then slowly
the color burned in her cheeks like
the fire in an opal, and Mr. Oglesby
was speaking, rapidly, eagerly and as
a man rather than an Oglesby
Don't tell me that it is too late"
he pleaded, land that there is some
one else. | think ! have loved you
from the first, but
He stopped in embarrassment Miss
| w eutNOrln looked up at MN with
Quizzical smile.
THE Oglesby pride?" she queried,
with gentle raillery
1t was a trying moment. Oglesby
turned hot and red with shame The
Oglesby pride suddenly seemed to him
contemplate thing. Then he looked
up and nodded with dull hopelessncss.
She would never forgive such en- adj
mission as that. he felt sure.
Miss Wentworth laughed delightful
ly-unaccountably
1.-The Wentworths of Boston," she OBJ
served demurely, are unused to being
scornedr'
But how in he world came you to
be earning your llvinC?"
Family and fortune" she smiled
SACK at 0sra,.,s' 5metiHlS.. q aFt..coIa =.
pany."
And in that smile Oglesby read that
there really might be chance for him
some time.
| To He nm ANGEL