Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-26

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time, our relations, for some reason
or other, have undergone great
change. However, i think can help
you out. don't believe in keeping a
good friend like you, Quincy, in sus-
pense, SO will tell you the truth I
am married. My wife is fully as COM
petent to assist Mrs. Sawyer as Miss
Very would have been. She is in the
library now at work. will go and ask
her."
! He entered the room, closing the
door behind him. Quincy threw him
self rather discontentedly into chair
He fancied he heard laughing in the
next room, but he knew Alice would
be disappointed, and he himself felt in
no mood for laughter
Leopold opened the library door.
Quincy, I've induced her to undertake
the task" he said. "Do spare a mo.
ment from your work. Mrs. Ernst;
wish to introduce to you Mr. Quincy
Adams Sawyer, the husband of the
author of that coming literary sensa-
ton, Blennerhasset. Mr. Sawyer" he
continued, "allow me to present you to
my wife, Mrs. Rosa Ernst" And as
he said this. Leopold and Rosa stood
side by side in the doorway.
when did you do it?" finally ejacu-
lated Quincy, rushing forward and
grasping each by the hand Leopold.
/ l owe you one" And then they all
laughed together.
BY some means, DR.. Culver said by
the liberal use of money, Barker Dali
ton secured the regular nomination
| from Quincy's party. The latter kept
his word and entered the field as an
independent candidate. A hot contest
followed. The papers were full of the
speeches OF the opposing candidates,
and Incidents connected with their
| lives. But in none relating to Quincy
was a word said about his marriage.
and the fact was evidently unknown,
except to a limited few. When the
ipolls closed on election day and the
vote was declared, it was found that
Sawyer had plurality of 22S and a
clear majority of twenty-five over both
Dalton and Burke. the opposing candi-
dates. Then the papers were full of
compliments for Mr.. Sawyer. who had
so successfully fought corruption and
! bribery in his own party, and won such
a glorious victory.
But Quincy never knew that the
Hon. Nathaniel Adans SAWYER had
used all his influence to secure his
sons election. and for every dollar ex-
nended by Dalton. the Hon Nathaniel
had covered it with two OF five if nee
essary.
The publication of Rlennerhasset
bad been heralded by advance notices
that appeared in the press during the
month of October,
These notices had been adroitly
written Political preiudices. one no.
tice said. would no doubt be aroused
by statements made in the book. and
one newspaper went SO far as to pub
fish q double-leaded editorial protest
ing AGAINST the revival of party ami
mosities buried more than two genera
lions ago. The leaven worked, and
when the book was placed in the stores
on November II, the demand for it
was unparalleled Orders came for
it from all parts of the country. partic-
ularly from the state of New York,
and the resources of the great publish
ing house of HiHckley Morton & Co.
We're taxed to the utmost to meet the
demand -
While Quincy was fighting Dalton in
the political field. another campaign
was being planned in the clever diplo-
matte brain of Aunt Ella. 1t related
to the Introduction of Alice, the ''far.
mer's daughter" to the proud patri-
clan family of Sawyer. as Quincy's
wife-no easy matter to accomplish
satisfactorily, as all agreed.
The initial step was taken a couple
of weeks after Thanksgiving, when a
daintily-engraved card was issued from
Mt. Vernon street, which read:
"Your company is respectfully re.
uuested on the evening of December
10, at reception to be given to Bruce
Douglas, the author of Blennerhas.
sett."
(To be Continued Thursday
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