Gilpin observer., 1904-11-17

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leaving the car it stopped so sudden
ly as to pitch her plump into King
don's lap. She apologized in much
distress, but he wanted to tell her
that he did not care how long she
stayed and to ask her to come again.
I have been watching Kingdom"
said Goodby to his wife. HE is clear
gone. Can't you invite Estelle to din
ner some evening, and I'll bring him
home with me? Won't say anything
to him about her. Wen Just have
sudden collision"
The dinner and Estelle and King
don came in due time. And so did
the sudden collision. When Kin~don
walked straight into her presence in
the parlor he could not have told for
the next three minutes what city he
lived in, or the name of the street. or
his own name, or anything else that
he had ever known. He was shaking
in every beam and cross timber Of his
being. He had just wit enough left
to know that Goodby had sprung
something on him. and that vision
as beautiful as that which he had Of
ten tried to fashion Of his dead moth
er was before him in blushing love-
liness. But young ladies have more
poise then men, and she soon con-
trolled the situation.
When the dinner party was over
Kingdom saw Estelle home. and for
the next month he did little else but
see her home, or see her at home. or
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in love, and so was Estelle.
In the meantime the Goodbys heard
nothing more about fatty degenera-
ton or blighted health. Kingdom was
walking around on air, and the neck
ties famed out finer than ever.
"Goodby," he said one morning
when they were going downtown. Il
have bought a house over on Grand
boulevard"
Bought house? What are you
going to do with it? Speculate on it?"
mo"
Rent it?'
mo. live in IT,"
Going to keep bach over there"
mo. going to keep house."
"Aha, old fellow. you have conclud.
ed to hang yourself, have you?"
"Yes; come around three weeks
from Wednesday evening and take
my dying confession and see bach
elor's exit"
The next Thanksgiving morning.
while bustling preparations were 60
ing on for a big dinner in the new
home on Grand boulevard, the bell
rang and Kingdoms wife went to the
door. An old man with well-fed
look and an easy, master-of-the-world
air asked for the gentleman OF the
house.
"Will you kindly give me your
name and state your business?" said
Estelle, with one Of her radiant
smiles.
please don't mind about the
name," said the old man-and his eye
twinkled-"but tell him that I have
spent $4,000 during the last few
years trying to find him, and I'd give
$4,000 more this minute to see him."
When she got her breath she told
Kingdom that q man who talked like
a bonanza king wanted to see him
in the parlor. "He wants to see you
$4,000 worth" she added.
HE can see me this minute for
half that"
But, my dear. the strangest thing
about it all is that he is the image
of you, or you Of him."
A sudden thought surged through
Kingdoms mind with the force OF
staggering blow. Can he be my long
lost father?" he gasped.
mo, 1t is my long lost boy" shout.
ed the old man. who had rushed up.
stairs and burst through the door.
And then, like giant out Of the
West. he caught him up in his arms
and swung him around the room.
II mothers in heaven look down
upon things on earth, there was a
great throb Of Joy in the heart that
had asked God to keep her baby boy.
But. ut all events. there never was
such Thanksgiving feast on the
boulevard as the one which the King.
dons celebrated that day.
At last two men had homel-
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