CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-04-21

81 think we should have regular
market reports" she announced ear
nestly. II am sure Mr.. HarklesS would
approve. Don't you think he would?'
She turned to Parker.
market reports!' Mr.. Fisbee ex,
claimed. 81 should never have thought
of market reports, nor do | imagine
would either of my-my associates. a
woman to conceive the idea of market
reports!'
The editor blushed. why, who
would, dear. if not woman or spec
ulator. and I'm not a Spectator, and
neither are you, and that's the reason
you DIDN'T think of them. So Mr..
i Parker. as there is so much pressure.
and If you don't mind continuing 10 act
as reporter rs well as compositor until
after tomorrow. and If 1t isn't TOO wet
I you must have an umbrclla-would 1t
be too much bother If you went around
to all the shops-stores. 1 meIn-to all
/ the grocers and the butchers and the
/ leather place we passed the tannery.
and If there's one of those places where
! they bring cattle. would it be too much
| to ask you to stop there-and at ue
| flour mill, If It isn't too far. and at the
/ dry goods store-and you must take a
blank book and "A sharpened pencil, and
will you price everything please, and
jot down how much things ure?'
Orders received. the impetuous Par
ker was departing ON the instant when
/ she stopped him with little cry, But
you haven't any umbrclluT' And she
forced her own. a slender wand, upon
I him. 1t bore a cunningly wrought
handle, and its fabric was of gllsten-
ing silk. The foreman. unable to de
cline it. thanked her awliwardly, and
as she turned to speak 10 Fisbee he
bolted out of the door aud ran down
| the steps without unfolding the UNI
brella. and then as he made for Mr.
| Martins emporium he buttoued 1t Sc
/ cureIy under his long Prince Albert
determined that not a drop of water
should touch and ruin so delicate
thing. Thus he carried II, triumphant.
/ Iy dry. through the course of his re-
portngs Of that day.
When he had gone the editor laid her
hand On F'isDcc's arm. Dear" she said.
do you think you'd take cold if You
went over to the hotel and made a note
of all the arrivals for the last week and
the departures toof | noticed that Mr..
Harkiess always filed two or three
sticks, isn't it?-with them and things
about them, and somehow it read very
nicely. You must ask the landlord all
about them, and If 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 1t a good thing al
ways subscribed for it," She patted
Fisbee's cheek with her soft hand and
laughed gayly into his mild, vague old
eyes. ''It won't be this scramble to fill
up much longer. l have plans. gentle
men, and before long we will print
news; and we must buy plate matter,
instead of patent insdes; 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 l can do 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 TO Senator Burns
that is, listening to Senator Burns.
which is much stupider-and l think
can do an article on national politics
I'm not very well up on local issues
yet. and r. She broke of suddenly
''There. l think we can get out tomor-
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 ! mean. Take
your big umbrella and go, dear, and
please ask at the express office II
| typewriter has come for me-
She laughed again with sheer delight.
like n child, and ran to a corner and
got the cotton umbrella and placed 1t
in the old mans hand. As he reached
the door she called after him, "Waitr
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 Scbo.
field had never considered Mr. Fisbee
particularly sacred sort of person, but
he did from that moment The old
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 Chew
You haven't any rubbers! I don't be-
lieve any of you have any rubbersp'
And not until both Fisbee and Mr..
Schofield had promised to purchase
overshoes at once and in the meantime
not to step in 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 warm ar