The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-30
MEADoWCROFT'S MILD
ONIONS.
NEADOWCROFTS PRIME
POTATOES.

FeOple all nad IL nXeu JnaL fTau-
ces Marvin was to marry James
Parker. The girl half way thought
SO herself. She knew that several
times Parker was on the point Of a
declaration.
mot yet" the girl had said to her.
self, and she had averted diplomats
cally the crisis, though she was be-
ginning to think one day it would
come and she would say yes Her
mother urged her and her own
knowledge told her of an easy future
as the wife of man who had what
was needful and plenty more.
One day the board of managers OF
the Mortimer Pierce Hospital for
Cripples held a meeting. Funds were
needed and number of the young
women of society who were interest
ed in the charity agreed to ask some
of those whom they knew were well
able to give to help along the cause.
Frances Marvin was one of the so
liciting committee Tc.taps the
mother was wiser than most in her
generation, for she suggested to
Frances that they ask James Parker
for contribution. She and her
mother went downtown and at the
mothers suggestion went into the Of
fee Of James Parker, stocNholder
Mr.. Parker wasn't in. The Office boy.
who was new and not up to snuff. said
that Mr.. Parker was in his other office
further down the street. you'll find
him on the third floor at the corner"
said the boy.
Mrs. Marvin and her daughter did
not know that James Parker had two
offices. They reached the third floor
of the corner building. 1t was a
dingy place and on a rather dirty
glass door appeared, -. Parker
Loans" They entered. There was
an ante-room with two smaller rooms
beyond separated from the first by a
glass partition. A boy told them to
sit down and Mr.. Parker would be at
leisure In few minutes. Then-they
couldn't help it--they heard a con
versation. The voices were those Of
a man and a woman, and the man s
voice was that Of James Parker. The
conversation ran like this: Il can't
help II, madam; ten per cent a month
is what you agreed to pay and what
you are bound to pay by this writing
You have already paid me, you say,
an amount equal to the principal.
That has nothing to do with 1t. II
you can't pay you shouldn't borrow"
I'VE are in trouble at home, Mr..
Parker, and wish you could be bit
easy with u.s."
"You should have thought of all
that before, madam. This debt is
legitimate, and the law can't pick a
hole in it. want and must have my
money or your furniture goes"
There was something like dry sob
from the inner room. With com
mon impulse Mrs. Marvin and her
daughter rose and left the room.
though not till each had placed card
before the office boy, saying softly:
Tell him we were here" When they
reached the street and were hurrying
along as though to get away from a
neighborhood Of contamination, the
girl said: Mother, l have heard of
such things, that men In business
made much OF their money in other
businesses OF which only a small part
of the world knew anything. did
not know that Mr.. Parker was one
of these"
Some time after this a little party
OF people went TO Bowmanville to see
the flowers. John Meadowcroft met
the visitors at the gate. He had a
wounded squirrel in his hand. There
was a tender solicitude in his eve as
he examined the little animal and at
tended to its injuries. Miss Marvin
thought Of something else that had
happened In a downtown Office not
long before. Something like a
thought Of comparison went through
her mi1d, and not even the fact that
a faint odor of onions came from the
acres beyond the house could turn
her from the full knowledge that here
was the man.
People don't know yet how 1t came
about, but just before Ash Wednes-
day some one who didn't know about
it. Quizzed James Parker about Fran
ces Marvin, and asked when It was
to be.
Don't you know" said Parker, and
his face was a bit. white. "She mar
ried the man with the hoe. Ed