New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-02-15
REV AI|RDED
By
CLAIMING POLLOCK
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Copyright. 1904. by Charming Pollock

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. '.VV.Vf's'stsVsIsSSSi
Sallie Marshall went to Red Bank
for her vacation almost entirely be
cause Frank Ewing was there. 70
her friends in the offices Of the Ameri-
can Opera Chair company she said that
she felt the quiet Of the place to be.
what she most needed. In point of
fact, however. what she most needed
was the love of the young bookkeeper
who had dropped his pen week be-
fore with the ayoWed intention OF rus
ticating at Red Bank.
The ordinary, sensible woman of thir- |
ty-two, which was the exact age OF
| Miss Marshall, probably would not
| have sympathized with her much con-
! corning this requirement. Ewing was
Just twenty Eight, and his gray mat
ter was not gray because of maturity
! or overexertion. He was exceedingly
| good looking, exceedingly tall and
! broad and debonair, and these virtues
had appealed at once to little Miss
Marshall, whose eyes were accustomed
i to grayness Of mind and OF other
1 things.
1 Ewing liked Miss Marshall. too in a
patronizing sort of fashion, his regard
having been deepened considerably by
u the discovery that she was mistress
j of double entry and not at all averse
; to double labor. His affection never
melted into words, and it was sufti-
, GENTLY adjustable to permit of being
put quite out of the way when its pos
| SCISSOR met so fluffy and alluring a per-
B son as Nellie Carruth.
? Crank Ewings gone with your girl
I again" Miss Marshall heard an idler
remark banteringly to another as she
, climbed the steps of the Globe hotel.
She stopped to tumble a handkerchief
out of her bag.
"Who? Nellie Carruth?" inquired the
| youth addressed. s'LOoks as il l was
cut out, doesn't it?''
That he was not the only individual
"cut OUT Miss Mashall learned i'm
mediately upon the return of the pair
Fluttering about the piazza. she dis
| cerned them at the end Of the street
] the bookkeeper hanging on the words
Of his companion as no amount OF mere
appreciation of wisdom ever made mai
- hang on the words of woman. XIV
20 ing was greatly embarrassed, too, Whe1
q he saw Miss Marshall. although sh
I. tried to seem uninterested alike in nj
g presence and in his attention to tn
q blue frocked girl to whom he present
ed her.
itlO
rights, she told herself later, obey1n
the impulse that babe her justify hir
even to herself. He had made no pac
= with her, at least no verbal pact, an
III she knew that few men recognized tn
d validity of unspoken contracts. Wh
IS should a fine, strong fellow whose III
q was before him be tied to neutrs
IL tinted woman who already realize
e. that her future was to be only her pal
US stripped Of its illusions? Ii Fran
Ewing wanted to marry Nellie Carrut
ro it wasn't any Of her business.
Nevertheless while presenting an IL
w perturbable front to that part of tt
~ world located at Red Bank she suffert
keenly the next few days. Miss Ca
ruth and her widowed mother occup1'
. cottage near the river, and betwe'
walking, riding and boating she al
her new admirer were together almo
constantly Ewing glanced at Mi
Marshall once or twice, assured hill
self that she didn't care and was 81
y that he had not committed himse
- Ewing was not bad sort Of man;
- was just man.
This was the state of affairs when
fire at the Carruth cottage upset r
,st Bank and permitted to the bOOkkeeI
d. a display of courage which seemed
,ls write ''fnis' to his romance. The bla
We broke out at dead Of night and gain
iaI such Roadway in the front part OF
w. dwelling that there appeared see
ms probability that the two inmates COZ
he be rescued. Red Banks volunteer
eg- brigade propped its ladders against
FOR veranda before the bedroom windoN
oer but very wisely refused to mount tn
through the blast furnace of the bl
ing porch. Ewing went up one of th
like a toy monkey on stick and c
n ried both women to places of safety
B Miss Marshall, who thought it ris
to be among the spectators at t
did not witness this deed, but
heard of it, and her heart swelled "
pride. She had known all along t
. Ewing was capable of just such he
Il ism Forgetting her previous reser
she FASTENED to congratulate b
\ 10 bringing up speechless and fearful
- fore the couch on which he lay nurs
a bandaged burn on his cheek.
A. This burn, the result of contact "
a falling brand, kept the bookkee
wrapped in darkness and Oil silk fo
fortnight. His right eye had been
dangered and had to be treated c;
fully. Miss Marshall forfeited a {
We siderable amount of salary and rem'
ed at Red Bank. She really was NJ
ed after Miss Carruth, to whom
fire soon became only an imperso
wv occurrence which made good mate
for story telling, found roWE
shared with her earlier admirer raj
preferable to stuffy room shared y
I,e. hpr later sl1itor and the OdOr Of il