Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-09-13

q. IT. ! rather round bout Gov, ,path,' y
10 objected. ke overland Short Line
ID good bit more direct: not to
$mehtion the service, which Is q lot
better s=.
But Elinor had made her small con-
cession to David Kent's letter, and she
would not Withdraw it. .=.=
Probably you don't own any West
ern Pacific stock" she suggested. I'VE
do: and We mean to be loyal to our
salt" ,#@. >s sz n. =s#.:.. y 5 s
Ormsby laughed. ..s q .. :. I. z=
81 see Western Pacific has gone down
a few points since the election of Gov.
Bucks. II had any, I'd wire my
broker to SELL" ass. H. *.<,s.:.. T: !
I'VE are not so easily frightened"
she asserted: adding, with a touch of
tho austerity which was her Puritan
birthright: "Nor quite SO conscience
less as you men, ~5.
T. "All OF which goes to prove that you
three lone women: need guardian.
But mustn't keep you any longer
from Abigail and. the trunks. What
time shall l send the expediters after
your luggage?"
She told him, and went with. him to
the door.
please don't think me ungrateful, -
she said, when she had thrown the
night-latch for him. II don't mean
to be-"
II don't think anything Of you that
I ought not to think; In, that lam as
conscientious as even you could wish.
Good-by, until this evening. I'll meet
you all at the station"
AS had come to be the regular order
Of things, Elinor found herself under
fire when she went above stairs to re-
join her mother and sister. .-
Mrs. Brentwood was not Indifferent
to the Ormsby millions; neither had
she forgotten q certain sentimental
summer at the foot of Old Croydon.
She was thin-lipped little person,
plain spoken to the verge of unfriend-
illness; q woman in whom the rugged,
selfreliant, Puritan strain had become
panic acidulous. And when the Puri-
tan stock degenerates in that direction,
it is apt to lack good judgment on the
business side, and also the passivity
which smooths the way for incompe-
tence in less assertive folk.
Kent had stood something In awe,
nen0aio11vy ~ hovs s%vp h,,t
of her tongue; and had been forced
to acquiesce silently in Loring's sum-
ming up of Elinor's mother as woman
who had taken culture and the human
izing amenities Of the broader life
much as the granite of her native hills
takes polish-reluctantly, and without
prejudice to its inner granular struc-
ture. .,.. .~.=,->
"Elinor, you ought to be ashamed to
keep Brookes Ormsby dangling the way
you do" was the comment when Elinor
came back. 'You are your fathers
daughters, both of you; there isn't a
drop of the Grimkie blood in either OF
you, do believe" - -
Elinor was sufficiently her fathers
daughter to hold her peace under her
mothers reproaches; also, there was
enough of the Grimkie blood in her
veins to stiffen her in opposition when
need arose. So she said nothing.
"Since your Uncle Ichabod made such
desperate mess of that copper busi-
ness in Montana, we have all been
next door to poverty, and you know 1t, I"
the mother went on, irritated by Eli
nor's silence. II don't care so much
for myself; your father and I began
with nothing, and can go back to
nothing, if necessary. But you can't,
and neither. can Penelope; you'd both
starve. should like to know what
Brookes Ormsby has done that you
can't tolerate him." -
1T isn't anything he has done, or
failed to d." said Elinor, YEARLY.
''Please let's not go over it all again,
mother.
Mrs. Brentwood - let that gun cool
while she fred another.
II suppose he came to say good-by:
what is he going to do with himself
this winter"
"He is going west"
Mrs. Brentwood looked up sharply.
with u.s." she queried.
EYES," 49,
Penelope clasped her hands and tried
to look sorrowful. -
ooh, Ellie!" she cried; "have
you--'
NO." Elinor retorted; II have not. 81