Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1905-11-16

and watched his energetic movements
few moments, seeing things which
seemed so far back ia her life that
they seemed TO belong to another age.
Come down here, Seth Clark. |
want to talk 10 you" she ordered at
length.
Heart to heart talk, Josephine In
gals Baker, lie asked, not at all sur
prised. having been observing her out
of the tail of his eye.
Eyes, or knife to knife, just as you
choose she retorted sharply What's
the matter with my Andyf"
''W'hy. is he ailingY' He managed to
look concerned. She scorned his tri-
fling.
my Andy is every grain us good us
your Lizzie and you know it, and
what are you kicking up all this rum
pus for against their being married?"
well, happen to want my Lizzie.
and happen not to want your Andy"
he explained.
You are making her wretched and
driving my boy 2way from m-me."
She caught her breath and bit her lip.
She would not cry before Seth Clark.
They'll both get over it," he COM
menled easily as he slid to the ground.
"Other folks have been disappointed
in not having what they wanted most
and got over it-or stood up under it
anyway-didn't let it spoil their lives
and go whining around the rest of
their natural span" He regarded her
with pointed accusation.
She flushed uncomfortably, and some
of those things which had seemed so
far, far back suddenly confronted her
Perhaps she had better have gone home
after all.
'Well, | can't see the sense in max
ing the children miserable" she re-
marked lamely, breaking an awkward
pause.
There's a certain old law that says,
The sins OF the fathers shall be visited
upon the Children. Isn't this an occa-
sion where ii can be justly enforced?"
he questioned sternly.
"You-you mean she hestated in
quiringly
II mean that Andrew Baker robbed
me of my wife that should have been.
and Andrew Bakers son shall not rob
me of my daughter
She looked astonished and burst out
Indignantly: ANDREW Baker wouldn't
take NO for an answer. He--he kept
on and kept on till just couldn't say
1t again, especially as Her voice
trailed ont.
OH he exclaimed in tone indica-
tive of sudden, amazed enlightenment,
staring ut her as if PARKWAY things
had unexpectedly confronted him also.
And l tiared up and stalled off for
good. my dignity terribly insulted by
the little negative. | was as conceited
as a turkey cock and stupid as pigr'
He chewed Il straw and ruminated
lengthily III Il speaking silence.
But Lizzie and We're happy
enough he observed presently, with
apparent irrelevance. "She was good
woman, and little Lizzie is just like
her"
Andrew Baker was as good as the
best. and | was happy with him" she
bristed. And my Andy is like his
father.
Maybe Lizzie didn't try him with Il
NO But he's up against her dads
NO all right I'm not going to be rob
bed twice. Stir He contemplated her
Iowncast face, and his own softened.
He turned his back and unconsciously
whistled few bars of an old love song
they used to sing together.
Look here, Josie Ingals Baker, I've
never been friendly with you since,
else I'd found out before now that
things you've thought dead can come
to life. | guess things can be fixed for
the children provided Look here, I'm
going to ask that question again, and
I'm not going to take No for an an
swer this time! I'll ask it every time
and everywhere / see you. Josie, will
you marry me?"
She twisted her fingers in embarrass-
ment, looking absurdly like the old
time Josie TO his partial eyes, and fall
tered:
We'll. of of course, if you won't
take 'Nor"