The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-30
WHAT He
EXPECTED

THE sun will set behind the dis
tant hills, and when ii comes up
again l shall be miles away" OBJ
served the bill clerk.
rs that meant to be poetry" in
CURED the cashier. distant hills
sounds poetic, but comes up again
falls trite fiat. II you said arises
in its dawn of eastern splendor' or
something like that, it would sort of
sustain the sentiment You're a lit.
tie weak on poetry, Johnny. Your
expressions, as a rule. are not so
felicitous as they might be. I'd let
it alone If were you and stick to the
vernacular. 1 suppose you mean that
you'll be starting for Bullhead pond
tomorrow morning.
Bass lake" corrected the bill
clerk. That's what. III be on my
! way and you'll be here in this swell.
tering old hole wishing you were
along
Il really do wish l could go with
you, JOHNNY" said the cashier. "Of
course. the Office will be more toler-
able In certain respects after you've
gone, but I'm not selfish and l feel
that 1t would be well for you to have
me accompany you. Were you ever
at summer resort before? Or per.
haps this isn't strictly what would
be called summer RESORT"
Perhaps it isn't" said the bill
clerk. Perhaps the crystalline wa.
tiers of the lake don't mirror one of
the finest summer hotels on the con.
tlnent and a water toboggan slide.
Maybe there amt galaxy or two of
nectarines from the proudest and
palatialest homes in Chicago punched
fnr f1o
there's noS such thing as a lovers
lane in the neighborhood Oh, guess
It's squalid around there and there
won't be anything doing when | ar.
rive"
i fear me there will. That's why I
feel sorry for YOU" said the cashier.
plty1ngly. Il know what fond visions
you re entertaining and 1 know what
you are going up against. as you
would say. You're going to find a
Veranda full of maidens pining for
male society who will shoot arch,
coquettish slances at you
Then the struggle begins-the
struggle between the young women,
OF course. They sit around yo,, on
camp stools. while you lie in a ham.
mock, tanning the MOSQUITOES away
from you. But there is one who holds
aloof from the throng She is simDly
gowned in some soft white stuff and
wears a rose in her dusky coronal of
mar. You are slightly piqued by her
apparent indifference and, finding her
alone IN a bosky dell in the course of
one OF your morning rambles, you en-.
gage her in conversations You Dlv
her with gay badinage. but she seems
to object to that. You know I do
SO much of surprise to you. But
she thinks that you ought to have a
more serious. earnest role in life than
that of mere society butterfly.
she discovers qualities in YOU that
should make you great and lannon's
She confesses that she has not been
as indifferent to you as she has
seemed and Is minutes later, after
she mas promised to be yours Won
ind that she is the idolized and only
daughter of Billkins, the multibillion.
are. That's your programme, isn't
it, johnny"
We'll, stranger things have hap.
pened,' said the bill clerk IF =
proposition like that was pushed at
me l don't say that ! would pass it
up-not without giving it a little
thought. To be square with Won 7
don't believe that there's any one of
the bevN down there that's due to
corner more than few hundred thou
sand. If l was dead sure | could get
out little lady with that sized bunch
though, | think I'd send in nv resig
nation to the office"
We'll. hold on to it for awhile"
advised the cashier. You're poine
down there to find that you had been
mlSlnformed about the rates and that
the best they can do for Won for n
COT under the shingles is SO per diem
ana the genial landlord will act as
II he'd much rather you didn't accent
MS liberal offer. You'll wander ont
on the veranda and you'll have
poorer opinion of your IS outing suit
almost Immediately. The girls vii,
be there, but they won't know that
you are there, because they will be
TOO busy with some gilded youths who
seem to think they own the earth and
are, moreover. disgustingly fresh and
absolutely idiotic. There will he a
schoolma am, 80 years of age. stav.
ing there with her mamma and in
three days you'll consider yourself
privileged if you are allowed to take
the ladies' boat riding and buv ice
cream for them in the village drug
store"
That settles it," said the bill c1ert
i won't 60"