The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-06-21

then when you toddle off to public
school and let 'em know how you spell
it they tell you it's something else
an outlandish name if spellin means
anything. If it comes to that you
ought to change the spellin' instead of
the name that your poor pa loved"
Yet the old man had come to know
that he was fighting a lost fight-lost
before i: had ever begun.
1T will be a good chance" ventured
Mrs. Bines, timidly, 'for Pishy-I
mean Sike-Sicky-to meet the right
sort of people"
Eyes, should say-and the wrong
sort. The ingagin' host of them lady
and gentlemen dogs, fur instance"
But, Uncle Peter" broke in the
young man, you shouldn't expect a
girl of Psyche's beauty and fortune to
vegetate in Montana City all her life.
Why, any sort of brilliant marriage is
possible to her if she goes among the
right people. Don't you want the fam
lily to amount to something socially?
Is our money to do us no good? And
do you think I'm going to stay here
and be mossback and raise chin whis-
gers and work myself to death the way
my father did?"
mo, no." replied the old man, with
glance at the mother; mot jest the
way your pa did; you might do some
different and some better; but all the
same, you won't do any better'n he did
any way you'll learn to live in New
York. Unless you was to go broke
there" he added, thoughtfully; Gin
that case you got the stuff in you and
it'd come out; but you got too much
money to go broke"
"And you'll see that I lead a decent
enough life. Times have changed
since my father was a young man."
Eyes; that's what your pa told me-
times had changed since l was a
young man; but could "a done him
good if he'd "a listened"
well, we'll try it. The tide is set
ting that way from all over the coun-
try"
well, now do me a last favor be-
fore you pike off east" pleaded the
old man. MAKE a trip with me over
the properties. See 'em once anyway,
and see little more of this country
and these people. Mebbe they're bet
tern you think. Give me about three
weeks or month, and then, by Grim
mi, you can go off if you're set on it
and be whatever is finest and best in
the American character as some Teller
puts it. But some day, son, you'll find
out there's a whole lot of difference
between great man of wealth and a
man OF great wealth. Them last is
gettin' terrible common
So the old man and the young man
made the round Of the Bines proper
ties. The former nursed forlorn
little hope of exciting an interest in
the concerns most vital to him; to
the latter the leisurely tour in the pri-
vate car was sportive prelude to the
serious business of life, as it should
be lived, in the east. Considering it
as such he endured it amiably, and in.
deed the long August days and the
sharply cool nights were not without
real enjoyment for him.
They awoke one morning to find the
car on siding at the One Girl mine.
Coupled to it was another car from
an eastern road that their train had
taken on some time in the night. Per-
cival noted the car with interest as he
paced beside the track in the cool,
clear air before breakfast. The cur
tains were drawn, and the only signs
of life to be observed were at the
kitchen end, where the Whitehead
cook could be seen astir Grant, por-
ter on the Bines car told him the other
car had been taken on at Kaslo juno
ton, and that it belonged to Rulon
Shepler, the New York inancier, who
was aboard with party of friends.
AS Percival and Uncle Peter left
their car for the shaft house after
breakfast, the occupants of the other
car were bestirring themselves.
From one of the open windows a
low but impassioned voice was ex-
hausting the current idioms of damna-
ton in sweeping dispraise of all land
areas north and west OF Fifty-ninth
street. New York.
Uncle Peter smiled grimly. Percival
flushed, for the hidden protestant had
uttered what were his own sentiments
month before.
Reaching the shaft house they chat
ted with Pangburn, the superintend-
ent, and then went to the store room
to don blouses and overalls for a
descent into the mine.
For an hour they stayed under
ground, traversing the various levels
and drifts, while Pangburn explained
the later developments of the vein and
showed them where the new STOPPING
had been begun.
CHAPTER Nv.
A MEETING AND A CLAsHING
As they stepped from the cage at the
surface PerciVa1 hocono auoro ~ q