The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-11-03

So presently they all forthfared into
the sun-bright, snow-blinding out-of-
door world, and Virginia gathesed up
her courage and took her dilemma by.
the horns.
Il believe I have seen everything
now except that tent-place up there"
she asserted, cropping purposefully for
her opening.
Adams called up another smile Of
acquiescence. THAT is our telegraph
office. Would you care to see it?" The
technologian was of those who shirk
all or shirk nothing.
Il don't know why should care to.
but l do" she replied, with charming
/ and childlike willfulness; 50 the three
| of them trudged UP the slippery path
to the operators den on the slope.
Not to evade his hospitable duty IN
any part. Adams explained the use and
need of a front" wire, and Miss Car
teret was properly interested.
How convenient" she commented
And you can come up here and talk
to anybody you like-just as II it were
a telephone?"
ITO anyone in the companys serv-
ice," amended Adams. "1t is not q
commercial WIRE"
Then let lis send message to Mr.
Winton.' she suggested, playing the
part of the capricious ingenue to the
very upcast of pair of mischieyous
eyes. "Ill write It and you may sign
It,"
Adams stretched his complaisence
the necessary additional inch and
gave her a pencil and a pa,l of blanks
She wrote rapidly:
Miss Carteret has been here adlnirins
your drawings. She took ono Of them away
with her. and couldn't stop her without
being rude. You shouldn't have done H.
without asking her permission. She
says"
"Oh, dear! l am making it awfully
long Does IT. cost so much a word?"
NO" said Adams. not without an
effort He was beginning to be dis
tinctly disappointed in Miss Virginia,
and was wondering in the inner depths
Oh him what piece Of girlish frivoAly
he was expected to sign and send to
his chief. Meanwhile she went on
writing:
u am to tell you not TO get into any
fresh trouble-not to lot anyone else get
you into trouble; by which ! infer she
means that some attempt will be made TO
keep you from returning on the evening
train"
There, can you send all that?" she
asked, sweetH, giving the pad to the
technologian.
Adams read the first part of the let
ter-length telegram with inward groan-
ings, but the generous purpose OF it
struck him like Il whip blow when he
came to the thinly yelled warming
Also 1t shamed him for his unworthy
judgment of Virginia.
II thank you very heartily, Miss
Carteret," he said, humbly. ut shall
be sent word for word" Then, for the
Reverend Williams benefit: "Winton
deserves all sorts of snubbing for
taking liberties with your portrait. Ill
see that he gets more of 1t when he
comes back"
Here the matter rested; and, having
done what she conceived to be her
charitable duty, Virginia was as anx-
ious to get away AS heart-the heart
Of slightly bored Reverend Billy, for
instance-could wish.
So they babe Adams good-by and
picked their way down the frozen en-
bankment and across the ice bridge;
down and across and back to the Rose
mary, where they found perturbed
chapcron in a futter of so]icitudc aris-
ing upon their mysterious disappear
ance and long absence.
ut may be just as we'll not to tell
any of them where we have BEEN"
said Virginia in an aside to her cousin.
And so the incident of tea-drinking in
the enemys camp was safely put away
like a little personal note in its en-
velope with the flap gummed down.