Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-10

Call it foolish, romantic sentiment
II you like. Is there no way to shame
me out of tt?'
He shook his head slowly. -:
"You don't mean that?"
But If say that do; If I insist
that am willing to be ehamed out OF
it." ''.A.". =.
His smile was that Of brother who
remembers tardily to be loving kind.
II shall leave that task for some one
who cares less for you and for your
true happiness than I do. or ever shall,
And it will be mighty thankless SER
vice that that Some one will render
you.'' IT,.
"But ought to be whipped and sent
to bed" she protested, almost tear
fully. "Do you know what have done
how have"
she could not quite put it in words,
even for him, and he helped her gen.
erously, as before.
II know what Kent hasn't done;
which is more to the point. But he
will do it fast enough If you will
give him half chance
NO." she said definftively.
II say yes. One thing, and one
thing only, has kept him from telling
you any time since last autumn: that
is a sort of finical loyalty to me.
saw how matters stood when he came
aboard Of our train at Gaston-I'm ask
ing you to believe that I didn't know
1t beforehand I saw then that my only
hope was to make handfast friend
of him. And l did it,
Il believe you can do anything you
try to do" she said warmly.
This time his smile was a mere
grimace
You will have to make one excep-
ton, after this; and so shall I. And
since it is the first of any consequence
In all my mounting years, it grinds.
i can't throw another man out of the
window and take his place."
If you were anything but what you
are, you would have thrown him out OF
the window another way she re-
joined.
THAT would have been a dago'a
trick; not white MANS" he asserted.
Il suppose I might have got in his
way and played the dog in the manger
generally, and you would have stuck
to your word and married me, but !
am not looking for that kind of win.
ming: I don't mind confessing that
played my last card when I released
you from our engagement. I said to
myself: If that doesn't break down
the barriers, nothing will"
She looked up quickly.
"You will never know how near it
came to doing it, Brookes."
But it didn't gutter"
mo, it didn't quite"
The brother-smile came again.
Lets paste that leaf down and
turn the other: the one that has David
Kent's name written at the top. He
is going to succeed all around, Elinor;
and am going to help him-for his
sake. as we'll as yours
mo-" she dissented. "He is going
to fail; and I am to blame for it,
He looked at her side-wise.
$50 you were at the bottom of that,
were you? thought as much, and
tried to make him admit it, but he
wouldn't. What was your reason?"
II gave it to him: I can't give it to
YOU"
II guess not, - he laughed. II wasn't
born on the right side of the Berk-
shire hills to appreciate it. But
really, you mustn't interfere. AS
say, We are going to make something
Of David; and little conscience-of
the right old Pilgrim Fathers brand
goes long way in politics.
But you promised me you were not
going to spoil him-only it doesn't
matter; you can't"
Ormsby chuckled openly, and when
She questioned WHAT" he said:
II Was just wondering what you
would say If you knew what he is in
to now; if you could guess, for in
stance, that his backe have put up
cool hundred thousand to be used as
he sees ftp
"Oh!" she exclaimed; and there was
dismay and sharp disappointment in
her voice "You don't mean that he is
going to bride these men?:'
''No'' he said, relenting. GAS mat
ter of fact, don't know precisely what
he is doing with the money, but guess
it is finding it's way into legitimate
channels. I'll make: him give me an
itemized expense account for your benz
eft when it's all over. If you like"
1T would be kinder: to tell me more
about it now" she pleaded.
"No; I'll let him have that pleasure,
after the fact-if we can get him par
doned out before you go back east"
She asked no more questions, being
unwilling to tempt him to break con-
ndence with Kent. But she was think
ing of all the desperate things de-
termined man with temperamental I'M
balancings might do when the touring
car rolled noiselessly down the final
hill into the single street of Megilp.
There was but one vehicle in the
street at the moment; a freighter's
ore-wagon drawn by team of mules
meekest and most. stumbling prosaic
Of their tribe. The motor-car was
running on the spent velocity of the
descent, and Ormsby thought to edge
past without :. stopping. But at the
critical instant the mules gave way to
terror, snatched the heavy wagon in
to the opposite plank walk, and tried
to climb nearby telephone pole.
Ormsby put his foot on the brake and