The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-04-13
rode with them and made the way

| easy.
| Il don't know a soul we can ask,
| Gertrude had said. as she jumped
| into the wagon, except the editor OF
| the Farm Journal Father once wrote
! an article for it, and always took it.
But the girl felt very shy, jusi
| the same, when she was uslered IL
! to the editors Office to find. instead
Of the gray-haired sage she expected
an energetic young man who wa;
| busy with stcnOgrapher and g
printers boy. He was not too busy
| however, to give her attention in a
| few minutes. and ask her leading
questions, when she did not know ex.
actly how to tell her story.
HIN! Three dollars. How old are
dollars a possible price? My dear
Miss Henderson, l know a man who
paid one hundred and fifty dollars fol
a single eishteen-inch elm for his
lawn the other day. He paid it
don't say you can get it for yours.
The tree man needs the lions share.
for he has to have special carts. built
in sections, with a chute to slide the
tree. earth and all, into the holes pre-
pared for them; and he has to know
just how and when to dig up the
trees; and knowledge is money ]
wouldn't advise you to ask more than
twenty-five dollars apiece for your
trees. because you might not get it.
You write Mr.. Sutton that you have
consulted with one who is familiar
with the rates, and that twenty-five
is yoar price-for twenty trees. !
think l can guess who Sutton wants
them for-Allen. the millionaire.
whose house is Just finished, out by
the lake. In that case. you might
get more, but twenty-five is certain.
ty. I'd be glad to know how you sue
ceed-you needn't thank me. l wish
I had a few elm trees myself for sale.
Good-by, Miss Henderson," and Ger,
trude went out to the elevator, not
knowing whether she wanted to go M
or down. the confusion of her JOY
was so great.
But l can't believe it. Dick, till it
really happens" she said. over and
over again On the way home.
Never you mind" said Dick. you
write the letter tonight, and make it
hot and strong about expert opinion.
Say, don't you think thirty would be
worth trying for?"
"No, l don't" said Gertrude. laugh
ing. when I ask expert opinion.
Dick, l take it,"
When Mr.. Sutton. of Williams &
Prendergast, opened his mail two
days later, he whistled dclefully over
one letter
''Whew! Wherever did she find
out?" he said to himself. That's
straight enough, though. First-rate
eighteen-inch elms are scarce enough
even at twenty-five. and that grove
has just about the same exposure and
soil as Aliens place. SO the trees will
take the transplanting kindly. The
girl couldn't know that though. She's
all. When a woman has
business sense, she has it, young Or
old, and that's all there is to it. Well
if I can't get the profit out of her,
we'll have to get it out of Allen, or
get on with less" And he passed to
the next letter with a cordial admira-
ton for Miss Gertrude Henderson.
"Just think" said Gertrude. week
later, as she and Dick were again
driving into the city, you're going to
get suit of clothes. and I'm going !
to buy a wonderful dress, and we can
have poultry-yards, and an incubator. |
and cold-frames for the early vege' !
tables; and next year we can look
Mr. Slater in the face and pay his
interest without trouble. But one
hundred and forty dollars is going
in bank today, Dick, so as to be
ready for him.
There are still dozen elms left,
suggested Dick. IF ever l have a |
crest, Gertrude, it will be an elm
on a mortgage, gules, with
the motto, freed at last!' Aren't you
going to ask the editor of the Farm
Journal out to tea? If you don't you
are a heartless Migrate"
This accounts for-but that is an
other story of romance, not OF mort
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