Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-06


rom New York every 80 days Of so
and she grows out Of my ken every:
time, like a f1ve-year-o1d boy. Say, I've
got Mrs. Higbee up in the New York
sleeper, but il you're going to be here
a spell we'll stop a few days longer
and I'll drive you around-what say?
houses-Lake Shore drive
Lincoln park .5zs - =
He waited, glowing confidently, as
one submitting irresistible temptations.
Percival beamed upon him with
moist eyes. -. -.
by Jove, Mr.. Higbee! that's clever
of you-it's royal! Sis and I would
like nothing better-but you see my
poor mother here is almost down with
nervous prostration and we've got to
hurry her 10 New York without an
hours delay to consult a specialist.
We're afraid"-he glanced anxiously at
the astounded Mrs. Bines, and lowered
his voice-"we're afraid she may not
be with us long"
"Why, Percival," began Mrs. Bines,
dazedly, ''you was just saying"
"Now don't fly all to pieces, MAJ
take it easy-you're with friends, be
sure of that. You needn't beg us to 60
on. You know we wouldn't think of stop
ping when it may mean life or death
to you. You see just the way she u.s."
he continued to the sympathetic Hig-
bee-"we're afraid she may collapse
any moment. So we must wait for an
other time; but I'll tell you what you
do; go get Mrs. Higbee and your traps
and come let us put you up to New
York. We've got lots of room-run
along now-and we'll have some of
that ham, the kind you have always
bought for lunch. A. L. Jackson is a
miserable cook, too, if don't know
the truth
Gently urging Higbee through the
door, he stifed a systematic inquiry
into the details of Mrs. Bines' Attic
ton.
Come along quick! I'll go help you
and we'll have Mrs. Higbee back be-
fore the train starts"
do you know" Mrs. Bines thought
fully observed to her daughter, II
sometimes mistrust Percival amt just
right in his head; you remember he did
have a bad fall on it when he was two
years and five months old-two years,
five months and 10 days. The way he
carries on right before folks faces!
rot ,1,,v,o
at Butte there was a young man kept
going on with the same outlandish rig.
marole just like Percival. The idea
of Percival telling me to eat lemon
ice with an ice pick, and oh, why
don't the flesh brushes wear nice, prop
er clothes brushes!' and sure and
hammer my nails good and hard after
get them manicured.' And back home
he was always wanting to know where
the meat augers were, saying he'd just
bought 900 new ones and he'd have to
order ton more if they were all lost
don't believe there is such a thing
as meat anger. I don't know what
on earth a body could do with one
And that other young man." she con.
cluded, significantly, they had him in
little bit of room with an iron
barred door to it like a prison-cell."
CHAPTER VII.
MR.. H1GBEE COMMUNICATES SOME
VALUABLE INFORMATION.
The Higbees were presently at home
in the Bines car. Mrs. Higbee was q
pleasant, bustling, plump little WON.
an, sparkling-eyed and sprightly;
Prominent in her manner was a help.
less little confession Of inadequacy tt
her ambitions that made her personal
ity engaging. To be energetic and
friendly, and deeply absorbed in PEG.
pie who were bold and confident, was
her attitude.
She began bubbling at once to Mrs
Bines and Psyche of the latest fash
ions for mourners. Crepe was more
swagger than ever before, both az
trimming and for entire costumes.
"House gowns, my dear, and dinner
gowns, made. entirely of crepe in the
Princesse style, will exactly suit your
daughter-and on the dinner gowns
she can wear trimming of that dull
jet passementerie."
From gowns she went naturally te
the difficulty of knowing whom tc
meet in a city like New York-ant
how to meet them-and the watchful
ness required to keep daughter Mile
from becoming entangled with leading
theatrical gentlemen.
Amid Percival's lamentations thai
he must so soon leave Chicago. thu
train moved slowly out of the big she(
to search in the interviewer puzzle O.
tracks for one that led to the east.
AS they left the center of the cit!
Higbee drew Percival to one of tn,
broad side windows.
Pull up your chair and sit here
minute" he said, with mysterious
little air of Importance. "There's =,
thing this trains going to pass RICH
along here that I want you to look at
Maybe you've seen better ones, o
course then again.
1t proved to- be a sign some 20 fee
high and a whole block long. En-
blazoned upon its broad surface wa
"Higbee's Hams" At one end, an,
towering another ten feet or so abov,
the mammoth letters was white
capped and aproned chef abandoning
his mercurial French temperament t.
an utter frenzy Of delight over "Hig
bees Ham" which had apparently jus
been vouchsafed to him by an 7invisibl,
benefactor.