The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-24

dls pursued through the ramifcations Of his mind
vague indeterminate shapes ideas and plots and
plans. One by one he ran them down and caught
them to fnd that his clutching fingers held nothing
aad that lie lad of ever. His father would
rot hear reason, In point OF fact he would not hear
anything, beca w-cnever his son tried TO speak
i him he world Immediately bes.a to sing. and
wo-.d ccn.cc with A.s os2l exercises until his son.
too, .ct.-. IN tAls Wy lie achieved men al con-
tnt-2ont b~~-2se he never hnew what his called
I'm: 1nI he likewise accorded considerable comfort
TO his sen who under the OF his fathers voice.
could tell him lot Of things that he wouldn't other
wise have dared to.
At the end of seven Gays. then. the son decided
tat the only thing 10 DO to so the girl.
Maybe. he thought he could make her see reason
Or perhaps he could buy her on for he had consider
able money of his OF course she would prob
aely be dcta:orIal and aggressive and impertinent
and i'll bred and hashy and would protest
that she loved his IA her and that the money no
difference.
1t seemed indeed a forlorn hope-a very foriorn
hope, But the son made up his mind to take it,
And he did.
month later the elder Costigan, clad in a suit or
utramarine pajamas, seated the edge of his
bed sucking lemon. when at O'Clock in the after
noon district messenger came with letter for him
When it was spread open to his gaze he blinked
hard. Then he scowled. Then he closed one eve
Then he gave a yell that brought the run
ming from all over the house and began TO hop around
the 10 the destruction OF furniture and bric-a
hTac. An ill-advsed kick at tumbling statuette OF
tie Venus of Milo caused him suspend operations
ind to sit down on the floor and his outraged
At length his surreptitiously picked up the
letter from where it lay upon The floor behind his
masters ultramarine back. He read;
Dear Father
Nora and were married this afternoon. knowing
you and your disposition. have decided that il is
ifa and
abroad for year. When We come back we shall
hope to find you a reformed and repentant man in
stead of luminous exponent of the theory second
childhood
der the circumstances,
P S.-You certainly aren't lacking in apIomb The
first Nora had heard of her engagement to you
when asked her about it. When you become engaged
hereafter don't neglect to inform the lady
Mr. Costigan divided the next fortnight between
an attempt to locate his that he might send him
cablegram telling him what he thought of him. and
an effort to phrase that message that might not
be refused at the cable Office. In endeavors he
failed and sgnay. And he thereupon embarked
once again into the Expeditions Life though before
so doing he made will disinherting his son abb
soutely from all share whatsoever in his possessions
and leaving the money for the establishing of brew
On bright June afternoon year later, just as
Mr. Costigan about to set out for his Offices an
electric hanson rolled in front of the house and
stopped. And there dsmounted from it tall, we'll
se-up, sood-looking young fellow and 1.-the dark
haired girl who carried in her bundle of lace
and linen and ribbons and frills and furbelows.
Mr.. Costigan, with his hand on the doorknob and
his foot in the air. gasped
Its Tim, be hivins," he cried An Moral"
For moment surprise obsessed him. and then,
slowly his feeling of amazement died and there
born in its place great and growing anger that
surged through him, from bald head round feet
charged wrathfully down the front steps shreking
like stricken rhnoceros.
The two by the hanson faced him unafraid And
as he came near them his erswhile stenographer with
deft little mother motion uncovered the bundle that
she carried and held it him whercat he stopped
short in his tracks. mouth agape. and sazed with
wondering eyes from which the wrath had now fed
completely though 1t had been.
"A ba-aby. be hivins.' he exclaimed in hushed
thick tones. "A baaby! Well, DIN be-"
The mother nudged the heap of lace and ribbons
with one slender finger.
Say grandpa sweetheart" she commanded
softly.
"Glug, glug," returned the bundle, amiably; and
the mother smiled up, proudly.
Mr. Costi6an still stood staring down upon the tiny
pnk-whie face before him. Then, af.er long long
interval, his little gray-blue eyes bnked times
and he rubbed the back of white kid glove
his hard chin.
"Ta-ake tn kid into tn house, Nora" he said.
"Th' noight air plays tn divvle wild ba-abies."
The son, going his fathers room that evening
at 10 O'Clock to bid him goodnight found that gentle
man standing in the middle Of heap of ornate and
Saudy apparel. In hand he held small piece Of
plaid vest and in the other picture of his dead wife
"Ofm a gran'pa, Honoria," he said to the picture
as his son. unheard, entered the room An if Dim
gran pa it's a cinch Dim ould An il Dim ouId
It's me thot sh'd be spindin avenn's at home wild
me dudheen in fa-ace an feet in tb' fireplace"
He stopped to absorb the full effect of his self
directed logic.
But" he added, suddenly, he squared his heavy
shoulders, though may be ould an gran'pa. Dim
rct Cc-=cG o1,d but what OF en- go out an
W. = p = fcv dollars r. tn kid yit be
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