Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-04-24
THE
SPENDERS|
A Tale Of the Third Generation
BY HARRY LEON WILSON
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oy aANNY LEON WILSON,
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Copyright, by Lothrop Publishing Company.
CHAPTER XVII-CoNr1SUED.
Milbrey gasped. Shepler, who COM
manded markets to rise and they rose,
or to fall and they fell-Shepler beg
ging, entreating a child of his! Despite
the soul-sickening tragedy of it, the
situation was not without its element
of sublimity
'She will consider; she will redect?'
You're guessing now, and you're as
keen at that as l. Ayice is not only
amazingly selfwilled, as you intimated
h . moment since, but she is intensely
secretive. When she left me l could
get nothing from her whatever She
was wretchedly sullen and taciturn'
But why. should she hesitate? Shep-
ler-Rulon Shepler! My God! is the
girl crazy? The very idea of hesita-
ton is prsposterous!"
cant divine her. You know she
has acted perversely in the past.
used to think she might have some
affair Of which we knew nothing
something silly and romantic. But if
she had any such thing I'm sure it
was ended, and she'd have jumped at
this chance year ago. You know
yourself she was ready to marry young
Bines, and was really disappointed
when he uldn't propose
i Hut, this is too serious'' He tim
killed. the little silver bell
Find out if Miss Avice will be down
to breakfast"
Yes. sir"
IF she's not coming down shall go
up" declared Mr.. Milbrey when the
man had gone
She's stubborn" cautioned his wife.
Cad! don't know it?'
Jarvis returned.
Miss Avice won't be down, sir. and
I'm to fetch her up a pot of coffee,
SIR
Take it at once, and tell her l shall
be up to see her presently" Jarvis
vanished.
Il think see way to put pressure
on her, that is if the morning hash t
already brought her back to her
Senses
At four o'clock that afternoon, Avice
Milbrey's ring brought Mrs. van
Geist's butler to the door.
"Sandon. is Aunt Cornelia at home? q"
YES, Miss Milbrey. she's confined to
her room h'account h of cold, miss"
Thank heaven!"
Eyes, miss-certainly! will you go
h'up to herr"
And Mutterchen. dear, it was a reg
ular bombshell,'' she concluded after
she had fluttered some of the Novem-
Der freshness into Mrs. Van Geist's
room, and breathlessly related the
facts.
You demented creatrSe! l should
Say it must have BEEN
Nov, don't lecture!"
u But Shepler is one Of the richest
men in. New York"
Dad already suspects as much
And he's kind, he's big hearted
chap, man Of the world generous
-a-'
".A woman fancier,' Fidelia Old
aker calls him"
MY dear, if he fancies you
There. you old conservative, I've
heard all his good points, and my duty
has been written before me in letters
Of fire. Dad devoted three hours to
n
please. say over any of the moral
maxims I'm likely to have heard"
But why are you unwilling?"
Because I'm wild, I fancy
just because l don't like the idea of
marrying that man. He's such a big,
funny, round head, and positively no
neck-his head just rolls around on
his big, pillowy shoulders-and then
he gets little right at once, tapers right
OF to point with those tiny feet
1T isn't easy to have everything"
1T wouldn't be easy to have him,
either
Mrs. Van Geist fixed her niece with
% sudden look of suspicion.
Has-has that man anything to do
with your =refusal?"
& 'tNo-not thing-I give you nv
word, auntie. If he had been what I
once dreamed he was, no one would
be asking me to marry him now, but
do you know what I've decided?
Why, that he is joke-that's all
just . joke. You needn't think of him,
don't, except to think il
was funny that he should have i'm
pressed me so-hes simply JOKE
Il could have told you as much long
ago
me something now. Suppose
Fred marries that Wybert woman
ss It will be sorry day for Fred
s''0 course! Now see how I'm
pinned. Dad and the mater both say
the same now-they're more severe
thAn was. Only we were never in
such5straits for money. 1t must be
shad. 50 this is the gist of it: ought
10 marry Rulon Shepler in order to
1ssye Fred from a marriage that might
get us into all sorts of scandal"
''Well?''
well, l would do a lot for Fred.
He has faults, but he's always been
good to me-"
And 500"
"And so it's question whether he
marries a very certain kind of woman
or whether I marry a very different
kind of man."