Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-06-15

suggestions when / first came. l must
take what they pump up to me, and do
the best | can with it,"
| Kathleen moved aside while a strike
was being dropped, watching with keen
intelligence Austin's frowning dissatisfac-
ton with his work.
| That evening, while she and her
father sat at luxuriously appointed
table in the dining room of their hand
some stone house, called The Castle by
the rough westerners of the little town,
Kathleen asked: ''Who is your sugar
maker, dad"
"A clever young fellow. He comes
| from Louisiana and knows his business.
| nc never told me about himself, but /
hear his folks used to own big sugar
place down there He is a gentleman
all right, and, what is more to the pur-
| pose, a good hand at repair work. / saw
him mend a pump last week in tiptop
| fashion"
Il hope you give him a decent salary,
dad" Kathleen remarked, helping herself
to dollhouse grapes.
"He gets what is coming to him-the
regular salary of a sugag boiler" Sam
! Plowden answered.
SIS mending pumps part of his work
Was he paid extra for that?" Kathleen
queried calmly.
"Why, no, of course not. The pump
was needed in hurry, and Renter did
the work; that was ALL"
-''He ought not to have touched it; and
! if you did not pay him extra for mend
ing the horrid thing, you treated him
very shabbily. Dad, | am ashamed of
| xyo,, I[atb1oaD doa1orod
| Sam Plowden chuckled. Il suppose you
will have him up here to dinner in full
dress suit. Lena" he said, mockingly.
| From then on Kathleen went to the
| factory every day. making a close and
observant study of the process of beet
sugar manufacture much to her fathers
amusement and the superintendent irri-
lated disgust. Kathleen's searching
questions embarrassed him, and she soon
realized the truth of Austin's statement
what do you see through that win
dow" she asked Austin one day, when
they were chatting and the pans were
boiling
"An old colonial home, a green lawn
and flowers, and-a beautiful lady-my
mother" Austin answered reverently
There was a pause, and Kathleen was
strangely moved.
st is called Dunleith,' Austin contin-
ued softly. at was in our family for
generations. Now it belongs to Others
| once had the foolish ambition to buy
| it back some day; but that was only
dream"
For all his proud reticence, Austin
found it a strange pleasure to tell
Kathleen of his hopes, ambitions and
disappointment. Her manner showed
her sympathy.
The work of the factory drew to
close, and it was finally shut down. At
Sam Powders request, Austin remained
to attend to various matters in connec-
ton with it. Kathleen met him only
daily with a simple directness, as if it
were a matter of course they should dis
cuss matters and see each other.
Your factory was abominably man
aged, dad, dear" she said to her father
one evening. Take my advice and make
complete change. Put it in the hands
of Mr.. Renter. Engage him permanently.
He is the ablest man you have, and, as
you say yourself. he is gentleman"
Sam Plowden stroked his chin thought
fully and looked shrewdly at his hand
some daughter when she emphasized her
words by bright nod and left the room.
Austin was summoned to the Castle
the next day on important business.
"My daughter Kathleen is of the opin-
ion you could handle the factory more
satisfactorily and get better results. If
you are agreeable, Renter, | will make
you superintendent on a yearly salary
of $4,000. Would that suit your" Sam
Plowden asked Austin, looking keenly
and approvingly at the young man. There
was more feeling in his glance than Aus
tin was aware of.
Austin's thanks were expressed in few
words, but they were deeply heartfelt.
He was urged to dine with them that
evening, and after dinner, while Sam
Plowden leaned back in his easy chair by
the fire and smoked, Kathleen and Aus
tin strolled across the handsome library
! to a deep bay window overlooking the
bare, brown plains of Colorado, not yet
beautified by the touch of spring.
$50 you leave us tomorrow, father tells
me. l will miss you-dreadfully! Kath
leen said with a brave earnestness.
But | will return very shortly. l
don't think could bear to be away from
you any length of time. Life would be
too desolate to me without YOU"
Kathleen looked up with warm flush,
and brilliant smile.
81 am so glad so very glad! That is
just the way / feel myself" she whis
pered holding out her hand.
Through half closed eyes Sam Plowden
watched them keenly, then he chuckled
inaudibly.
"He is all right" Sam Plowden solilo
quized. ''He is a gentleman and a first
rate mechanic. Renter is all right"
Sam Plowden's wedding gift, some
months later, was a ponderous one
Dunleith, the fine old Renter Estates.
Rhett Roman in the New Orleans Times
Democrat.