The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-12-14
CHAPTER xXXvIII.

The Girls Complete Letter Writer.
Vic Norris had shifted his camp from
Rio Tinto 10 Bilbao, and il was 10 that
latter place that Janet Fowler wrote
20 him. His own replies had been Of
necessity short but as 10 Janets letters,
like Master Oliver Twist. he had always
manifested desire for more
MY friend Cwrote the minister's daUgh-
ter, let us first clear our page Of the
business of Kirktown. I will put il in
as short sentences as T can. because most
Of it can be read in the Bordershire Ad-
vertiser. which is sent you weekly. (Janet
sent IT herselfD
Mr.. Eomer has retired. He has made
all the Incubus businesses into a limited
company. James Kahn is managing di-
rector Ny father says that the last state
of that Incubus is worse than the first,
But. about business. you need not mind
what father says. He doesn't know past
six-times-six-and even that he thinks is
thirty
He is not so far wrong. though this
time. that father OF yours" said Vic
Morris. who was perusing this letter in a
posture OF enjoyment with his feet out
at the window of his shack on the hill
ABOVE Bilbao. 1t continued its even trail
Of black and white.
your friend. Miss Vida. has got new
father. That makes three. TIE new one
is Mr.. Jacob Roomer. II seems that he
was. really-only forgot about il till now
But she has taken all their name, which
is cumbrous. My father says that if she
goes on collecting at that rate she viii
never be a limited company-'The Vida
Finnan Bryan Romer Co. Ltd! VIII you
take shares. mister?'
Your father never said anything of the
kind, missy" growled Vic Morris, gnaw-
ing at his long mOustache, and smiling
grimly. Curious how / always thought
her quiet mouse of girl with eyes or
the ground, She isn't, thought MOI Oh
no.
And he read on. thrusting his long leg.
farther through the window. so that IN,
Spaniard and Basque wOrkmen passinl
underneath stopped and grinned.
''El Senior Captain Of the mine is gOinl
to heaven wrong end firstT they said
and passed Iight-heartedly on. AS did h
with Janets letter.
Two of her fathers are building a pat
ent lighthouse on Rough Island Point
ard Phil Calmont is making deep hol,
/ on the Top OF the POrtOSarten Heugi
/ above them-I suppose. as a sort OF sec
ond exit You had better come home an,
| inspect, II you feel that this is now fl
your liner
What wretch of a girl growled Vic
but all the same he went on reading.
And they are building house for tn
manager up on the heugh, between tn
new pit and the sea They are not quit
sure who the manager Is 70 be. yet-som
! say Phil Calmont, and some Miss V. 3
F. Romer. Knowing both. I bet on tn
| LADY,
/ "The-little-vixen,' laughed Vic. An
he did not refer TO Vida. who wOul,
! have thought it?" He meditated a while
and then said, softly, But after all.
/ like EN- better that way. I'll wager he
eyes spanked when she wrote that-an
she a minister's daughter. blaming tn
worst things she can think of or her in
nocent father
Again he continued his readin;. II
was now sitting on his shoulder blades
and part of a damaged flannel cola
twisted about his neck. while his leg
stuck out like stovepipes. half way up tn
mountain.
Mr.. Romer. so they say. does not rec
ignize his new-fcund daughter publicly