The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-08-14
cure German town was moving at his

scure German town was moving at his
will.
But all the while another great chess
player, Dan Cupid, vas pitting his
skill against that Of the maker Of viz
tuosos. For Lucille Werner was not
the sort Of girl who forgets. In her
n letter to Harry Wall from Ger
many she wrote:
"You must never write to me again.
So long a. my father is paying for my
education and supporting me. l shall
obey him. l will become a great mu-
sician. By my artistic success l will
repay him for all the money he has
spent on M and the disappointment
he has suffered through my sisters.
But when l am my OWE mistress,
when l am a great player, shall
marry you. You will be my manager.
I will have the career to please my
father and a husband to please my
self. If you do not hear from me do
not fret. l will be simply waiting"
Over In the obscure little German
town Lucille was regarded as q
prodigy. Never had the great profess
or seen such a capacity for work. He
sent glowing reports to the maker Of
careers. who showed the letters to his
wife and remarked with swelling
chest that they had one daughter who
took after her father.
II knew a career and such opportuni-
ties as l am giving her would knock
young Wallis asinine romance into q
cooked hat"
And what of young Wall? :
He was making some talk in his
w world too. The great electrical
trust for which he was working out
inventions and improvements realized
that 1t had found a prize worth hold
ing.
Here was a man who would work
eighteen or nineteen hours a day for
their interests. He must not slip into
the clutches of any rival concern.
For, you see, 1t was only Dan Cupid
who knew that every time Harry Wall
scored a fresh triumph, every time his
employers advanced him in position
and salary, he would set his lips a
triae firmly and mutter I'M
der his sharply drawn breath: "And
she thought I'd be the managerial hus-
band Of a musical star. I'll show that
father Of hersw
Margaret had just pulled her mis-
sionary husband through a dangerous
attack Of mountain fever, and Janet
had Just given a most brilliant dinner
at her husbands Washington home,
when the maker Of careers received his
third and most conclusive Jolt. II
came in the form of an anonymous
letter, mailed in the obscure town
where Lucille was performing such
prodigies Of labor.
II presume you understand that to
marry a German officer your daughter
must have a dot of at least $4,000.
I write this in the most friendly spirit.
1t is well she should not build air cas-
tles-as American girls WILL" ~.
Mr.. Werner cabled to Lucille with
out wasting time on investigation:
Return by 8. S. Franz Gustave.
Passage prepaid"
She sat with hands folded, facing
the maker Of careers.
When he had finished speaking she
arose, and the woman who stood be-
fore him was q new Lucille.
Now l have something to say. L
meant to be a great artist to please
you, to repay you, but you by your in
sane distrust have ruined my career.
Six months more and | would have
been ready to face the critics. Six
months more and your dream would
have been realized. but you. have
shamed me before my master. BY
now his little world knows 1t all, and l
refuse to go back. i never saw Lieu
tenant Heuser but twice. What he
may have said in the drawing room
OF the American consul was no fault
Of mine-and on such a rumor you
built your mountain of d~istrust. ! did
not Lore. 1 did not v en admire the
MISUNDERSTANDING I did love, l do
love, some one else. and now-because
by your w hand. by saying that you
will raise your finger again for
this ungrateful daughter-you have
cast m of without q hearing, l am
going to him and tell him that love
him."
And. leaving the maker of careers
filed with the humiliation of self
wrought defeat, she went to her room
and wrote to Harry Wall:
|Come. The. door Of my fathers
house is open to you. My career is
ended. ask only to share yoursy'
High Finance.
The excursion train was crowded,
and the man in the center Of the car
knew it would be impossible to get out
through the jam to get something to
eat without losing his seat and per.
haps missing the train. He looked
longingly at the restaurant across the
tracks and, seeing an urchin sitting on
the iron pipe near by, he called him
over. saying: Here. son, take this
quarter and run over to that restau.
rant and rat mo q sandwich And