Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-07-09
cHADWIcK'S CHOICE.

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salt pork, the pendulum swung to 1t
opposite extreme for Dave Chadwick
The Goddess of Fortune, whom he haC
long wooed in vain, now turned he
face with truly feminine caprice
From bacon and corn bread Dave haC
been advanced almost over night to
New York hotel where his days boart
would have bought provisions for
month during his prospecting period.
And still Dave was not satisfied
He did not like what he termed "fus
sy" goods, and the very length of tn
bill of fare deprived him Of his appe
tite.
Then it was that Nell Horton cam
as an angel of deliverance and led hin
to her home in the suburbs, wher,
Dave devoured all that was put befor'
him and rejoiced in the absence of
bill of fare.
Il don't suppose that this modes
meal will appeal to you, ," said Mel
with ostentatious modesty. "We are
plain people out here, and after your
grand hotel it must seem kind o.
skinny, bat when I saw you on tbs
avenue, l said to myself, Ill bet that's
Dave Chadwick and I'm going to ask
him home, no matter what he may
think You haven't changed mite
Dave, since you left Lawrence.
Now it is pleasant for man who
realizes that he is beginning to look
old to be told that he does not differ
in appearance after Is years, and for
the first time Dave decided that Nell
was looking remarkably young her
self.
He could not know that Nell ha
carefully studied the numerous pic
lures of the new Croesus in the news-
papers and had haunted the vicinity
of his hotel for days before she had
encountered him apparently by chance
in front Of the place.
The Horizons had known Dave in
his early life, before he had gone
West to seek and eventually to find
fortune. When the papers had taken
up the newly made multi.millioDaire,
as the week before they had taken up
the newly born baby elephant of the
circus, Nell had read all the stories
and had determined that Dave and
his millions should become her prop
erty.
"Hs always was dumb fool, she
told her mother. eff we can get hold
of him before the others do I'll be
married to him before the end Of the
month. Did you see what the paper
said the other day about his cooking
bacon in his room and getting the
halls all smellyP He's sick Of the
French stuff the hotels all have, and
there is no one to give him what he
wants because he does not know
where to look for it. Well have him
over here to dinner and-well, he'll
want to come again.
Mrs. Horton had nodded approx
ingly upon her well.preserved daugh-
ter, and so the campaign was begun.
They were fortunate in the posses
sion of dependent relative. The
Horizons had an income, small but as
sured, and when Cleon Blake had died
penniless they had permitted bis
daughter, Dora, to enter their house
hold nominallY as member Of the
family, but in reality as a superior
cook.
1t was she who had cooked the din
ner which had so pleased Chadwick
and which brought him frequently to
the little house. The men who were
promoting his syndicate insisted that
he must not remove from the hotel to
boarding house where his simpler
needs could be suited, and it was only
at the Horizons that he could escape
that terrible menu card with its res
taurant French and its over.rich sau.
ces.
He did not always wsnte steaks and
roasts, and the knowledge that there
were good things on the bill which he
could not translate only added to his
dissatisfaction.
1t was after an especially trying
meal at the hotel that Dave armed
himself with box of violets and sal.
lied forth to propose to Nell. he had
slowly come to the conclusion that
Nell was no longer as young as she
pretended to be, but she offered escape
from the hotel and he was sick of the
place sick of its cuisine, its grinnine
bellboys, its service walters and ii