Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-01

/ zig. 81 Sf6' .Osb ANo - L
ever can touch them. TONES
have no superior for fine seasoning.
Gsocoyo-FO ccsfa,
There aretwo kinds OF spiccs-ToNE'S and "others."
TONE Bros Des Molnes, Iowa
find her sitting, and take a pot-shot at
her"
81 miss pot-shots, as you know"
Burgess replied dismally.
Cheer up! You'll bag her. And
then, l suppose, she'll be stuffed and
set up in a glass ase in st. Johns
Wood"
There had been talk of St. Johns
Wood. Burgess knew of a tiny house
In Grove End Road, not far from the
Tube. There they would be as happy
as larks.
"A lark in London looks a forlorn
bird" said Hugo.
would a fellow be justified in mar
rying IN eight hundred q year?"
THAT depends on a fellow. The
right sort can marry and be happy on
a pound a week; the wrong sort, with
a million a year, had better remain
single"
81 don't believe she'll leave her
father. Selfish old man.
Burgess had begun to harp of late
upon George vennable's selishness.
Joy was his slave, his willing slave.
That makes a difference" said
Hugo judicially. "She likes her life.
In a ms that father of hers has
made a man Of her. She has a mans
delight in overcoming obstacles. |
should like to see her face to face
with a big emergency. What a wife
she would make for a pioneer! I've
met girls like her in the Australian
bush"
what a lot of places you've
Visited"
Eyes"
Burgess spoke Of this to Joy.
ITS as I told you" he said next
day. Charters must have had money
and perhaps he's lost it. He limited
you remember. at a diminished in
come. And he won't accept your
hospitality because he can't return
it,"
"You believe that, Esme?"
"Why not?"
"He took out a license, he bought
NdludDl SSllSl Hull OISlC ~ 0llCo S
keeper, and you tell me that he nevel
looks long for a two-shilling gol
ball. Returning our hospitality would
not be a very expensive business.
eff he accepted your invitations M
would have to accept others. He'
been u over"
Perhaps he deserved it."
81 don't believe that"
"Do you know the difference be
tween a goose and a swami"
II do, when I look at YOU
I'm neither goose nor swan"
Charters says you would make
splendid wife for q pioneer"
"Oh, really"
tI'm going to be a pioneer, JOY"
What else does Mr.. Charters sa,
about me?"
sHe would like to see you face t.
face with a. big emergency"
"I'd like to see him face to fac
with a job of work"
' GO down to Sarah's and look at tn
garden"
at exasperates me to see a man a
, strong as your Mr.. Charters wastinI
I his life digging in other peoples gal
dens. Why doesn't he dig in his own?
' "Of course, 1 should like to ask hir
! that! 1t all comes back to what l sal
at first. He's been run over, and yo
ought to be very sorry for him."
"He excites my curiosity nothin
h else. It's odd you know so little abou
r him."
! His beard is quite presentabl
i now"
81 hate men with beards!" sal
$ Miss JOY.
8 Meantime, if Burgess knew littl
! concerning Charters, Charters kne'
" nearly all there was to know of Blu
CESS.
= Passing Judgment on the boy-fc
i as a boy Hugo regarded him tn
loss and gain from lack of a publ
school education was plainly visibl
He had been we'll named Esme =
name common to either sex for
him were fused the masculine an
feminine. He had a woman's sensibi
. (Which is so different, although M
/ greater than that of a NAM and muc
of a woman's capacity for engrossin
herself in her own occupation
Doubtless at Elton or Harrow this fer
mine bloom would have been rubbe
away.
v Hugo did not like him the less d
If cause he was absorbed in himself, h
profession, and his love affair. Mo-
over. there was dramatic interest
h the conflict between the inadjustai'
v claims of love and business. Love, f,
9 the moment. monopolized the your
r fellows attention. And it was fir
e love, the genuine passion which sti1
r the pulses Of the most hardened b
holder.
. Sarah Owbridge had a word to So
l.
e
a mzSz dzn pzA a 90