Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-09

CHAPTER hAANlll-(ContlnueQ.
1.-TWO of her fathers are building a
patent lighthouse on Rough Island
Point, and Phil Ca'mont is making a
deep hole on the top of the Portogar-
ten Heugh above them - l suppose
as sort of Second Exit. You had
better come home and inspect, If you
feel that this is now in your line!"
"What a wretch of grill" growled
Vic, but all the same he went on
heading.
"And they are building house for
the manager up on the Heugh. be.
tween the new pit and the sea. They
are not quite sure who the manager
is to be yet some say Phil Calmont
and some Miss " B. F. Romer. Know
ing both, bet on the lady!"
"The little -vixen!' laughed
Vic. And he did not refer to Vida
who would have thought it?' He
meditated while, and then said soft
ly, sBut after all, like 'em better
that way. I'll wager her eyes spanked
when she wrote that and she a
minister's daughter, blaming the
worst things she can think Of on her
innocent father!"
Again he continued his reading.
He was now sitting on his shoulder
blades, and part Of a damaged flannel
collar twisted about his neck, while
his legs stuck out like stove pipes,
half way UP the mountain.
"Mr. Romer, SO they say, does not
recognize his new found daughter,
publicly. But he owns her through
Mir. Phil Calinont, which is the next
best thing. He goes up the hill to the
pit nearly every day, in gray suit,
gray whiskers, and the repressed af-
lection of lifetime. Then he falls
On Phil's neck and kisses him Phil
does the rest.
Now, i think that is about enough
concerning the business part to salts
Is even that noble son of toll Mr..
I.Idoyic Morris You need not frown.
It doesn't carry SO far, you know. and
besides - I have a father who can
protect met
Protect you humm." said Mr.
TIorris scornfully And continued his
reading
And now for gossip which you can
believe or not, as you choose My
eyes are still blue as but l need
) not continue the same old thing
am palmer than ever, hut rather
fun to talk to. | have only one faith
er, however - the same one and
this renders me uninteresting. Three
young men have left our choir lately
TO go and sing In Mr.. Irongray's
/ sing in the abandoned choir. and
need not tell you whose pew there is
a. good view of from the other. You
know. All the youths became Gamer.
onians because OF conscientious scru,
pies as to fathers preaching. I hope
you always respect such. even in a
foreign land and among benighted
Papists! My father says that he hopes
that you will use your newly &C
CURED fuency in the Spanish Ian
guage to bring some of those benight.
ed people to a sense of the error OF
their ways by instilling into them the
principles of the Westminster Shorter
Catechism."
Your father never said such a
word, Miss"
Rose Nunsby, who used to be in
love with Phil Calmont - only had nc
Second Exit is now beloved by Mr.
Irongray who has had the = misfor
tune to lose his mother (she has
gone to daughter, because she
more than the Reverend Benjamin
Also the scullery was damp and there
were rats in the coal hole) SO Ben
janin was bereft Of mothers care
Weep for the orphan. lone and lorn,
as the poet says would go UP aslt
comfort him myself, only he doesn1