Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-09-24
TO THE DIM PAST
LOVES YOUNG DREAM TOOK
BACK THE BOSS.
Clerks Story Of the Devious Paths
Those Must Follow Who Take
Cupid for Guide Evidently
Awoke Recollections.


hem!' began the Boss. 81 hardly
expected $40 raise would affect mat.
ters SO soon. l knew you must have
begun saving money when I saw Won
at the park the other night and noticed
you mad developed a passion for mu-
SIC instead Of shooting the chutes and
hopping the flops. But awhile back I
thought you must have lost out. YOU
smoked so many cigarettes and looked
so sorry for yourself"
! The Young Man smiled.
mat was part Of the game" he
explained.
, what game? Tell me all about II.
my boy, and don't omit a thing. And
nere' take a cigar to keep your hands
occupied. You've bitten off IA finger
nails already. Now let It come. No
never mind my time. Proceed"
Inc Young Man accepted the ciga.
and proceeded.
Wei, sir-my mind has been made
up all along-it was her or nobody for
me. I'm no art commission, but she
suits me for beauty. And as for dis.
posidon-why. honestly, It's worth
while getting tired and blue and
grumpy just to have her make Won
forget It.
But L had strong competition. He
was an out-of-town chap. but that only
lent him glamour When a fellow
makes a uresome journey Just TO
spend a few hours with a girl she ap-
9reciates it-and she doesn't get IA
miliar enough with him to see his
weak points. And when that fellow
makes the trip often the town fellow
would better think. began thinking
and concluding that the fellow had
been using as q trailer at first was
uow kicking dust back at me, and thar
such a cloud OF romance hung around
him that she couldn't see what a duff
Ter he was. Then kept on thinking
until 1 hit a scheme.
Il knew her father was mighty
strongly on my side. I had an idea
we rivals were frequently brought into
family discussions. So called on the
Old gentleman at his Office.
Father I said. something must
be done
what?'
Then I told him my game. He got
interested pretty soon and promised
to help me.
Next evening called. Father re-
ceiVsd me coldly and addressed me
as Mr-he usually calls me Tom.
Mother, too. was distant and looked
worried. But the girl was defantly
friendly, and we had a bully time I'M. |
til ten o'clock, when on the floor
above us we heard a boot bump. |
bump, bump.
Can that mean for me to go?' |
asked incredulously.
%, surely not she replied But
TWO minutes later there was a heavy
read upstairs and father called over
the banisters:
My dear, it is very late
why father, it's only ten she an
swered.
1t is very late, I say replied ia
Their, emphatically.
My offended dignity as I left was
worth seeing.
Two evenings later 1 inveigled the
other fellow into attending a mis-
Sionary tea There he met the wild
est bunch of Comanches I could col.
'ect They not only shocked him. but
won $40 from him.
We'll, to shorten this. father and
mother knocked me. and my rival was
fool enough to join in. She was a
oval. spirited girl who did her own
thinking and believed in me. SO she
stuck to me.
AT the proper time father forbade
me the house. Then we got to meet
ing each other downtown and soon
started figuring how two could live
'heaper than one. Yesterday, Ito put
IN end to opposition we calmly got
married. And now everybody's hap
I've reformed"
The Boss chewed his cigar.
Sixty a month isn't much to mar
y on he said at last, "but there NAV
De better opening soon. Go home
low and don't show up here for a
week. Don't thank me - you've
wasted too much of my time already"
The Young Man left, but the Boss
lid not Immediately get busy. He
opened his watch and forgot to close !
for some time.
Il wish I'd had his nerve at b,s
Ige." he muttered. I'm deucedly tired
# hotel life"
1t was the back I'D of his watch in
0 which he was looking.-Kansas 1
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