Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-30

coup for his own glory during the gov.
| ernor's absence" suggested Griswold
| "How?" and Barbara's voice rang
! imperiously and her eyes flashed.
Send this unknown person, this i'm.
poster and meddler, away and I will
talk to you as old friends may talk to
/ gether," and he glared fiercely at Girls
void, who stood tanning himself with
his hat.
II asked you how you intended to
serve my father, Mr.. Bosworth, be.
cause you sent me this afternoon let
| ter in which you threatened me-you
threatened me with my fathers ruin
if | did not marry you. You would
take advantage of my trouble and anx-
fety to force that question on me
when l had answered it once and for
all long ago. Before this stranger
want to tell you that If you think you
can humiliate me or my father or the
state by such practices as you have
resorted to you are very greatly mis-
taken. And further, Mr.. Bosworth, If
! I find you interfering again in this
wrote me today in every newspaper in
INC oldeS! 1NoW, luttt 10 Gil nave "
say to you, and hope never to see
| you again"
Before you go, Mr.. Bosworth," said
Griswold, II wish to say that Miss Os-
borne has spoken of your conduct
with altogether too much restraint. |
shall add, on my own account, that if
find you meddling again in this APP
pleweight case. i shall procure your
removal from office and after that
shall take the greatest pleasure in
| t1ogging you within an inch of your
| life. Now go!"
The two had dismissed him, and be-
fore Bosworths step died away In the
hall, Griswold was running his eye
over the papers.
THAT man will do something nasty
if he is clever enough to think of any
thing"
Hes "a disgusting person. said
Barbara, touching her forehead with
her handkerchief.
Hes all of that" remarked Girls
void, as he retied the red.tape round
the packet of papers. "And now, be-
fore we leave we may as we'll face a
serious proposition. Your fathers alb
sence and this fiction we are main
tanning that he is really here can not
be maintained forever. don't want to
trouble you. for you, OF course realize
all this as keenly as I. But what do
you suppose actually happened at New
Orleans between your father and the
governor Of North Carolina?"
She leaned against her fathers
desk, her hands lightly resting on its
fiat surface. She was wholly serene
now, and she smiled and then laugh
ed.
"It couldn't have been what the gov
ernor of North Carolina said to the
governor of South Carolina in the old
story, for father is strongly opposed
to drink of all kinds. And in the
story
iginated."
We'll, it happened a long time ago,
and nobody really knows the origin.
But according to tradition, at the cri-
sis of a great row between the two
governors the ice was broken by the
governor of North Carolina saying to
the governor of South Carolina those
shocking words about it's being long
time between drinks. What makes the
New Orleans incident SO remarkable
| Is that father and Governor Danger
| field have always been friends. though
| never cared very much for the Dan
gerflelds myself. The only tiffs they
have had have been purely for effect.
| When father said that the people of
! North Carolina would never amount
to anything SO long as they fry their
meat it was only his joke with Cover
nor ngerfleld-but it did make
North Carolina awfu1ly mad And Jer-
ry,-she the governors daughter-re-
fused to visit me last winter lust on
that account. Jerry Dangerfields a
nice little girl, but she has no sense
Of humor.s
| CHAPTER VIII.
| While he waited for Miss Jerry Dan
gerfeld to appear Mr.. Thomas Ard
more read for the first time the con-
stitution of the United States. He had
reached the governors office early.
and, seeking diversion, he had picked
up a small volume that bore some out.
ward resemblance to a novel; This
proved, however, to be Johnston's
American Politics. and he was amaz-
ed to find that this diminutive work
contained the answers to great many
questions which had often perplexed
him, but which he had imagined could
not be answered except by statesmen
or by men like his friend Griswold,
who had spent their lives in study.
He had supposed that the constitu-
ton Of great nation like the United
States would fill many volumes, and be
couched in terms bewildering and baf-
fling; and it was perhaps the proudest
moment in Mr.. Ardmore's life when,
in the cool and quiet of the May morn
I; ing, in the historic chambers of the
governor of North Carolina, it dawned
upon him that the charter of Ameri.
can liberty filled hardly more space
than the stipulations for yacht race
or set Of football rules; and that
moreover, he understood the greater
part of, it, or thought he did. Such
strange words at "attainder" and
"capitation" he sought out in the die
tionary, and this also gave him a new
sensation and thrill of pleasure at
finding the machinery of knowledge SC
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