The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-07-16

rode with it, slept with 1t, when ne
could get any sleep at all. Most of his
nights were spent pacing the floor try
ing to think of some new way OF per.
suading Miss Cynthia to let loose OF
the treasure. At first he went openly
to her and made all sorts of rash and
wild propositions for the s~idebOard.
gunpowder in hat lady's eyes, along
with the smile, Newton gave up going
himself, and sent his Harvard gradu-
ate partner to see what he could do.
while he mounted the high stool and
kept Understanding he took to as
pleasantly as . youngster does its
castor oil.
Then it was that poor Newton found
out that the sideboard had brought
him into still deeper waters than CO
v%etousness. Instead of a proper row
of figures. pink cheeks and dropping
lashes danced all along the ledger
pages in a most b%ewildering and fan
tastic manner, rs over his benumbed
senses there dawned the conviction
that, come what would, he must let in
the thoughts Of a woman, foremost
even to his upholstering and removal.
ing.
THE crisis came one morning when
Newton called Barrick, his partner, to
the Office and had a long business talk
with him. In it he sought to prove to
that Harvard mathematician that one
or the other Of them must marry Miss
Cynthia in order to come into posses
sion Of a sideboard that it would not
do at all for their business to lose.
Newton argued that the immense mum.
Der of acres, which went along with
Cynthia Browning. proved, beyond the
shadow OF a doubt, that only a born
mathematician should cope with so
great an honor. The proofs were not
conclusive. Barrfck rebelled openly
and stubbornly, representing himself
to be too we'll pleased with the rosy
present to feel the need of Miss Gym
thia-even with her coveted s%ideboard.
| imagine Newton must have felt con.
siderably nettled at this point, for he
bridled up and declared he'd propose
to Miss Cynthia that very day, eve
If It was like pulling an ~eye-tooth-
and show his partner what a proper In.
terest in the business was, and how
much good the sideboard would really
bring them.
1T must have been the hustling
quality of Newton which took her fan.
cy, I suppose. Anyway, she didn't
make any bones about marrying him.
They drove over to Derby that very
afternoon, and were married quiet like,
with only the sexton and his wife for
witnesses.
1.-The rest Of the afternoon they took
a honeymoon ride all over Cynthia's
own hills, and when the shadows fell
she took him home, and straight into
the dining room, to their honeymoon
supper. Well. gentlemen, the minute
Newton entered hat room he had to
lean hard against the wall to keep
from falling in a dead faint. For, II
you'll believe me, that sideboard, for
which he had paid the heavy penalty
Of marrying Miss Cynthia, was gone!
Not one single brass claw or knob of 1t
left to mark its tracks"
The minister from Michigan leaned
forward with the interest the athlete
displays in the last touchdown OF the
football game. "Where?" he ques-
toned.
Rimbey chewed the end Of q tooth.
pick with an attempt to suppress the
twinkle in his eye. "Of course, Miss
Cynthia never guessed for ar instant
that Newton had any particular feet