Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-05-06

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elizabeth socms much younger to me
than l seemed to myself at her age.
But here is your father. Mr.. Clinkel
you may see what he has to say. l am
glad he can't tell me to use my own
judgment and it will be all right she
said to herself.
"Ned," she said, "Mr. Clinker has
asked me for Elizabeth" She choked
and stopped.
"For Elizabeth Why, she is too
young"
"she is as old as l was, my DEAR
and-and-'
"Does she wish to marry you, sir?"
"I hope SO; l have not asked her yet.
"Well, Tom, I am surprised. You are
quite a stranger to us, and while you
spend money like-like Barnes Of New
York, you do not seem to have any bust
ness; and while a man may be rich, still
I do not think it a good thing for a man
not to do some good with his money, and
make it as well as spend it.
III never exceed my income, sir; and as
to business, 1 do that vicariously, and l
hope | do some good in that way"
"vicariously9"
eyes; | make it my business to find
out young men and women who have tai
oaA o-J ~ a,n cao IN IL thot thny
have the money to pursue their studies in
the lines they wish. l have equipped h;Elf
a dozen artists; | have one singer in Eu-
rope who is going to astonish the world;
I have graduated two ministers, one OF
whom gets a good salary; the other chose
to be a missionary. / should not care to
be one myself, but l never dictate as to
their careers. Now this missionary
"'And one Sunday morning before it
was light,
They ate up this MISSIONARIES
said Dudley.
"I will tomorrow have kilograms that
will satisfy you as to my family and con
nections.'
"That will not be necessary, my dear
, boy; I am not ignorant of yonr family
and connections. Your mother was {
schoolmate of mine, as | have before tolc
:. YOU, and | have always known of YOU
father. the coal baron. If she Loves
you"
Tom waited to hear no more; he spran$
up and seized the old mans hand, AM
, kissed Mrs. Redfeld so warmly that sh'
blushed. May | take her now in tn
striking turn out dear mother9-
mine is dead, you know.
! "Oh yes, take her, and"
"Be darned to you! You haven't ask
ed my consent yet exclaimed Dudley
"Dudley, just 60 and tell her, won
!, youq" Dudley went; he found her sit
ting with a ~disconsolate droop upon he
mouth and her hair in a wild t%ousle, he
eyes red, and a doleful book in her hane
"It's all right, Elizabeth; you can g
= and ride behind the tandem; Mum ha
4 given in"
. "I on't-want to go now!'
II eyes. you do. I tell you Tom worke
like a hero to get their consent, but b
did it. The poet says the course OF tru
n love is a mighty rocky road, and l b
IL lieve it,"
. A glorious, color famed in her cheeks
FL she snatched a brush and in a twinklin
III had her hair in order and her hat ar
I'll Jacket on, but her fingers shook so th'
. she could not put on her gloves.
u "What makes you so ~nervous?'' Du
~ ley teek her in his arms and kissed he
"~Gooa-bye. You will never be my tw
any mere
I'M "what do you meana Nothing q
come between us, Dudley; you are talkll
A foolishly. Goodbye
NM She few down the stairs and at t
1I foot of the stairway Tom was waltz
'R fer her with a longing look in his ey'
q He said nothing, but hurried her doN
and walk and into the cart and mount
-s beside her, and the chestnuts bore thu
asst away in the fair September sunshine.
you For some time there was nothing sal
ave both knew that absolute and content
satisfaction in which there is no need
a. words. Clinker, experienced as he "
:, I'm .ou,a1b;nC an+irn1v nav and DaSSi
sweet in having this pure and tender ?
sonality beside him; to have her alt
in the narrow compass of a two-whee
!, cart and in the isolation one feels WI
being rapidly borne above the ground
oin swift horses was a sensation that he
iAa been longing for since first he had $
her. He felt in its highest degree t
laVo fierce sense of protection that impeI
my him to seek battle and STAY an enemy
iiAn her sweet sake. He felt the same exu
ton with which, when centre rush il
beth football game, he had rushed upon
enemy, and his analytical mind begar
dissect his emotions and to speculate
his yet undeclared love should cause
lion, sations SO closely analogous. He 7
re- lied that love and war, the primitive
hav- sions Of man still held their old force
was Gre as in the days when mar slew
ition enemy with his club or stone ak and
en- nexed his bride to his own possessions
Elizabeth watched the beautiful hol
wait 90 well trained that they seemed to
mouths Of velvet; their tawny m
said few in the wind, their sheeny coats
for Hected the sunshine in brides
ther, CLEANS; she noted Toms strong h