Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-03-02


filled in almost one end Of the big
room Newton was almost hypnouzed
by e."
Thc professor stirred delightedly. Il
can just see it," he said. My grand
mother had one
after that Rimbey continued,
with an approving smile for the profes-
sor. 1T might just as well have been
stones and bullets that Newton was
eating lie had only one thought-to
become immediate possessor Of that
sideboard
We'll. you know how Il is. gentle
men Because the sidoboard was en-
tirely beyond his clutches. his very
mortal existence seemed to hang ON
getting hold Of It, He ate with It.
rode with II. slept with Il. when he
could get any sleep al 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
20 her and made all sorts of rash and
wild propositions for the sideboard.
gunpowder in that lady's eyes. along
with the smile. Newton gave up going
himself. and sent his Harvard gradu-
ate partner 20 zee what he could do.
while ne mounted the high stool and
kept books something he took to as
pleasantly as a youngster does its
castor oil
Then IL was that poor Newton found
out that the sideboard had brought
him into still deeper waters than CO.
vetousness. Instead of a proper row
OF figures, pink cheeks and dropping
lashes danced all along the ledger
pages in a most bewilderIng and fan
tastic manner, as over his benumbed
senses there dawned the conviction
that, come what would, he must let in
the thoughts Of a woman, foremost
even 10 his upholstering and renovat-
ing.
The crisis came one morning when
Newton called Barrick, his partner, to
the ONCE and had long business talk
with him. In II he sought to prove to
that Harvard mathematician that one
or the other of them must marry Miss
Cynthia in order 10 come into posses
sion of a sideboard that 1t would not
do at all for their business to lose.
Newton argued that the immense num-
Der of acres, which went along with
Cynthia Browning, proved, beyond the
shadow OF doubt that only a born
mathematician should cope with so
great an honor. The proofs were not
conclusive. Bprrick rebelled openly
and stubbornly representing himself
to be too well pleased with the rosy
present TO feel the need of Miss Gym.
thia-even with her coveted sideboard
| 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, even
if II 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 hustIing
quality of Newton which took her fan.
cy, suppose. Anyway, she didn't
make any bones about marrying him.
They drove over to Derby that very
afternoon. and were married.
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 that room he had TO
lean hard against the wall to keep
from falling in a dead faint. For, IL
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 tooth
! pick with an attempt TO suppress the
twinkle in his eye. "Of course, Miss
Cynthia never guessed for an instant
that Newton had any particular feel
ings about that sideboard." he said
easily. $50 II went out for a little
wedding present. Barrick gave his
partner the slip, and got in his we'd
ding just two hours earlier. They
were already over the getting-engaged
part-Miss Cynthia's pretty niece and
| himself-so II didn't take much per
suasion on his part to get her to dc
her sewing afterwards. Then Miss
Cynthia showed her approval OF the
union, and her determination TO keeT
1t on her side Of the family, by bestow
ing the sideboard upon the niece. How
they got II out OF one house so quick
ly into the new one rented by Barrick
is a puzzle, But / guess Miss Cynthia
managed II in the same inexplicable
smooth way with which she manager
her husband-and the several thousand
| actac of land which are still safely I'm