Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-10-28
to go to her aunt first and perhaps be
read by her. She would die first. /.

James Tillinghast, to whom Miss Nina
was so nearly engaged that they had
discussed the question of whether they
should keep three servants or four.
The aunt was handed the telegram.
She read and returned 1t with the OBJ
servation that IL was a wonder how
he had allowed himself to be noosed.
Jimmie arrived. There was no one
at the depot TO meet him. At the
hotel he had to wait thirty minutes be-
fore the answer to his card came back.
The aunt greeted him effusiveiy. That
was reason enough why the niece
should greet him coolly. Been noosed.
had he? Been roped like spring calf.
caught on the fly before he had time
TO know his own mind. She would see
about that. OF course Jimmie had
wit enough to see that he. had struck
a snag of some sort. and he proposed
a veranda promenade and explana-
lions.
The aunt chimed In. But. looking
him straight I'm the eye. the girl re-
piled:
"Mr. Tillinghast, kindly excuse me.
Consider yourself unnoosed from this
time on"
1t was while the lover and the aunt
were occupying chairs on the veranda
and trying to explain matters that
Miss Nina slipped out of the hotel and
took the path past the VOLTS den and
up the mountain. She wanted to get
off by herself and think and shed tears
and-and probably commit suicide.
Yes. that would end all The aunt
would have TO weep, Jimmie would go
around wishing the moose was around
his neck again. and the papers would
publish her latest photograph and
speak of the affair as romance. Sui
eide by all means. One plunge from
the precipice. 500 feet high. would do
the trick.
Miss Nina had left the hotel half a
mile behind and was surveying the
country for suitable precipices when
a sudden sight caused her TO scream
out.
Around bend in the path came a
big black bear He halted at sight
of the girl. She screamed. He was
used to 1t. He belonged to an Italian
stroller who danced him from one re-
sort TO another. He stood on his hind
legs and waltzed while the girl scream
ed. He stood on his head and growl-
ed while she sank down In heap and
family called for help She forgot
that she had broken with Jimmie. and
she called on him.
The bears master was resting and
eating lunch hundred yards behind
the bend He heard no commotion.
and he did not worry. When young
lady has made up her mind to COM
NIT suicide she should not be particu-
lar as to whether she leaps over a
precipice or is devoured by bear. But
Miss Nina was inconsistent. She felt
herself on the point of being devoured.
and she kept calling for help. Indeed.
she wanted to live Just as long as that
old fellow referred to In all well regu-
lated family Bibles.
II good looking girl In peril calls
for her sweetheart long enough he is
bound to come. In this case Jimmie
had dropped the aunt az soon as he
decently could and was taking a stroll
In the forlorn hope that the niece
might be met with outside. II was a
very fresh kid with very fresh wink
to his eye that said to him:
"Sbe went or mp that path, and
she's probably expecting you"
Jimmie didn't exactly hustle until he
heard faint calls for help. Then he
was all lightning. Az he came In sight
OF the bear and the girl he took In the
peril. There was dead limb almost
under his feet and he seized It and
sailed In. The bear came down of his
head and on 10 his four feet with
promptness and dispatch. He had TAXI
en- hundreds of kicks from his muster
and the yublsc. and he took some more
now as being all In the days work.
Jimmie was still on the Job when the
Italian heard the rumpus and appear
ed to call out:
"Whatn you doaf Why you wania
keel my Joseph? lie circus bear He
no hurta nobody"
"My dear girIr' shouted Jimmie as
he turned TO Nina.
lis II you-is II Jimmie?'
"0f course II Is. Thank heaven I
camc In timer
Eyes: he was getting rendy TO eat
me up. Oh. how I screamed for my
apntr'
For your auntr'