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

give them lemon sherbet and ginger
cookies; and Eva Hungerford played
the banjo-you don't know Eva? OF
| course you don't know anybody, and
don't want you to, for 1t would spoil
/ you for private secretary. But Eva is
simply killing when she gets to cut
ting up, and we. made those reporters
sing to US, and all they say in the pa
pers, even the opposition papers, this
morning is that Governor Dangerfield
is In Savannah visiting an old friend.
They all tell the same story, SO they
must have fixed it up after they left
the house. But what were you doing,
Mr. Ardmore, that you didn't come
around to help? 1t seems to me you
/ don't appreciate the responsibilities
OF being secretary to governor"
I was afraid you might scold me it.
l. did, And besides was glued to the
long distance telephone all evening.
talking to my manager at Ardsley. He
read me my letters and a lot of tele-
grams that annoyed me very much. I
wish you wouldn't be so hard on me,
for have trif1ing troubles of my own
/ Il didn't suppose you ever had trou-
bles; you certainly didn't act as
though you eyer did,
No one who has ever been brother
in-law to duke has the slightest
idea of what trouble is"
Eve seen the Duke of Ballywinkle's
picture in the papers and he looks
very attractive"
We'll. il you'd ever seen him eat
celery you'd change your mind. He's
i to ArIc to VII elf OR
sheer nerve must say my relations
here in North Carolina just to get away
from them, and now my sister-not
the duchess, but Mrs. Atchison-is
coming down there with lot Of girls
and Ballywinkle has attached himself
to the party. They'll pass through
here today, and they'll expect to find
me at Ardsley."
IF the dukes really coming to our
state | suppose we ought to recognize
him officially" and Jerry's eyes were
large with reverie as she pondered
her possible duty.
"Do something for him." blazed
Ardmore. Il hope you don't labor I'M
der the relusion that a dukes any
| better than anybody else? If you'd
suffered what l have from being relat-
ed to a duke you'd be sorry to hear he
was even passing through your state,
much less stopping off for couple OF
weeks"
Because you don't like him is no
reason why every one else should feel
the same way, is it? I've read about
the Duke of Ballywinlle and he be-
longs to one of the oldest families in
England, and I've seen pictures of Bal
Twinkle Castle
Worse than that" grinned Ard
more, with rising humor, 81 had to
| chip in to pay for it! And the plumb
| ing isn't yet what it ought to be. The
| last time was over there l caught
cold and nearly died of pneumonia. |
make it rule now never to visit
dukes You never know what you'll
strike when you stay in those ances-
I trail castles, even when they've been
restored with some silly American
girls grandfathers money. Those
places are full of drafts and malaria
and ghosts and they make you drink
tea in the afternoon, which is worse
than being haunted"
II suppose we might invite his
grace to inspect our militia, persist
ed Jerry. sit would sound well to
have real duke inspect the North
Carolina troops"
1T would sound better than he
would look doing it, can tell you
that Old Wellington may have been
all right, but these new dukes were
never made for horseback
"He might appear in carriage,
wearing his orders and ride the lines
that way. with all the troops present
ing arms
cor you might pin his debts on him
and mount him on a goat on the rifle
range and let the sharpshooters pep
per away at him, Please let us not
! talk about Ballywinkle any more; the
thought of him gives me that sinking
feeling
He had opened an atlas and was
porting over it with a magnifying glass.
Its positively funny" he murmur-
/ ed, laughing little to himself, "but
l know something about this country
over here. Here's Ardsley, in the far
corner of Dilwell county and here's
Kildare"
Yes; l understand maps. Dilwell is
green, and there's the state line, and
that ugly watery sort of yellow is
Mingo county, South Carolina, and
! Turner Court House is the county seat
of it. Those little black marks are
hills on the border, and it's right
| here that these Appleweight people
live, and dance on the state line as
though it were skipping-rope."
That's exactly it. Now what we
want to do is to arrest Appleweight
and put him in Jail in South Carolina,
which relieves the governor of North
Carolina, your honored father, of all
i embarrassment"
1 She snatched a paper-cutter and
/ took possession of the map for mo-
ment, then pointed, with happy lit
| tie laugh.