Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-02-04
CHAPTER II.

next evening.
"Every man-jack of us and our pres
sents is desired at the marriage of their
daughter, presents with a t."
what did you buy for the 'shindy, ,
Dad7"
ga white tie"
"Dudley! to call a religious ceremony
a ~'shindy.'" said his sister Helena.
"I bought a picture to grace the fu-
ture home of the happy pair-one I
wanted myself, by the way. l always
covet my neighbours goods when an iron
clad social custom holds me up for some
thing too valuable for me to W myself. :"
81 don't know what we shall do with
the baby if we all CO." said Mrs. Red
field. at forgot all about the affair and
told Evelina she might go home tonight
and see her mother, who is i'll. I shall
not take it back now
"Take her." said Theo; at will in
cite her to riot and to set up an inspired
shrek if the wedding grows too dull"
"I will stay at home with her, cried
Dudley eagerly.
"Now, bud, how mean! l was going to
stay myself. Let us both stay"
"No; Dudley may stay; you must go,
Elizabeth"
"You did not speak quickly enough.
'Procrastination is the thief of time. j."
"You did not leave me any time for
the thief to get"
"Tan is 'sicklied DER with the pale
cast of thought What's the matter,
Tan7"
"Nothing."
"Nothing! Mrs. Soule looked dismal
this afternoon when 1 got the snow off
her sidewalk. If 1 we're as pretty as she
is, 1 would go about clothed in a spark
ling smile"
"We have a new man on the paper,
mamma; he is very good looking; he
WTOIe Jue ueW sIoIy We di ilhSu ~ AiuSA
and is at work on a novel;
"His name is Theodore Starr, ~ sale
Mr.. Redfeld.
ais he the big New York jewelry man
If he is, / am going to get him to give
me one of those diamond pendants thai
I have always longed for"
GA boy with a diamond pendant"
"Well I an sure if kings and princi
palities and powers can wear pendants
I can"
"You might wear a pair of arc light
in your ears, like Mrs. Merton"
"I believe she sleeps in them. Now .
shouldn't really care to sleep in a pend
ant, but then I would just as soon hav
a coronet. Bring forth the royal dia
dem'-come, Elizabeth, we shall be lat
at school"
"Must I wear that new tight dress t
the wedding9" sighed Elizabeth.
About eleven O'Clock Dudley was do7
ing over his books before a large fir
in the sitting-room CRATE. His mothe
had put the baby to bed in her W ROOF
next the %sitting-room, that Dudley Nigh
be neal her.
He stirred the fire and lay down on tn
lounge for q nap.
"I should think they would come hon
sometime-I am so-sleepy!'
In a few minutes he started awake wit
an awful sense of something wrong;
sprang up wide awake.
"What was that7 1 know ~ Il
picked up the poker but dropped it wit
a crash as he heard the baby cough, thu
rasping, choking cough that herald
Group. He rushed to his moter's room an
found the child sitting up, clutching at hi
throat with both little hands. 81
stretched her arms to him, but did nj
speak. He took her up and clunist
bundled a shawl around her, and took HI
to the fire. ooh, Baby! what can l
, for youq Obi why doesn't somebot
. comet O God, she will diel" II
Group was growing more severe; Dude
was wild with fright and anxiety.
r "IW go for Mrs. Soule!" He spl
a big easy chair before the fire, dra
q ged a blanket from his mothers b'
wrapped the baby in it, and placed her
Q the chair.
!, "Darling," he said very earnestl
g "Uncle bud is going to get somethii
for you; sit still till | come back; be
good girl" She could not answer, b
he thought she understood, kissing hi
he left her and few down the steps a
h across the street; the big lawn seem
endless as he raced down the walk. J
seemed to have crossed the street at o
leap; he rang a frantic peal at t
q Soules' door-bell. Aileen came to I
a door with a book in her hand.
ooh, come q%uickly--the baby 10 {
N ing-I am all alonel' he said in