Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-11-05

his whole heart went out unrsserved-
ly to the girl.
When Darlington had gone to Cave
naugh, his heart In his throat, to speak
to him relative to his daughters hand,
he unwittingly knocked off the top OF |
a volcano.
Marry my daughter" Cavenaugh |
roared, emphasizing his wrath and |
disapproval with bang of fist upon
palm. MY daughter shall marry only
among her equals, not among her in
feriors. A king is not good enough
for my Kate" There was another
bang of the fist, decided and final. "A
lawyer? Not if l know myself.
wouldn't trust lawyer out of sight"
bluntly Kate shall marry duke or
a prince, If / can find one suitable
Darlington would have smiled had
the moment been less serious.
| mo man can possibly appreciate
her worth more readily than |, sir"
he replied, or love her more dearly"
Love-" with a snort. "Twaddle
out of story -books!"
but you yourself love her"
I'm her father Cavenaugh re-
turned complacently, adding a gesture
which had the effect of describing the
fact that it was perfectly logical for
a father to love his daughter, but that
it wasn't logical at all for any other
male biped to love her.
81 am sorry" said the disheartened
sutton, rising. 81 suppose that after
this unpleasant interview"
''Oh, you're decent sort" interrupt
ed Cavenaugh generously; "and II you
are of a mind to behave yourself here
after, you will always find chair at
, my table. But my daughter is not for
you, sir emphatically not. That is all
, sir" and Cavenaugh picked up his
evening paper
r After such a rebuff, most young men
:. would have given up; but Darlington
n never gave up till there was no posi-
1 bility of winning. Immediately aftel
= the interview he went to the higher
: court with his appeal.
/, Let us have patience the CIR
whispered. "Pll undertake to brint
l. him to reason"
r nights without his love for the fathe
d increasing any.
q And SO the matter stood at the pres
Ir ent time. The affair had gone neitf
ID er forward nor backward.
d All, were he less honest how easil
8. he could bring the old curmudgeon t
terms! There was that in his poke
M which would open the way to the alta
u quickly enough. But Darlington wa
manly and honest to the core, and I
him blackmail stood among the bases
j of crimes Many times during the pas
u 48 hours the tempter had whispere
in his ear that here was way OF
of his difficulties; but the young ma
had listened unmoved.
! During the summer and autumn
I'M months of the year the Cavenaugl
W lived at their country place over
IID New Jersey, and there CarringtC
lIH spent the week-ends. There wei
IN horses to ride, golf and tennis, and
Hi Saturday night dance at the Count
I'LL club. To be with the girl you low
Hi even If you can't have her, is son
Hill compensation. Cavenaugh never join'
a tho fetes and sports of the summe
1 colonists, but he offered no objection
to the feminine members of his hous
hold for selecting Darlington as the
escort for the week-ends. Indeed,
81 now he began to consider Carrlngt'
as a harmless. sensible, well-groom
young man, who relieved him of
the painful duties to the frivolous.
the colonists insisted on coupling
80 daughters name with Carrington's,
them do SO; when the proper nome
md came he would disillusionize the
or For himself. he always had some go
the old crony down to while away the d
ago Sundays; and together they eonsu
the mated plans that gave the coup
at grace to many a noble business g
leon. This particular summer the
~ were no dukes or princes floati
nc around unattached, and Cavenau
md agreed that it was a commercial
his time to lay devices by which to a
vac bush the winter money.
voc There were nights when Cavenau
of did not sleep very we'll; but of Il
tho more anon.
'lce (To BE CoNTINUED.)
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