Connecticut western news., 1910-01-20

MT NInNlOW Wa: 70 i.Ii Itel witl Kennedy tharJ he paid him his salnr' and discharged him. He supposed his action to be based on the young man winning his daughters love without permission He forgot that he had won the girls mother in the same way. The true reason was that hp was irritated because he had been stupidly ignorant of what was going on.
 The day when a commencement on the contract must be made drew near. One morning MT. WinslOw while per fecting his plans to make sure of the smallest details had all his formula spread out before him on table The weather was cold and blustery, and a fire Of logs blaZed on a hearth near which he had drawn his table for warmth. Opening the door to leave the room for moment, he met a brisk current of air. When he return ed his papers had disappeared from tie table. Terrified, he looked about for them on the floor. Then in the fireplace lle noticed several bits of half burned paper. Taking one of them out. ho found it to be a part of his formula. Every thing had been burned.
 l.r one week he must begin work or fer cit his contract. If it was forfeit ed iIc would lose not only the splendid pTr It Inc had expected, but thousands uT. thousands that he had expended in ~rCp1rIti"n wCu.d be almost a total lOSs-iI loss that would bankrupt him. There was but one thing to do-he must reconstruct his plans. There was no time to make new ones. The old ones must be set down from memory. He was no longer young. Indeed, he had reached an age where memory is grown defective. He hurried a mes sage to the telegraph office asking for an extension of time. No reply came till the next day, when he was wired that it would be impossible to grant his application.
 When Elsie saw her father come in at the front door that evening she thought he was some broken down old man she had never seen before. Yak ing him in her arms, she supported him to the library, where he sank into a chair, while she knelt beside him with her arms about his neck. She knew what had happened to bis pa pers and inferred that his application for an extension had been refused.
 Father" she said, eve something to tell ycu. Listen. I wrote Ned Ken nedy of this misfortune. This after noon I received a reply, which said:
 
 It seemed to Elsie that an electric shock had been infused into her fa- ther's frame. With a bound he sprang from his chair.
 Can he?" he exclaimed.
 There was no room for wounded pride, no words of regret at being obliged to humble himself by asking favor of the man he had discharged from his service.
 "Where is he? Can you get him now?'
 Elsie sprang away to a telephone, in a few minutes was in communication with her lover, and in twenty minutes more he was with them.
 Elsie says began her father.
 q kno,o it, interrupted Elsie, rub ping her hands gleefully.
 'I have a good deal of the work did" said Kennedy, "in Els' roo.l, where I worked nights, odds ard u.-,,s of figuring. These will assist my mem- ory, and I am sure I can recall the whole formula
 MT. Winslow stood looking at the young man in a dazed way for few moments, then caught him in his arms and hugged him.
 You can! You can! I know you can! That memory of yours! It's won derfull When can you begin"
 "Tn go to my room and begin at once"
 No, no; not there. Bring any fgur ing you may have here. Stay right here till the work is finished"
 Ned was followed to the door by Elsie, where several minutes were lost in clinging embrace, prolonged in the knowledge that from that time forward they had the upper hand. Then the yer ran all the way to his room, snatched up roll of papers he had collected with this very purpose in view anC ran all the way back. He found Elsie and her father about to sit down to dinner and joined them. Mir. Winslow was absorbed in the matter of tho formula. He said nothing, eX cept to interrupt Ned and Elsie occa- sionally, who kept up constant gab- ble, the old man asking if Ned thought he could supply this detail and that detail, and Ned always assured hirl that he could, though with regard to some of them he was not altogether certain.
 After dinner Ned was given a deSl; in the library, with plenty of station ary. MT. -insloW insisted on helping him, but Ned declared that h. ccu'd get on bet ar alone. So at 9 o'clock Elsie insis' d cn her father going to bed to recuperate from the strain he had been under and carried him off upstairs. As soon as she had tucked him in bed she went down to her lover.