The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-02-26

tnlng, ana ne meant US! | can never
forgive him for that: besides, his
daughter is the stuck-upest thing!
And Id like Barbara Osborne to tell
me how she got into the Colonial
Danes, and what call she has TO be
inspector general of the Granddaught.
ers Of the Mexican War: for I've
heard my grandfather Dangerfield say
many time that old Col Osborne
and his South Carolina regiment never
did go outside Of Charleston until the
war was over and the American army
had come back home"
Gov. Osborne is contemplate
rufian," declared Ardmore with deep
feeling
Miss Dangerheld nodded judicial
approval. and settled back in her chair
the better to contemplate her new
secretary, and said:
I've written-that is to say, papa
wrote before he went away. a strong
letter to Gov. Osborne. complaining
that Appleweight was hiding in South
Carolina and running across the state
line to rob and murder people in
North Carolina. Papa told Gov Os.
borne that he must break up the APP.
pleweight crowd or he would do some.
thing about 1t himself. It's splendid
letter: you would think that even q
coward like Gov. Osborne would do
something after getting such 4 lot.
ter"
Didn't he answer the letter."
Answer 1t: He never got it! Pa.
pa didn't send 1t: that's the reason!
Papa's the kindest man in the world,
and he must have been afraid of hurt.
ing Gov. Osborne's feelings. He wrote
the letter. expecting to send it. but
when he went of to New Orleans lie
told MIR. Bassford to hold It till he got
back. He had even signed it-you
can read it II you like"
1t was undoubtedly vigorous
epistle, and Ardmore felt the thrill OF
its rhetorical sentences az he read.
The dignity and authority Of one of
the sovereign American states was
represented here. and he handed the
paper back to Miss Dangerheld AZ
tenderly as though 1t had been the
original draft Of Magma Charta.
TITS a corker. all right
II don't much like the way It ends.
It says. right here'-and she bent for
ward and pointed to the place under
criticism-"it says, Trusting to your
sense of equity. and relying upon a
continuance Of the traditional friend
ship between your state and mine, I
am, sir, awaiting your reply very
respectfully. your obedient servant.
Now. wouldn't trust to his sense At
anything, and that traditional friend.
ship business is just fluffy nonsense.
and I wouldn't be anybody's obedlent
aervant. decided when wasn't
more than is years old, with a lot OF
other girls in our school. that when
we got married we'd never say obey,
and W never have. though only three
of our alass are married yet, but we're
all engaged"
"Engaged?"
"Of course; we're engaged. I'm en-
gagged to Rutherford Gillingwater, the
adjutant general Of this state. You
couldn't be my private secretary II 7
wasn't engaged; 1t wouldn't be
proper"
The earth was only \ flying cinder
on which he strove for a fOothold.
She had announced her engagement
to he married with a cool hnality that
took his breath away; and not real.
izing the chaos into which she had
flung him, she returned demurely to
the matter Of the letter.
1--WE can't change that letter. be-
cause It's signed close to the 'obedient
servant and there's no room. But
I'm going to put It into the typewriter
and add postscript"
She sat down before the machine
and inexpertly rolled the sheet into
place; then. with Ardmore helping
her to find the keys, she wrote:
demand an mediate reply
Demand and immediate are both
BUSINESS words. Are you sure there's
only one m in Immediate! All right,
~ you know. reckon 4 postscript
like that doesn't need to be signed.
I'll Just put w. D. there with papa's
stub pen. 70 1t will look really fierce.
Nov, you're the secretary; you copy
IT. In the copying press and III ad.
dress the envelope"
She babe him give the letter plenty
Of time to copy. and talked cheerfully
while he waited. She spoke Of her
friends. as southern people have
way Of doing. as though every one
must Of course know them--a habit
that is illuminative Of that delightful
southern neishborliness that knits
the elect Of a commonwealth into
single family. that neither time and
tide nor sword aud brand can destroy.
well, that's DONE" said Miss Jerry,
~hen the letter, still damp from the
compress, had been carefully scaled
and stamped. Gov. Osborne will get
It in the morning. I think maybe
we'd better telegraph him that It's
coming"
Tho message, slowly thumped out
on the typewriter, and several times
altered and copied, finally read:
Raleigh. N. c.
The Honorabl Charles Osborne.