Connecticut western news., 1910-01-20
OOOOOCOOOOCOO OOOOOOOOOC John WinSlOW'S
 Surrender How a Young Man Saved
 Fortune and Got
 the Girl.
 By HELOISE BRAYTON Copyright, 1910, by American Press Association.
By HELOISE BRAYTON
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Copyright, 1910, by American Press
 Association.

l ica, while sitting at his desk in his private office was handed a telegram, which he read eagerly. and his eye sparkled with joy. He had been bid ding against the Eureka Bridge com pany for the building of a large sec tfOn of western railroad, and the message was an announcement that his bid had been accepted. He expect cd through this contract to double his | fortune.
 His first thought was to communi- cate the good news to the person he loved best-the only one he loved in the world. MT. Winslow was wid- over with one child, a daughter
 "KenneGy!" called MT. Winslow, toss ing the telegram on his desk. X young man responded to the call to find his employer scratching a note. When finished MT. Winslow handed it to him, telling him to send it to his daughter at once Kennedy went out side and looked for an office boy to carry the note. Not finding one, he put on his hat and went with it him. self. His ring was answered by a maid who told him when he said he had a note for Miss WinsIow that he would find her in the drawing room. She was practicing at her harp. A pretty girl sitting at harp is an attractive sight Ned Kennedy was at an age to be affected by such a sight and possibly magnified it's beauty. At any rate, he saw the vision of his life. Years have passed since then, but to this day he treasures it in his heart the heart that in q twinkling passed to the girl at the instrument.
 And she? Before her stood young ster a few years her senior, with a bright, honest face, a pair of ruddy bOyish checks and smile that seemed to her entrancing. He was holding out a note to her. She arose, took the note, recognized her fathers writing, opened it and read his announcement that he had secured the contract on 1, which he had spent most of his time for the better part of year.
 "Oh, Pm so glad! she exclaimed ''But pardon me. Won't you be seat ed?"
 "No, thank you. I must get right back to the office"
 Did papa tell you he'd got the con tract?"
 i "Oh, no; he doesn't tell me things Pm only his employee. But Pm very much pleased to hear that he has sue ceeded. I've done lot of figuring for him on that contract"
 Are you an engineer?"
 "Ycs. I was graduated last year in ! the scientific school Your father ap- i piled for one of our class, and I was assigned to him"
 The young man looked happy, and ] the girl locked happy and tried to j think of some more pleasant things i that her father had said about him. 1 Though he declined to be seated, he asked her if she would not play just one piece on her harp, and she did, or, rather, she sang Annie Laurie" ac- companying herself on her instrument. Any one who has heard that song ac- companied by a harp knows of the depth of feeling there is in it. From that moment to Ned Kennedy Annie Laurie" was none other than Elsie l Winslow.
 When the engineer got back to the office he discovered that he had been with the young lady an hour, thinkir 2 he had been with her ten minutes, and his chief was impatiently awaiting him. MT. WinsloW asked him where he had been so long, and he replied that he had carried the note himself since none of the boys was at hand. Then he threw out danger signal in blush, but his employer failed to un- derstand it.
 Three months was the time specified for the beginning of the contract worr> During this period Winslow & C.. spent fortune in materials and other ] preparation. While this was going on Ned Kennedy and Elsie Winslow were making all sorts of excuses to meet, and within six weeks a mutual con fessiOn had been made and the lovers were in terror lest Elsie's father shOu'l discover tn" extent to which matters had gone, for Elsie knew that she would not be permitted to marry any one, especially a poor young engineer earning $25 week.
 Such cases always run the same course. The lovers think they are en- during no end of excruciating torture, but they are not. When love tortures erd prosaic marriage begins, and as husband and wife the couple take in- finite pleasure in reading of other cou- Dles' love tortures. The denouement came in time. Ned Kennedy sent note to hts ladylove, not knowing that her father was at home. MT. Winslow received it and took it to his daughter. This time the danger signal was in- terpreted. Then Elsie threw herself into her fathers arms and confessed all.
 No one likes to be deceived. The ia ther should have realized that stolen fruit is the sweetest and h,d compass sion. Instead he blamed his employee for what bo termed dishonorable con- duct and blamed his daughter for keep ing from him such an important mat 1 ter She tried to excuse herself on