The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-08-15

I Peter Carmichael knew little Of society.
and cared nothing for it. He was happy in
tlit Acquaintance Of his choice cronies, all
eztisn able, elderly persons, in Ike easy cir
cunnstanees to bis own, and they forgathered
, X on. another's houses, induleing in whist,
or chess. or even draughts, game Of which
! Peter was exceedingly fond
He had been widower ever sitcc MS
daughter was little girl at school, and pcT-
haps, II Sarah's mother had lived the girl
might have found life more interesting than
was the case, but be that as it NAV, Sarah's
resflessness and lack OF all companionship
tn4ag young people turned her attention
10 Higher Education, with marked success.
Shs. actually achieved degree in science,
al perhaps that was what impelled her
toward electric light, while her father was
nore than satisfied with gas or candles.
However, for the sake Of peace, he gave
contract TO the Southern Counties Electric
Lighting Corporation, E;Dllating only that
noae d the bulbs shoald he installed in his
bedroom Or study.
lie corporation sent ung Stillwell
Bronson, agtls twsnty.si., salary three pounds
a wsst, 20 siperi:sield lnc iIsiai.aiion Of
electric lishI in the mansion that belonged
10 Pet<r Carmichael.
St;!lwell clcsn-livlns yc,laz nan, with
clear-eat face liz konsan cameo, and
s,noIde;ing. dreamy eyes more suitable to
poet than % an electrical engineer. vas
nevertheless an expert IN hs prokaion and
should have been getting thf.s or focr times
what The company pdd him. Bun barg
visionary As well as clever mechanic, u, Ia
lived quite rontented up to .hc dni. hs let
Sarah Carmichael, and was sufpris 4 u nlc
handsome young woman who vas 50 deeply
learned in his own subjects.
Suffice ii 10 say that the dreamy, smoldcr
ing eyes which produced so unexpected an
rffeet on the scientific Sarah utterly failed to
impress her practical old iather, WHO, having
been in former days an employer Of young
Y men. and an excellent Judge o, rnem, saw IN
this tongue-tled electric engineer before him
an inert, inefficient person, foredooned tc
failure in this commercial world; 50 he said
| /" No With an emphasis that psrayEed even
/, the power Of expostulanon cr the part Of
Bronson
Sarah tried her hand az erecting a reconcile
alton, but the stubborn determination which
had been one factor in Peters business sue
cess proved impregnablc fier father had
given her the electric light but definitely re-
/ fused 10 give her the electric lighter So Que
day few weeks later, while Peter Carmichael
Fas carefully driving Whit ball across
green fields, Sarah accompanied Stillwell
Bronson to the Registrars Office, and was
haaried in quite commonplace fashion,
without any Of the ecclesiastical trappings. Of
fnlisit. or bridesmaids to which an ordinary
girl might think she was entitled Thus tie
1rl stepped down Of her own accord iron, A
luturious mansion, with plcnty d money, % a
srsagfrly furnished cottage on three pounds
/ week
Nov do not. beg Of sou, At this stage 81
! the recital. misplaec your sympathy. Sarah
/ rss perfectly happy and needed no commits
! esssion. shiIe as for stillwrll Bronson, the
rnfld vas new-made and beautiful But
here wa< old Peter Carmichael left with a
I house on his hands many sizes too large for
hin. Al newly fitted up with electric light.
'~Iisls h> d<t<zted and the bin Siill 10 come
X SsrzA had been holsekeeper 50 ciIi-
cent that her father had come to look upon
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