The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-28
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Aunt Pandon's scheme
An Lawrence Alfred Clay

home of her sister in New England
village Oh q certain date she was
met az the depot by her niece Miss
Jean Tragefs, who had tears in her
xeyes. When she reached the house
ashe was Hssed by her sister, who had
f,eafs,in ger @Ses "a liaftee1ater she
I @aA Welc6med by M dsraHers, who
loo&% glain and determines.
1t did not take the little old woman
more than half an hour to discover
that something in that family was
cut Of joint, and TO demand an expla-
nation. She was told 10 get ready to
hear something awful
+ Miss Je..n had been away to school
II Boston She knew that. because.
being rich and because Miss Jean was
her favorite, she was paying the bills
I What had the girl done, on her third
term OF schooling, and just as she
had arrived at that point where she
could almost ask for gumdrops al the
store in French, but fall in love?
Z She had not only fallen in love
I with a young man, but she had failed
\ 10 notify her parents by special de-
4 livery letter Further, she had brok-
eli a rule Of the school, On her ar,
/ rival there she had been told in the
( Nlanesi of plain English that under
no circumstances must she fall IN
love with a man, either old or young,
7 while 10 write or or{receive o. note was
I an offense SO heinous that il could
not possibly be overlooked All this
was as nothing to what was to come
Aunt Pardon must square herself in
her chair and keep from fainting
away, If she could
I Miss Jean had written notes-~little
1 pink notes She had received notese4
little robbins egge notes. And some
I Of these notes had got into the hands
/ OF Miss Boneset. the president OF the
school and by her had been sent to
\ Ms Jeans parents. And now the
4 earth was about 10 tremble. Aunt Par
don would tremble with the earth.
Miss Jean had been caught when
/ OH The verge OF clipping with the
Young man aforesaid She had her
4 a rope ladder when she was seized
4 and hauled back She was talked TO
! for the rest OF the night and sent
home the next morning. II was the
4 most fragrant case Miss Boneset han
encountered in her fifty yeats Of
maidenhood, and she must make a
( shining example OF the guilty party.
There It was. and what had Aunt
I Pardon to say about IL? Had she ever
in her whole life. heard of such IA
tMng3 She replied that she had
| Just one case, and she knew exactly
/ lie remedy for It. Then. in turn. she
asked what was the matter with the
Young man Neither father nor moth
| e could exactly tell, and Miss Jean
! lad locked herself III her room. i.
The fact Of the matter was that
dr .Travers had been speculating
anl made lot of money, and was
gcllg 10 keep or specializing and
making more, and for the honor Of
he family he wanted he daughter
20 make good match. There was
40 reason why she shouldn't marry
. lord instead Of an adventurer. 9th
girls had done It, and why
shouldn't jean
The girls story, told amid tears
ana in the privacy of her room, diff
cred somewhat Yes; she had writ
en- ana received notes, but he was
-uch lovely young man, There was
; rope ladder. but one Of the girls
oad dared her to descend It. Per
laps she might have met the young
fnan and told him to 90 away, but,
he certainly had no thought of elop-
ing.
DO YOU know what I'm going 70
io?r asked Aunt Pardon of the heads
If the family after a day or two. I'm
,nng 10 take Jean and go down 20
Atlantic City for a month | need
he sea air. and she needs 10 forget
his young man I've read that there
re always from ten 10 fifteen lords
'angins around there. and III bat my
I'D shoes she captures one of them.
rherell be your money and my
money behind her. and shell 90 off
kc hot cakes. The biggesL relatiYet
, we've got is only member of the
egislaiure. and | believe they are in
esiigat 'ng him for grating I'd kind
# like 20 be aunt or something to q
Gsd to see howpit seems"
Miss Jean wsSIorIlered 10 make
eady for the trip She dpmuried a
he and shed a few tears. She
wasn't told in so many words that il
,as an excuse 10 further separate her
| rcm the ycung man but she figured
vi things pretty we'll for herself.
I 'he might have jumped off the barn
I down HE well ana made her par
'nts lots of trouble, bHt when The
me came she went along as humble
IS Nary's little lamb
Aunt Pardon was q hustler II her
ev had had The right TO vote she
,onld have been governor of the
taie years before. -Four hours af
81 reaching Atlantic City she was
fomenading the boardwalk looking
ioi a lord Miss Jean wasn't. She
sas still demlely unpacking, She
had been chastenel, !, and 1t was not
for her TO go galloping around like
II young COLI
y For three DAYS Aunt Pardon looked
r'ar her ofd She got al the papers
ItG,I scanned the hotel arrivals. She
iaidn't find one, bu she was not dis
couragedf3W H .Y
9'fm aiIr foarth day. after consider
,dblAnarapm Bhea persuaded Miss
dean into 4osp10menade Iltlwas for
iIhH4sFi'Shes esFshn itlwas also 70 show
er or 10 the sight Of any stray lord
At ore point of the walk the railing
hal been carried away by the waves
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