Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-06-15

immediate steps for the apprehension
OF Appleweight, she was still readins
and sorting letters. tapping her cheek
lightly meanwhile with the oficiaI
paper-knife.
Here. Mr.. Ardmore." she said,
drawing a paper from her pocket, "is
the answer to that telegram we sent
yesterday evening. Suppose you read
that next, and we can then decide
what to do"
Sne was making the letters into lit
tie piles, humming softly meanwhile:
out he felt that there was storm
brewing. He read the message from
Columbia a number OF times, and II
the acting governor had not been so
ominously quiet he would have laugh.
ed at the terse sentences.
There must be a mistake about
this. He wouldn't have used divert
Ing that way: that's insulting,"
so you appreciate its Significance,
do you. Mr.. Ardmore? The iron en-.
tiers your soul, does 1t? You realize
that have been insulted. do your"
81 shouldn't put 1t that way. Miss
Dangerfeld. Gov. Osborne would
never have sent a message like that
to you-ho thought he was sending It
to your father"
He's fnsulted me and every other
citizen in the Old North State; that's
who he's insulted. Mr. .Ardmore. Let
me read it again." and she repeated
the telegram aloud:
Your extremely diverting tele-
gram In Appleweight case received
and fled I think it's the extremely
that's SO perfectly mean. The divert.
Ing by itself would not hurt my feel.
lngs half so much. He's a good deal
smarter man than l thought ne was
to think up telegram like that But
what do you think of that piece In the
newspaper"
He says he's going to catch Apple
weight dead or alive. That sounds
| pretty serious"
i think it's bluff, myself. That
telegram we sent him yesterday must
have scared him to death. He was
driven into a corner and had to do
something to avoid being disgraced,
and It's easy enough to talk big in the
newspapers when you haven't the
slightest intention of doing anything
at all. I've noticed that father talks
the longest and loudest about things
he doesn't believe at ALL"
is 1t possible?" whispered Ard
more incredulously.
of course it's possible! Father
would never have been elected If he'd
expressed his real sentiments; neither
would anybody else ever be elected
If he said beforehand what he really
believed"
That must have been the reason ]
got defeated for alderman on the re.
form ticket. l told 'em / was for
turning the rascals out"
Ihat was very stupid OF you.
You've got to get the rsscals to elect
you first; then If you're tired OF of.
flee and don't need them any more
you bounce them. But that's political
practice; it's theory we've got to
work out now. The newspapers are
a lot of bother. l spent all yesterday
evening talking to reporters. They
came to the house to ask where papa
was and when he would be home!"
Nhdl ulu you tell them T.
Il didn't tell them anything. I cent
out for two other girls and we all tust
talked to them and kept talking. and
gave them lemon sherbet and girpe
cookies; and Eve Hungerford played
the banjo. But what were you do ng.
Mr. Ardmore, that you didn't come
around to help? 1t seems to me YOU
don't appreciate the responsibilities,
or being secretary to a governor"
Il was afraid you might scold ma
IL l did. And besides I was glued tn
the long distance telephone all even
ing, talking to my manager at Ards
ley. He read me my letters and a LOT
OF kilograms that annoyed me very
much. l wish you wouldn't be so
hard on me, for 1 have trifiing trou.
bles of my own"
L didn't suppose you ever had trou.
oles; you certainly don't act az
though you ever had"
No one who has never been broth.
er-in-law to duke has the sl,Rbteat
idea OF what trouble is"
I've seen the duke of BalIywint1s..
picture In the papers and he looks
very attractive"
We'll, If you'd ever seen him eat
celery you'd change your mind. Hes
going down to Ardsley to visit me.
for sheer nerve I must say nv rela,
tions beat the world I got my pIacs
over here In North Carolina Just to
get away from them, and now nv ala.
ter-not the duchess, but Mrs. Atch-
isOn-iS coming down tbaro Mir .
lot OF girls and Ballywinkle has at,
tached himself to the party. They'll
pass through here today, and they'll
expect to find me at Ardsley."
(To BE CONTINUED)
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