Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-07-06
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BY MARY RUTH TRUEsDAlE
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

Ill ASSOCIATION.
When Samuel Atterbury died and
left his son Isaac his sole heir the
young man was twenty-seven years
DID, He did not inherit the misery
qualities of his father. He was
quiet fellow and longed for a home.
something his father had considered
himself too poor to give him. Isaac
had not lived the life Of gentleman
and had no idea of meeting and court
Ing lady for wife. He desired to
marry. but had sufficient sense to un-
derstand that he would be the target
for designing women. His father had
scarcely been laid to rest before Isaac
was the recipient of basketful of Of
| fers from young women who were
anxious to marry him. He read every
one Of them. thinking that he might
see something by which he might de-
tect genuine good sense. the faculty
be most desired in wife, He did
find one that impressed him with its
guilelessness. girl who gave her
name as Blanche Tyron and her age
as eighteen said that some of her
friends were putting in applications
for his hand and she had concluded to
do the same. not that she had any
hope of getting the situation. but her
mother. who was an invalid and whom
she supported. had urged her to do so.
She sent with her letter her photo
graph. There was such honest inno-
cence in the face that Isaac was i'm
pressed.
Isaac did not reply to her letter. but
few weeks later he appeared at her
home as an agent for sewing ma
chine company and insisted on selling
her a machine. The girl looked long
ingly at the machine. for she earned
her living by her needle and needed a
new machine sadly. She regretted
that she could not afford to buy it and
was turning away when the agent
made her a proposition so favorable
that she stopped to think. When a
woman hesitates with salesman at
the door she is lost. The agent. with
| Oul "dllAlS All uVl ~ lAdhC w ucl
mind. removed the machine from the
wagon TO the house. Then he filled in
the necessary blanks. and before the
girl knew what she was about she had
signed them
Isaac had made the installments tc
be paid weekly on each Saturday
night When the first payment came
due he appeared about = o'clock In the
evening" Blanche had the money
ready for him. but instead of going
way he fingered to talk with her The
next Saturday evening when he came
for payment of the note be stopped
longer. Indeed. his visits grew NOR,
and more extended and the relation:
between the two more tender. Som,
: time before the last installments wer,
due Isaac one evening when he calico
to collect tore up the notes and left be-
the possessor of the machine Blanche!
gratitude kindled love. and not Ions
after this when Isaac proposed unde
the name OF Nathan Griggs she &C
> cepted him.
,. She had scarcely given her wore
when the postmap called and hande'
her an answer to the offer of marriag
she had made the multimilliona!re sew
: erai months before. He Informed he
2 that on receiving her letter and he
: picture he had taken pains to lear
! something about her. had seen her an
had been 80 favorably impressed wit
her that he had decided to give he
the situation of wife to him.
|. Here was a situation of another kind
Blanche had few days before accept
ed sewing machine agent. and nov
comes an offer of. marriage from
/ multimiIlionaire.
Blanche fortunately received the lei
ter when her mother was upstairs an
knew nothing about 1t. Blanche too
it up to her own room and hid it in he
bureau drawer. saying nothing about
to her mother. whom she knew wOul
Y give her no peace till she had broke
2 with the sewing machine agent an
accepted the multimillionaire. 1saa
called that evening. He expected t
! find his betrothed in at least state Q
uncertainty and had but little douh
that he would receive his dismissal
4 He found Blanche in no different COZ
2 dition than usual. except that tn
2 greeting kiss she gave him was trifl
more affectionate.
Isaac passed the evening expectfn
! every moment that the letter would
2 mentioned. but when be arose to e
{ and nothing bad been said about it h
I began to wonder. He had stood behin
a tree on the opposite side Of tn
street and seen the postman ham
Blanche a letter and knew that it wa
his. for he had purposely put 1t in
pink envelope. He had come expecting
, Blanche to tell him Of her offer
!, The next day Isaac received a iette
from Blanche in answer to his pro
posal. stating that since her letter t
him she had received similar ofre
from one who loved her and whom sh'
loved and that it would not be honora
BILE nor could she" bear to disappoin
him. She must therefore beg him Il
, excuse her.
Isaac on receipt Of this letter re
marked to himself. "Since she Is 81
= reticent over her affairs will practice
some reticence myself" AS the wed
ding day approached he told her tina
his straitened circumstances woul(
, require a very modest wedding. ani
since he had no house of his own tt