The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-09-29

ed as declaring his intention of taking
immediate steps for the apprehension
of Appleweight, she was still reading
and sorting letters, tapping her cheek
lightly meanwhile with the official
paper-knife
Here, Mr.. Ardmore.' she said
drawing a paper from her pocket, rs
the answer to that telegram we sent
yesterday evening. Suppose you read
that next, and we can then decide
what to do"
She was making the letters into III
tie piles. humming softly meanwhile,
but he felt that there was gCorm
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 il? You realize
that ] have been insulted, do your"
81 shouldn't put it that way. Miss
Dangerfleld. Gov. Osborne would
never have sent a message like that
to you--he thought he was sending 1t
to your father"
He's insulted 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 think it's the extremely
that's so perfectly mean. The divert
ing by itself would not hurt my feel
ings half so much. He's a good deal
smarter man than | thought he was
to think up a 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
Il think it's a 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"
rs it possible?" whispered Ard
more incredulously.
"Of course it's possible! Father
would never have been elected If hed
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 EN- l was for
turning the rascals out"
That was very stupid of you.
You've got to get the rascals to elect
you first; then if you're tired of Of
fee 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
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!"
What did you tell them?"
81 didn't tell them anything. sent
out for two other girls and we all just
talked to them and kept talking, and
gave them lemon sherbet and ginger
cookies; and Eve Hungerford played
no 10 Dot
Mr., Ardmore. that you didn't come
around to help? 1t seems to me yor
don't appreciate the responsibilities
of being secretary to governor"
II was afraid you might scold m,
If did. And besides | was glued t.
, the long distance telephone all even
ing, talking to my manager at Ards
ley. He read me my letters and 10
4 of kilograms that annoyed me yer,
K much. wish you wouldn't be S,
! hard on me, for l have trifling trou
: bles of my own"
/ Il didn't suppose you ever had trou
t bles; you certainly don't act al
n though you ever had"
t mo one who has never been broth
d er-in-law to duke has the slightes
3 idea of what trouble is"
y I've seen the duke of Ballywinkle'
!. picture in the papers and he look
y very attractive"
We'll, II you'd ever seen him ca
J, celery you'd change your mind. He
e going down to Ardsley to visit me
for sheer nerve must say my rela
d tons beat the world. I got my plac
8 over here in North Carolina Just t
u get away from them, and now my sis
ter--not the duchess but Mrs. Atct
= ison-is coming down there with
" lot of girls and Ballywinkle has al
G tached himself to the party. They'l
= pass through here today. and they
n aYnppt m find mo nj Ardslav