The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-09-10
CHAPTER v.-continued.

81 have heard papa say that life Is
short and the tenure of office uncer-
tain. can remove you at any time
| please. Now do you understand that
this is serious business? There's
likely to be lot of trouble, and no
time for asking questions, so when ]
say it's so it's so."y
ITS so,' repeated Ardmore do
cilely.
Now, here's the sheriff at Kildare,
on our side Of the line, who writes
to say that he is powerless to catch
Appleweight. He's afraid of the
dark, that man! You see, the grand
jury In Dilwell county--that's Kill
dare, you know-has indicted Apple
weight as common outlaw. but the
grand jurors were all friends of Ap-
pleweight and the Indictment was
only to satisfy law-and-order senti-
ment and appease the Woman's Civic
league of Raleigh. Now, papa doesn't
i mean I don't want to offend those
Appleweight people by meddling In
this business. Papa wants Gov Os-
borne to arrest Appleweight in South
| Carolina; but don't believe Gov. o.
| borne will dare do anything about It,
Now, Mr.. Ardmore, am not going to
have papa called coward by any
body, particularly by South Carolina
people, after what Gov. Osborne said
of our state"
why, what did he say?"
"He said In a speech at Charleston
last winter that no people who fry
their meat can ever amount to any
thing, and he meant us! | can never
forgive him for that; besides, his
daughter is the stuck-upest thing!
And I'd like Barbara Osborne to tell
me how she got into the Colonial
Danes, and what call she has to be
inspector general of the Granddaught.
ers of the Mexican War: for I've
heard my grandfather Dangerfield say
many a time that old Col. Osborne
and his South Carolina regiment never
did go outside of Charleston until the
war was over and the American army
had come back home" :,
Gov Osborne is contemplate
rufflan,n declared Ardmore with deep
feeling
Miss Dangerfield nodded judicial
approval. and settled back in her chair
the better to- contemplate her new
secretary. and said:
I've written--that 10 to say, rapa
wrote before he went away, strong
letter to Gov. Osborne. complaining
that Appleweight was hiding IL South
Carolina and running across the state
line to rob and murder people In
North Carolina. Papa told Gov. Os
borne that he must break up the APP
pleweight crowd or he would do some
thing about 1t himself. It's a splendid
letter; you would think that even 6
coward like Gov. Osborne would dc
something after getting such a let
ter"
Didn't he answer the letter."
Answer It? He never got 1t! Pa
pa didn't send 1t; that's thss reason
Papa's the kindest man in the world
and he must have been afraid of hurt
ing Coy. osborne's feelings, He wrot,
the letter expecting to send it, blu
| when he went off to New Orleans h,
| told Mr.. Bassford to hold 1t till he go
| back. He had even signed it--yol
| can read it If you like"
1t was undoubtedly a vigorou
| epistle, and Ardmore felt the thrill O
| its rhetorical sentences as. he read
| The dignity and authority cof one C
| the sovereign American states wa
| represented here, and he handed tn
| paper back to Miss Dangerfield q
| tenderly as though 1t had been tn
| original draft of Magma Charta
| IT'S a corker, all right"
l 81 don't much like the way 1t ends
| It says, right here"-and she bent fol-
| ward. and pointed to the place unde
| criticism-"it says. Trusting to you
| sense of equity, and relying upon
| continuance of the traditional friend
| ship between your state and mine,
| m, sir, awaiting your reply, yer
| asrectlully your obedient servant
! ", wouldn't trust to his, sense c
! y,l;cg Gnd that traditional frienC