The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-09-29
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Concerning Consuella
By STACY E. BAKER
Copyright, 1910, by Associated Literary Press

and beautiful battle was precipitated
thereby. The fight was all In favor OF
the excited fisherman until the arrival
of the long. whiskered one who had
been distanced in the race. The third
man Jumped into the battle with
raucous shout. His hands were as
hard as boulders and a duke blow
from one of these deprived the fisher
man of his senses.
When Heating recovered conscious
ness he found himself neatly trussed
up, and two red and perspiring farm
ers standing by and cycling him with
little favor.
"You darned city bug" growled the
younger. what kind O. rowdy1n' II
that you are up to? Chasin' a poor
defenseless critter until she falls down
winded!"
You're crazy" snarled Heating
couldn't you see that she had my
fishhook stuck in her silly wool?'
Fine thing for you to be doin','
added the other rustic. "Stick1n' your
hook in other peoples sheep"
eff other peoples sheep would quit
sticking their noses in my affairs they
would not be hooked"
"But you did hook her." came from
the younger one.
Certainly l hooked her." snapped
Heating. And now tell me what you
are going to do with me. Burn me al
the stalker"
An angry snort issued from the
whiskers of the ancient. Were going
to hold you until Mrs. Griggs comes
home"
"And who, If 1 may ask, is Mrs
Griggs?"
"She's the owner of that poor perse'
cuted lambie-shes also the local rep
resentative of the S. P. G. A." an
swered the youthful granger. Shell
fix you for having been cruel to Con
suella.'
"Consuella!" cried Heating. "Dc
you mean to tell me that that old
sheep is named Consuella."
"Uh, huh, an the more names you
call her the harder it'll go with YOU
Heating, in the city, was Charles
Heating, Esq, managing an agency
for a well-known cash register con
Germ. He bore the respect of his fel
lows.
In his bonds before these country
men, Tuning and fretting, and with
| perspiration running down his fore
head, his dignity was coNspicuously
absent.
The mind of the youth was on the
austere Miss Decker, his nancee.
h0t
this little misadventure was thing
| of the country.
! Pad, pad pad, pad!
Heating, his back to the driveway
heard the approaching rig before II
had come to stop beside him.
| what is this?" asked chilly voice
! "a womans voice.
! "This man was a chasin' Of Con
! suella," explained the farmer "Ht
\ had a fishhook in her wool, and hi
4 pole and line hangtn' to it, and hi
was runnin' her to beat Time. W.
knew-Hiram and what store yo'
set by that sheep, Mrs. Griggs, an W.
kept him, thinkin as how you'd ik'
l. to sick the law on him."
. A musical laugh rang out, and tn
i marrow in the bones of the prisone
CONCEALED as he heard it. He knew
:. that laugh.
H. Turn him over" came in a sof
contralto. "You don't care if loo
II upon the classic profile of your pris
;, oner, do you, aunt?'
~ Hiram's foot prodded the youth fac
- about-and beet-red face it was!"
d. The girl in the carriage broke int
~ a hysterical scream.
"Oh, aunt" she gasped when sh
n. had recovered her breath. "This is to
N much. Your sheep chaser isis m
III fiance."
10 Following the orders of Mrs. Grigg
le Heating was speedily liberated. E,
as plantations followed. Mrs. Grigg
laughed. Miss Marion Denton scream
IS ed again. Heating, whose sense {
st humor would not spread to cover tn
If, situation, frowned ominously at th
as two embarrassed ones who were r
IT. sponsble for his predicament. Wit
X awkward apologies the two made
is hasty departure.
"That is the first time I ever sa
ic you give indications of being re-
he flesh and blood" growled Keatin
to townbound, and with the girl by h
III. side.
!" "Now that I find you something b
. sides business automaton and ere
pit ture Of conditions, like the rest of u
1t wo may understand each other be
he ter" laughed the girl.
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~ Medical advices from New Zeala1
be indicate that that country is sufferil
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