Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-09

~ 20 v AtttA1 AAhA hD6S1 uIu OVScAAi~D
allied with the daughter, Jerry Danger
Held. In d~ischargtng the duties Of the
y0vernor's office.
CHAPTER y.-continued.
y have heard papa say that life is
short and the tenure OF ONCE uncer-
tain. I a remove you at any time
! please. Now do you understand that
this Is a serious. business? There's
likely to be q lot of trouble, and no
time for asking questions. SO when I
say it's SO its so"
IT'S so" repeated Ardmore do
cilely.
Nov, 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 Nlwell county-that's Kill
dare, you know-has indicted Apple
weight as . common outlaw. but the
grand Jurors we're all friends Of Ap-
plewei8ht 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
~ 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 I don't believe Gov. Os-
borne will dare do anything about it.
Now, Mr.. Ardmore. I am not going to
have papa called a 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 q speech al Charleston
last winter that no people who fry
their meat can ever amount to any
thing. and he meant usi 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 cali she has to be
inspector general Of the Granddaught.
ers of The q Mexican War: for I've
heard my grandfather Dangerflald say
many q time that old Col. Osborne
ana his South Caroline regiment never
did 30 outside Of Charleston until the
war was over and the American army
had come back. home"
"Gov. Osborne Is contemplate
ruflan." 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. 4ts
1--WE written-that Ii to say. papa
wrote before he went away. q strong
letter to Gov. Osborne, complaining
that Appleweight RAJ hiding in South
Carolina and funnlag 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 a
coward like Gov. Osborne would do
something after getting such a let.
ter"
Didn't he nsw the letter?"
Answer IT, He never got It! Pa
pa didn't send It: that's the reason!
Papa'1 the kindest nan In the world,
and he must have been afraid OF hurt
ing Gov. Osborne's feelings. He wrote
the letter. expecting to send II, but
whom he went on to New Orleans he
told NJ. Dass1prd - hold Il till he got
6aek. He hld even signed it-you
caA 1saA Il II you like:
Il was undoubtedly Z vigorous
epistle. and Ardmore felt the thrill Of
its rhetorical sentences ID he read.
The dignitys and authority Of one Of
H AAAfaAA ~AAnA .y~
represented here. and no handed the
paper back to Miss Dangerfleld AZ
tenderly q though It had been the
original draft Of Magma. Charta.
'sIt'ssA cofker. all right"
Il don't much like the way II ends.
lt sayS. right here'-and she bent for
ward and pointed to the place under
gcriticsm-s"tt says. Trusting TO your
sense Of equity, and relying upon q
scontinuAncsFy4f t4e trAop@qnal, friend.
ihip betwesk your STATE md mine,
am, cir. awaiting your reply, very
r6spDctfullXEs your obedient servant
Nov. I wouldn't trust % his sense o.
anything and TINT traditional friend
ahip business = Just fufy nonsense
and l wouldn't be anybody's obedient
servants I decided when I wasn't
more ,kSan IL years old. with u lot o.
oth0r girls In our school. that when
v0AGutStmaefied we'd never say obey
SnA ~ nsyer have, though only three
0uur class are married yet. but we're
Al sehGpeed."
Engagea9"
sssOk coAf6e: we're engaged. I'm On
-SSaSE ,eknrGnrA 0Nlin~watnr IN