Evening journal., 1910-06-20


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When Samuel Atterbury died and
left his son Isaac his sole heir the
young man was twenty-seven years
old. He did not inherit the misery
qualities OF his father He was a
quiet fellow and longed for a home,
something his father had considered
himself too poor to give hiIs. Isaac
had not lived the life of a gentleman
and had no idea Of meeting and court
ing a lady for wife. ~ desired to
marry, but had sufficient Sense TO I'M
derstand that he would be the target
for designing women. His father had
scarcely been laid to rest before Isaac
was the recipient of a 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
/ he most desired in a wife. He did
find one that impressed him with its
! guilelessness. A 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 limo
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 a 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 80 favorable
that she stopped to think. When 8
woman hesitates with a salesman al
the door she is lost The agent, with
out waiting for her to make up hel
mind, removed the machine from the
wagon to the house. Then he filed il
the necessary blanks, and before thu
girl knew what she was about she haC
signed them.
Isaac had made the installments t
be paid weekly ON each Saturday
night When the FIRST payment cam'
due he appeared about S o'clock in tn
evening Blanche had the none.
ready for him. but instead of goinl
away he fingered TO talk with her. Tn
next Saturday evening when he cam
for payment OF the note he stoppe'
longer. Indeed. his visits grew NOR
aud more extended and the relation
between the two more tender. Som
time before the last installments wer
due Isaac one evening when he calle
TO collect tore up the notes and left he
the possessor Of the machine. Blanche
gratitude kindled love. and not Ion
after this when Isaac proposed unde
the name Of Nathan Griggs she az
cepted him.
She had scarcely given her wor
when the postman called and handle
her an answer to the offer of marriag
she had made the multimilliOnaire SCI
eral months before. He informed he
that on receiving her letter and he
picture he had taken pains to lear
something about her, had seen her an
had been so favorably impressed Wit
her that he had decided to give he
the situation Of wife to him.
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Blanche had a few days before accep
ed a sewing machine agent. and no
comes an offer of marriage from
multimillionaire.
blanche fortunately received the Il
ter when her mother was upstairs al
knew nothing about It. Blanche too
It up to her own room and hid it in h
bureau drawer. saying nothing about
to her mother whom she knew Won
give her no peace till she had brok
with the sewing machine agent al
accepted the multimillionaire. lisa
called that evening. He expected
find his betrothed in at least state
uncertainty and had but little dou
that he would receive his dismiss
He found Blanche in no different CO
, dition than usual. except that {
greeting kiss she gave him was a tn
- more affectiOnate.
g Isaac passed the evening expecu
4 every moment that the letter would
3 mentioned. but when he arose to
and nothing had been said about it
began to wonder He had stood behi
a tree on the opposite side Of
p street and seAn the postman ha
Rlancha letter and knew that II y