The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-09-08
CHAPTER V.-Contlnued.

81 have heard papa say that life Is
short and the tenure of office uncer-
tain. | can remove you at any time
j please Now do you understand that
this Is a 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"
IT'S So" repeated Ardmore do.
cilely.
Nov, here's the sheriff at Kildare,
IN 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 APP
only to satisfy law-and-order senti-
ment and appease the Woman's Civic
league of Raleigh. Now, papa doesn't
II mean | 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 Os-
borne will dare do anything about it..
Now, Mr.. Ardmore, | am not going to
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 Dangerfeld 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
ruffian," declared Ardmore with deel
feeling
Miss Dangerfeld nodded judicia
approval, and settled back in her chat
the better to contemplate her new
secretary. and said:
1--WE written-that is to say, pap
wrote before he went away, a stronl
letter to Gov Osborne, complaining
that Appleweight was hiding in Sout
Carolina and running across the stat
line to rob and murder people L
North Carolina. Papa told Gov. Os
borne that he must break up the Al
pleweight crowd or he would do some
thing about 1t himself. It's splendi
letter; you would think that even
coward like Gov. Osborne would
something after getting such a lei
ter"
Didn't he answer the letter.
answer 1t? He never got it, Pa
pa didn't send 1t; that's the reason
Papas the kndest man in the world
and ne must have been afraid of hurt
ing Gov. Osborne's feelings He wrot
the letter expecting to send it, bu
when ne went off to New Orleans h
lolu MI. hdSSlulu W lulu II tlll ht ~
back He had even signed it-yo
can read it if You like"
It was undoubtedly a vlgorou
eplstle, and Ardmore felt the thrill G
its rhetorical sentences ms he reat
The dignity and authority of one G
the sovereign American states wa
represented here, and he handed tn
paper back to Miss Dangerheld n
tenderly as though It had been tn
original draft of Magma Charta
It's a corker, all right"
u don't much like the way it 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 frienc
ship between your state and mine.
am, sir awaiting your reply, yer
respectfully, your obedient servant
Now. | wouldn't trust to his sense O
anything, and that traditional FRIEND