Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-01-06
TOGO"

cd. "Im tellin' ye wanst fer all,
ma'am. the baste goes or l dol" And
moment later "the baste" himself
appeared-a small, unprepossessing,
white-yellow ferret, wrapped in the
arms of "Jimpsey" Englehart, the
son of the house.
Mrs. Englehart stood uncertainty
between them. "Well, Katy, I'm sure
/ haven't any fondness for him myself
He should have been sent back at
once"
YES" said Jimpsey fairly in
tears, yes, after he's gone and done
his duty and killed all the rats-and
he killed them just in punches, tool
then nobody has any sympathy for
him any more!"
BY this time Mrs. Englehart could
once more hold the scales Of justice
evenly. "Jimpsey," she said, we're
not denying how valuable he's been.
| When l think of the way We were
pestered with rats hardly two weeks
ago But you ought to think of the
people who are pestered with them
still, and pass him on to them. The
many as we had"
"Well, why can't they go and buy
| ferrets Of their own, then? But I
guess they'll never get any like To
go!"
"Then you must keep him In tho
stable. Why must he be forever go
ing back to the CELLAR"
hot he, Il hoH
the most fun, of course! l keep him
in his box, too, only he chews his way
out again."
"Togo" seemed to blink his little
albino eyes in pleasant corroboration.
Katy could hardly resist making a
| pass at him.
Jimpsey retreated vengefully to-
ward the outer door. And now, too,
| when he even knows my whistle! I
| can send him into that hole away up
| in front of the coal bin, and then
whistle through my fingers into the
| hole away back near where We keep
| the potatoes, and he comes up just
| as If it was only the other side of the
partition. He'll do it every time l
give ullll u liSdI dp. SuCSS IiCl
aren't many ferrets trained like that!"
Again Mrs Englehart gave up.
| Yet 1t was with very uneasy mind
that she gave up. Only too clearly
did she feel that if there was another
meeting between Katy and Togo in
the shadowy glimpses of the coal and
vegetable bins, there would no longer
be any chance to choose between
them. And Katy was the one really
good cook she had ever had. She
| decided at last that 1t was something
that Mr.. Englehart must settle, al
| though in the main it was against her
| principles to trouble him with such
domestic problems.
That day Mr.. Englehart returned
from the new college buildings with
worry on his face.
| Belle" he said, I'm about ready
to quit"
"Why, DEAR" she asked, what is
1t now?"
"Oh. Orv again. A young architect
like that-with the brains for 1t, too
gets a job that gives him his chance
to make a name through the whole
State. He's uplifted that he marrtes
on it. And then he let's fat headed
contractor make fool of himself and
/ him about once week. When that
business Of the chimney supports got
out, the Journal gave him enough bad
tations And now"-he spread out
his hands on the table.
Dear, dear! What is it Malone's
done this timer"
"Oh, 1t was Malone, all right. In
way 1t wasn't Orv's fault at all. He's
been giving himself entirely to the In.
side and up stairs work for the last
month, and l suppose it never once
entered his head that an ordinary rea-
soning man could go wrong in the pipe
laying. Then Malone simply put in
and covered up every solitary tube
connection between power house,
| main building, library and dormitories
without running the wiring throughl"
"James!"
Oh, l need hardly say that Orv insists
upon taking all the blame. There's
miles Of piping altogether. And az
soon as the Journal gets hold Of
! that"
1t was little wonder that Mrs. En-
glehart said nothing about Togo. And
the same feeling that sent her across
to the Havilands' with her dessert un-
eaten, sent her husband outdoors,
where he believed he could think
alone.
AS matter of fact he remained
(, alone only till Jimpsey could find him.
And then the whole matter of Togo's
| gltteringly meritorious past and his
darkly perilous present was set forth