The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-04-30
CHAPTER v.-Continued.

Il have heard papa say that life Is
short and the tenure Of office uncer-
tain. l can remove you at any time
I please. Now do you understand that
this is a serious business? There's
likely to be a 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.
Now. 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 Dlwell county-that's Kill
dare. you know-has indicted Apple
weight as a common outlaw, but the
grand jurors were all friends Of Ap-
pleweight and the Indictment was
only to satisfy law-and-orde senti-
ment and appease the Woman's Civic
league OF Raleigh. Now. papa doesn't
i 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 1t.
Now. Mr.. Ardmore, l am not going to
have papa called 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 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 Dangerfield 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
rufflan." declared Ardmore with deep
feeling.
Miss Dangerfield nodded judicial
oppA oNdl. anu Seltleu OdCh III utT CUAlE
the better to contemplate her new
secretary. and said:
I've written-that Is to say, papa
wrote before he went away, a strong
letter to Gov. Osborne, complaining
that Appleweight was hiding in South
Carolina and running across the state
line to rob and murder people in
North Carolina. Papa told Gov. Os-
borne that he must break up the Ap-
pleweight crowd or he would do some
thing about 1t himself. It's splendid
letter; you would think that even a
coward like Gov Osborne would do
something after getting such let
ter
Didn't he answer the letter."
Answer It? He never got it, Pa
pa didn't send it; that's the reason!
Papa's the kindest man in the world,
and he must have been afraid of hurt
ing Gov. Osborne's feelings He wrote
the letter. expecting to send It. but
when he went of to New Orleans he
told Mr.. Bassford to hold it till he got
back. He had even signed it-you
can read it if you like"
1t was undoubtedly vigorous
epistle, and Ardmore felt the thrill of
its rhetorical sentences as he read
The dignity and authority of one OF
the sovereign American states was
represented here. and he handed the
paper back to Miss Dangerfield as
tenderly as though 1t had been the
original draft Of Magma Charta.
Its a corker, all right"
Il don't much like the way 1t ends.
It says. right here'-and she bent for
ward and pointed to the place under
criticism-"it says. Trusting to your
sense Of equity. and relying upon q
continuance Of the traditional friend
ship between your state and mine. I
am. sir. awaiting your reply, very
respectfully. your obedient servant
Now. wouldn't trust to his sense of
anything. and that traditional friend.