The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-03-30

/ please consider this interview at an
end, Mr.. Forrest hope for your
mothers sake you will change"
"And he gave his CONSENT" whis-
pered Miss Prue, who was waiting
in the hall for her lover to reappear.
"No, and he never will! He thinks
I'm slugger and loafer."
"How dare he! How dare he!"
ooh, he dared, all right. He didn't
seem bit embarrassed over it. He
same as called me prize fighter"
"And you so gentle that you wouldn't
hurt fly! Well, we won't elope, and
we won't commit suicide. You just
wait. That father OF mine Is going to
get a talking to-
The father got 1t, but 1t did not
change the situation, except he hoped
that Mr.. Forrest, for the sake of his
parents, would give up smuggling and
take to tho law and become credit to
the benct Cnd bar. If he did this, and
after five or ten or fifteen years,
proved that he had recovered from
his exuberance of spirits, why he might
come around and talk.
Miss Prua was not found dead at the
end Of rope in the garnet next morn
ing. They don't do that way nova
days. They write little note and
smuggle it out cf the house and then
have feeling that their angel grand.
mother is looking G,,yn from heaven
and will somehow bring things around
all right. In this instance, Miss Prue's
angel grandmother was on the spot
and saw her way clear
Mr.. Forrest did not call again. He
did not propose an elopement nor plan
the death of the banker. If he was a
slugger he was an honorable one. Be-
sides, he also had grandmother up
there. She was a hustler and schemer
when alive, and he believed he could
depend upon her now.
Mr.. Wilson was interested in a mar.
BILE quarry, and occasionally drove out
there to see how things were going.
There had been a cut-down In the
wages of the men. Too much money
was being sent back to Italy. Two
weeks after breaking Mr.. Forrest in
two he started to visit the quarry and
settle the trouble If he could, and Miss
Prue accompanied him. At about the
same time the despairing lover started
out from somewhere in his auto for q
spin. His route passed the quarry.
The banker arrived to find seven or
eight hands hanging around and
grumbling, while dozen more had
packed up and departed. A strike had
been declared. He stood up in his auto
and GRATED. He showed that cut in
wages always made the wage-earnel
more economical, and was therefore {
good thing, and he was going on tt
prove several other things when the
men made a dash for him and hauled
him out of the machine. They had
just begun to pound him up right
smart when another auto arrived or
the scene, and he had dim remem
brance of hearing his daughter cry
out:
ooh, it's Harry-my Harry! Oh
Harry, they are killing dad!'
This was the situation that the two
angel grandmothers brought about
| Couldn't be better. Mr.. Harrison For
rest was out of his machine and slug
ging away, one, two, three, inside of ter
seconds. The enemy went down. The
enemy dubbed and slashed at him
, The enemy was punched until 1t fed
; And Mr.. Wilson sat up in the road anc
saw it all, and heard Miss Prue's words
of commentator and exultation. Anc
when the enemy had been lambastee
the banker arose and extended his hant
to the young man and quietly OBJ
served:
II thought you were to quit slug
: ging!"
= "But this was special occasion, yo'
see!" was the reply
!, ooh, understand. Well, you nigh
!. call this evening and make it anothe
special occasion, and shall expect yo'
= to take up law the very first thing IL
: the morning"
And Miss Prue reached out ant
patted her father on the shoulder
"You are the best ever" she said.
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