The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-10-05
But | Am Thinking of Getting Mar.
ried."

your father asked him what that was,
he said the idea that he could make
any money in the West. He told your
father that he was going back to Eng
land and give up his western schemes,
and that he had claim to sell, and
he told Blair where it lay. Who has
seen it?' your father asked Any of
my men,? And the Englishman told
your father that nobody had wanted
to buy it and that was why he had
come to him. He said he thought his
only chance to sell was to hold up
some blind man on his dying bed and
that he had heard that Blair was too
sick to stir out of his room and to
prospect. Your father liked the fell
lows cheek, and when ne found out
that he had the maps with him, your
father bought the whole blooming
sweep at the mans price, which was a
mere song.
Your father never went near his
purchase for year or more, and
when he had turned the mine he was
pany, with me as manager in his
place, at salary of twenty thousand
dollars year, he said to me one day,
'Ruggles, you'll be sorry to know that
the fun is all over, I've struck OIL But
the oil was copper. The whole bloom
ing business that he'd bought of that
Englishman was rich with ore. Well,
that's the story of Blairtown," Rug
giles said. you were born there and
your mother died there
Dan said: "Galorey told me what
dad did later for the man that sold
him the mine, and it was just like
everything else he did, for dad was all
right, just as good as they come"
Ruggles agreed. He left his rem
iniscences abruptly. Your dad and
me had the fun in our time; now you
are going to get the other kind; you're
going to make the dust fly that he
dug up
And the rich young man said mus
ingly: ''I'll bet it isn't half as good at
my end"
And Ruggles agreed: mot by Jug
full" And followed: whats On to-
night? "Mandalay?"
Dams fury at Prince Poniotowsky
came back. 81 guess you thought
was little loose in the lid, didn't
you, Josh, going sc often to the same
play?" ~~-----."--.----. a..
"You wouldn't have been the first
rich man that had the same disease"
Ruggles answered.
There is nothing the matter with
'Mandalay,' but I'm not gone on any
actress living, Josh; you are in the
wrong pew"
Dan altered his INDECENT pose and
sat forward. But l am thinking OF
getting married" he said.
81 hope it's to the right girl, pan"
And with young assurance Blair an.
swered: ct will be if l marry her.
I know what want all right"
81 hope she knows what she wants.
Dam
How do you mean?"
"You or your money. You have the
darnedest handicap, my boy"
Blair flushed. 'I'll get to hate the.
whole thing" he said ferociously. III
meets me everywhere-b onds-stocks
-fgures-di vidends-coupons- deeds
its too much!" he said suddenly,
with resentment Its too much for
me. Why sometimes I feel hun
dred years old, and like a hunk OF
gold"
Ruggles, in answer to this, said:
why, that reminds me of what
man remarked about your father once
1t was the same English chap your "a
ther bought the claim of. Speaking
of Blair, he said to me: You know
there's all kinds of metal bars, and
when you cut into them some is bull
lion and some's coated with alum
mum, and there's others that when
you cut down, cut clean yellow all
along the line If, as you say, you
if it is that kind"
Its got to stops coming in between
me and the woman / marry, all right
though" Dan did not pursue his sub.
ject further, for his feelings about the
duchess were too unreal to give him
the sincere heartiness with which he
would have liked to answer Ruggles.
He went over to the window, and,
with his hands in his pockets, stood
looking out at the fog. Ruggles,, at
the table, opened the cover of the
book of "Mandalay" and took out the
four checks made out to Lady Galorey
and which he had forgotten. He hur-
riedly thrust them into his pocket.
Come away, Dannie," he. said cheer
fully, lets do something wild. feel
up to do most anything with this mis-
cradle fog down on me. If it had any
nerve it would take some form or
shape, so man could choke 1t back"
Ruggles blew his nose violently.
There's nothing to do" said Dan
in bored tone.
why don't you see who your tele-
gram is from?" Ruggles asked. It
proved to be suggestion from Cor
don GaloreY that Dan should meet