The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-02-10


81 "a THE NEW STORE
north. He won his spurs under Lee
After the war had blown over he came
home. to find that his only son had
enlisted with the Radville company
and disappeared at Gettysburg. Ii pref
ty nearly killed the old man. though
he wasn't so old then. but there's fire
In the Bohun blood. and his boys &C.
ton seemed TO him nothing less than
treason"
And that's what soured him on the
world?"
"Not altogether. He had a daughter
Margaret. She was the most beauti
full woman in the world" | suspect
my voice broke little just there, for
there was a shade Of respectful sym.
pathy in the monosyllable with which
he filed the pause. HE swore she
should never marry a northerner, but
she did. ! guess. being a Bohun, she
had to after hearing she must not.
There were two of us that loved her,
but she chose Sam Graham"
Ia Il
sorry
I'm not She was right If couldn't
see II that way They ran away. and
so did |. ! went. east but they came
back TO Radville. Colonel Bohun new
er forgave them. but they were very
happy till she died. Betty's their
daughter. of course Sans not the
kind that marries more than once"
We reached our gate. went in very
quietly. lit our candles and with elabo-
rate care avoided the homemade bur-
glar alarm.
by the way, did you get your invi-
tation to Josie Lockwood's party. Mr.
Duncan? happened to see it on the
hall table this evening"
YES" he assented quietly.
ITS to be the social event of the
year. | hope you'll enjoy it."
I'm not going. It's against the rules
at first-I mean business rules. I'll be
so busy at the store. you know"
Alone. was fain to confess he baf-
fed my understanding.
The rush Of business to Graham's
began the following morning Dun.
cans hands were full almost from the
first. and he had to relegate such mat
ters as making final disposition Of his
stock and getting acquainted with it to
the intervals between waiting upon
customers. Old Sam must have put
up more prescriptions In the next few
days than he had within the last FIVE
years. Everybody wanted to take
look at the renovated store, shake
Sans hand and see what the new
partner was really like. Sothern &
Lees was for some days quite desert
ed. especially after Duncan took q leaf
out Of their book, bought an ice cream
freezer and began to serve dabs Of
cream in the soda.
VIII Bigelow even dropped round
and bought samples of the tobacco
stock, from two-fors up to ten-centers,
and smoked them with expressive
snorts. Tracey Tanners soda and Gig
arctic trade was transferred bodily to
Graham's from the first, and Roland
Barnette gave it his patronage. albeit
grudgingly, as soon as he found it i'm
possible to shake Josie Lockwood's al
legiance. l say grudgingly because
Roland didn't like the new partner
and had said so from the first. But
every one else did like him almost
without exception. His attentiveness
and courtesy were not - rateful aft
er the way things were tnrOwn at you
Mt Sothern & Lees, we declared.
Duncan certainly did strive to please
No man ever worked harder In Rad
vile store than he did. And from the
time that he began to believe there
would be some reward for his eXer-
lions. that the business was suscepti-
bic to being built up by the employ
ment of progressive methods, be grew
astonishingly prolific Of ideas. from
our sleepy point Of view. The win
dow disDlavs were changed almost