Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-10
CHAPTER IX-Continued.

| father would oppose it bitterly on his
| side. l intended to on mine. and this
would naturally make you all the more
| determined to he married.
'.Married, exclaimed Dick. GOOD
| Lord. uncle: l should rather die than
marry her. It's the most preposterous
| thing | ever heard Of You have more
romance about you than a schoolgirl
Romance snorted his uncle. There
is no more romance about me than about
/ the multiplication table. ] knew it would
/ spoil everything if / had to tell you about
! ii. l have never seen her: but I've heard
| that she is beautiful and accomplished.
! | know that her mother was beautiful
| girl. From what I've seem of you.
! should have had sense enough to warn
| YOU against having anything to do with
| her-tllat is just what | had my mind all
| made up to do, but YOU fooled me into
! telling you. \ man has to he sentimental
at your age. and il seems horrible to him
to think of putting anything that smacks
! Of business or horse sense into his love
| affairs. She is lovely girl, no doubt,
| and
This is utterly out of the question. so
/ YOU may as well forget it, interposed
! Dick Il am willing to Stay Old Man
| Burton. or do anything else that's rea-
| Sonable: but | could never think of mar
/ rying that-now, I'm not putting my taste
| against yours: but really hcr-her par
/ ticular style of beauty does not appeal TO
] me at all.
That is just like YOU" retorted Ban
| nington, YOU are so accustomed to judg-
| ing things that YOU know nothing about
| that YOU condemn girl Just because
| say that it is policy to marry her Wait
| until YOU have seen her.
Il have seen her. answered Dick.
/ "Where?"
/ Right here on our grounds.
What? On our grounds, What was
| she doing OH our grounds?
she came to fird-that is, She was
| walking there
Walking on my grounds. \ Burton
| walking on my grounds, I'll have high
| board fence put up between us. I'll hire
| keepers to arrest trespassers. I'll
| This would certainly he lovely home
| to bring my bride to. if did marry Miss
| Burton said Dick. sarcastically. l
| don't see what the deuce you want with
/ that high board fence and those keepers,
! though-she did not harm the grass any
/ IN not put up with it. Burton just
moved out here to spite me- III start
| that fence tomorrow.
| Well | want you to give orders to
those keepers. said Dick, who knew that
| his uncle was man of his word mot to
! Interfere at all with any girls who
| come here to walk-that is, young ladies.
you know-with dogs.
/ Bennington looked sharply at his
nephew Did Miss Burton have a dog?'
| lie asked
Good gracious no. ! am in favor of
| keeping her ont: but ! mean good-looking
! girls, you understand-that is, my kind of
! good looks
Have any such been walking OH these
grounds" asked Bennington. innocently.
! II think | did see one today answered
Dick, Ticking a speck of dust off his
| sleeve
My grounds are my own and they are
| private. said the other, with emphasis
| Il gave two parks to this town-what
does it expect? What Kind of girl was
. this:
/ why, she was "a poor girl.
/ Bennington sat up with a jerk and
! glared at his nephew. a poor girl. huh?
| You arc true reformer, all right: You
have all the symptoms, Now. l want
! YOU to understand right here that / have
| a limit. You don't turn my grounds into
| a private park for poor girls TO walk in
while you chaperone them. ! am old
! fashioned. and the first talk | hear about
| your getting mixed up in this new-fan-
| gled affinity nonsense. that very minute
| | put you jim your right place. hold the
i power to make pauper of you, do you
understands
No replied Dick. calmly, Il don't I'M
derstard: but / don't care if you do.
Then there will be no earthly reason for
me to bother with business. and | can
/ give all my time to the education of the
masses"
Indeed you can retorted his uncle,
j sarcastcally, and / suppose you would
/ begin by hunting up some one to support
you-as did the three tramps you brought
| home with YOU.
| Dick Immediately stiffened. Il fancy |
| should experience little difficulty in earn
| ing my own living.
oh certainly: young fellow used to
| ten Thousand a year always imagines
| that he is worth it. You couldn't earn
really earn--ten dollars a week
And another thing, continued Dick.
Il always supposed that TINS mouse ana
my income were my own
When you get little older, replied
his uncle, dryly. you'll stop supposing
ard take deeper interest in getting the
facts. | have actual control until you are
twenty-five. and if you go too far, I'll
ditch the whole thing and make you
pauper Now, l want to know whether
or not YOU intend to work under my di-
rectiOn.
Yes III work under your direction. if
you will let me choose the job.
The old mans face cleared his nephew
had enough sense after all to see when
he had lost the game. Well. what 90
you want to start in as? superintendent:
No" answered Dick, demurely, Il
want 10 be the keeper who watches the
high board fence"
Bennington rose to his feet. the veins
in his forehead swelling with wrath.
You young scoundrel you."' he roared.
but youll learn. Oh, you'll learn, all
right Just wait until get through with
YOU and you'll stop tapping your wings
and begin to whine like a kicked cur
Dicks face turned red. Look here,
UNCLE he said, in a low tone. you
can't bluff me- I'm not afraid of pow
erty I'm not sentimental about the Ban
nington plant: but l do get lot OF en-
ioyment out of life itself and l don't
propose to give that up If you are the
big stem here and | am not welcome UNI
less | shake when you have chill, why,
YOU might as well rub my name on the
list at once; but you may as well under
stand right here at the scratch that while
| am always open to conviction. thaf is
the Only thing ! am open TO- oon pro-
pose to give up
..Open to conviction?' sneered the old
man You are too Internally obstinate
to be open TO anything except some ldiotlc
nonsense | don't where you got all
this obstinacy from! But l can tell you
right here that it is not going to be popu-
lar with me- l have tried to reason pa
,iently with you; but I'm sick OF 1t. Now,
I'll give YOU ten days-just ten days more
in which to get your eyes open. After
that, if you don't marry MISS Burton
against my will
You might as well call the deal on at
once Ill never marry her-never Me
obstinate? Why an army mule Is
yaciI,ating weathercock beside you. You
nick out one SINGLE diabolical plan. and
because / am too human TO yield to 1t.
You fy off at a tangent l have offered
| to do everything that is possible to
man of feeling; but tell you once for
| all. l shall not marry Miss Burton"
II have given you ten days said his