Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-08

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Next he remembered Ferguson, the
| little man who had scuttled into the
road Ike q rabbit, the one-time
| aging editor of q great newspaper,
who was content to live In the chapar-
raj along with his spring of mountain
water and his hand-reared and mani
cured fruit trees. Ferguson had solved
a problem. A weakling and an aIco-
holic, he had run away from the doc
tors and the ~chicken-coop of a city,
and soaked up health like a thirsty
sponge. He sat down suddenly on the
bed. startled by the greatness Of the
idea that had come to him. He did
not sit long. His mind, working in its
customary way, like a steel trap, cam
vassed the idea In all its bearings. It
was big-bigger than anything he had
faced before. And he faced It square
ly, picked it up In his two hands and
turned 1t oyer and around and looked
at 1t. The simplicity of 1t delighted
him. He chuckled over 1t, reached his
decision, and began to dress. Midway
in the dressing he stopped In order to
use the telephone.
Dede was the first he called up.
Don't como to the on e this morn
Ing" he said. "Tm coming cut to zee
you for a moment"
He called up others. He ordered
his moterscar. To Jones he gave In
struetions for the forwarding of Bob
and Wolf to Glen Nllen. Hogan he
surprised by asking him to look UP
the deed Of the Glen Ellen ranch and
make out a new one In Dede Mason's
name. "Who7" Hogan demanded.
"Dede Mason" Daylight replied Ina.
perturbably-"the phone must be In
distinct this morning. D-e-d-c Mason.
Got TT"
Half an hour later he was flying out
to Berkeley. AND for the first time
the big red car halted directly before
the house. Dede offered to receive
him In the parlor, but he shook his
head and nodded toward her rooms
I'm there" he said. mo other place
would suit
As the door closed. bis arms went
out and around her, Then he stood
with his hands on her shoulders and
looking down into her face.
"Dede, II ! tell you. fiat and straight,
that I'm going up to live on that ranch
at Glen Milen, that / Amt taking a
oent with me, that I'm going to
scratch for every bite | eat, and that
I Amt going to play airy a card at the
business game again, will 0 come
along with mef"
She gave a glad little cry, and he
nestled her In closely. But the next
moment she had thrust herself out
froEn him to the old position at arms
lengtha
"aew IL this possible? How can
you leave your businesss Has any
thing happsned7"
mo, nothing's happened yet, but It's
.oiRT to, blame cuick I've takan
your preaching to heart, and I've
come to the penitsnt form. I'VE taken
my last drink. You're marrying q
whiskyNsoak, but your husband won't
DO that. He's going to grow Into II.
ether mar SO quick you won't know
him, A couple of months from now,
up there In Glen Ellen. you'll wake up
some morning and md you've got n
perfect stranger in the house with you,
and you'll have to set introduced to
| MIN all oyeT again, You'll say, I'm Mrs,
Harnish, who are your And I'll sag,
I'm Blam Harnlah's younger brother.
I'VE Just arrived from Alaska TO at
tend the funeral What f~uneraiT'
you'll say. And I'll say, Why the fu-
neral Of that good-forenothing, gam
bling, whisky-drinking Burning Day
nght-the man that died OF fatty de-
generation of the heart from sitting
In night and day at the business game
Yes, ma'Rm, I'll say, 'he'a sure a gone
coon. but I've come to take his place
and make you happy. And now,
ma'am, II you'll allow me. I'll just me-
ander down TO the pasture and milk
the cow while you're getting break
fast"
"But you haven't answered my ques.
t%ions," she r~eproaehed him, as she
emerged, rosy and radiant, from the
embrace that had accompanied the
elimination Of his narrative.
NOW Just what do you want to
known" he asked.
II want to know how all this is pos.
sibIa7 How you are able to leave
your business at q time like this3
What o meant by saying that some
thing was going to happen quicklyf"
'Let's go and get married" he urged,
all the whimsicality of his utterance
duplicated In his eyes. 1--we been work
ing like forty horses ever since this
blamed panic set. In, and all the time
some OF those ideas you'd given me
were getting ready to sprout. Well,
they sproutsd this morning. that's all.
! knew / wanted to ride In the hills
with you Just about thirty million
times more than | wanted to so to the
Office. And I knew all the time 1t
was impossible. And why7 Because
OF the Office. The ofies wouldn't let
me. And then I made up nay mind
that / was to the dividing Of the ways.
One way led to the otaoa. The other
way led to Berkeley. And ] took the
Berkeley road. I'm never going TO
set foot In the oHace again. That's I'll
gone, finished. ovsr and done With,
aud I'm letting It atide clean 10 smash
and them some. I'm wiping the slate
clean. I'm letting IL all go smash.
WAen than thirty million dellara
stood up tn my faes and said I cotsldn'f