Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1911-02-16

THE NEW STORE.
north He won his spurs under Lee.
After the war had blown over be came
home, to find that his only son had
/ enlisted with the Radville company
and disappeared at Gettysburg 1t pref
! y 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?"
mot 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 respectfuI sym
pathy In the monosyllable with which
be filed the pause. He swore she
should never marry northerner. but
she did. / guess, being a Bobun. she
bad to after hearing she must not.
There were two Of us that loved her.
but she chose Sam Graham"
Why" b. said awkwardly, I'm
sorry"
I'm not She was right if / couldn't
see It that way They ran away and
so did l. went east, but they came
back to RadviIle. 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 Loekwood's party, MFR
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 1t"
+ I'm not going. It's against the rules
at frst-1 mean business rules I'll be
SO busy at the store, you know"
Alone. | was fam to confess he BAT
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
tiers as making final disposition Of his
stock and getting acquainted with Il 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 a
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 leaf
out of their book. bought an ice cream
freezer and began to serve dabs Of
cream in the soda.
Will Bigelow even droppe:t 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
as soon as he found it i'm
possible to shake Josie Lock woods al
legiance | 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 attentiyeness
md courtesy were not ungrateful aft
ar the way things were thrown at you
1t 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 be began to believe there
would be some reward for his exer-
ions, that the business was suscepti-
Die to being built up by the employ
nent Of progressive methods, he grew
prolific Of ldeas. from
1ur sleepy point Of view. The win