The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-21

would not be bankrupt.
Advice Dan Blair senior once
said to his boy, sis the kind of thing
we want some fellow to give us when
we amt going to do. the thing we
ought to do, or are little ashamed of
something we have done. It's an aw-
full good way to get cured OF asking
advice just to do what the fellow tells
you to at once
During Ruggles' stay in London the
young fellow looked to it that Rug
gles saw the sights, and the two did
the principal features of the big town,
to the rich enjoyment of the Western
er. Dan took his friend every night
to the play, and on the fourth evening
Ruggles seid: Lets go to the circus
or vaudeville, Dan have learned
this show by heart" saey had been
every night to see ''M8ndalay."
oh, you go On where you like,
JOSH, the boy answered I'm going
10 see how she looks from the pit"
Ruggles was not Blairtown man.
He had come from farther west, and
had never heard anything of Sarah
Towney or Lefty Lane. He applauded
the actress vigorously at the Gaiety
at first. and after the third night slept
through most of the performance.
When he walked up he tried to dis
cover what attraction Lefty Lane had
for Dan. For the young man never
left Ruggles' side, never went behind
the scenes, though he seemed alb
sorbed, as man usually is absorbed
for one reason only.
In response to telegram from Os-
dene Park, Dan motored out there one
afternoon, and during his absence
Ruggles was surprised at his hotel
by call.
my dear Mr.. Ruggles," Lord Ca
lorey said, for he it was the page boy
fetched up, why don't you come out
to see us? All friends of old Mr..
Blair's are welcome at Osdene"
Ruggles thanked Galorey and said
he was not a visiting man, that he
only had short time in London, and
was going to Ireland to look up his
family tree"
There are one hundred acres of
trees in Osdene," laughed Galorey;
giles replied:
Il guess l wouldn't find any
O'Shaughnessy Ruggles at the top of
any of em, my lord. The boy has
gone out to see you all today"
Galorey nodded. THAT is just why
l toddled in to see you!"
Ruggles' caller had been shown to
the sitting room, where he and Dan
hobnobbed and smoked during the
Westerner's visit. There was a pile
of papers on the table, in one corner
a typewriter covered by black cloth.
Galorey took a chair and, refusing
cigarette, lit his pipe
Il didn't have the pleasure of meet
ing you in the West when l was out
there with Blair. 1 knew Dams ia
Their rather we'll"
Ruggles responded: II knew him
rather well, too, for thirty years. IT,"
he went on, blair hadn't known you
pretty well he wouldn't have sent the
boy out to you as he has done He
was keen on every trail. l might
say that he had been over every one
of 'em like a hound before he set the
boy loose"
Galorey answered, quite so,' grave
ly. Il know it. l knew 1t when Dan
turned up at Osdene-" Holding his
pipe bowl in the palm of his slender
hand, he smoked meditatively. He
hadn't thought about things, as he
had been doing lately, for many years.
His sense of honor was the strongest
thing in Gordon Galorey, the only
thing in him, perhaps, that had been
left unsmirched by the touch of the
world. He was unquestionably gen.
teman.
blair, however" he said, wasn't
as keen on this scent as you'd expect.
His intuition was wrong"
Ruggles raised his eyebrows slight
ly.
81 mean to say" Lord Galorey went
on, that he knew me in the West
when had cut loose for few blessed
months from just these things into
which he has sent his boy-from
what, if l had son, God knows Ia
throw him as far as l could"
blair wanted Dan to see the
world"
i "Of course, that is right enough.
We all have to see it, fancy, but this
boy isn't ready to look at it."
"He is twenty-five" Ruggles re-
turned when 1 was his age l was
supporting four people"
/ Galorey went on: "Osdene Park at
present isn't the window for Blair's
boy to see life through, and that is
what 1 have come up to London to
talk to you about, Mr.. Ruggles. l
should like to have you take him
away"
! whats Dan been up to down
there?"
| Nothing as yet, but he is in the
pocket of a woman-he is in nest
of women"
Ruggles' broad face had not altered
its expression of quiet expectation.
There's lot Of 'em down there?''
he asked.
"Tbara ORC tuoo Calorov cold hrief.