Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

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ch0ice4'
II most certainty dos"
"bui SUPPOSE she Is ~ teaded.
crosseyed and club-footeder
MY dear Aunt Darboy. DO word Of
a Westcott is sacred The 1rst ming
IN skirts to enter tho new house gets
proposal Of marriage from yours
truly If she rejects 4 Ulth scorn.
don't blame me-"
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eior to take up bis quarters in. but
he hung on at his club. Under those
circumstances no skirt" could yery
well appear Mrs. Darboy showed GER
tain of her friends through tho
Ranch" as she called it. but they
were either married ladies Dr young
ones already spoken one
whom her nephew va love
with and marry kept
Don't you see how skad
one day. i've got G. an
enticement. TomorroH han9
out a sign and coax my Won,
der didn't think Of o."
And the next day dine
This House to Rent On
the front door. and sta
toned on the steps TO quesL
lions.
A mile away lived the W., Glen
dening She had a daughter. Myrtle.
and the house she occupied wss rent
ed. It had been rented for year
that mother and daughter might look
about little before buying Miss
Myrtle had passed and repassed the
new house while It was building. and
she had stood and surveyed It with
envy when completed, bur she had not
learned the name Of the owner Who
ever il was would occupy 1t himself.
Of course. OF a sudden the sign ab-
peared. II had not been out an hour
when the girl stopped before It and
asked OF the man smoking his pipe on
the steps:
~But I'd rather buy than rent Do
you suppose they'd se1l?"
Cant say, miss One car yer tell
what folks win do. There's lean
man and his fat wife I'm there now
looking to rent st for hundred years.
and there comes a tall man and his
short wife to do the same thing. Bet
ter take a look and make up your
mind"
~But want to tell mother ana fetch
her" was protested.
Never wait for your mother, miss
not when there's such a mansion
as this on the market. It'll be snapped
up in 80 seconds after your back IS
turned"
Fhen III run in and look IT over"
9he lean man and his fat wife. who
were going from room to room. well
coined Miss Myrtle with hostile looks.
but she went skipping from place to
place and finally came to that wonder
ful library. The others had already
explored it. The door stood open, and
as she entered It the girl gave It =
push. 1t shut and there was a click
Il was enc of Mr.. Westcott's spring.
lock ideas 20 fasten himself IN when
he wanted TO mediate.
Miss Myrtle sprang 20 the door and
pounded Ga it. Then she called Thea
she screamed for the police and fro
departments. From ten o'clock in the.
morning until nine IN tho evening,
and the last two hours I'm dArkneasI
The lean man and his fat wife went
about their business, the tain man and
his short wife didn't penetrate as far
as the library. and q dozen others
tried the door and went away thinking
the room might hold old hats and
shoes.
At nine O'Clock Mr.. Westcott appear
ed, switched on the lights to see to
smoke By, and after a start of surprise
at the huddled and weeping figure on
the floor he rushed over to il with the
my poor-poor child, but I said |
would do It, and surely Will"
rs Charles going to marry Miss
repeated Aunt Darboy
three months later TO q gossipy caller.
He is. A Westcott never breaks his
world"