The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-06-28

AS an orator. she beat her lover. As a
lawyer summing up case, she had
him all frazzled out. He could like IL
or lump II. lie could go and hang
himself or drown himself. lie could
hang around town or go with Or. Cook
Oh another north pole hunt.
When Mr.. Gaynor was out or the
house and walked in some direction or
other he didn't just decide whether
boiler had burst In the electric light
works or a dago had tried TO ham,
mer the end off a stick Of dynamite.
What he did realize, however was that
all was over between him and the girl
he wanted 10 jump over precipices TO
prove his love for. She had broken
the engagement as a mad woman
might snap a Eastwood broomstick
across her knee. She had Tilted him
for liar. She might read OF his
death in the morning papers BY fall
ing down a coal-hole, and instead OF
tears she would giggle.
Spare Mr.. Gaynor the next four
weeks, He didn't run amuck through
the streets with knife or tomahawk,
and they didn't send him TO an insane
asylum, but after a month q doctor
felt his pulse, looked at his tongue
and the whites Of his eyes. and told
him to go to the country for a month.
AS for Miss Matte Raynor ii isn't
10 be said whether she went into
decline or not. Her father and moth
er decided TO go to the country, and
she went with them.
Mr.. Guy Spencer had found that Miss
Rayner was mot at home" 10 him aft
er that fateful evening, and in time
he decided TO go to the country for
new crop Of yarns to tell TO new
girl
The Raynors went to Meadow Inn.
Mr.. Gaynor went TO Meadow Inn. Mr..
Spencer went to Meadow Inn. The
Raynors got there at noon. Mr.. Spencer
got there at night. Mr.. Gaynor got
there next morning. II was strange
that they all sought the same place.
At IL o'clock in the forenoon after
the dew had ceased making bogus dia-
monds OF the dewdrops, Miss Matte
strolls in the meadow By her lonesome
10 gather daisies. Mr.. Spencer sees
her strolling and has just cheek enough
10 set out after her Up comes the bus
and Mr. Gaynor, and from the window
Of his room he sees the two strollers,
and goes down TO lick Mr.. Spencer as
he returns. That was one of the
things he had vowed to do before
death came.
And the goat? He gets his cue and
comes on right here. He was the ho-
tel goat. He had some cute tricks TO
make him a source of amusement.
AS the strollers strolled he caught
sight of them. II might have been the
color of Mr.. Spencers hair or eyes
that fired his anger, or there might
have been a mental telegraph line be-
tween him and Mr.. Gaynor. But
he ambled down TO within n hundred
feet OF the strollers, who had ceased
TO stroll, and then charged.
A goat is not fearful object as he
| stands chewing an old shoe, but when
he Is coming at you head-on. and you
remember 10 have read his skull Is
hard enough 10 burst a barrel Of ce-
ment-thats different.
Miss Mattie's shrieks were heard at
the hotel.
And the iiar-hero?
He didn't want any Of that, and
wheeling softly he ran so feet and
vaulted a barbed wire fence without
| tearing his trousers. and did not stop
running for half a mile. Mr.. Gaynor
was after the goat. but Billy stopped
dead still few feet from the girl.
She was laughing till she weaved TO
and fro and her eyes blinded with
tears.
What is It. dear?" asked Gaynor
as he reached her.
Wait a minute!"
"Are you hurt?"
Mo, but did-did you see the
hero! Oh, Charlie. II was rich! Take
ne somewhere SO l can laugh all /
want TO-"
They made up but that goat had
brought IL all about. and he just dotted
on peach stones, and they never fed
him single one