Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-01-11

Good boy" said the president when
1idSerwood swung over the high hand
rail aud leaned out To give Williams
the starting signal And when the
scene Cf the wreck was withdrawing
into the rcarward distance the preSi-
dent felt for the doorkuoh. saying,
Lets 80 inside. where we shan't be
obliged 10 see So much of this God for.
Saken country 1T one time"
One-half minute later the Supcrin-
teudent would have given much to I've
safely back with McCloSkey aud Daw-
son at the vanishing curve Of scrap
heaps, In that half minute Mr.. Brew
ster had opened the car door and Lid.
gerwood had followed him across the
threshold
The comfortable louugiug room OF
the Nadia was not empty, nor was II
peopled by group OF MIR Rvcwster's
associates in the copper combine, the
alternative upon which l.idSerwood
had hopefully hung the ives" and the
"uS's"
Seated on 4 wicker divan drawn out
to face ono OF the wide side windows
were two young women, with curly
beaded, clean faced young man be.
tween them little farther along, n
rather auStere lady. whose pose was OF
calm superiority 10 her surroundings.
looked up from her magazine to say.
as her husband had said, why, How
ard are You hcrcg" Just beyond the
austcre lady and DOING in his chair
was white haired man whose strong
ly marked features proclaimed him the
father OF one Of the young women on
the divan.
And in the farthest corner OF the
| open compartment. facing each other
companionably In an s shaped dou
Bile chair, were two other young peo-
pie, man and woman. Truly, the
heavens had fallen, for the young
woman filling half OF the chair was
that one person whom Lldgerwood
would have circled the globe to avoid
meeting.
Lidgerwood meant to obey his first
impulse, which prompted him to follow
Mr. Brewster to the private office state
| iVVit III NilN iti Nuiu till VI tIlt NuI
But the triumphantly beautiful young
woman In the nearer half of the crook
ed backed seat would by no means
! sanction any such easy solution OF the
difficulty.
Not word for me. Hownrdw she
| protested, rising and fairly compelling
him to stop and speak to her Then;
NIyor fx,s., nt huf
doing to yourself to make you look 80
hollow eyed and anxious? Possibly
! you will shake hands a little less alb
! stractedly with Mr. Van Lew. Her
| bert. this Is Howard Lidgcrwood. my
cousin several times removed. He Is
the tyrant of the Red Butte Western.
and | can assure you that he Is much
more terrible than he looks. aren't
you. IIoward?"
Glad to meet you. Mr.. Lidgerwood.
I'm sure" said the tall young man,
gripping the given hand until Lidgcr.
wood WINGED. Miss Eleanor has been
telling me about -marooned out
here In the Red desert"
Papa says there is n hotel at Angels
called the Celestial" said Miss Brew
ster do you live at the Celestial,
Hownrd?"
mo; l never properly lived there
existed there for few weeks until
Mrs. Dawson took pity on me-"
"Hear hmr scoffed Miss Eleanor
still hooking. Tell me, Howard, Is
Mrs Dawson charming young wild
ow?"
Mrs. Dawson Is very charming
middle aged widow. with grown son
and daughter" said Ldgerwood, II
little stifiiy. 1t seemed entirely unnec'
essary that she should rIdlcule him
before the athlete.
"And the daughter--is she charming
too?"
Miss Dawson Is quite beneath your
definition of charming, ! imagine" was
Lidgerwood's rather crisp rejOinder
And for the third time he made as II
he would go on to join the president
In the office stateroom.
"You are staying to luncheon with us,
aren't you" asked Miss Brewster. "or
do you just drop in and out again. like
the other kind OF angelSF
"Your father commands me. and he
says | am to stay. And now II you
will excuse me-
This time he succeeded In getting
away and up TO the luncheon hour
talked copper and copper prospects to
Mr. Brewster in the seclusion OF the
presidents Office compartment The
call for the midday meal had been Civ
on when Mr., Brewster switched sud
denly from copper TO silver.
by the way. there were few sill
yer strikes over In the Timanyonis
about the time Of the Red Butte gold
excitement" he remarked. Some OF
them have grown to be shippers
haven't theyr'
"Only two OF any Importance" re
piled the Observation-Disclosures Ruby.
In Ruby gulch. and Flemister's Wire
Silver at Little Butte. You couldn't
call either Of them n bonanza. but they
are 10th shipping fair ore In good