The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-02-12

in there. he said No other place.
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AZ The door closed his arms went
ont and around her. Then be stood
with bis hands on her shoulders and
looking down into her face.
"Dede, ifItell you, fat and straight.
that I'm going up TO live on that ranch
at Glen Ellen, that ! amt taking 4
cent with me, that I'm going to
scratch for every bite eat, and that
amt going to play airy q card at the
business game again, VIII you come
along with met"
She gave a glad little CRY. and he
nestled her IN closely. But the next
moment she, had thrust herself out
from him 70 the old position at arms
length.
sHow Is this pessIblef How eau.
you leave your business? Has any.
thing happened?r
"No, nothings happened yet, but IT'S
going to, blame quick. I've taken
your preaching to heart, and I've
come to the penitent form. I've taken
my last drink. You're marrying a
whisky.soak. but your husband won't
be that, He's going to grow into an
other man so quick you. won't know
him. A couple Of months from now.
up there in Glen Ellen, you'll wake up
some morning and find you've got a
perfect stranger in the house with yon,
and you'll have to get introduced to
him all over again. You'll say, I'm Mrs.
Harnish, who are you?'. And III say.
Tn Elan Harnish's younger brother.
I've lust arrived from Alaska to at
tend the funeral What funeralT
youth say. And III say, Why the flu.
neral OF that good-fer.nothing. gam.
bling, whisky drinking Burning Day
light-the man that died Of fatty de-
generation Of the heart from sitting
in might and day at the business game.
Yes, ma'am,' I'll say, he's sure a gone
coon, but I've come to take his place
and make you happy. And now,
ma'am, If you'll allow me, I'll Just me,
ander down to the pasture and milk
the COW while you're getting break
fast"
"But you haven't answered my ques.
lions" she reproached him, as she
emerged rosy and radiant, from the
embrace that had accompanied the
elimination of his narrative.
Now Just what do you want to
know" he asked.
81 want to know how all this is pos
sIble? How you are able to leave
your business at a time like this?
What you meant by saying that some.
thing was going to happen quickly"
Lets go and get married" he urged,
all the whimslcality of his utterance
duplicated in his eyes. 1--WE been work
ing like forty horses ever since this
blamed panic SET in, and all the lime
some OF those ideas you'd given mo
were getting ready TO sprout. Well,
they sprouted this morning, that's all.
l knew wanted to ride In the hills
with you just about thirty million
times more than wanted TO go to the
ONCE. And 1 knew all the time y
was impossible. And why? Because.
of the office. The Office wouldn't lei
me. And then / made up my mind
that was to the dividing OF the ways
One way led to the office. The other
way led to Berkeley. And took the
Berkeley road. I'm never going TO
set foot in the office again. That's all
gone, finished, over and done with,
and Pm letting it slide clean to smash
and then some. I'm wlpiug the slate
clean. I'm letting It all go smash.
When them thirty million dollars
stood up to,my face and said couldn't
go out with you in the hills today II
knew the time had come for me to put
my foot down. And I'm putting I'll
down. I've got you, and my strength
10 work for you, and that little ranch
in Sonoma. That's all want and
that's all I'm going to save out, along