Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-04-23


would like to exchange into your SER
vice, salary no object II could be cap
tain of your guard, or similar con-
fidential position. When opened the
Transcript and seen your romatic story
I decided to apply right Off"
Dear King: ...
Noticing the account in the New
Orleans Picayune, and learning you IN
tended to make some stay IN this
country before returning to your Is
land home, I thought perhaps you
might care to buy 36-foot power-boat,
only years old, hardwood finish, nice
W. c., 16 h. p. Snipkin engine, that |
should be glad to sacrifice at a bar
gain" g. -r
Darling Matthew: ~- n
81 am only a high-school girl, but
loved you the moment took up the
Desert News and found you was look
ing for queen. I'm afraid I'm not
very pretty, but If a loving, faithful
heart" .a. a...a -.s- @Es..
"Mr. Matthey Broughton, E..
Dear Mr.. Broughton:
MAY I take the liberty of asking
If you are a sun worshipper? Or, II
this ideal religion has not been brought
to your attention, could you not at least
find room on one of your lovely isles
for small colony of S. WIS, who de-
sire to discard their clothes and attain
that simplicity and beauty of exis-
tence they find so difficult, nay, so
hopeless, here. We number thirty-two
mostly ladies, and in the hope Of a
favorable answer, enclose stamped
and addressed envelope. r
Yours in the r. T., T.. .
"(Miss) Helen Dormer.
"P. S.. We would be very willing
to pay small rent, either In cash or
early vegetables, or supply one or two
Of our number in rotation as nurses,
educators, etc, to those noble, simple
people who have elevated you to their
throne. H. D."
Matt made no reply to any of these
epistles. His money was ebbfng fast
enough as it was-frighteningly fast
and he was in no humor to squander
any of it on useless stamps and note
paper The arrival of spring. Daggan-
courts frightening face, the i'm
minence of the Reformed Methodist
Episcopal church-all fastened his
resolution to leave Manaswan, and pay
a flying visit to Kentucky to spy out
the land. The mules we're calling, and
it was time for dreams to become reali-
ties! Daggancourt would have bought
a pair in ManasWan, loaded their joint
effects on a wagon, and started off.
But Matt was not such burner Of
bridges. He would prudently inspect
mule-territory and mule-conditions, and
then return with well-formulated mule
plans.
While nerving himself to depart, and
putting it off from day to day, on one
excuse or another, he wrote to Snood
and Hargreaves, the San Francisco
jewellers, saying that he had made up
his mind to part with the ring, and re-
auesting them to remit him the four
thousand five hundred dollars by ex-
press, deducting whatever interest had
accrued. It was not without pang
that he dropped this letter into the
box, it marked the knell Of those easy
going days at Mrs. Sattane's; 1t had
now to be mules in earnest, with hard
work and frugal living, and evening
clothes put away perhaps for ever.
He spun out his farewell calls, dilly-
dallied, held back all he could, but at
last the inexorable morning arrived.
Daggancourt was there In an automo-
bile: Mats suitcase, packed to burst
ing, stood ready on the porch, together
with a large brown paper package OF
the overflow: his pockets bulged with
hard-boiled eggs and sandwiches; and
never was a man more apparently
destined for instant Experimentation
the telephone bell suddenly rang and
Bridget came rushing out to say that
Mr.. Doty wanted Mr.. Broughton on the
wire.
At the moment it seemed an intoler-
able infection. Mr.. Doty was the Re-
formed Methodist Episcopal clergy
man, a mild creature of an anxious
cordially, whose acquaintance with
Matt was Of the slightest. Matt took
I'D the receiver with the intention Of
making short work of the reverend
gentleman, an intention emphasized by
the honk of Victor's horn, imperiOusly
bidding him to hurry.
Hello" he said.
ooh, Mr.. Broughton," returned Doty.
"this is just to remind you OF our
church social tomorrow night, tickets
twenty-five cents, including hat check,
and to say I simply can not take a re-
fusal. Please tell me that you will
come"
"Come!" cried Matt "Why, I'm leav.
ing this minute for Kentucky"
"Put it of, then" protested Doty.
"I have a special reason-a very spec
ial reason for wishing you to come.
Indeed, must make my request i'm
perative. Oh, Mr.. Broughton, refuse
me if you like, but do not say no to one
of the sweetest and most gracious OF
our young patricians.'
Cant help it," exclaimed Matt
CURLY. "Sorry to disappoint you, but
really" -
"Mayn't I try to persuade you, Mr..
Broughton?" said new voice in his
cara girlish voice with the indes-
cribable cadence Of good breeding.
eve been counting so much on meet
ing you tomorrow night-in fact,
only agree to come for that reason"
Mats own tone. softened.
do tell me who you are?" he asked.
II oughn't even to wait for that, but
I'm +oo fattered not to-"