Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-04-12


woman. delighted nevertheless at this
splendid declaration.
Your father ard mother, do they
know?"
Certainly. I told them Ct break.
fast this morning"
How did they take it?'
You can imagine what my mother
thought and said," answered the girl,
smiling family.
And your father?''
She sighed deeply.
my father, | imagine, is not un
willing to have a friend at court
What are you going to do when you
are elected?"
Marry you the first thing"
Il mean after that
Live to make you happy"
DO be reasonable! | mean what
are you going to do with the cpposi-
tion?"
81 am going to do justly and fairly
by ell men, whoever they are, what
ever they may have done. Nine shall
be no policy of ruin. Some things
must be broken down; but my aim
shall be to upbuild.'
Il thought So" returned the girl.
land what are you going to Go with
the one woman?'
II am going to love her as no wonl-
an was ever loved before in this
world"
How long this might have continued.
can never De told. Young Haldane in
terrupted them.
Mr.. Gormly," he said, Il see you
have heard the news"
Il have heard the essential part CT
it from your sister"
DO you mean to tell ne that you
haven't read the paper yet? Well,
sit down and read it, or I'll withdraw
my influence and vote against you.
suppose all Eleanor told you was the
| news of her enga gement?"
We'll, wasn't that enough?"
"Enough!" cried the young man.
why, you want to read the interview
with Col. Bill Hamilton. It's the fin
est thing that ever appeared. Every
body knows that you didn't shoot the
man, but that the woman did. They
know, too, that you gave her your
horse in the snow and that she aban,
doned you. Why, man, you're hero!'
"To be perfectly frank with you,
Haldane. this is all most interesting
and gratifying How on earth Bill
To +I,yy cd OF
ment and told the truth, | don't know !;
but as a matter of fact, l do truly
care more for your sisters action and
I get more satisfaction out of the fact
that | am going to be married to her
Immediately after the election than
will in winning, if we win"
you are sure to win" said Hal
dane.
81 told you not to say that" said
the girl to her lover.
Nov read the paper, and then We'll
go uptown"
! What more is there to tell? Miss
Haldane, in view of the new relation
ship between them, boldly rode up to
the auditorium in the great store by
the side of Gormly in the tonneau OF
her brothers big car. The enormous
crowd that filled the great hall to
Overlooking, that packed the streets
outside, that suspended all traffic; the
addresses that Gormly made; the
frantic cheering that greeted him as
he stood overlooking the greatest null
titude that had ever filed that sec
ton of Broadway, Miss Haldane on
one side and his old friend of quar-
ter of a century back, Col. Bill Hamil-
ton. on the other, with Ealdane, White
field and great galaxy Of supporters
in the background, including Abbott,
the cub reporter, scribbling like lad
on the greatest story Of the day
these have all passed into history.
The result of the election, which oc.
Cured next day, is of course known
to everybody.
'It is over,' he said, land we have
wont"
Yes. No one congratulares you as
T."
81 have a great deal to live up to, .
was the slow answer.
LAS mayor of New York; she ques.
toned softly.
'As your husband he replied.
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