Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-10
The Daily Story
She Did His Bidding-By Judson Armstrong.
Copyrighted 1913 by Associated Literary Bureau.

estate for young Sir Johns immediate
use. which made him financially indie
pendent They rode together in the
country roundabout and visited many
places remarkable for beautiful and
curious scenery. Sir John was drawn
to her in this: She had acted the part
toward his father that he should have
acted himself. She made no attempt
TO induce him to decide upon his re-
turn to settle to the life he had inner
tied Indeed, she sympathized with
him IN his taste for the freer life of
ranchman She even suggested to him
that he might spend part of his time
on his estate in England and part in
America. He would be able to buy
and stock ranch and could appoint
manager for both properties with
whom to leave either when he should
wish to be absent from it
A month passed, and neither Sir
John nor Miss Knowles made any
move to return to England. They
were together constantly. for since her
| coming he had thrown off the cowboy
| and resumed the gentleman. Miss
! Knowles was not beautiful, but In a
country where woman stands almost
| without other members of her sex she
! seems beautiful. being placed in con-
| trast with the rough men. But there
! is something in character that will
| win in the end where the most perfect
! beauty will fail Every day the young
man spent in the girls company he
was lifted out of his former self, and
every day while this change was going
on she felt more resigned to carrying
| out her benefactors dying wish.
! At last one day while they were rid
ing on horseback together Sir John
said to her:
'If you will marry me will so back
to England to remain there"
At this Gladys became very serious.
81 heard" she said to him, before
leaving England that your father had
selected a wife for you, and l am of
the opinion that when you see her
we'll. you will find that he has made 1t
a condition of your inheriting his I'M
entailed property that you shall marry
this woman"
I'm that event I'll cut the whole
matterw cried Sir John. But father
couldn't deprive me of the landed
property, for it is entailed."
But you could do nothing with II
without an income from the other
property"
not urge Gladys to marry a mere cow
boy. And the prospect of keeping
wife on his entailed property was not
encouraging.
you may find the girl to your taste"
said Gladys.
Not /. / shall remain here. If
can't marry you I'll marry no one"
Gladys reasoned with him, remind
ing him that she had come TO America
at his fathers request to induce him
TO return to his duties in England, and
she would not relinquish her design.
why didn't father take it into his
head that l should marry you?" be
asked.
i Your father loved me as his daugh-
ter. You must remember that be did
not approve of your living
"A disrepu.able life. No; I don't
wonder that he should not have cared
to inaict so worthless chap on you.
But surely he provided for your"
He did"
|. Gladys insisted on Sir Johns going
to England, learning how matters stood
and then making up his mind what
his future course would be. Having
secured his promise to follow her. she
set out for the coast and sailed for
home.
"a RI
ing under the circumstances that he
might not have done so for a long
while had not Gladys drawn him in
her wake. Not long after her depar.
ture he began his journey eastward
with the intention of pressing his suit
in the hope that there might be enough
in his entailed property to induce her
to marry him. Upon reaching home
the first person he saw was Gladys.
II have returned to learn If 1t is
possible for me to renew the offer I
made you in America when l sup.
posed that 1 had inherited all my IA
theirs property"
Have you seen the wilI?" she
asked.
No. | arrived only this evening
nave uOl udu llIile 10 see GOlUy.
/ shall know all tomorrow. II can
renew my offer to you | will come
, and see you again. IL not l will do
what | must do here and then return
to America"
, When next the young man saw
, Gladys he had read his fathers will.
he met her with delight; she met him
with a blush
why did you keep your secret so
long?" he asked.
, 81 don't know" she replied. "how
. ! have ever been so immodest as 10
carry out your fathers wishes at all
, Sir John and his wife now live half
the year on their estate in England
and the other half on their ranch In
America. though sometimes he visits
his American property. leaving her to
manage his English estate during his
absence But with a growing family
, he spends less time each year on bis
ranch and is beginning to consider
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