La Junta tribune., 1913-06-14

apparently not understanding Just what
had hapren~'t or. II she did. nDs know
Ing whnt in fhe world to d. strpu, Il
Neither OF the girls wnp nii~d n make
a good showing In a,kh 4 rs.-~ Mis-
Mortimer having 20 many m,~n she
could marry that u would he ur1i to
impossible TO decide ts., w~vn them md
Miss Brown ts.inx 30 reurinx tbs, .h-
was incapsb bic by nature VI asking .
man to marry her.
Miss Mortimer hsd very little doub,
that she could easily win. Ther~ was
Tom Scoviii who had been begging
her TO marry him for nooths There
was Bob HackStnT. whom xhe wanted
but had not been able TO Get b<csu>.
he preferred Julix Green. Ned Tucker
had been buzzing about her lsteiy aud
she thought 1t would be no trouble to
bring him TO the point Indeed. II was
not likely but thar she could induce al
most any Of them TO marry bey. .sp~-
cialiy II she told them thst BY doins ~
be would get q fortune But there we're
obstacles iu the way Of Quirk work n
the nrst place. the only one Of the lot
she wanted was Bob Hack.ts6 But
Bob. IN addition to peeferrine Iulis
Green. was m ind-r'endent cor, Of
fellow. and she had heard him ~ that
the last thing he would do would be to
tie himself up to some Womau. for
tune, to have 1t continually thrown in
his face
i wonder" mused Miss Mortimer
~ ther- will t~ time for me 10 see
Bob and nnd out how BE- would feel
abou, IL I'm sfraId there wont b.
That little cousin Of mine may b. too
retiring to hunt up . husband. but
that kind OF girl is easily hunted
and as soon n II gets out that II sue
marrics before me she'll get a fortune
there'il b. dozen meD Offering iu mar
~ her Every on. OF them will swear
he has loved her since sh. was a ua by.
aud she'll believe every word OF It.
Then she thought OF the half million
that might H. hers and what she might
do with It now i've. how drcs. aud the
admiration II would bring TO her No.
she wouldn't ~.ud FOR Bob. II would
b. loss of yaiuabl. tiuie to 10 pur
pose. Why. just think OF it-.yery
ten minutes might be worth hun
drrd thousand dollars. While she was
dellberatlug her cousin might b. pick
ed up 10y some designing man
A pile of money is always an obJec,
OF attack Old Muldridgc. with uII his
shr.wdnrs- aud foresight. though ue
could keep secret tn. condition. OF the
Inheritance from his niece- till the pro-
per moment could not keep /, from all
men. The trustee had II and acted
upon II. A.. didn't wan, the iuh.ri.
tance for himself indeed. he couldn't
hay. H. for b. was married already.
He didn't want II FOR his SOB FOR he
had no son but when he saw little
Miss Brown sitting In his ono. with
out any sign TO be up and slitring To
secure n fortune he t~thonxht aiuseif
now he souid brip her sv1 q uic~
Young fellow WHO wss his risN
Henry forsytb- wa. bunting over
som. iawt-oks vb-u his employer ep
tered and said to him:
Henry. there's girt ln the other
rrom who n she can b- married 1t
once. will win fortune Have you
got u sgce'h.nr'~
No. Mr Andrews. haven't"
Well. c"n- In tber- aud III intro
duce you"
Forsyth- was presented Boo due form.
but since tiui- was preclUN, MIR An
dr"wS thought prpp-.r TO state to the
parties rpnr-fncd what II Wus Ia their
power to de-. what II mllbI l.. their
Interest To dc rhru. shuttIr. 10. dopr.
u- l-ft them together E.t. taking
umr by the furrlurG be- svuf out for q
clergyman aud thrre was uotary Ia
the office
Han au hour passed and caring nn
waui from the couple iu ile oth-f
r-nm, he railrd out Time ia precious
Half million nj staG.
Ten minutes mnr. siap<.I hen MIR
Andrews pot his b-ad ont H' The win
dow aud spw u carriage dash up aud
stop 1T 10" dror n-low ont lumpci
Miss Mortimer aud young ran Tue
elevator wnr ~ the top Of tlr building
at III. moment aud some ume must
pass t"fof" ~" couple c1uid rotn. up
Throwing open the door where Ia. Ind
shut up tnrsyth- and Miss sH,wu. Tue
surprised forsSth- impnutas . kiss
ou Miss bruwu's iip,
Times upr' cried tbe trustee.
Com. herr, Mr rur,on Hurry up
Marry the>. two IT onerr'
When Miss Mortimer and Nr rhom.
IS Sco'ill. whom she had decided ..
the onl, person >h. might marry 10 .
hurry. reached Mr Andrews officv.
they found hin Just coming from sn
ndloipins room ana snnouurr,i that
they were ready TO bc married
There's clergyman here. r-pi,..,
th. lawyer. who has Just p.rforn~si
the marriage ceremony IN 10. ,s., OF
,gur cousin dar. ..x t.sU a.. .....