Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-02

he said. We've had our troubles with him, you and I. but everything has been quiet lately"
 'T'm not objecting 10 Mir. Dick coming here, am I? Only don't expect me to burst into song about #. Shut the door behind you when you go out.
 But he didn't go at once. He stood watching me polish glasses and get the eard-tables ready, and I knew he still had something on his mind.
 What has Mir. Dick been up tc now?' I asked. growing suspicious.
 Nothing. But I'm an old man. Min. nie, a very old man."
 "Stuff and nonsense," I exclaimed, alarmed. You're only seventy"
 "And if." he went on, anything hap pens to me, Minnie. I'm counting or you to do what you can for the old place. You've been here good many years, Minnie"
 Fourteen years have been ladling out water at this spring" I said, try ing to keep my lips from trembling. 'T wouldn't be at home any place else, unless it would be in an. aqua, rium But don't ask me to stay here and heip MT. Dick sell the old place for summer hotel For that's what hell do"
 "He won't sell it." declared the old doctor grimly. "AIl want is for you to promise to stay.'
 ''oh, I'll stay.- I said. q won't promise to be agreeable. but I'll stay .SomebOdy1l have to look after the spring; reckon MT. Dick thinks itt comes out Of the earth just as we sell it. with the whole pharmacopoeia in it."
 Well, it made the old doctor hap pier, and I'm not sorry I promised. but I've got joint on my right foot that throbs when it is going tc rain .or I am going to have bad luck, and it gave jump then, I might have known there was trouble ahead.
 It was pretty quiet in the spring, house that day after the old doctor left. I drew a chair in front of the fire and wondered what would do ii the old doctor died, and what a fool I'd been not to be a schoOI-teacher, which is what I studied for l was thinking to myself bitterly that all that my experience in the spring fitted me for was to be a mermaid, when heard something running down the path. and it turned out to be Tillie, the diet cook.
 She slammed the door behind her and threw the FinIeyville evening pa per at me.
 'There!" she said, i've won cake of toilet soap from Bath-house Mike. 1 The emperor's consented"
 'NOnsense!" snapped, and snatched the paper. Tillie was right; the emperor hadl I sat down and read it through, and there was Miss Patty's picture in an oval and the princes in another, with @ turned-up mustache and his hand Cn the handle of his sword. and between them both was the Austrian emperor. We'll. sat there and thought it over, ! Miss Patty, or Miss Patricia, being. so to speak, a friend of mine. They'd ! come to the Springs every winter for ! years.
 In my wash-stand drawer I'd kept ! all the clippings about her eoming ! out and the winter she spent in Washington and was supposed to be | engaged to the presidents son. and ! the magazine article that told how ! Mr. Jennings had got his money by ! rcbbirg widows and orphans, and showed the little frame house where Miss Patty was born-as if she's had ! anything to do with it. And SO now | ] was cutting out the picture of her | J meath whicn told how many castles | she'd have, and 1 don't mind saying ' 1 was sniGiing a little bit, for { couldn't get used to the idea. And ! suddenly the door closed oely and [ there was a rustic behind me. When l turned t was Miss Patty herself. ! She saw the clipping fnmediat sly, and ! stopped just inside the door.
 "YoE, too" she said. And we've como all this distance to get away from just that"
 Well. shant talk about it." 1 replied. not holding out my hand, for with her, so, to speak. next door to being a princess-but she leaned right over and kissed me. I could hardly believe it.
 Why won't you talk about it?" she insisted. catching me by the shoulders and holding me of. Minnie. your eyes are as red as your hair!"
 T don't approve of ft,'' said. "You might as well know 1t now as later. Miss Patty. l don't believe in mixed marriages. had cousin that mar ried a Jew. and whas with him making the children promise to be good on the Talmud and her trying to raise them with the Bible, the poor things is that mixed up that it's pltiful.9
 She got a little red at that. but she sat doWn and took up the clipping.
 He's much better looking than thai
 Minnie, she said soberly, 'and he's good Catholic. But if that's the way you feel we'll not talk about 1t. I've had enough trouble zt home as it is." ,5l tisEt ssan to blubber. and : aims ike baby. 2 ss. 4sai szSsl I Eve got I declared. over .:as5sss 2 ser,s and you're going to live in Q c9Rrtry where they harness women with dogs, and you'll never hear az