Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-02-13


lcwett WAS u.ayinG me for all his
story WAS worth and enjoying himself
Immensely
For ueaNen'S sake. &c on
Nice girl this trrjlia You know
the HOLSTERS .oeulp> Of money in the
family The ehcya'ier's father scored
big in baby huGGieS responsible for
the moderu sleep inducing peramhu
lators: sold out to trust The ia
Their of Virgins iuamorata had started
in to be u marine painter, \ founder
of this club. come to think of II, but
dropped out loUG ago. You have heard
Of him BaSStord HoIliStcr, Funny
thing his having to give w art, Great
gifts for the marine, but never could
Honest Every time he painted
wave it upset him horribly. The doc
tors couldn't help him Next tried his
hand nj the big gulche> downtown.
There was a chance there TO hit off
the metropolitan skyline and become
immortal by doing it first but n new
trouble developed, Doing the high
lullNlhSS tiittNlC AtiuA hAEAN tA'ANNNs
He was good, too, and would have
made a place hut he had to cut il out,
lie was So torn UP over his two failures
that he blew in his share of the per
amhulator money in riotouS living.
Lost his wife into the bargain and has
settled down to a peaceful life mp in
WeSteheStcr county in one of these
Snt.
operators build for You If You pay
dollar down for Il picture OF an acre
lot"
And the daughterE'
We'll BasSford HOLSTER has two
daughters, It's the older one that has
stolen Virgins heart away. She's
Cecilia. YOU know Very literary and
that sort of thing, and pushed tea and
cookies at the ASolando when that
idiocy was opened. Virgins saw her
there last spring Miss llolliSter, the
aunt. whom I'm fond OF calling the
chevalier, picked up her nieces about
that time and hauled them off to Ecu
rope, and Virgins scampercd after
them. don't know what they did to
WiGgy. but you see how he acts.
rather imagine that the chcvNlier didn't
smile on his suit. She's holy terror.
that woman. with an International rep
utation for doing weird and most I'M
accountable things. She draws Il sort
of royalty on all the baby huggies In
creation. 1t amounts to birth tax,
in contravention of the free guarantees
10
rise against ii some day
shes plausible enough, but she's the
past mistress of Interior motive. She
got Fortner. the mural painter, up to
place she used TO have ut Newport
few years ago, ostenSibly to do Il frieZe
or something, and she made him teach
her to fire gun. You know Fortner,
with his artistic ideals! And he didn't
know any more about guns than flea.
1t was droll, decidedly droll But she
kept him there a month--wouldn't let
him off the reservation; but she paid
him his fee just the same. though he
never painted stroke. When he got
back to town he was wreck. 1t was
Just like being in Jail, warn you to
let her alone. If you should undertake
to fix her fiues she's likely to put you
to work digging potatoes She's no end
of a case
well, Virgins is a good fellow, one
of the very best" | remarked, as alb
sorbed these revelations, "and it isn't
the girls aunt he wants to marry"
There's no telling where this affair
! " ts, itt,r
queer in the wind all right The chey-
aler has brother Bassford where he
can't whimper rather fancy be feeds
from her hand His girls haven't any
prospects except through the chevalier
Nice girls, so I'm told. Miss Cecilia
Hollister is living with her aunt"
And the other sster-w where does
she come in
Not important. ! fancy Rumor is
silent touching her, In fact I've new
er heard anything of her But this
Cecilia is no end handsome and proud
Poor old WiggyH
was already ashamed of myself
| for having encouraged lewett to dis
cuss Virgins affairs, and was about
disagreeable way he had at some joke
/ that had occurred to him.
II knew there was something he
said, about Miss CeciIia's younger
sister, and I've just recalled it. The
girl has most extraordinary name,
quite the most remarkable you ever
heard Hezekiah, Bang. That's the
/ little sisters name, Bassford HOLSTER
+ had been saving that name for son
who never appeared, to do honor t"
old Hezekiah, the peramhulator chap
SO they named the girl for her grand
dad"
! / left him and learned ut the office
/ that Virgins had, within half an
hour. left the club hurriedly in cab.
taking a trunk with him. He had
mentioned 10 mail address 10 the
clerk. and this was very unlike Wig