The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1913-06-28


be TO anyone. Your allowance, for a
few months, is going on just the same
as before. But you've got to earn II.
And you're going 70 earn II by stay
Ing right here in Granite and working
IKE dog for me in this campaign.
III you stir out OF this town, or IL your
that woman comes here. or II you
don't use your pull In my behalf with
the sapheads yos travel with at the
Pompton Club If you don't do all
this, ! say. tn further orders then.
for now and all time. you'll earn your
own money. For you'll not get an.
other nickel out OF me. guess you
know me well enough 10 understand
III go by what say Take your
choice. You've got an earning ability
OF about 81 week. You've got an
allowance OF $4,000 year. Now. TIL
after election. which'll il be-"
Father and son faced each other IN
silence for a full minute. Then the
latter's eyes fell.
I'll stay he muttered.
Il thought so. Now chase, I'm
busy"
Gerald slouched 10 the door. On
the threshold he turned and shook his
hst in impotent fury at the broad back
turned on him.
III stay" he repeated, his voice
scaling an octave and breaking In a
historical sob, '1'll stay! But. before
God, I'll find way TO pay you OF for
this before the campaign is over"
Caleb did not turn at the threat nor
at the loud-slamming door. He was
scribbling telegram 10 his New
York lawyer.
Gerald In scrape with chorus girl.
Enid Montmorency." he wrote. Find
her and buy her on. Go as high as
100000
Father Healy says. The sins OF the
fathers shall be visited on the chill.
dren,' he quoted half aloud as he
finished; but when they are visited
in the shape OF blithering idiocy, ii
seems most like a breach OF con
tract"
The Railroader was not fated TO en-
Joy even the scant privilege OF soil.
tude. He had hardly seated himself
at his desk when the sacred door was
once more assailed by inquisitiye
knuckles
The Boys haven't wasted much
time" he thought as he growled per-
mission 10 enter.
The tall. exquisitely-groomed figure
of his new soninlaw, the Prince dan.
tri, blocked the threshold. With him
was Blanche
do we intruder" asked d'Antri.
blandly, as he ushered his wife
through the doorway and placed
chair for her. Caleb watched him
without reply. The multifarious
branches Of social usage always az
fected him with contemptuous hope
lessness. He saw no sense in them;
but neither, as he confessed disgusted-
ly to himself. could ne, even IL he
chose. possibly acquire them.
I'VE don't intrude. ] hope repeated
the prince, closing the door behind
him, and sitting down near the lit
tered centre table.
Keep on hopingi" vouchsafed Con
over grufiy. What am ! to do for
your"
He could never grow accustomed TO
this foreign son.inlaw whom he had
known but two days. Obedient, for
once, to HIS wife, and TO his daugh.
ter's written instructions, he had
yielded to the marriage, and con
scented 90 its performance al the Amer
lean Embassy at Paris rather than
at the white marble Pompton Avenue
"Mausoleum,r and had readily allowed
himself 10 be convinced that the
union meant social stride for the
entire family such as could never
otherwise have been attained.
His wife and daughter had returned
from Europe just before the reception.
bringing with them the happy bride
groom Caleb had never before seen
a prince In his youth, fairy tales had
not been his portion; 80 he had not
even the average child's conception
OF n medieval Being In gold-spangled
doublet and hose. 20 guide him.
Hence his ideas had been more than
ehadowy What he had seen was
very tall slender. very handsome per
sonage. whose costumes and manner
a keener Judge Of fashion would have
decided were on par with the prince
" command OF English: perfect, but a
trine too carefully accumulated TO ap.
peal 20 Yankee tastes,
Beyond the most casual intercourse
and table talk there had been hither.
To no scope for closer acquaintance.
ship between the two men. The re.
ceptlon had taken up eyeryone's time
and thoughts. Caleb had. however,
studied the prince from afar, and had
sought 10 apply TO him some OF the
numberless classifcations In which he
was so unerringly wont TO place his
fellow-men. But none OF the ready
made moulds seemed TO III the new
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