The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-01-16
TOGO"

miSStpp. This is the last. she gasp
ed. I'm tellin' ye wanst fer all,
ma'an. the haste goes or ] do" And
a moment later the haste" himself
appeared "a small. unprepossessing,
w~hite-yellow ferret. wrapped in the
arms OF ~",Jimpsey" Englehart, the
son of the house.
Mrs. %lnglehart stood uncertainty
between them. We'll, Katy, I'm sure
haven't any fondncss for him myself.
He should have been SEN back at
once"
Yes" said Jimpsey, fairly in
tears, yes, after he's gone and done
his duty and killed all the rats-and
he killed them just in punches, too
then nobody has any sympathy for
him any more"
BY this time Mrs. Englehart could
once more hold the scales of justice
evenly. "Jimpsey," she said, we're
not denying how valuable he's been.
When | think of the way we were
pestered with rats hardly two weeks
ago But you ought to think of the
people who are pestered with them
still. and pass him on to them. The
: l.isgars and Appletons nave just as
, many as we had"
Wei why can't they go and buy
%fcrrets OF their own, them But |
guess they'll never get any like To
got"
Then you must keep him in the
stable. Why must he be forever go
ing back to the CELLAR"
"Why, because that's where he had
the most fun. of course. | keep him
in his box. too, only he chews his way
out again"
Togo seemed to blink his little
albino eyes in pleasant confederation.
Katy could hardly resist making Il
pass at him.
.Iimpsey reiterated %vengefully to-
ward the outer door. "And now, too,
when he ever knows my whistle! ]
can send him into that hole away up
In front of the coal bin, and then
whistle through my fingers into the
hole away back near where We kcer
the potatoes, and he comes up jus,
as if it was only the other side of tho
partition. He'll do it every time
give him a meat scrap. | guess there
aren't many ferrets trained like that
Again Mrs. Englehart gave up.
: Yet it was with a very uneasy mine
that she gave up Only too clearl.
did she feel that if there vas anothe.
meeting between Katy and Togo il
the shadowy glimpses of the coal an'
vegetable bins, there would no longe
be any chance to choose between
them. And Katy was the n reall.
good cook she had ever had. Sh'
decided at last that 1t was something
:. that Mr.. Englehart must settle, a
a though In the main it was against he
L principles to trouble him with sue
@ domestic problems.
That day MI. Englchart rcturne
from the new college buildings wit
' worry ON his face. .4.s
Belle" he said. I'm about read
: to quit"
e why. dear" she asked, what
@ it now?"
= "Oh, Orv again. A young architet
; like that-with the brains for ii, to
gets a job that gives him his chanc
!. to make a name through the whol
State. He's uplifted that he marie
on it. And then he let's a fat heade
= contractor make a fool of himself an
him about once a week. When TIL;
. business of the chimney supports g
out. the journal gave him enough ba
~ advertising to kill two ordinary rep
:, t%atiops. And now"-he spread OF
his hands On the table.
Dear. dear. What is it Malone
ri done this time?'
$. ooh. it was Malone. all right In
q. wav it wasn't Orv's fault at all. lie
s. been giving himself entirely TO the j
side and up stairs work for the la
al month, and | suppose it never on
@. entered his head that al ordinary ne
I'd soning man could go wrong in the pi'
ID LAYING. Then Malone simply put
or and covered up every solitary tn
connection between power hous
main building. library and dormitorI
without running the wiring through
James,"
Could you believe 1t? Could yo
oh. | need hardly say that Orv insis
upon IaklDS all tuo DidAue IASi'
miles Of piping altogether. AND
ut soon as the Journal gets hold
that"
IT was little wonder that Mrs. l
glehart said nothing about Togo. A
ov the same feeling that sent her aero
n to the lIavilands' with her dessert
le- eaten. sent her husband outdoo
where he believed he could thi
In alone.
au- AS a matter Of fact he remain
alone only till Jimpsey could find III
Aud then the whole matter of Tog
glittcringly m%eritorious past and
darby perilous present was set TO
"a far the consideration of the Ems
NV hart supreme court.
W But to an outsider 1T must h;
r., pcen evident at once that the supre
court was not giving the matter
customary close attention. And