The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-08-22
The CaIiph's Daughter.

in Coketown. Pa. and who now would
have offered John Mitchell only two
fingers of her hand to shake. And his
daughter. Celia, nineteen. back from
boarding school and from being pol
ished off by private instructors in the
restaurant languages and those etudes
and things.
Celia is the heroine. Lest the artist S
delineation of her charms on this very
page humbug your fancy, take from
me her authorized description. She
was a nice looking. awkward. loud,
rather bashful. brown haired girl, with
a sallov complexion. bright eyes and
a perpetual smile. She had Il whole
some. %SpragyinS inherited love for
plain food. loose clothing and the So
ciety Of the lower classes. She had
too much health and youth to feel the
burden Of wealth.
Celia looked out of her window one
day and CAV her heart to the Crocers
Young man. The receiver thereof was
1t that moment engaged in conreding
immortality to his horse and calling
down upon him the ultimate fate Of
the wicked. so he did not notice the
transfer. \ horse should stand still
when you are lifting Il crate of strictly
new laid eggs out of the ago
Young lady reader. you would have
liked that grocrr's young man yourself.
But YOU wouldn't have given him your
heart because YOU are saving it for a
riding master or a shoe manufacturer
with a torpid liver or something quiet,
hut rich in gray tweeds at Palm Beach.
The Crocer'S Young man was slim
md straight and as confident and easy
in his movements as the man in the
back of the magazines who wears the
now frictionleSs roller slspenders. He
Wore Il gray bicycle cap on the back
of his head. and his hair was straw
rolored and curly. and his sunhurned
face looked like one that smiled Il
good deal when he was not preaching
the doctrine of everlasting punishment
to delivery wagon horses.
Tradesmen delivered their goods 1T
q side gate at the rear Of the house.
The grocer's Wagon came about 10 in
the morning. For three days Celia
watched the driver when he came. find
ing something new each time to admire
in the lofty and almost contemptuous
way he had Of tossing around the
choicest gifts of Pomona. Ceres and the
canning factories. Then she consulted
Annette-to he explicit. Annette McCor
kie, second housemaid. who deserves a
paragraph herself. Annette Fletcher
lied large numbers of romantic novels
which she obtained at a free public
library branch donated by one Of the
biggest caliphs in the business. She
was Celia's side kicker and chum
though Aunt Henrietta didn't know it
you may hazard a bean or two.
ooh. canary bird seed" exclaimed
Annette. Amt it a corkin' situation
You a heiress and fallin' in love witt
him on sight. He's a sweet boy, too
and above his business. But he ain,
suspectible like the commOn run o,
grocer's assistants. He never pays NJ
attention to me-"
"He will to me- said Celia.
Riches began Annette, unsheath
Ing the not unjustifable feminine
sting.
"Oh, you're not so beautiful" sale
Celia, with her wide, disarming smile
Neither am l, but he shan't know
that there's any money mixed up Will
my looks. such as they are. That
fair. Now. l want you to lend me on,
of your caps and an apron. Annette.'
"Oh. marShmallows".' cried Annette
II see. Amt it lovely: It's just lik,
'Lurline. the Left Handed. or a But
tonhole Makers Wrongs I'll bet he'l
turn out to be a count"
There was a long hallway Tor pas
sageway. as they call it in the Ian,
of the colonels, with one side @latticeC
running along the rear Of the hous,
The grocer's young man went throuy
this to deliver his goods. One morn
ing he passed a girl in there wit
shining eyes. sallow complexion an
wide, smiling mouth. wearing a maid
cap and apron. But as he was Gun
bcred with Il basket of early drum
head lettuce and trophy tomatoes an
three punches of asparagus and 81
bottles of the most expensive quee
olives he saw no more than that sh
was one of the maids.
But on his way out he came up b.
hind her, and she was whistling "Eisl
er's %lIornpipe" so loudly and clearl
that all the %piccOlOS in the WOrl