Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1914-07-31

the thing | had craftily built upon
from the start and had well nigh de-
SPARED Of The girl entered, but in
stead OF Running Elk being drawn to
the woman, as had planned, the wo-
man went to him.
you've heard Of old Henry Har-
man? Yes, the railroad king. 1t was
his daughter Alicia.
I'm order to understand the story
you'll have to know something about
old Henry and believe in heredity, as
/ do. He is self made man. He
came into the middle west as poor
boy and By force Of his indomitable
pluck, ability and doggedness became
captain of industry. He is the same
now as when he was a section boss, and
his daughter Alicia is another Henry
Hartman feminized Her mother was
a pampered child Of Fifth avenue,
born to money and slave to her own
whims. and Alicia grew up more effec-
lively spoiled than her mother, combin
ing the traits of both parents.
''Well. when / got panicky letter
from one of Running Elk's professors,
coupling her name vaguely with that
of my Indian, wavered in my deter
mination to see this experiment out.
But the mind of the analyst is unseen
timental, and one who sets out to un-
tangle the skein Of the gods must pay
the price, so waited.
LAS If fate had really taken part
In the affair, found long distance
call from old Henry Hartman when
returned to my hotel. He had wired
me here at the agency and, finding l
was in Washington, had called me
from New York He didn't tell me
much over the phone, except that he
must see me at once, and as my work
was finished l took the train in the
morning, going straight to his office.
"'Doc, I'm in an awful hole he de-
clared, and you're the only man who
can pull me out It's about Alicia and
that savage of yours
"T know something about it. said
l, and l feel rather to blame, for it
was l who sent him to college,
"I won't be defied by my own flesh
and blood! l won't! l won't! I'm
the master of my own family: Why,
the things so absurd it's almost unbe
lievable, and yet it's terrible terrible!
Heavens! What would her mother say
if she were alive?
"'Have you talked with AliciaY
"'Not with her, to her. She's like
mule. Yes, sir, just like mule.
never saw such a will in a woman.
live fought her until I'm as weak
as a cat l don't know where she got
her temperr He collapsed feebly, and
l had to smile, for there's only one
thing strong and stubborn enough to
overcome a Harman's resistance, and
1 that is Harmans desire.
What does she sayy My inter-
est in the affair was increasing.
Nothing. except to agree that I'm
right in the abstract and then to in
form me that the abstract problems
go to pieces once in awhile. She says
this-this Galloping Moose, this yelp-
ing ghost dancer Of yours, is the only
real man she ever met
"'What does he have to say?
"'Humphr grunted Harman. AN
he does is to listen
How old is Alicia?'
Nineteen. Oh. I've hurled that at
her. too, but she says she'll wait! You
know she has her oWh money from
her mother. E
"'Does Running Elk come to your
house?' F3t
AT this. my old friend reared SC
fiercely that FASTENED to- say: I'll see
him at once. / have more influence
than anybody else with him.
~ hope you can show him how i'm
possible, how criminal it is to ruin
my girls life. Yes. and mine too
Suppose the yellow papers got hold OF
this thingr Hartman shuddered. Doc
l love that girl so well I'd kill heI
with my own hands rather than face
her disgrace and see her ridiculed.
"'She could marry duke if one
happened to come along, and I'd buy
her one. too. if she wanted him, but
won't stand for this dirty, low
browed Injun.'
"'He's not dirty declared, 'anG
he's not as low browed as some de
generate foreigner you'd be glad tt
pick out for her.
"'Well. he's an Injun,' retorted Har
man. an it'll come out on him. We've
both seen 'em tried. They all droK
back where they started from. You
know that as well as do
~ don't know it. said l, thinking
Of my experiment, which had gone 81
badly askew. but we've got to put {
stop to this affair in one way or an
other. I'll see the young man RICH
away
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving saiC
Henry. Wait over and go up with u
and see the Yale Princeton football
game understand Running Ell
plays fullback Well pick you up a
your hotel in the morning and driv,
up in the car It's the big game of TIL
year. and you'll enjoy it. / don't ex