Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-07
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Nothing. hut I'm an old man. Mn
ME. Q very old man."
''9tuR and nonsense" exclaimed.
alarmed. You're only seventy
"And IT," he went on. anything hap
pens to me. Minnie. I'm counting on
you to do what you can for the old
place. You've been hero . good many
years. Minnie"
fourteen years have been ladling
out water at this spring." said. try
ing to keep my lips from trembling.
II wouldn't be at homo any place
else. unless It would be in An aqua
rum. But don't ask mo to stay here
and help Mr.. Dick sell the old place
for q summer hotel. For that's what
he'll DO"
"He won't sell IT," declared the old
doctor grimly. "All l want is for you
to promise to stay"
"Oh, Ill stay" said. II won't
promise to be agreeable, but I'll stay.
Somebody1l have to look after the
spring; reckon Mr.. Dick thinks 1t
comes out Of the earth Just az we sell
It. with the whole pharmacopoeis In
it,"
Well, 1t made the old doctor hap
pier. and I'm not sorry promised.
but I've got joint on my right foot
that throbs when 1t 10 going to rain
or am going to have bad luck.
and It gave jump then. might
It was pretty quiet in tho spring.
house that day after the old doctor
left. I drew q chair in front of the
IRE and wondered what would do II
the old doctor died. and what fool
I'd been not to be school.teacher,
which Is VIA. !! studied sc:. was
thinking to myself bitterly that all
that my experience in the spring fitted
mo for was to be mermaid, when I
heard something running down the
path, and It turned out to be Tillie,
the diet cook.
She slammed the door behind her
and threw the Tinleyville evening pa
per at me.
''Therel" she said, i've won q cake
Of toilet soap from Bath-house Mike.
The emperor's consented"
"Nonsense!" snapped, and
snatched the paper. TITLE was right:
the emperor had! sat down and
read Il through, and there was Miss
Patty's picture in an oval and the
princes In another, With . turned-up
mustache and his hand on tho handle
Of his sword, and between them both
was the Austrian emperor.
Well. sat there and thought It over,
Miss Patty. or Miss Patricia. being.
80 to speak. friend Of mine. They'd
come to The springs every winter for
years.
In my wash.stand drawer I'd kept
all the clippings about her coming
out and the winter she spent in
Washington and was supposed to be
engaged to the Presidents son, and
the magazine article that told how
Mr.. Jennings had got his money by
robbing widows and orphans, and
showed the little frame house where
Miss Patty was born-as II she's had
anything to do with It. And 90 now
was cutting out the picture Of her
and the prince and the article under.
meath which told how many castles
she'd have. and l don't mind saying
I was SMILING q little bit, for !
couldn't get used to the idea. And
suddenly the door closed softly and
there was rustic behind me- When
I turned it was Miss Patty herself.
She saw the clipping Immediately. and
stopped Just inside the door.
you, too" she said. ':And we.ve
come all this distance to get away
from just that"
well. shant talk about It."
replied, not holding out my hand, for
with her, % to speak, next door to
being princess-but she leaned right
over and kissed me- I could hardly
believe It.
why won't you talk about IT." she