Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-01-02
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% MApY ROBERTS pINEHART
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cite on the back of my celluloid mir
ror, and then suddenly she threw back
her head and laughed.
/ "Minnie!" she said, between fits,
"Minniei AS long as / live I'll never
forget that wretched boys face! And
the sand boxes! And the blankets
over the windows! And the tarpaulin
styne sitting on the lawnmower! I'd
rather have had my minute in that
doorway than fifty thousand dollars!"
"If you had had to carry out all
those things" began, but she
checked me.
"Listen!" she said. Somebody with
brains has got to take you young peo-
pie in hand. You're not able to look
after yourselves. I'm fond of Alan
Pierce, for one thing, and don't care
to see sanatorium that might have
| been the child Of my solicitude kid
naped and reared as summer hotel
by Papa Thoburn. A good fat man is
very, very good. Minnie. but when he
is bad he is horrid."
! "It's too late" / objected feebly.
''He can't get 1t now"
Cant he!" She got up and yawned,
stretching. well, I'll lay you ten to
one that If we don't get busy he'll have
| the house empty in thirty-six hours,
and bill of sale on it in as many
days. Then she told me what she
| knew of Thoburn's scheme, and it
turned me cold.
Doctor Barnes came to me at the
news stand the next morning before
Gymnasium.
We'll" he said, you look as busy
as dog with fieas. Have you heard
the glad tidings?"
"What?" l asked without much spir-
it. 1--WE heard considerable tidings
lately, and not much of it has cheered
me up any"
i He leaned over and ran his fingers
up through his hair
"'You know, Miss Minnie" he said,
somebody ought kindly to kill our
friend Thoburn, or he'll come to a bad
end"
i "Shall do it, or will your" I said,
| filling up the chewing gum jar. (Mr.
Pierce had taken away the candy
i CASEY
| Doctor Barnes glanced around tc
see if there was anyone near, and
leaned farther over.
"The cupboard isn't empty nowl" he
said. mot for nothing did l spend
part of the night in the Dicky- birds
nest! What do you think is in the
cupboard?"
II know about it," said shortly
"Liquor-in a case labeled Books
breakable.
Almost goal But not only liquors
| my little friend. Champagne cases Of
it-caviar, canned grouse with truf
!. fles, lobster, cheese, fine cigars, every
thing you could think of, erotic, ex
otic and narcotic. An orgy in cans
and bottles, bacchanalian' revel; {
cupboard full of Indigestion, joy, for
getfulness and katzenjammer. Oh, my
suffering palate, to have to leave it al
without one sniff, one sip, one nibble!'
4 He's wasting his money" I said
/ They're all crazy about the simple
life."
He looked around and. seeing no one
in the lobby, reached over and tool
one Of my hands.
Strange" he said looking at it
ii mo webs, and yet it's been an amphi
y bious little creature most of it's life
My dear girl, our friend Thoburn Is ;
, rascal. but he is also student o
J said, think of woman fighting he
I. way alone through the world with bi
of fist like that!"
Il l jerked my hand away.
Its like this, my DEAR" he said
T Human natures curious thing. tt
: human nature, for instance, for me Il
be crazy about you, when you're a
j hands-offish as curly porcupine An,
it is human nature, by the same token
i to like to be bullied, especially abou
!, health, and to respect and admire tn
( fellow who does the bullying. That
i why we were crazy -bout Roosevelt
{ and that's why Pierce is trailing hi
kingly robes over them while they Ii
q on their faces and eat dirt-an
!. stewed fruit"
o He reached for my hand again, but
/ put it behind me.
But alas" he said, there is anothe
s side to the human nature, and ou
friend Thoburn has not kept a sun
d mer hotel for nothing 1t is notorious
d ly weak, especially as to stomach. Yo
s may feed 'em prunes and whole-whes
u bread and apple sauce, and after
n while they'll forget the fat days, an
n remember only the lean and hungr
a ones. But let some student of -huma
n nature at the proper moment introduc
e just one fat day, one feast, or
revel-"
"Talk English" said sharply.
L Don't break in on my flights {
Y fancy" he, objected "If you wal
y the truth, Thoburn is going to have
.e party-a forbidden feast. He's goi1
to rouse again the sleeping dogs of a
IS petite, and send them ravening bac
h to the Plaza, to Sherry's and Del
st and the little Italian restaurants {
IS Sixth avenue. He's going to tai
le them upon a high mountain and sho
them the wines and delicatessen
r the earth, and then ask them if they'l
'e off some other fond creature clings