Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-03-06
CHAPTER jv-contInued.

CHAP EH tVs-Continuc0.
I'VE were held up by the snow" he
explained. 1--WE got sleigh to come
over in, but we walked UP the hill and
came here. / don't mind saying that
my wife's people don't know about this
yet. and we're going to lay low until
we've cooked up some sort of a
scheme to tell them" Then ne came
over and put his hand on my shout
der.
Poor old Minniel" he said; hon
est, I'm sorry. I've been hard child
TO raise, haven't /? But that's all
over, Minnie. I've got an incentive
now, and It's steady, old boy for me.
You and I will run the place and run
it right"
Il don't want toll" / retorted, hold
Ing my bedroom slippers to steam be-
fore the fire. I'm going to buy out
T1mmon's candy store and live a quiet
life, Mr.. Dick. This place lis making
me old"
Nonsense! We're going to work
together, and we'll make this the bust
est spot in seven counties. Dorothy
and have got it all planned out and
we've got some corking good ideas"
He put his hands in his pockets and
Btrutted up and down. tits the day
of advertising, you know Minnie" he
said. you've got to have the goods,
and then you've got to let people know
you've got the goods. What would you
say to a shooting-gallery in the base
ment, under the reading-room?"
l couldn't be ight-hearted to save
my life.
Your sisters been wild all day." l
told Mrs. Dick. "She got your letter
to-day-yesterday-but l don't think
she's told your father yet"
What" she screeched, and caught
at the mantel-piece to hold herself.
mot Patti" she said. Mortified, land
father! Here!"
Well, listened while they told me.
They hadn't had the faintest idea that
Mr.. Jennings and Miss Patty were
there at the sanatorium.
1.-THE idea was this, Minnie" said
Mr.. Dick. "Old-I mean Mr.. Jennings
isis not we'll; he has a chronic In
disposition"
Disposition, I call it." put in Mr..
jennings daughter.
And he's apt to regard my running
away with Dorothy when l haven't
penny as more of an embarrassment
than an elopement."
"Fiddle!" exclaimed Mrs. Dick 81
asked you to marry me, and now
nd fn
The thought of her father and his
disposition suddenly overpowered her
and she put her yellow head on the
back of chair and began to cry.
II can't tell him!" she sobbed. 'T
wrote to Pat-why doesn't Pat tell
him? Maybe she will think Of some
way to break 1t to him. She can do
lot with father"
81 hope she can think of some way
10 break another Richard Carter to
the people of the house." l said tartly.
Another Richard Carter!" they said
together. and then / told them about
how we had waited and got desperate,
and how we'd brought in Mr.. Pierce
ct the last minute and that he was
asleep now at the house. They reared
To save my life / couldn't see that
1t was funny. But when / came to the
part about Thoburn being there. and
his having had a good look at Mr.
Pierce, and that he was waiting
around with his jaws open 10 snap up
the place when 1t fell under the ham,
mer, Mr. Dick stopped laughing and
looked serious.
TITS possible we can get by Tho
burn" l said. You can slip in to-
night, we can get Mr. Pierce out
Lord knows he'll be glad to go-and
Miss Dorothy can go back TO school.
Then. later. when you've got things
running and are making good"
I'm not going back to school," she
declared, but I'll go away; I'll not
stand In your way. Dicky." She took
for him to stop her.
Nonsense. Minnie" he exclaimed
angrily and put his arm around her, 81
won't be separated from my wife. We
could go TO the old shelter-house on
the golf inks" looking me square in
the eye. e took the hint. and Mrs.
Dcky never knew he had been hid
den there before.) Nobody ever goes
near 1t in winter" So I put on my
slippers again and we started through
the snow across the golf links, Mr..
Dick carrying bundle OF firewood.
and leading the way with my lantern.
We got into the sheiter-house by my
crawling through she window. and
when we had lighted the fire and hung
I'D the lantern. 1t didn't seem so bad.
There we're two roems. and Mr.. Dick