The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-01-01

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general education, no found that such
lfnen we're worth a salary OF about 80 a
week After hooking n vain for q better
secretary and librarian to a M. Scott.
MT. scott was chiefly known as that
man that lived next door 70 Mr.. Me-
IS to be worth several miiiion doIIsrs
He had q wife and daughter and the
daughter was beautiful Her name was
on the morning that Henry St claire
assumed his duties and within half an
hour after assuming, he caught his first
slgbt q Miss Roma IS 4 drove from
the house In an auto. There vraa Instant
admiration on his part.
In four or ave days the young man was
deeply IA love and b ~eituation nnads
him realize to the fullest extent the help
lessness Of his position.
IN iaYe With an aristocrat, and he .
IN love With q Eirl. and nos earnin.
salary enough 70 buy her shoes * she be-
Love Is something that neither seK can
always go with II. When young Mr.. Oil
Claire. realized the gliif between thera he
turned 20 thoughts OF suicide. II was his
other channels. Betty Baker was 4 mid
die aged woman who had had her own
troubles with the god ~ love.
She was q good cook, but she believed
that al men ard all women wore born
free and equal. She considered herself OK
the family, and II snubbed she went on
strike for higher wages, Mr.. ST. Claire
she entered the library and took q seat
/ IND began.
Now, then. YOU are no better than /
while we are both ns good AZ the master
and mistress"
you are d good looking young man ans
they say you have A good education"
tFWeil7"
'sBnt You are working Tor $40 i week"
ANA nay 4 p sS5 g Sta Taf Il "a, NV Soyn1s sna
And have you come In here 70 taunt me-
with my povertyFt
sometimes gives advice. but she never
And you have come 70 give ms "a
~ have. and when / think / need adj
vice ! shall ask Il Of YOU There's . rich
girl next door
Yes
isne got a mighty heap Of money"
And she hasn't ! lover. she's 4 bic
aHow do YOU raean queerT'
t'She reads books.
mot that kind, sir. She won't read .
book unless ii II 4 story of a knight ~
4 hero. or Oh some rich girl marrying 9
poor Young man who has saved her hfe.
s.And how does 4 come that you know
go much about the rich glri mex ooorr
aT was the cook there for seven long
years, and only cult q year ago wnen me
mistress OF the mansion got 70 W
that she felt herself q heap sabove me.
Miss Roma and / were ike sisters.
know her better than her y Euothsr
does.
sBut the advlce9"
Young ST. Claire was slightly consoled
by the knowledge that Miss Roma Mo
lCabe was romantic, but she had q father
who wasn'tta bit that way.
The girl would marry o poor young man
or none at all. He wae q poor young
man. all right, but she had q full half
Lmiilion others to pick from.
According 20 the cook. Miss Roma
wanted a hero. He war perfectly willing
TO become \ hero, but where was the op"
MOI There was no hope Tor the young
man. He must mourn himself into the
grave through unrequited love. What left
Baker wa rebuked for sitting Ia the
parlor with her feet cooked up. on another
chair, and she had stood on her dignity
81 more a month to gee her back again.
and AFTER she had got the Kitchen running
~ the same old way she dropped into the
els it>suicide Tor your"
II might IS well ba," was me naelan-
That can keep for a spell. like Boston
baked beans. j am going to- Miss Roma
and tell her, you are perlshing Of your
love for her"
Not a word In your praise until after
the event"
But what event7"
Young man said Betty Baker m
solemn tones, Miss Roma walks In her
sieepl"
MF ST. clair looked at her IN I be-
Yes, sir. she do. and her mother
don't know 1t, Many Is the night 7 rave
foilowed her and hfoaght her back 20
"she gets up. slips on a wrapper and
leaves the house. At the back end Of
these lots, as o must know, runs tho
river she win so dowa there and staDd
'sBut-but-but-a
Yes she takes her Life In her hand every
times over. It Is now up TO .
"Yes. sir. we viii nov see whether
you are a hero or q nincompoop Your
back yard. She walks just az midnight
when she walks, You must watch ard
follow her, and be on the spot IN case she
rails into the water, You WIl then 20
"And what?t
'For an educated young man you are
II out for yourself I have got work In
the Kitchen
Whether Miss Roma McCaba ever
walked In her sleep or not has never been
told. There came q night, however, when
Mr.. st. Clair saw q human figure leave
the McCnbe back door-whea he few down
stairs and followed II TO the eiver-when
he stretched forth his eager banda and
saved II,
And there came a day when Mr.. Nc
Cabe rose up In his wrath and pointed
the way out OF the library TO a hero,
And another day when Betty Baker
stood with arms akimbo and said: stick
to II, U mani They can't beat q
sleep-waIking girl and q hero OF q young
many'
n d marriage thai took place about
a year later went 70 prove that Betty
was right,