Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-03-11


| dear
~Do ycu like ies- Jana inquired. ~Tsm
30 glad. hecMuss I had II made ovar
tenr times. and Tn al,noet sasissasa
myself now
Jane put her arm around her neigh.
bars waist she IOolDed sancily at
Brand.
Your wife never lets ma forget thar
shs II ave yeara ny janice" she saiA.
sBut TIA sweet of her iast shs saxsa
And with this strictly feminine para
DOR the exchange Of suavities ceased
They heard Rob's step ca ths stairs.
He shook hands with both.
Awfuliy sorry 70 have kept ran
waiting" he said. ''but with two such
charming ladies guess We went mind
catering little late. eh. Brandg
They look good to me. the million.
aire agreed. Lets co."
i Mrs. Brand was, as Jane had said.
ave years her junior just how shis
fact ever came to be openly eatab.
lishsd 70 enc OF those mysteries that
must so ansoived. or course the one
never referred to II and ne other
never forgot II. But II existed and II
| served as q sort OF balance wheel to
their respective attractions. For Jane
| was OF type 70 which q few years
enc way or the ether neither add nor
detract frem beauty. If the diRcrep.
ancy had been the other way IL might
have been noticeable, Mira. Brand was
q blonde and beautiful enc she was
nearly As tall an Jane and siightiy
more robust. Blue eyed and fair
| skinned. with cheeks that drew their
color from perfect constitution, not
from tho embeiiishing touch OF rouge.
No lady's maid in al New York had
an easier task than Mfs. Brands and
ne modlstes ART was setter rewarded
than hers. In the clubs where II was
common talk that Brands patronigIng
hand had raised Reynolds out OF oh.
security. this striking beauty OF the mil
| Iienaire's wife served as sort of anti.
dote to gossip. At least. men urged
Il was tosa.up, and II Reynolds lost
he was fool From point of eyc they
we're = wonderful pair and In that re-
spect their husbands were not far be
hind them. At the opera or among
the first nighters there wasn't guar
/ tetts In the city that attracted more
| attention. Brand was fairly popular
In the clubs, although he spent but
little time In them. Reynolds, the new
4 conner. was mere &c. He was nat.
urRl mixer and. whether he felt Il or
not. he maintained cordial attitude
/ toward new friends that made him
1 welcome. Time did not press on Bob,
! either. He had declined Brandis offer
to 60 into the miIlIonaire'a tlrEn and he
drew his living from the street. Brand
bad made good as prognosticator
Money did make money. From the
time Bob buried his conscience and
hurried over 20 New York after hin
/ wife and went from her to Brand, he
had had no cause to complain. Forty
thousand dollars was Q good grub
stake and with Brands assistance he
had doubled H.
Only one thing worried Reynolds
His wife's mania for money wac insa
table,
Jane" he had told her n few weeks
| ago, we've got = fortune. Do you
| realize It? Eighty thousand dollars
/ Eighty thousand dollars and q fffseen
thousand dollar home. Let's quit and
go away. with the rent from this
| place we'd have an income OF seven or
/ eight thousand ana we could run all
| over the world on that. You know
how we used to hops and plan for the
day when we could see something OF
other places. Not London and Paris
and Berlin, but something really dif.
ferent. I'd like to go down into Al.
RIGA and India after some of that big
game. Why, never shot anything In
my life larger than q rabbit and 70
rather kill lion than get all the
money in the subtreasury. Come on,
what do you say? You love the out,
door life and veil have the time Of
our lives"
But Jane denurred.
Let's wait little while, Bob. We've
| only Just begun. Look what Brands
got and he isn't hunting lions"
No." he said resignedly, he isn't
hunting them and he couldn't hit on.
II he did. You got me into Brands
| class to some extent. but you'li neses
make him my model OF a man. can
cross his bridges but I've got SONS
OF my own that make him stop and
look. He found that out at school"
He wasn't Boosting. There was mor
OF sadness than arrogance In his tone
but Jane noticed IT; she held her
peace. II was from that day thai
the bottle with the silver casing neet
ed much refIling In the Reynoids
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