Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-25

| A. be grew older the taste took root
| and became q habit,
Ted came out after serving his term,
/ Btfil handsome. spite Of all that story
| writer's may have taught TO the con-
4 trary. hut wen make this concession
i to the old tradition. There was diff
4 ference. His radiant blondeur was
4 dinmed In some intangible, elusive
H way. Birdie Callahan. who had worked
1 In Ted's mothers Kitchen for years,
aud who had gone back to her old JOB
at the Haley house after her mistress
death, put ii sadly thus:
i He was always tn handsome divil.
Il used to look forward TO ironin' day
Il Just TOR the pleasure Of presaln' his
i fancy shirts for him. I'm that partial
/ to them swell blends. But / dinnaw,
4 he's changed. Doin' time has taken
| tho edge of his hair an complexion.
| Not changed his color. do yuh mind,
but auiIed It, like a gold ring, or the
/ like, that has furnished"
| Ted was seated in the smoker, with
a chip on his shoulder and sick hor-
|
in bis heart, when 10 Haley, of the
! Haley house. got on at Westporr,
/ homaward bound. 10 Haley 10 the
most eligible bachelor I'm our town,
and the sltpperiest. He has made the
| Haley house q gem, 80 that tfas cling
men win cut half dozen towns to,
| Sunday there. II he should say Jump
through thiaf' 10 any girl In our town
she'd Jump.
10 Haley streiIed leIsurely up the
car aisle toward Ted. Ted saw him
coming and sat very stiii, waiting.
Hello, TedI hew's Ted?" said 10
| Haley, casually, Aud dropped into the
adjoining seat without any more fuss
| Ted wet his lips slightly and tried
| to say something. He had been a
breezy taikar. But the words would
not come, 10 Haley made no effort
to cover che situation with a rush OF
conversation. He did not seem to
| realize that there was any situation to
cover He champed the end OF his
cigar and handed oone to Ted.
Well you've taken your iickin.
kid. What you gaine to do npw?"
+ The rawness ct IT. made Ted vince
"Ohs / don't know" he atammered.
"fye Eot a, job half promised in Chi,
| cage" 81.
what doingT"
| Ted laughed u short, ugly laugh.
Driving d brewery auto truck"
| 10 Haley tossed his cigar dexterous-
| ly To the opposite corner of hls mouth
and squinted 4houghtfaily along it's
hulging sides.
Remember that Weugei giFl that g
/ kept books for mo for the last six
| yeaFs3 She's leaving In a couple OF
months To marry a New York guy that
travels for ladies' eioaks and suits
After she goes LIS nix with the lady
bookkeepers for me. Not that Minnie
Isn't good, atraight girl. and honest
but no girl can keep books with one
eye on q column OF figures and the
other on q travelling man in brown
, suit and red necktle, unless she's
cross eyed, and you bet Minnie isn't
The jobs yours II YOU want Ii, Eighty
q month to start on, and board"
'T~~cant, Jo. Thanks inst the
same I'm going to try to begin al
+ over again, somewhere else, where no
! body knows me-"
- "Oh, yes" said 10. II knew fellow
that did that. After he came out hi
grew beard and wore eyeglasses ans
= changed his name. Had d quick, crisj
/ way of talkin', and he cultivated
D drawi and went west and started II
| business. Real estate. think. Amy
, way, the second month he was Their,
4 In walks fool he used TO know an,
J. bellows: why. II 1t amt Billl Hello
, Riill thought you was doing timt
. yet That was enough. Ted, you cal
, black your face and dye your hair ant
+ squint, and some fine day, sooner o
!, later, somehody'll come along aud blal
D the whole thing. And say. the older 1
8 gets tho verse 1t sounds, when IL doe
come cut, Stick around here wher
You grew up, Ted"
1 Ted clasped aud unclasped. hi
\ hands uncomfortable. Il can't tlgur
l. out why You should care how finish.
y No reason" answered 10. mot
q darned one, wasn't ever In love wit
= your ma, like the guy on the stage
and never owed your pa a cent. s
r Ii aint guilty conscience. | cues
4 it's lust pure cussedness and har
n KERN for new Investment. I'm cur
4 Gus TO know how'n you turn GU
n You've got the makiu's OF what tn
/. newspapers call q leading citizen. eve
il II yon did fall down once, II I'd eve
Z had time to get married. which neve
r viii have. o flrstclass hotel beiI
r. more worry and expense than Pitt
k hurgh steel magnate's whole haren
D Ia have wanted somebody to do tn