Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-11-22


through the old house with Henrietta
Surely If he could not manage u pro-
posa under such favorable circum-
stances he never would be able to do
so.
He was just at the door, willing,
with the bright prospects for the eve
ming wildly before him. TO depart with
scarcely a word Of farewell.
"Ill get Sandy to go along with u.s."
came Henriette's cheerful csntralto.
'He knows more about furnaces and
things than any man we ever had
and you might buy some candles ON
your way for the light will be all turn
ed off, | suppose"
Randolph's roseate dreams had fad
ed away. Even an empty house didn't
offer favorable background if the ubi
Quitous Sandy We're to be tn third
party still!
The trip was taken TO the Tilden
mansion that night in Henriette's little
roadster with Henrlette ut the wheel
Randolph at her side and the weakened
Sandy sitting at Randolph's feet with
his own rough-shod feet protrgding TO
the running board, and in the same
guise they returned. The hour spent
ut the mansion was one-in which San
dy WAS master of ceremonies and Ran
dolph found himself chiefly useful in
holding lighted candles for the old man
or hoisting his light but agile body to
peer at pipes and drafts in the rusty
dust-covered heating system that ram
bled over a good share of the cellar of
the old house.
The pipes that conveyed the hot air
from the furnace TO the upper regions
of the house were rusty, but not so
much so that drafts in the three main
channels for the hot air could not be
opened when Sandy applied the sturdy
muscles of his thumb and ferefinger to
that task.
"Now she'll work" Sandy had re-
marked by way Of announcing his tri-
umph "If yous'll order a couple o. ton
of chestnut coal and bit of Nndlin' I
think can have enough heat in the old
place to make your ice cream sell like
hot cakes in February"
The day came and the ice cream did
sell like hot cakes, and even after the
lemonade had been so diluted that 1t
was almost innocent of any intimacy
with the citrus fruit for which it was
named, it sold in such abundance that
the proceeds of that table We're five
times what one would have expected
from lemonade Windows We're opened
and those who came to buy made fans
of sheets of paper they could find. II
was n sharp, cold day for autumn and
so there was no very great irritation in
the voices of complaint that were
raised against the excessive heat. At
any rate every one who attended the
bazaar was strongly impressed with
the fact that the Tilden house was en-
dowed with a phenomenal heating APP
paratus, and scarce person in town
failed to hear something about the eX-
cessive heat that had prevailed in the
old mansion during the two days and
two nights of the suffrage bazaar.
A few days after the bazaar Hen
riette Beauchamp announced her en-
gagement to Randolph Yardley, and
those who knew Henriette as well as
those who knew her only for the repu-
tation she bore as an up-and-coming
young suffraglst explained the fact
that the engagement occurred just
when it did in this wise:
Henriette had set. her cap for Ran
dolph; yes, that is Just what they said,
and no doubt Randolph had taken a
fancy to Henriette, but Randolph was
not the kind of young man who would
ask girl to marry him unless he had
some Idea of how he was going to sup
port her. Henriette knew this, and>if
the truth must be told, Henriette had
the making Of the better lawyer of the
two. She knew that Mr.. Tilden had
put little work In the young lawyers
way and she knew about that case
against the brewer, Hamburger. SO
she worked out the whole scheme,
planned the suffrage bazaar and every
thing and got that man Sandy to make
the fire that could prove the house
could be heated. And of course Ham,
berger's lawyer saw there was no use
continuing the suit, and the affair was
settled at once. No one cared, for no
one had any great love for the brewer.
The result was that Tilden gave the
young lawyer fee amounting to half
the years rent that he had recovered,
enormous. More than that, Tilden put
all his legal work into the hands OF
the young lawyer. His future was as
sured and-well, after that, how could
Mr.. Yardley do otherwise than he did?
Should Sc Enough.