The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-29

snirits of Harry Tilston that ne lookeo
upon poor little Molly in her pIue
bingham apron and blistereo aiIS
and .hands-for she seemed 10 know
very little about cooking wheh shs
came, and had more than once ourneu
her arms against the big boilers-wltn
a new interest. Before that she hao
been simply what his mother woulo
call hired girl" Now the very rae.
that there was that in her calling ina,
might make her appear to pc soSlAA
inferior to such folk as Mildred Brew
er and Laura Stevens. made her an
the more worthy of Harry Iilstoh
sympathies At least so he Thought
So ii was that, instead of trying 10
overcome Mildred's amusement, ne
avoided her, and when, after the long
hours spent in the kitchen. his tired
brains sought the distraction of feml-
nine company it was poor little Molly
whom he asked tofstro1 with him into
the cool and refreshing hemlock
woods that bordered on his mothers
property.
So the summer passed the
strangest, hardest yet, in many ways,
most satisfactory summer that Harry
had ever passed. As result OF sew
eral trips to the big city he received
orders for four times as many pud-
dings as his mother had ever made
before, and because that mother and
Molly worked with more than crdi-
| intelligence, they were able to nave
the buildings all finished and done up
in oil paper and in boxes before the
| end of September.
The last pudding had been packed
! away and still Mrs. TilStOn had not
| had the heart to mention to Molly
| that, because the work was ended,
! she would not need her services any
| longer.
| Harry had hurried her off after
| their fnr no
| in the hemlocks. What he had to tell
| her wasn't at all easy because Molly
was such a straightforward, ma tier
| of-fact little woman that Harry had
always found it extremely Difficult: to
| verge on the sentimental with her
| and it seemed difficult, he thought
of it, to lead a girl up to a proposal
without being at least a little senti-
| mental. But it didn't prove to be so
very hard and within fifteen minutes
| of the time they had left the house
| for the hemlocks Harry was filled
with the wonderful consciousness that
| the girl whom he regarded as the
most womanly and the sweetest of all
| the girls he had ever known had
| agreed to be his wife
/ Il never thought a college man like
you would marry poor little hired
| gifl,' she told him.
| And l never thought such a nice
| girl as you are would marry man
whose idea of starting a career was to
make plum buildings in his mothers
Kitchen, added Harry with a laugh
Now that the project had proved
such a financial success he could well
afford to laugh at himself.
Molly clasped and unclasped her
hands nervously. Perhaps 1 look diff
ferently at this plum pudding proje.-
than most people," she began. =
fact, 1t was those plum buildings thu
| made me come to work for you. l"
nave to tell you how it was. Real
and truly, 1 am Mary Louise Juxtonl
bury. daughter of Juxtonbury, the,
| baker"
Harry i'll concealed a whistle of sur
| prise, for that was the name of one
of the leading financiers of the state,
whose millions had been made by his
chain of bakeries.
| Il wanted to do something-make
money all myself, instead of floating
around in society. So 1 asked dad
| what would be good line, and he
said plum buildings. He knew there
was demand for them, and he hap
pened to get one of the buildings your
| mother sold. And-well perhaps
dads methods haven't always been
just what yours would be. He told
me the way to make a success of
plum buildings was to get hold of that
recipe. So l came out here and man
aged to get your mother to hire me.
and l learned the recipe But right
from the first l knew Id nev,r steal
it from you. l wanted to leave you
sometimes, / was so ashamed of what
l had done. But something or other
kept me. Y.u see, to me plum pud-
dings are the means of making an
Independent fortune. And now that
we I'VE the recipe on the level we can
do it honestly. "-(Copyright, 1917. by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)