The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-02-06

as multlmllilonaire, this was now be-
yond hope.
Rowland had by this time got into
his country home. He sent her some
strawberries from his garden great,
luscious fellows with note of well
come to his new neighbor. He receiv-
ed note of thanks in return and an
invitation to call. The call was made
in due time, and the visitor devoted
himself to pleasing the hostess. He
said not word about buying her
plant. On the contrary, he expressed
his satisfaction at having so attractive
a property near him. He left with the
belief that he had made a very agree
able impression
1t was not in Mr.. Howland's plan to
lead Miss Edgerton to believe that she
mad made conquest of him. This
would rather hinder than facilitate his
purchase of her property. He wished,
merely to secure her good will. hoping
that she would accept two or three
times its value, or that he might place
her in position of standing in the
way of friend. While he lavished
upon her every favor she would ac-
cept, he neither looked, spoke nor hint
ed love. His aim was merely to play
the good neighbor.
When he had fully established a
kindly entente he one day told her that
he wondered that she had not selected
site for her rose plant where she
would have had better facilities for
transporting her goods to market. To
this she expressed herself well Salts
fed where she was. Later he inform
ed her that he owned a splendid site
for her plant nearer the city and on
railroad by which she could ship her
goods. If she wanted it he would ex-
change it for her property, build new
Conservatives for her and give her
triple the value of her present proper
ty to boot.
She appeared to take the matter into
consideration. But she never came to
decision-at any rate, no decision
that she revealed to the would be pur-
chaser of her property.
Disappointed in this move, Rowland
resolved to try what virtue there
would be in lovemaking. He would
try to win the property through the
heart. If he must wound the heart
he would heal the wound with gold,
for he had no doubt that If there was
enough gold bestowed any such breach
would be stopped by it. But How
land had been so beset by women to
marry him for his fortune that his
ideas on this point had been somewhat
warped.
So he began by first looking little
love, then acting little love and final
ly speaking a little love- A beginning
having been made, he doubled the guam
titles. Miss Edgerton received his at
tentions coyly. She was always tribe
behind him In this lovemaking. New
ertheiess the affair developed.
Then one day Miss Edgerton told
Rowland that she was thinking of TAX
ing partner in her business How
land took fright at once, and when a
swell from the city came to the rose
AdNJO1J anu AODuODDcd WILL lHCf ONuEtI
Rowland discovered that the factory
had become Of small Importance to him
in comparison with the owner. The
moment the swell departed Rowland |
went to Miss Edgerton and told her
that If she. would not marry him he |
would commit suicide
That's the end of my story. The twoi
were married, the Conservatives were
taken down. and the land on which,
they stood was made a part of How
land park. But there is an explana-
tion as to how all this came about.
Miss Edgerton was one of those brill
liant women who from modest begin
nings climb to the top of the social
ladder. Getting wind of Howland's |
plan for large, country estate, she
bought in the name Of another a bit Of |
property he must have. She had never
studied agriculture and knew nothing
about it. Her object from the first was
to marry the immense fortune owned
by Rowland. How she succeeded has
been told in the body of the story. She
is now one of the principal leaders OF
the fashionable world
Rowland was satisfied with the way
the matter turned out. Having no for
tune to make, he lived for comfort
and social prominence. For this his
wife was well fitted.