The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-01-03
MARRYING SUE Off
BY c. B. LEWIS.

ONaf eANA
We're those who termed him precocious.
At any rate, he thought he was man
enough to boss his sister around, nj.
though she was eight years older
than he.
ut seems to me you take the great
news rather coolly," he went on.
Here I've done for you what mother
and yourself have been trying to do
for the last two years, and you haven't
a word of thanks for me-"
"Bobbie, what do you meanT" asked
the sister as she sat up and laid aside
her book.
"Mean? Mean? I can't mean but
n thing. I have found a husband
for you at last"
"W-h-a-t!"
ooh, you have come to your senses,
have you? I thought 1t would astonish
you. I have needed a brother-in-law
for the last two or three years, but no
one seemed to take q shine to you. ]
went out looking for one this morning
and I found him without much trouble.
Susie, he is a Observation-Disclosures fel.
Ter you ever saw. His name is Earl
C%osgrove, and he is q good Teller from
head to heels"
"Bobbie Winthrop, what are you
talking about half shouted the girl.
"Why, about the chap you are going
to marry, Of course" was the sober
reply. "You see I went out into the
woods this morning with my Flobert
rife to kill a bear. I knew there
wasn't n left on Long Island, but
thought n might swim over from
Connecticut just to please me. I found
the young man. while hunting araund
He Is what they call a naturalist. Oh
Susie. he Is a peach of a good Teller,
and I only hope you'll fall in love with
him"
"You are talking pure nonsense!
exclaimed Miss Susie, as she knocked
the cap off his head.
"There Is no nonsense about It
Susie. I didn't quite invite him tC
come back to the house with me, but
I shall tomorrow. I nm going to dc
It to show you off and see If you cant
catch a husband"
"You weren't forward enough an6
bold enough and mean enough to tell
him you had a sisterT queried the
girl, as her cheeks famed up.
"I don't remember that I did, but
I am rather absent-minded at times
TO 7 told hin, opv.bipp obo,t vo,, a
was that / hope you'd get married soon
because I was tired Of seeing an old
maid about the house. It shan't last
much longer"
Bobbie received a shaking which
clicked his teeth together and a push
which sent him far out Of the room
and Miss Susie returned to her book
Bobbie hunted up his mother and re
lated the circumstances to her. and 1,
was with a very sober face that she
received them and replied:
"Bobbie. you must not plague your
sister about men. That Is the way to
make a girl hate them. Don't bring
this young man to the house, and don't
tcln uUOul SuSlc W iii
"But can't a Teller like me TALK 2
protested Bobbie.
eyes, but talk Of general things"
Bobbie went away growing anG
nuttering. and next morning he saw
the stranger again. He was a little
more on his guard this time, and wher
he got home he had nothing to say
and no one tried to pump him. For q
and fields with the naturalist every
day. but not a word did he have to
say around the house.
The following week he went away
on a visit to his aunt, to be gone o
week, and 1t was during this week that
Miss Susie took a saunter in the
fields, looking to gather some wild
strawberries. Before she had picked
a single berry she heard a voice
calling to her and, looking around,
she saw a young man seated on a log.
He beckoned to her to approach, and
as she drew nearer he said:
II beg your pardon, miss, but I have
met with an accident. BY a careless
step I have turned my ankle and can.
not use 1t. Would you 60 to the high.
way and ask aid for me from the first
passerbyT
Miss Susie vas all sympathy at
once. She told him to lean On her
and she would take him straight to
the house, where her mother could use
some remedy for the sprain. He hest
tated to accept, but finally did with
many thanks, and after a slow and
painful effort, he reached the house
and was at once handed yer to the
tender mercies Of mother and the cook.
Later on a doctor vas telephoned for.
The patient gave his name as Earl
Cosgrove, but that brought no men,
cries.
When Bobbie came home he found
the patient still in the house. but he
hardly bowed to him. For a week
more he hardly had a word to say,
and It was at the end Of three months
that he one day said to his sister:
UC,,ste somethiDp tolls mo that vou