Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-02-21

ploded in the Office. Heads of firm decided
that since we can't sell any goods In Amer
lea, might try England. They want me to
go over at once and see what can be done
about establishing selling agency In
dear old Lunnon. doncher know. And so
now I intend to combine business trip, va
cation, and honeymoon in same voyage.
So we get married Thursday and sail
Saturday Just time TO get settled in our
dove-cote before leaving.
Was worrying over not being able to &C.
cept your kind OFFER to pay me visit.
Then the blessed wifelet darlingly sug-
gested that her sweet sister-in-law-to-be
should come to New X ork and make our
apartment her home while she shops.
We won't get back from honeymoon
hike for six weeks at least. You and
mother Just settle down there until you
have finished shopping. VIII leave key
and instructions with superintendent.
The letter ended with the usual
oceans of love and kisses and the
usual haste. 1t set the family to pom
dering. Old Wesley was the first to
speak and his train of thought startled
the women:
$50 he's going to get married tomor-
row. That's awful sudden! Saves us
buying wedding present, though z
When he had recovered from the i'm
pact Of his wife's look he saved him
self again with a quick, pleading sug-
gestion: "What l was thinking vas
it leaves more money for Daphne's
rousseau
The poor wretch had grown used to
seeing unexpected gifts of fortune
float into view like soap bubbles, drift
close in iridescent loneliness, and then
wink out, leaving hardly damp spot.
AS soon as he had bravely added
what he had saved from his sons we'd
ding to what he had already voted
to his daughters trousseau he was
doomed to learn that Daphne could
not start East to buy clothes to get
married in until she had bought some
clothes to start East in. And, besides
that, she could not go East alone, and
her mother could not go with her I'M
less her mother had also some new
clothes to tide her mother over till
her mother could get to New York and
buy some clothes to stay married in.
Wesley Kip went forth to peddle
that second mortgage. This was a
commodity not easy to dispose of, and
it took him week or two to find a
purchaser, and then he paid an ingen-
iously disguised usury for 1t. But
he got the cash.
When he came home he proudly an
nounced that Daphne and her mother
could start for New York as soon as
they'd a mind to. They had a mind
to as soon as their clothes were ready.
He accompanied them to the train.
He was not even to have the doleful
luxury Of seeing them spend his
money. But he put brave front on
his folly and his last words to Daphne
were:
''Have q good time, honey, and If
you see anything you absolutely got
to have, just you get it. And if the
money you got isn't enough, why, I'll
get more somehow. You can usually
depend on your old dad to do his
best
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child cried, II know can you angel T.
and reached high and drew his head
down like faithful camePs. He never
told her that she was squeezing his
eyeglasses into his nose. He managed
not to .sneeze at the exquisite agony
of her curls tickling his nostrils, and
she Toasted his hungry ear with eager
gratitude.
Dapnne slept little that night in her
Pullman pigeonhole; she was too busy
with her thoughts, and the wheels
made a banjo Of the rails, But she
was glad of her insomnia Even better
than sleeping well is staying awake
well.
The train was on time and rolled
chariot-smoothly into the Grand Cen
trail station. Clay Wimburn was there
by special dispensation from the Office,
and he had had the forethought to Sc