The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-01-23
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cHlPTER Iil-contInued.
MI. Gassett smiled. SHOT old Wes-
ley Kip's grip
Il believe i did hear Miss Kip call
her father Wesley"
well, I'd like to help Yves out. !
suppose II might take q chance. Do
ron think You can pay for the ring In
ninety days2"
Easily r.
Wimburn would have promised to
tear down the world and rebuild It In
ninety days.
II shall have to add q little to the
vice for the risk and the accommoda-
lon
Anything you like" said Clay mag
Efficiently.
''C4M 1t two hundred dollars"
sCeRa1inly r. One could hardly
ngg1- over an engagement ring.
I'll ask you to sign a little docu-
.aent.'
with pleasure
He would have signed an agreement
TO surrender a pound Of his flesh.
Clay hurried out to- find Daphne and
fasten on her the glittering give.
He might have taken further alarm
from the immense and greedy rapture
Daphne revealed at the sight Of the
petriied dewdrop set in the golden
circlet. Women are all misers when
It comes to diamonds,
Wimburn noted only the Joy the
bauble gave to Daphne, and the pretty
"Reminiscences with which she poked
out her slender finger and slid 1t into
the fetter. He felt that the kiss Of
Alliance was worth years Of hard labor.
It was hard and bitter to rend their
eemented hearts in twain, but he had
20 go at last. She foated him to the
station In the little a and waved him
through the iron paling. She was un-
lrAaginably precious and pitiful as she
stood there, and he wanted to blubber
when the vestibule was slammed shut
and the train slid out Of the station
Ike d merciless snake.
He vowed that he would work with
the strength Of ten and pile up a for.
tune in the bank for her. But first
he must psle up enough to pay for that
solitaire.
Clay wrote Daphne q fat letter ev.
cry day. He usually sneaked 1t in
among his business correspondence
and took great pains that it should
never miss the Lake Shore limited al
fve-thirty In the afternoon. A spe
cial-delivery stamp put the letter il
DaphneiB hands every next forenoon
But after the letter had gone he
lsoaaiy remembered that he had omit;
tea 70 include some message OF fright:
fully important urgence. So he had
to send her every night . night letter
md frequently OF Mornings he must
fire OF q day letter. These cost only
sixty cents apiece, but often he had
90 send them IN double or triple
length.
For occasions where time was ye,
more uncomfortable there was the tele
phone--a pitt{ pee Of three dollars and
twenty-five cents Cor the first three
minutes. and : dollar and ave cent?
kAr each additional minute or fraction
thereof would bring his lips to Daph,
neis ear.
From the little rubber mouth of thu
receiver her voice came to him al
from . distant star BY interplanctarJ
counmunlcation The sense OF remote
ness was unDearable. she seemed u
be dead ana RsilinIg ACROSS eternity
Clay Wimburn w. M complete dis
kress. His health wayered and his of
~ work suffered TIL II won r6bukes
and threats from his chiefs and com
ment even from Bayard Kip. who
never suspected and was never toldso
Wlmburn,,s infatuation for his sister
WIN lovers. logic Winbufn per
9uaded himself that the only \ tMht
could save him from destruction VA.
daphne. With her married ma all
ma enscpnced Ia 4 little nest ii Ney
York he 6ould take up his once taska
With whole heart. 80 he abeG1nstt
write. and u telegraph. and n Eroaz
necrosis the living wire WILDER M
Wilder cziesl for help.
Dap,hne Wept back and repaid hia
doneinar1 "a Kind md suffered heart
rendin9 ecstaatss ~ yAArhinG AN
1n6l1y NE promised frantically a
nazry hin vithont further delay
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