The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-09-25


write all the advertisements from
points suggested by the people that
get out the different courses"
"Yes, but II was that advertisement"
said the prune grower. wagging his fin
ger threateningly at the sheet that was
stretched before them.
ut was that advertisement that per-
suaded me to do 1t. Well. thumped
that typewriter every night fer q
month and. honest. | can't do thing
with II, and read the books aud took
the lessons and when II comes to writ
ing forceful sales letters I'm just where
I always was"
"well?" Querled Jane. feeling that
the worst Of the storm was over.
"Only this" went on Peter. THAT
when got thoroughly disguised and
wcke up to the fact that I'd been bun
coed. I just made up my mind that I'd
come East, II 1t cost me q thousand
dollars. just to lambaste the fellow
that wrote that advertisement and bum
coed me. had got as far as Chicago
when l saw things a little different
ly."
"Then you aren't going to lambgste
meT' And Jane managed to laugh
little, but Peter went on without heed
ing the interruption.
1T came over me all of n sudden
there In Chicago that IL the fellow that
wrote that advertisement could make
lire buy that typewriter and take that
course when I'd never been buncoed
before, why he could write letters that
would sell my prune crop for the big
scst money. He could take the sales
end OF the business and II would pay
to offer him good salary. SO I had
n different motive after I left Chi
cago."
Now, I suppose you are vexed with
rae because I'm not a man." suggest
cd Jane.
81 hadn't quite thought things out
yet" he informed her. II didn't know
until Just now that It was girl. That
never occurred to me. The youngster
out there didn't tell me. just showed
her the advertisement and said want
ed to see the fellow that wrote 1t. and
she said wanted to see the ad writer
and the nd writer was too busy. and
so kept coming until this time she
LET me In"
There was quite an awkward silence
and then their eyes met--Jane's and
Peter's-and Jane said: "rm sorry"
and Peter asked her why.
Because l feel as II I'd got you
all the way from Oregon and
now you can't lambaste met
wouldn't be fair, when you are 50
big and I'm so little-aud You can't
take me back as your business manager
either"
Peter assured her that she need moi
feel guilty, because as It happened. hs
had been able to put over deal In
some land he owned In Oregon that
would mean many times what the triT
East had costa deal that he could
not possibly have managed by letter
Then Peter looked Of Jane sitting there
| ln the big chair and told her he wal
lonely In the strange city and asked
, her to have dinner with him. Jane re
. fused by inviting him to have dinne'
with her at her brothers apartment
, where she made her home.
, Peter spent only week In the East
D .,rn city Of correspondence schools
; brt II he had spent year he woult
have been no surer that Jane was TIN
! one girl In the world with whom h
: wished to share the fortune that 4
E sure to come to him from his prun'
5 ranch. Now he has gone back to se'
}, / ahout having rather gorgeous hous'
built for his bride In place of the bun'
- cabin OF his bachelor days.