Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-08-21
The Ministerial
Beau
II
BY S. B. HACKLEY
(Copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure News
palar Syndlcate)

any one such maliciously disagreeable
names %
Eve Mckay. the crumpled figure on
the library davenport sobbed plain
lively Across the room Chase Ken
dan sat up very straight, his red
head held high.
81 merely remarked he profered,
that / thought any old unmarried
woman who would exact a promise
frGm her niece never TO leave her.
thereby preventing her marriage to-
to n proper fellow who wants to take
her with him when Uncle Sam sends
him engineering in South America,
was selfish old mean selfish
creature :"
"BH Aunt EHe didn't exact any
promise from me | told her youn-
tarily I'd never leave her She hasn't
anybody but me, and she'd be afraid
to stay by herself She'd be miser-
able If she knew you wanted me to
go to South America with you"
Kendall crossed the room hastily.
Listen, kitten. If that old poke,
Humphrey Wilburn, were to marry
Miss Euphemia and take her to his
house and money, she'd have some
body TO stay with herl"
Eve dlmpled "Oh, Chase, If he only
would! They were sweethearts long
ago. don't know why they didn't
marry, but ! believe he'd want her
rgnin If he thought somebody else
did Az It Is, hen Just keep on max
Ing his twice-a-year calls, and sending
his dry Christmas and birthday re-
membranes 10 the end OF time Aunt
E6ie's going down to Georges next
week to the church convention. |
wish"
"Don't you weep another weep, EVE
darling" Chase broke out; 1--WE got
an idea boiling and boiling strong :"
Shortly after little Miss Euphemia
Mckay returned from Georgia. Dr.
Humphrey Wilburn returning TO his
car from a professional call on old
Miss Della Lavender Zone of his oc-
caSional patients), picked up an un-
side his ear. According to his habit
he looked at II carefully.
Lakeland. Fla, It read-"My dear
Miss Mckay nm delighted to have
your note. granting me permission to
stop by, | shall be very happy to call
Thursday afternoon, ana viii be
charmed TO stay over Il day, as YOU
suggest but shall have to leave on
the hate evenings train. You will per
nit me to say again that never since
I have been minister have | met a
lady whose graces of mind and face
so appealed 10 me, It will be a joy
10 my lonely heart to talk with you
again Faithfully yours,
Hugh Blair Compton"
The doctor put it with slow care in
his pocket His meditative blue eyes
were troubled
~ wonder" he said to himself, II
90 wonder"
Thursday afternoon he took pains 10
drive out Grantland avenue way short.
~ after the train came in, and was
rewarded with the sight of a tall, fine
looking man with silyery gray curling
hulr and II short heard of Vandyke
cut, iHuntily ascending the Mckay
steps
The town was n busy one The ell
derby man who called at the Mckay
house might have been an agent Of
some kind for nught anybody but pr,
Wuburn cared. Ii was a misting April
day, cold and damp, but that gentle
man drove to the river, aud sat fish
ing ON the moist bank until the sun
went down, unminlful Of the fact
that the fish were biting
And at the Mckay house Miss Eu-
phemia, playing hymns in the par
Tor, smiled in sympathy with the merry
laughter from Ewes little sitting room
upstairs.
"MaviS Kendall must he with Eve
ana perhaps her brother" She said to
herself
Miss Eupbema was popular with
the towusfolk and ON her birthday
The following Monday. she received
number of pretty remrmhrunces. The
haudSumest gitt of all beautiful
brooch of gold with single diamond
IN the renter OF The bar came through
the mail There WAS am unsigned
card with 81, bearing Miss Euphemia
name. and the words. "a happy buih-
day"