The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-06
By
Booth
arlington
Copyright. 1871
BY the Bell Syndicate. Lao.

ance at the newspaper building would
. precede Florence's. because these ex
plantations required both dellberatior
and tact, and he was convinced thai
it would be almost impossible to make
them at all if Florence got there first
He understood that he was unfor
tunately within her power; and he
saw that II would be dangerous tc
place in operation for her exclusion
from the building this new mechanism
contrived with such hopeful care. and
/ at cost of two dollars and twenty
/ five cents. or nine annual subTcrip.
/ tons to the Oriole out of a present
I total of thirty-two. What he wished
/ Henry TO believe was that for some
good reason, which Herbert had moi
yet been able to invent, it would be
better to show Florence a little DO
likeness. He had a desperate hope
that he might find some diplomatic
way to prevail on Henry to be as sub
servient to Florence as she haC
seemed to demand, and he was deter
mined to touch any extremity of I'm
veracity rather than permit the de.
tails Of his answer in Truth" to come
to his partners knowledge. Henry
Rooter was not Wallie Torbin; but in
possession of material such as this
he could easily make himself intoler
able. Here was a strange human
thing, strange yet common TO most
minds brooding in fear of publicity
We seldom realize that the people
whose derision we fear may have been
as imprudent rs we have been.
Therefore, it was in a f1urried state
of mind that Herbert waited; and
when his friend appeared. over the
fence, his perturbation was not de-
creased. He even failed TO notice the
unusual gravity of Henry's manner.
"Hello, Henry; I thought l wouldn't
start in work till you got here. l didn't
want TO hat 10 come all the way
downstairs again to open the door
and hist our good ole plank up
again"
Il see" said Henry. glancing ner-
vously at their good ole plank. 'WeIl.
guess Florence'H never get in this
good ole doOr-that is, If we don't
let her, or something"
This final clause would have sur
prised Herbert if he had been less pre-
occupied with his troubles. you bet
she WON'T" he said mechanically
"She couldn't ever get in here again
if the family didn't go jntafering
around and give me the dickens and
everything, because they think-they
say they do. anyhOw-they say they
think"
He paused, Disgusting a little choke
as Il cough Of scorn for the family's
thinking.
"Wha, did you say your family
Think" Henry asked absently.
''WeH, they say we ought to let her
have a share in our newspaper"
Again he paused, afraid to continue
lest his hypocrisy appear so barefaced
as to lead toward suspicion and dis
covery. well, mavhe we ought" he
said, his eyes guiltily upon his toe
which slowly scuffed the ground. Il
don't say we ought and 1 don't say
we Oughtn't."
He expected at least a burst of out
ragged protest from his partner, who
On the contrary. pleasantly astonished
him. We'll that's the way I look at
it," Henry said. - don't say we ought,
md / don't say we oughtn't"
And he likewise. stared at the toe
Of his own right shoe. which was also
scufIing the ground Herbert felt a
little better; this subdivision Of his
difficulties seemed to be working -Out
with surprising ease