The Bottineau courant., 1922-02-02

+ for the good Of my soul. He knew hi
Y medium as the artists say. III
: wanted to make me work-somethin
thar nobody else has ever been abb
: to dO. -
Don't you like to work." -. Il
, aWhy-es guess I'm like other foil
IN that respect. don't mind working
: II / %can pick my job-and my com
pany. I've been having bully goot
time hammering around this old buncl
OF Junk with your father. Or / wal
having one until Satan came also.'
Meaning Mr. BullertonT
Quite so;s meaning Mr.. Bullerton
christened Charles"
Ought T to stay here and listen Il
you're going to say things about himf'
mol II you are going to marry him
you shouldn't" r
We'll. why shouldn't marry him
If want to? Hasn't he plenty o1
money And haven't told you that
I'd marry for money!"
"Humph." said l when you talk
that way you are saying out loud just
what Lisette says to herself-only you
don't mean 1t and she does. But tell
me how did you get permission t6
come over here and talk with met"
Whose permission-Daddy's"
No: Bulhrton's, of course"
i don't have to ask it-yet."
Not yet. but soon," grinned. "All
things come to him-or her-who
waits. just the same, you shouldn't
have, cDne.> It's cruelty to animals.
-Nfter a man has travelled thousands of
miles to. sit at the feet OF the one girl
In the universe, only to find himself
eibowed by brown-whiskered jeet-"
"Hush!" she chided. Cant you
ever be serious? You are not sitting
at anybody's feet. What are you 60
ing to do about the mine?"
"Bullerton offered to unwater the
Cinnabar If I'd deed him bit more
than half interest-and possibly he'd
still be willing to do that, which would
mean that he'd form stock company
and freeze me out completely when
he got good and ready" " -
"And what. Is the other wayg
"He offers to buy the mine outright,
just as 1t stands, for fifty thousand
dollars ~s@...s%
But your grandfather paid nearly
half a million for it, didn't he?"
Even So. But, you see, In the pres
ent scrap I'm the under dog. The man
you are going to marry has none of the
| nice little scruples In business trans
action-if you'll permit me to 60 that
far. He even threatens to turn me
over to the authorities for stealing
that inspection car and getting 1t
smashed"
"oh, I don't believe he'd do that r.
she deprecated. ss@s H.. -.
1T is perfectly right and proper
that you shouldn't think so-in the
circumstances. Just the same, you'll
pardon me If say that I'm swearing
continuously and prayerfully at the
circumstances" -.
fsYou don't want me to marry money
and have good clothes and all the other
Fnice things, and travel and see the
world, and all thatY'
sNo, by Jove! i want you to marry
me." ..-.
Her laugh was just a funny little
lgurgle.
r. "Bluebeard!" she said, Just like
that. "And you haven't even killed
Miss Randle yet! Thank you, ever so
much; but / don't want to be one OF
several. Besides, you haven't any
Imoney."
Talk Of impasses and impossible SIT.
uations! What could man say, OF
hope to say, to such a girl as thati
"Did you come over here Just te
torment me? rasped.
"Woof!' she shivered, shere comes
the bear again !" and then, right smasf
out of clear sky: 5"Kiss me-jus
once, Stannie-bear."
| Did I? She was gasping bit wher
she got up rather unsteadily to g
} back to the cabin across the dunn
head and wouldn't stay another min
ute, though begged and pleaded wit,
her. ~. 80. :. . ..
4 "No, indeed, Bluebeard man." sh'
said with that queer little gurgle of {
laugh. IL think I have found ou
what wanted to. Goodby." Ant
then, after I thought she was clear
gone, she turned back to say, airily
"0h, yes had almost forgotten wha
came over here to tell you. Yol
mustn't sell the Cinnabar, Stannie; NO
for any price that anybody might offe
you. Goodby, again.
4 Can you beat it7 When the goot
Lord made women He doubtless ha.
many patterns but do believe tn,
mold was broken and thrown ava,
after this Jeanie sirI had been fash
ioned. For solid hour or more / sa
| IN that slab bench at the shafthous,
4 door in sort of bewildered daze, won
dering II ! had been asleep and dream
Ing, or If the bedazzling thing hat
really happened.
At breakfast the next morning every
thing passed of aa usual and FOR any
thing that Jeanne said or looked Their
needn't have been amy bench besid,
the shafthouse door and the dream
theory had been playing with nigh
have been the sober fact. An hou
later, after had gone across to tn,
mine, Bullerton came over to dig M
ont, az before. ~
"Forty thousand this morning" h,
announced as clipper as an Englisl
sparrow over an unexpected heap O
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