Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-17

"Humph!" said i; when you talk
that way you are saying out loud just
what Lisette says to herself--onlyyyou
don't meal it and she does. But toll
md how did o get permission 70
come over here and talk with me?"
Whose permission-Daddy's"
mo; Bullerton's. Of course
IT don't nave to ask it-yet."
Not yet. but soon." grinned. IAN
things come to him-or her-wh$
waits. Just the same. you shouldn't
have come. It's cruelty to animals.
After a nan has travelled thousands OF
miles to sit at the feet Of the n girl
in the universe, only to find himself
.elbowed by "a brown-whfskered
|jeet-'.N
t"HushE!" she chided. Cant yos
ever be serious? You are not sitting
tat anybody's feet. What are you go
Ling to do about the mine r.
$ssS"Bullerton, offered to unwater tho
Ginnabar ii I'd deed him bit more
Estfllb e willing to do that, which would
mean that bed form a stock company
and freeze me out completely when
he got good and ready" '1
And what is the other way?"
He offers to buy the mine outright,
just as it stands, for fifty thousand
dollars"
But your grandfather paid nearly
half a million for 1t, didn't he?
ent scrap I'm the under dog. The man
you%are going to marry has none Of tho
/, nice scruples In a business transaction
iii you'll permit me to go that far.
He even threatens to turn me over to
the authorities for stealing that in
spection car and getting it smashed"
AnOh, I don't believe he'd do thatE',
she; deprecated.
sit is perfectly right and proper
that you shouldn't think .so-in the
circumstances. Just the same, youth
pardon me if I say that I'm; swearing
continuously n prayerfully at the
circumstances"
You don't want me to marry mon
ey and have good clothes and all tho
other nice things, M travel and SEQ
the world, and all that
mo. by Jove! I want you to marry
me-"
Her laugh was just a funny little
gurgle. /,
-""Bluebeard!", she said, Just like
that. "And you haven't even killed
Miss Randlle yet! Thank you, ever 50
much; but l don't want to be one Of
several. Besides, you haven't any
money"
Talk Of impaases and impossible stt-
nations! What could q mar ay, or
hope to say, to- such a girl as that!
+ Did you come over here just t.
torment me?" I rasped.
Woo1!' she shivered, here comes
the bear again!" n then. right
smash out of a clear sky: kiss ma
Just once. Stannie-bear." aa.
D!d l? She was easping a bit when
she got up rather unsteadily to 60
back to the cabin across the DUMP
mead and wouldn't stay another min
ute. though 1 begred and, loaded
with her.
no, indeed, Bluebeard. man." ..ha
SAID with that queer little. gurgle OF,
laugh. Tt think l have foH;ad out
what I wanted to. Goodbye And
then after I thought she was clean
gone, she turned back to say. airifv-
oh, yes;I had almost forgotten vyha1
l came over here to tell YOU. Yoa,
mustn't sell the Cinnabar, stannie: not
for any price that anybody might OF.
Ter you. Goodby, again."
Can Q beat it? When the good
Lord made ONE He doubtless had
many patterns: but I do believe 4
mold was broken and thrown 49,
after this Jeanne girl had been fash.
Toned. For a solid hour. or more I ~
door in a sort Of bewiidered dnlAUo.
derins If ! had been asleep and dream
ing. or II the b~edazzIing thinr haa
really happened. &s5
erx ~ nreaxrast the nest morning ey,
ANYTHING that Jeanne said Or lookeX
there needn't have been Any bench
beside the shafthouse door and H.
dream theory I had been piavinS
with might have been the SOBER faet
a. a., hour m later. after ! hadssohse across
dig s.r me out, : before. 0.sf