The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-05
TOGO"

ping potatoes and carrots at every
misstep. "This Is the last!" she gasp
ed. I'm tellin' We wanst fer all,
ma'am, the haste goes or dot" And
a moment later "the haste" himself
appeared small, unprepossessing,
white-yellow ferret wrapped in the
arms Of "Jimpsey" Engiehart the
son of the house.
Mrs. Englehart stood uncertainty
between them. We'll, Katy, I'm sure
haven't any fondness for him myself.
He should have been sent back at
once"
EYES," said Jimpsey, fairly in
tears, Eyes, after he's gone and done
his duty and killed all the rats--and
he killed them just in punches, tool
then nobody has any sympathy for
him any more!"
BY this time Mrs. Englehart could
once more hold the scales Of justice
evenly. "Jimpsey," she said. we're
not denying how valuable he's been.
When I think of the way we were
pestered with rats hardly two weeks
ago But you ought to think Of the
people who are pestered with them
still, and pass him on to them. The
Lisgars and Appletons have just as
many as we had"
'Well, why can't they go and buy
ferrets of their own, then? But |
guess they'll never get any like To
go!"
sThen you must keep him in the
stable. Why must he be forever go
ing back to the cellar?"
why, because that's where he had
the most fun, of course! keep him
in his box, too, only he chews his way
out again"
"Togo" seemed to blink his little
albino eyes in pleasant confederation.
Katy could hardly resist making
pass at him.
Jimpsey retreated vengefully to-
ward the outer door. "And now, too.
when he even knows my whistle! !
can send him into that hole away up
in front of the coal bin, and then
whistle through my fingers into the
hole away back near where we keep
the potatoes, and he comes up just
as if 1t was only the other side of the
partition. He'll do it every time
give him meat scrap. / guess there
aren't many ferrets trained like thatl"
Again Mrs. Englehart gave up.
Yet it was with very uneasy mind
that she gave ND. Only too clearly
did she feel that If there was another
meeting between Katy and Togo in
the shadowy g1impses Of the coal and
vegetable bins, there would no longer
be any chance to choose between
them. And Katy was the one really
good cook she had ever had. She
decided at last that it was something
that Mr.. Englehart must settle. al
though in the main it was against her
principles to trouble him with such
domestic problems.
That day Mr. Englehart returned
from the new college buildings with
worry on his face.
.'Belle," he said, I'm about ready
to quit"
"Why. dear" she asked, what Is
It now?"
"Oh, Orv again. A young architect
like that-with the brains for 1t, too
gets job that gives him his chance
to make name through the whole
State. He's uplifted that he marries
on it. And then he lets fat headed
contractor make fool OF himself and
him about once week. When that
business of the chimney supports got
out, the Journal gave him enough bad
advertising to kill two ordinary repu-
tations. And now"-he spread out
his hands ON the table.
"Dear, dear! What is it Malone's
done this timer"
ooh. it was Malone. all right In q
way 1t wasn't Orv's fault at all. He's
been giving himself entirely to the In
side and up stairs work for the last
month. and ! suppose it never once
entered his head that an ordinary rea-
soning man could go wrong in the pipe
laying. Then Malone simply put in
and covered up every solitary tube
connection between power house.
main building, library and dormitories
without running the wiring through"
james,"
"Could you believe 1t? Gould you5
oh. i need hardly say that Ory insists
upon taking all the blame. There's
miles Of piping altogether. And as
soon as the Journal gets hold OF
that"
1t was little wonder that Mrs. En-
glehart said nothing about Togo. And
the same feeling that sent her across
to the Havilands' with her dessert I'M
eaten, sent her husband outdoors,
where he believed he could think
alone.
AS matter OF fact he remained
alone only till Jimpsey could find him.
And then the whole matter OF Togo's
gIitteringly meritorious past and his
darkly perilous present was set forth
for the consideration Of the EngIe
hart supreme court.
But to an outsider it must have
been evident at once that the supreme
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