The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-27

\x young Sterling Evermore
Wv went through in order 10
WOO and win my niece Kate
l realize that times have not changed
very much since the ordeal oy fire.
He invariably arrived at our sum.
mer cottage five miles from the vii
lage where the train stopped. driving
the only vehicle Cor hire-a runabout
which promised instant dissolution.
and this las especial weekend visit
he added a final swoop and clatter as
the car hit the rural mailbox at our
gate and then sagged into temporary
harmlessness Sterling leaped out and
surveyed the collapse of our postal
arrangements.
Terribly sorry" he stammered as
he STROBE toward the porch where
Agatha and Henry and | sat, with
Kate just emerging through the door.
Doesn't matter at ALL" lied Henry,
the perfect host, as he shook hands.
Sterling blushed still harder when
Kate looked up ar him and completed
his rout. Kate is slight and little with
real gold hair and the corners of her
red mouth curl upward. She turned
her smile on her mother.
II forgot to tell you Sterling was
coming" she murmured. "But it's all
. right, isn't it, mother?"
Most certainly" said Agatha, be-
cause she couldn't say anything else
There were not enough chops and the
gueStrOOm blankets were at the laun-
dry and besides this Henry was terri
bly, perturbed at the idea of Kate be-
ing grown up enough to have devoted
young men.
81 won't have it," he told Agatha
in the living room and then SUNK
away before her sardOnic eye, which
asked how he was going to stop it.
'Oooh!' cried Kate from the porch.
! clapping hand to one eye, Sterling
| had tossed her 4 felt hat as they
| started for ride and the rim had
! f1icked her face. Its nothingl" she
insisted when the family surrounded
her. mo, ii doesn't hurt-much p'
"Wouldn't you know it," Henry
growled when the two departed. Ster-
/ ling solicitously guiding his tenn
/ porarily one-eyed love toward the ma
| chine. "Comes all the way up here to
| blind her because he is so fond of her
| One chance in million of hitting
the mark and he hits It'll I tell you /
won't have itr''
Some time later the runabout ap-
| preached the cottage with a vague air
of being an ambulance and when
Kate and her cavalier entered she
wore one eye bandaged and black
patched and between them they bore
sundry bottles. Sterling was pale and
anxious. "It got worse" he informed
us. 1--WE hunted up an eye doctor and
he said the eyeball is scratchedI"
"Of course 1t isl" Henry said tenn
| pestuously, with an awful glance at
| his child's sutton. drawing her to his
side as though away from contamina-
ton.
Father" the sufferer spoke up
sternly, one-eyed though she was. "As
| though Sterling meant to do it"
| Very shortly after, Kate being in
her loom to rest, Sterling said he
| thought he'd take little walk in the
woods, where it was quiet. Avoiding
the front porch. where Henry fumed
Sterling, with the numbering stealth
of Newfoundland puppy, slipped out
/ the rear way and, once on the kitchen
1 porch, drew a breath of relief and
stepped down. Farther than he had
expected-for the workman, just fin.
/ ishing the job of the new back steps
! in cement, had at the moment gone
/ around the house to pick up the lum
Der for a barricade against the mush.
like stuff. He was through with q
back-breaking task. He returned al
the instant when Sterling's right foot
was ankle deep in the top step and his
left had scraped and slid down the
others to the ground. The ruin was
thorough.
"Sterlingl Are you hurt" cried
Kate, managing in her rose loungina
/ TUUG ~ lOuh QultC lively III Spilc VI
her one eye.
Look at those steps," cried Henry
who was paying So day for them.
He's Jared off the cream pie sci
on the lattice to coOlp' accused the
cook. standing over the jumbIed mer
ingue with a grim air of ats being 9
climax in her life. 1.-THE dinner
dessert 20
Assisted by Henry and the cement
worker, Sterling got to his feet, brush,
ing futilely ar his besmeared clothing
his face crimson with helpless wrath
"If you try to wash it OFF," the &c
ment worker told him. with lively sat
isfaetion. "it'll harden onto the goods
and il you let it alone it'll harden
anyway Amt II too bad?
But Kate did remove considerable o.
il. TOR we found 1t later hardened
onto the floor and the washbowi ant
all available surfaces. 1t was also en-
tSined in the bristles of Henry's pc
English nail brush and in the fabric