The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 30, 1915, Page 14

» ¥ Copyrighy, tvagy "> My condition was pitiable. I felt that all nature had deserted me, the cli- mate, Indian summer, the harvest moon and my own charm, but my hea: was up and I was going to crackle pluckily along to my blaze, so I turned toward the door to go across the road and put my fate to the test even if I took pneumonia standing begging at his front door. I hoped I would find him in the lodge and— « “Hvelina,” he exclaimed as he burst open my door, flung himself into the firelight and seized my arm like a rob- ber baron of the twelfth century mak- ing a grab for his ladylove in the midst of her hostile kindred, “I thought 1 I would never get here! I ran all the way up from the office. Here's a tele- gram from Mr. Hall that says that the two roads have merged and will take the bluff route past Glendale and give us the shops.and wants to appoint me the general attorney for the southern section. They want me to come on ta, New York by the first train. Can you marry me in the morning, so we can take the noon express from Bolivar? " 1 won't go without you. Please, dear, please!” And as he stood and looked at me in the firelight all the relief and excitement over his news died out = Th “Adaml!” | let myself go, and at last pressed my answer against his lips. of me filled them from their very depths. For several interminable centuries of time I stood perfectly still and looked into them daringly, drinking my £l for the first time and offering him a like cup in my own. “Hve,” he said so softly that I doubt if he really spoke the word. “Adam!” I let myself go, and at last pressed my answer against his lips as he folded me tight and safe. G It must have been some time after, I am sure I don’t know how long, but I ‘was most ‘beautifully adjusted against his shoulder, and he had my hand pressed to his cheek, when the awful- ness of what had happened brought me straight up on my own feet and almost out of his arms. ° “Oh, how could you have done it!” 1 Iairly wailed ag T thought of what this b7 : | Illllm “\d v let ‘you do it; would that make you foel ‘any bettert” Don’t get cold feet. No matter “No, it wouldn't,” I ansWered quickly because why should I Dbe separated from him all the two and a half min- utes it would take to play out that farce, when I have been separated from him all the twenty-five years that stretch from now back until the day of my birth? “I am going to bear it bravely and hold up my head and tell Jane''— “1 wouldn't bother to hold up my head to tell her, Evelina,” came from - the doorway in Polk’s delighted drawl as he and Jane stepped into the room. “Pretty comfortably placed, that head, I should say.” “Oh, Jane!”. I positively wailed as 1 extracted myself from the Crag's gray arms and buried myself in Jane's white serge ones that opened to receive me. And the seconds that I rested silently there Polk spent in shaking both of the Crag's hands and pounding him on the back so that I grew alarmed. “I didn’'t: do.it, Jane, I didn’t do it,” I almost sobbed with fear of what her disappointment was going to be. “He ‘Leat me to it!” ‘Truly, I'm sorry,” Cousin James add- ed to my apology as he stood with his arm’ on Polk's shoulder. “I dare you—dare you to tell ’em, Jane,” Polk suddenly said, coming over and putting a hand on one of my shoul- ders and one on Jane's, “Evelina and Mr. Hardin,” Jane an- . swered gallantly with her head as- suming its lovely independent pose, but with the most wonderful blush spread- ing the beauty that always ought to have been hers all over her one time plain face, “the wager stands as won by Evelina Shelby. She had properly prepared the ground and sowed the seed of justice and right thinking that I—I harvested tonight. I had the hon- or of offering marriage to Mr. Hayes just about fifteen minutes ago. I con- sider that mode of procedure proved as feasible and as soon as I have re- ceived my answer, whatever it is, 1 shall immediately proceed with mak- ing the endowment and choosing the five young women according to the agreement.” “Polk!” 1 exclaimed, turning to him in a perfect panic of alarm. Could he be trifling with Jane? B is after big game and we’re going to bring home the bacon. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISMENTS Here is a chance for farmers to do business with farmers., If you do fancy breeding, ~of horses, cattle, hogs, chickens, put your ad in this department. If you have anything to sell or trade to farmers, insert your ad. in this department. If you want to buy anything that other farmers have to sell put your ad in this department. This is the paper that reaches the live and up-to-date farmers of North Dakota. Rates in this department are 20 cents per line for first insertion, 10 cents per line for subsequent inser- tioms... Copy must reach us by Monday to 4 taf i v ‘ommoany, awitl complication was going to Tose for the five, to whom I felt more tender in that second than I had ever felt before. “Done what?” he demanded in alarm, pressing both my hands against his breast and drawing me toward him again. *Asked me to marry you when I”— “I have been fighting desperately to see some way to offer myself and all my impedimenta to you all this time, and this has made it all right, don’t you see, dear?” he interrupted me to say as he took possession of me again and held me with a tender fierceness which had more of suffering in it than passion. “I have always wanted you, Eve, since before you went away, but it didn’t seem right to ask you to come into a life so encumbered as mine was. Poverty made it seem impossible, but now, if you will be just a little patient with them all, I can arrange”— : “I was going to arrange all that my ownself, and now just see what you have done to me and a whole lot of other women, besides making me mis- erable all summer,” and crowded so close under his chin that he couldn’t see my face, I told him all about the tinder box Jane had loaded and then set me on the lid to see that it ex- ploded. ° . I had just worked myself up to the Address,— Nonpartisan Leader, Box 919, Fargo, North Dakota, _— FOR SALE—Choice pure bred White Wyandotte Cockerels; price $2 and $3; Mrs. J. A. Flever, Sykeston, N, D - both sex; pedigree furnished; John Holmes, Grand View Farm, Jud, N. Dak. 1316t FOR SALE: Fine silver spangled Hamburg cockerels, converse strain, $2.00. Mrs. Geo. Lytle, Voltaire, N. Dak. 15-3t FOR SALE CHEAP—2 registered Berkshire boars, good breeders, Min- netonka Prince a 2nd No. 194,- 258, and Bisbee Star No. 202621; also have some gilts for sale. F. 1 3 e 1] 1 comm ) I e i cxance £ 1] @ameaa [ 1] aswmn ] i VALLEY HOTEL Valley City, N. Dak, data to this equality experiment with due dignity. Go!” We went. “Love woman,” whispered the Crag; after I had broken it to him that we were going to be a governor of Ten- nessee and not a railrogd attorney and he had crooned his “Swing low” over me and rocked me against his breast for a century of seconds down on my old front gate, “you are right about the whole question. I see that, and I want help. ‘But if I'm stupid about life will you hold my hand in the dark?” ; . “Yes,” I answered, with both gene- rosity and courage. And truly if the world is in the dusk of the dawn of a new day what can men and women do but cling tight and feel their way—together? THE END. very feeble indeed loosening of my e arms from around his Henry Clay col- lar he held me firmly against him and controlled his unseemly mirth, only I could still feel it convulsing his left lung, though, as I had no business be- ing near enough to notice it, I felt it only fair not to. “Please don’t worry about those oth- er five dear women,” he begged in the nicest and most considerate voice pos- sible so that I tightened my arms again as I listened. “If Miss Mathers doesn’t feel justified in giving up the dowries by your—your failure to prove the proposition we can just invite them all down here, and in Glendale and Bolivar and Hillsboro and Providence, to say -nothing of the countryside, we can plant them all cozily. I ran delicately explain to their choices exactly how to let them manage circumstances Hke”— ey he illustrated his scheme just here un- 7 ez til it took time for me to get breath to : 13 listen to the rest of his apology—*“this; P H O TOS Of YOU and -there is no telling, with such a nesota 100 Ibs. in sacks $2.85. Send your order. BU]LDINGS OR ANIMALS start as the cult has got in the Har- Quality as fine as any other dealer. My 8th win- Patronize Your Home Photographer peth valley alrea dy, how far it will tfir shipping fish. ERICK JOHNSON, Box 772, Two ] bors, Minn. spread. Please forgive me, dear!” o — : L. P. WELLER : “Yes,” I answered doubtfully. Then New Rockford, '- North Dakota point of how my incendiary tnission| Evelina,” answered Polk, givingme |§ The only first: class European : was about to touch off all the other | & Shake and a shove over in the direc- Hotel in the City. 3 love affairs in town when he began to |.tion of the Crag, ‘“you.ought to know ROOMS 500 to $1.50 a NIGHT shake so with disrespectful laughter | € better than'to think I would an- We endeavor to give special that I felt that my dignity was about | SWer such a question as Jane put to f§ gorvice to the farmer, _ to demand that I withdraw coldly from | 1€ While driving a cranky car in wan- Our restaurant is the best in £ his arms, where I had just got so ing moonlight. If you and James will the state E warm and comfortable and at home, | Just mercifully betake yourselves out On Main St. South of N. 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D. ing for is the right and just and the Money fo loan at all times to only way for men and women to come reliable parties. M. N. REIDER, Prop. logically into the kind of heritage you and I have stumbled into. Absolute freedom and equality between all hu- man beings is going to be the price of kingdom come. I shall always be hu- miliated that I got scared ,out in the graveyard and didn’t do it to you. It Farm Loans a Specialty The Store of Qualily and Low. Price ROLF BROS. ||PENTIST is going to be the regret of my life.” Tailors of Quality Clothes : D T. Pr es‘f,glttb’e ;gf Steele' ‘Truly, I'm sorry, sweetheart,”” he|| - : 7 i it : il 10 answered most contritely, “If I were' 7 Bacon Block : N. 4th St. BRADDOCK, N. D. to take my hat and go back k to ‘the gate and come in ag erly THREE WEEKS---Jan.: 10th to- _Grand Fork Jan. 28th, 1916, what you hear, stick. ‘The League Insure its appearance in the current FOR SALE—Grand View Durocs of - L. Brauner, Box 194, Bisbee, N. D._