South Pottawatomie Progress. (Asher, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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SYNOPSIS.
Dan Blair, tho 22-year-old son of the
fifty-million dollar copper king of Hlalr-
town, Mont., Is a truest at (ho Lngllsn
home or Lady Oalorey. Dan’s father’ had
been courteous to Lord Oalorey during
his visit to the United States and the
courtesy Is now being returned to the
young man. The youth tins an Ideal ttiri
In his mind. He meets Lily. Duchess or
Breakwater, a beautiful widow, who is
attracted by his Immense fortune anil
taken a llklnrr to her. When Dan was n
boy, a Kir 1 sanir a solo at a church, and
ho had never forgotten her. The W-
ioreys. Lily and Dan attend a London
theater where one Letty Lane Is the star.
Dan recognizes her as the rr!rl from Ills
town, and going behind the scenes Intro-
duces himself and she remembers turn.
He iearns that Prince Poniotowsky Is
suitor and escort to Letty. Lord Oa-
lorey and a friend named Ruggles ’’eT ,.r"
mine to protect the westerner from Lily
and other fortune hunters. Yount; Blair
KoeB to seo Lily; he can talk of nothing
but Letty and this angers the Duchess,
The westerner finds Letty 111 from hard
work, hut she rerovers and Ruggles nnd
Dan Invite her to supper. She asks Dan
to build a home for disappointed the-
atrical people. Dan visits Lily, for the
time forgetting Letty, and later an-
nounces his engagement to the duchess.
I.etty refuses to sing for an entertain-
ment given by Lily, Oalorey tells Dan
that all Lliy cares for Is his money, and
It Is dlsciosed that he and the duchess
have been mutually In love for years.
Letty sings at an aristocratic function,
Dan escorting her home, Dan confronts
Galorey and Lily together Later he In-
forms Letty that his engagement with
Idly Is broken, asks the singer to marry
blm, and they become engaged.
Holding her face between her hands,
her eyes gray aB winter’s seas and as
profound, she looked at him Intently;
then, In a flash, she changed her po-
sition and Instantly transformed her
character. He saw that she was a
woman, not an eighteen-year-old girl,
but a woman, clever, poised, witty, un-
derstanding, and that she might have
been twenty years older than the boy.
“I’m sorry you spoke so quick,” he
said.
”1 knew,” she Interrupted, “just
what you wanted to say from the
start. “I coulun’t help It, could l?
I knew you would want to come and
see me about It. It Isn’t any use. I
know just what you are going to say."
“No, ma’am,” he returned, "I don’t
believe you do—bright as you are.”
Ruggles gazed thoughtfully at the
cold end of his unlighted cigar. It
was a comfort to him to hold It and
to look at it, although not for any
thing in the world would he have
asked to light it
“Dan’s father and me were chums.
We went through pretty much to-
gether, and 1 know how he felt on
most points He was a man of few
CHAPTER XXIV.
I waited at the atage door and I know
you don’t get all the applause inside
the Gaiety theater.”
"Goodness,” she murmured, "they
make an awful fuss about nothing.”
"Now,” he continued, leaning for-
ward a trifle toward her languid, half-
interested figure, "I just want you to
think of him as a little boy. He’s
only twenty-two. He knows nothing
of the world. The money you give to
the poor doesn’t come so hard perhaps
as this will. It’s a big sacrifice, but
I want you to let the boy go.”
She smiled slightly, found her hand-
kerchief, which was tucked up the cuff
of her blouse, pressed the little bit
of linen to her lips as though to steady
them, then she asked abruptly:
"What has he said to you?”
"Lord!” Ruggles groaned. “Said to
me! My dear young lady, he Is much
too rude to speak. Dan sort of
breathes and snortB around like a
lunatic. He was dangling around that
duchess when I was here before, but
she didn’t scare me any.”
And Letty Lane, now smiling at
him, relieved by his break from a
more Intense tone, asked:
“Now, you are scared?”
"Well,” Ruggles drawled, “I was
pretty sure that woman didn’t care
anything for the boy. Are you her
kind?”
It was the best stroke he had made.
She almost sprang up from her chair.
“Heavens,” she exclaimed, "I guess
I’m not!” Her face flushed.
“1 had rather see a BOn of mine
dead than married to a woman like
that,” he said.
"Why, Mr. Ruggles,” she exclaimed
passionately, addressing him With In-
terest for the first time, "what do you
know about me? What? What? You
have seen me dance and heard me
sing.”*
And he Interrupted her. <
"Ten times, and you are a bully
dancer and a bully singer, but you do
other things than dance and sing.
Ruggles’ Offer.
He felt as he waited for her In that
flower-filled room, for she had recov-
ered from her distaste for flowers, as
he glanced at the photographs of wom-
en like herself in costumes more or
less frank, more or less vulgar, he
felt as though he wanted to knock
down the walls and let In a big view
of the west—of Montana—of the hills.
With such a setting he thought he
could better talk with the lady whom
he had come to see.
Ruggles held an unlighted cigar be-
tween his fingers and gooseflesh rose
all over him. His glasses bothered
him. He couldn’t get them bright
enough, though he polished them half
a dozen times on his silk handker-
chief. His clothes felt too large. He
seemed to have shrunken. He moist
ened his lips, cleared his throat, tried
to remember what kind of fellow he
had been at Dan’s age. At Dan’s age
be was selling a suspender patent on
the road, supporting his mother and
his sisters—hard work and few temp
tatlons; he was too tired nnd too
poor.
Miss Lane kept him watting ten
minutes, and they were hours to her
guest. He was afraid every minute
that Dan would come In. The thoughts
he had gathered together, the plan of
action, disarranged itself In his mind
every time he thought of the actress.
He couldn’t forget his vision of her
on the stage or at the Carlton, where
she had sat opposite them and be-
witched them both. Whsrt she came
Into the sitting-room at length, ho
started so violently thnt he knocked
over a vase of flowers, the water
trickling all over the table down on
to the floor.
She had dazzled him before the foot-
lights, charmed him at dinner, and it
was singular to think that he knew
how this dignified, quiet creature
looked In ballet clothes and in a
dinner dress, whose frankness had
made him catch his breath, it was
n third woman who stood before
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needed her oontrol not to burst Into
tears and lose her chance.
“Of course, 1 know the things you
have heard. Of course, 1 know what
Is said about me”—and she Btopped.
Ruggles didn’t press her any fur-
ther; he didn’t ask her If the things
were true. Looking at her as he did,
watching her as he did, there was In
him a feeling so new, so troubling
that he found himself more anxious to
protect her than to bring her to Jus-
tice.
There arejyorse, far worse women
than I am, Mr. Ruggles. I will never
do Dan any harm.”
Here her visitor leaned forward and
put one of his big hands .lightly over
one of hers, patted It a moment, and
said:
“I want you to do a great deal bet-
ter than that”
She had picked up a photograph ofT
the table, a pretty picture of herself
In "Mandalay," and turned It nerv-
ously between her fingers as she said
with Irritation:
“I haven’t been In the theatrical
world not to guess at this ’Worried
Father’ act, Mr. Ruggles. I told you
I knew Just what you were going to
say.”
“Wrong!” he repeated. “The busi-
ness Is old enough perhaps, lots of
good jobs are old, but this is a little
different.”
He took the turning picture and
laid It on the table, and quietly pos-
sessed himself of the small cold
hands. Blair’s solitaire shone up to
him. Ruggles looked Into Letty Lane’s
eyes. “He is only twenty-two; It ain’t
fair, It ain’t fair. He could count the
times he has been on a lark, I guess.
He hasn’t even been to an eastern col-
lege. He Is no fool, but he’s darned
simple.”
She smiled faintly. The man’s face,
near her own, was very simple Indeed.
“You have seen so much,” he urged,
“so many fellows. You have been
such a queen, I dare say you could get
any man you wanted.” He repeated.
“Most any man.”
”1 have never seen any one like
Dan.”
“Just so: he ain’t your kind. That
Is what I am trying to tell you.”
She withdrew her hand from his vio-
lently.
"There you are wrong. He Is my
kind. He Is what I like, and he Is
what I want to be like.''
A wave of red dyed her face, and,
In a tone more passionate than she
had ever used to her lover, she said
to Ruggles:
“I love him—I love him!” Her
words sent something like a sword
through the older man’s heart He
said gently: "Don’t say it. He don’t
know what love means yet.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Ought to Be Satisfied.
Aunt Beulah’s besetting sin was
housecleaning. She cleaned In season
and out of season, causing the fam-
ily much worry when sweeping
brought on an attack of lumbago or
carrying out ashes gave her tile grip.
One day her patient sister protested.
“Why don’t you let the maid do
those things?” she asked.
“She’s so careless,” groaned Aunt
Beulah; “I’d rather have the pain
than the dust. I’d rather have the
pain.”
Then the Smart Little Boy jumped
into the conversation. “Well, you’ve
got the pain,” he remarked, “what are
you kicking about?”
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In the Dark.
“Has that boy of yours who gradu-:
ated from college last year found a job
that suits him yet?” |
"Nope. He’s still looking for one.”
"Where’s he looking?”
“Well, I don’t just know. He seems
to do most of his looking nights.”
Lumbago, Rheumatism and Chilblains
There is nothing that gives so quick
benefit as Hunt’s Lightning Oil. The
very minute it is rubbed on the im-
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years this Liniment has been acknowl-
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Every druggist will recommend it
Price 25c and 50c per Bottle.
Takes a Week.
“I thought your daughter was com-
ing home from the beach this week.”
“We had to let her remain another
week in order to finish saying good-
by to a young man.”
A kitten Is almost as frisky
senseless as a flirt.
and
The hot air treatment for financial
Ills Is seldom a curative.
There are imitations, don’t be fooldod.
Ask for LEWIS’ Single Binder cigar,-5^
The more promises a man
the more he doesgs’t keep.
Vanity.
A real friendship with a vain wom-
an lacks comfort and sincerity.
Wound for a second her vanity and
the friendship snaps. Many people
wonder at the attraction of women
who are undeniably plain, but It
often has its root In the fact that
they are lacking In vanity. They are
not constantly absorbed in their own
charms, so have time to admire those
of other people, consequently the7 J
are seldom lacking In friends.
Vanity la not altogether an attri-
bute of the grown-up. One sees It
frequently developed to an alarming 1
extent in young children. Nor is it‘a
matter for amusement. Rather should
every mother strive to uproot this
tendency. Ridicule Is one of the awlft- j
est ways of extinguishing It.
Children should be taught not to
attach Importance to whatever physi-
cal charms they may possess. Beau-
tiful eyes, a lovely mouth or a de-
lightful nose should not be subjects
of comment, but If commented upon
at all should be lightly done, for no
child should be started In life wit
the handicap of vanity—Exchange
ARE YOU POOIT1
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‘Dan’s Father and Me Were Chums.”
Ruggles now. He had to take her Into
consideration. She had expected him.
saw hint by appointment She had
not climbed to her starry position
without having acquired a knowledge
of men, and it was the secret of her
success. She showed It In the dress
In which she received her visitor. She
wore a short walking skirt of heavy
serge, a simple shirtwaist belted
around, a sailor hat on her beautiful
little head She was unjeweled and
irc.painte.tl, very pale nnd very sweet
It If had not been for the marks of
fatigue under her eyes, she would not
have looked more than eighteen On
her left hand a single diamond, clear
br water, caught the refracted light
. "How-de-do? Glad you are back
again.”
She gave him a big chair nnd sal
down before him smiling. Leaning
her elbows on her knees, she sank
her face upon her hands and looked
at him, not coqnettlshly In the least.,
but as a child might have looked
From her small feet-to her golden
head she was utterly charming
Ruggles made himself think of Dan
Allss Lane spoke slowly, nodding
toward him. In her languid voice “It’s
r,o us. Mr Ruggles. no use .’
words, but I know he counted on me
to stand by the boy.”
Ruggles was so chivalrous that his
role at present cost him keen discom-
fort.
"A lady like you," he said gently
“knows a grent deal more about how
things are done than either Dan or
me. We ain’t tenderfeet In the west,
not by a long shot, but we see so few
of a certain kind of picture shows
that when they do come round they’re
likely to make us lose our minds! You
know, yourself, a circus in a town
lifty miles from a railroad drives the
people crazy Now, Dan’s a little like
the boy with Ills eyes on the hole In
the tent. He would commit murder
to get Inside and see thnt show." He
nodded and smiled to her as though
he expected her to follow his crude
simile "Now, 1 have seen you a lot
of times.” And she couldn’t help re-
minding him, "Not of your own ac-
cord. Mr. Ruggles.”
"Well, 1 don’t know,” he slowly ad-
mitted; "1 always felt I had my mon-
ey’s worth, at.d the night you ate with
us at the Carlton I understood pretty
well how the boy with his eyes at
the tent hole would feel." But he
tupped his broad chest with the hand
ihat held the cigar between the first
and second fingers. "1 know just
what kind of a heart you've got, for
There is not a man living that would
want to have his mother dress that
way.”
She controlled a smile. “Never
mind that. People’s opinions are very
different about that sort of thing. You
have seen me at dinner with your boy,
as you call him, and you can’t say
that 1 did anything but ask him to
help the poor. I haven't led Dan on
1 have tried to show him just what
you are making me go through now.”
if she acted well and danced well,
it was hard for her to talk. She was
evidently under strong emotion and It
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