SUNDAY, OCTOBER. 11
THE MORNING AST01UAN, ASTORIA, OREGON,
II The Capture of i!
Cateswell.
By ARTHUR DENSMORE.
Copyright, MS. by d. H. Richardson. X
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IHAPrENKD to be driving pant
the railroad station when the
train pulled In, oud from tlio look
of him 1 guessed who he was. I
don't go to the Motbodlst church tny
elf, but I'd heard them talking about
It .., ,.
"You're the new minister, alu't your
aye I. "Well, lt'e right smart piece
over to Mlddletown. Get In and ride."
"Thanh yon," soys he, nulling qnlte
cordial. "Mr. Hoggs was to meet me.
but be doesn't seem to be here." .
"Boggi gut summoned to appear be
fore the grand Jury today to tell what
he know about Jim Bllsby's tolling
liquor on the ely," says 1, "and, coming
on him quite unexpected and ha and
Jim always being good friends, It
haired lilm up so's he mint have for
got about you."
"Then lt'i mrely fortuuate you bap'
pnd along," eaya he, helping Gates,,
the atatlon man, put bis trunk Into the
back of the wagon.
He was a nice, pleasant spoken little
Imp thnt didn't give himself aim or
talk about thing common folks
couldn't understand, and I cottoned to
him right off. But all at once a horri
ble suspicion struck me.
"Bay!" snys I, pulling up the horse
abort "I see you coma atone. Are you
married r '
"No." says he, reddening some In tho
face a ud acting kind of confused, "not
yet"
"Poor little cuss!" says I ai sym.
pathetic as I knew how. 'Toor little
cnssl You've got mighty tough row
to hoe, and no in Intake."
He laughed out loud when I said
that
"Now, why, I wonder T" eaya be.
"It's easy enough to see, I should
think." says I. "There's flfty-four eli
gible females In your congregation.
You ain't got all the privileges Solo
mon had. and you can't marry bnt
one. When you do that the other fifty
three '11 get sore, and they'll go whis
pering around that your preaching
"SVOH MOFAMTT AS YOURS IS IXEX
OUSABMh" ain't orthodox. That'll stir up a row,
and you'll have to go looking for an
other job."
"I'm afraid you're a bit of a cynic,"
says he.
I didn't think I'd said anything that
gave him cause to call me a name like
that, and I told him so.
"Taln't a term of reproach," says
be. "If a merely a way of saying that
you ain't sentimental."
"Well. I hope not," says I.
We was just going by the Holmes
place, and I caught A glimpse of Sophie
Holmes thnt's forty-two If sho'o a doy,
and she cau't fool me on bor age be
cause 1 went to school with bor
peeking out from behind a window
curtain nt us. A little ways farther
on, JuBt as we was getting Into the vil
lage; we passod tho Buxton twins,
sauntering along with their arms
twined real loving around each other's
waists. They're pretty stuck up, and
generally they dou'tt notice me on the
street, but when they got a sight of
the minister they smiled most affable
and bowed and said, "now do you do,
Mr. Souther?" like I was their old
bachelor uncle Just come back to town
after spending forty prosperous years
or so In the golden west.
"You see how It Is," says I, winking
nt the minister. "First time they've
spoken to me In six months."
"I fancy you tend toward playful ex
ugfieratlon," says he as I him down
at the door of the hotel.
"What?'; says I. suspecting another
Insult.
"1 mean." says hei "that you f"'
more fun out of life tlinn most of
do."
"Well," snys 1. "1 ain't saying hut
that mny he so. but before you've hm
here long you'll find thnt I've iilwri l!ip
situation up' pretty, itecurato. And If
you feel like you wanted ml vice a::?
time Just sing out There ain't imbed;.'
hereabouts thnt can tip you off nny
Btrnlghter than I can."
"Thank you," says ho, waving li!
hand as he wont up to the hotel. "Gw
by, and I'm obliged to you for dvivlii'i
mo over."
"Don't mention It," says I.
When I'd drove a little ways up the
street and Cateswell bad got Inside tbe
hotel I saw Susie Ilamsdell come out of
Jim Jurvls' store right opposite, She'd
been In there, pretending to bny some
thing, just to get a chance to rubber at
the minister.
Well, I come to know Cateswell pret
ty Intimate after a Uttto. I guess folks
had told him I was chap that could
keep things under my hat, and so be
made quite free in telling me things.
He bad to quit living at tbe hotel after
a week or two. Bill Twlcholl, that run
It swore so the parson couldn't stand
it Hill's got a voice that you can bear
ever In the next township whon he's
speaking as usual, and when he swears
be raises It a little. Bo It didn't do
Cateswell any good to shut himself up
In his room. He could bear It up there
just tlw same. He gave Bill a talking
to about It IUU got mad. He doesn't
know half the time when he swears.
It's as natural to him as eating and al
most as natural as drinking,
"Something's got to be allowed for
the infirmity of human nature, sir,"
says the minister, "but such profanity
as yours Is inexcusable. It Is not mere
ly that it violates the precepts of reli
gion. It's against common decency."
"If you don't like It" says Bill, "you
can move."
So Cateswell moved. .
He don something like tbe governor
did whon tho county attorney resign
ed. There was about fourteen candi
dates planning to get the nomination.
The governor didn't want to take
sides, and so, not to give any of them
an advantage over the others be said
he'd appoint Judge Wilson, It being
understood and agreed that the judge
wouldn't 1 a candidate for tbe nomi
nation. When the convention come to
meet, tho Judge said he'd found there
was such a widespread desire to have
him continue In the office that be felt
he'd be shirking his duty to the public
If be didn't accept the nomination and
that the convention would be shirking
theirs If they didn't give it to blra.
So he's county attorney yet, and that's
more than fourteen years ago.
Cateswell went on tbe same princi
ple as the governor, He figured that
because the Widow McLeod was most
forty, with a son going on nlnoteen,
be wouldn't be a candidate.
"She's Just like a mother to me,"
Cateswell says to me after he'd been
rooming at her bouse a little while,
"always cautioning me about going
out In wet weather without my over?
shoes and worrying if I have a little
headache."
I didn't say anything, jnst smiled.
But he caught on. ,
"Yon don't think she's got designs
on me, too, do your says be.
"Well, I ain't blind," says I.
But of course tbe widow didn't real
ly count, and it wa'n't long before the
race narrowed down to Susie Itemlck
and Ida Sargent Susie was a dark
ish complected girl, with large, sort of
sorrowful eyes. She was pretty strong
on book learning, though; could write
poetry even. A real deep girl she was,
but sot much at putting herself for
ward. The Sargent girl was different
She was one of the light fluffy haired,
rosy cheeked, blue eyed kind that can
talk you deaf, dumb and blind in ten
minutes. Of course In a way she bad
an advantage, not being bashful, like
Susie. But experience counts for a
whole lot in a game like that That's
where a girl's mother comes in handy.
Mrs. Sargent was an Invalid, and,
while she could post Ida at home,
that wa'n't like being right on tbe
spot and whispering instructions In
the girl's ear at Just the proper mo
ment Mrs. Itemlck was a pretty slick
campaigner too. She'd married off
three daughters, and she knew how
the trick was done if anybody did.
Tbe fellows at the store used to lay
wagers on who was going to win.
Most of 'em gambled on tho Sargent
girl, but I'd Just shut my left eye and
say, "You wait and see." Then they'd
got stuffy and say I was always put
ting on airs and pretending to know
more'n other folks and they guessed
I hadn't got no second Bight and wa'n't
no prophet either, all of which I took
good natured, not being given to wor
rying;
Cateswell used to talk tbe situation
over with me quite frank.
"I believe I could be happy with ei
ther of 'em," he'd say. "In fact I'm
quite sure of it. But I can't make up
my mind which to choose. Miss Ite
mlck appeals to tbe bitellectual side of
me; but on the other hand, I like Miss
Sargent's vivacity and her unfailing
good nature."
I thought to myself, "If you'd heard
Ida go Jawing around the house like
some of the neighbors have youd
change your notion about her unfail
ing good nature." But I didn't con
sider It any part of my business to
butt In and spoil Ida's game, so I kept
my mouth shut about It
"Flip up a cent," I says. "That's the
easiest way to settle It."
"I couldn't think of treating such a
matter In a flippant way," says he.
So things ran along that fashion till
the day of the Sunday school picnic.
Twas held over to Hexham lake that
year. In them days everybody went
to tho Sunday school picnic, old codg
ers and all. You'd go jolting over
Bix miles of not specially good rond in
one of them rickety old barges of Bill
TwltchoU's, to say nothing of having
on shoes that pinched your foot and a
collar that half choked you, and you'd
go menndorlng about among the trees
and got pine pitch on your best clothes
and get all wore out reuewlng your
youth by chucking quoits and playing
baseball, and theni you'd come jolting
back ngslu ' In the evening, .singing
"The Spanlsn Cavalier" and making
believe you wa'n't tlreder 'n you would
have.leen If you'd stayed at home and
mowed grass.
There wus a feeling around town
that Cateswell would propose to one or
other of 'em at the picnic. He owned
up as much to me the night before. ,
"I've got to have It over with," sayi
ho. "I'm longing for. quiet domestic
retreat of my own, and, besides, the
tiling's getting on my nerves and wor
rying me so's I can't sleep nights."
Well, right at the outset Mrs. Remlck
slipped up. She took so much time
packing her. lunch basket so's to be
sure to get In all the things Cateswell
was fond of, not to mention advising
Susie, that she and Susie didn't show
up at the church till Just as the last
barge was ready to leave. And Ida
Sargent and the minister had gone In
tho first one. That didn't worry Mrs.
Remlck much, though, because she
knew, of courso, Cateswell wouldn't
propose in a crowded barge, with folks
packed In as close as sardines all round
blra. But going around the comer by
tbe Narrows the pole of tbe tall end
barge broke off short They sent down
to Smith's sawmill, which ain't far
away, and got some help and patched
It up, but they lost half an hour doing
It, and of all the fidgety people you
ever saw Mrs. Remlck was the worst
But that wa'n't a circumstance to the
way she felt when she got to the lake
and couldn't see anything of Cates-
"LtJSCH'8 BEAST I"
well or the Sargent girl Some of the
folks she asked Drat said they didn't
know where the minister was, Just to
tease her. But in a little while she lo
cated him. There he was In a rowboat
with Ida Sargent, clear out tn the mid
dle of the lake, and 8usle's long dis
tance soprano sending "Oh. Promise
Me."' across the water. For ft minute
Mrs. Remlck thought 'twas all over.
But she" don't give up easy. So she
Just made a trumpet out of her bands
and shouted out: -
"Lunch's ready!"
"Ain't It rather early r yells Cates
well after a minute.
"Oh, dear, no!" hollers Mrs.' Remlck.
"And please hurry I We're most fam
ished r
You'd ought to have seen the look on
Ida Sargent's face when she and Cates
well stepped out on the pier. Mrs.
Remlck grinned. She saw she'd been
just In time. Then she took Susie one
side and talked to her. I happened to
be passing, and I couldn't help bearing
part of It
"You've got to stop being so tremen
dous bashful, Susie," soys her mother.
"You get him down to that bench near
the swings and talk Browning to him
just as soon's lunch Is over and leave
the rest to me."
Somehow Susie plucked up courage
to do it
They hadu't been sitting there more'n
five minutes before Mrs. Remlck
swooped down on 'em from behind.
She put one hand en Cateswell's shoul
der and t'other en Susie's.
"Let me be tbe first to congratulate
you," says she. "I have long expected
It Bless you, my children!"
Cateswoll was so surprised he
couldn't say anything for a minute,
and when be did find his tongue and
start to tell Mrs. Remlck that it was
all a mistake she smothered him with
talk about how she'd always consid
ered Susie just cut out to be a minis
ter's wife.
"But you know" says Cateswell,
getting desperate.
But she didn't seem to hear him and
begun saying how Cateswell was the
first man she'd ever seen that she
thought was good enough for Susie.
, Cateswell saw 'twa'n't no use. He
;houeht of how it would look if Susie
should sue him for breach of promise
and it should got into the newspapers,
and the thought of It made him chilly
the. whole longta of his spinal column.
So he Just gave up.
Well, 'twas p'raps a week before the
wedding that-Cateswell got confiden
tial, even more'n usual, with me and
told me all about how Mrs. Remlck
had worked It
"You see," says he, "I'd finally de
cided I'd marry Miss Sargent, and nat
urally I well er as you might say,
resented Mrs. Hemlck's conduct. But
upon reflection"
Then he broke off short and run tho
pnlra of his hand thoughtful-like over
his forehead for a minute or two as
though he wa'n't quite clear how to
go on. Then he snys quite sudden:
"Susie's a fine girl, Mr. Souther."
"Mighty fine girl," says I.
. "Of course," says he, sort of medi
tating, "I don't mean to cast no re
flections on Miss Sargent. She's a
nice girl too. But the more I think of
It the more I feel thnt, on the whole,
I'd ought to be grateful to Mrs. .Re
mlck for reaching out and gathering
me In. so to speak. You know both
rclrla p'-cttv well. Mr. Souther, and
you'vo had some more experience than
I Inn-tv What's your opinion?"
T.a:i'.e aa. yours," says I.
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