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"ARTISTs
be coiue la npstulr with you and FU
tw tliey wer Jt blu new
watcbed th color of our ribbon."
': rv pes ted Mr. Tipwortby.
When the editorial chamber bad beel
made ao neat that It almost glowed
though It could never be eipected t
blue a did Flat aud Caleb I'arkei
and Koaa Schotield tbat morning. tb
lady took her eat at tbe dealt aoc
looked over tbe few Item tbe gentle
bipd bad already compiled for ber p
ruaal. Mr. I'urker eiplulued many tecb
nlealltie peculiar to tbe Carlow Her
aid, translate some phrase of tb
printing room and enabled ber to gram
tbe amount of mutter needed to fill an
lHNue.
When Parker finished the three In
cotnetents sat watching tbe little fig
lire with tbe expression of hopeful ami
trimtlng terrier. Hue knit her brow
for a second, but she did not betray an
Instant' Indeclalou.
"I think we should have regulai
market reports," ah aunounced ear
nestly. "1 am aure Mr. Ilarkles would
approve. Uou't you think he would?"
Bbe turned to Parker.
Market reportsr Mr. Flhee ex
claimed. "I ahould never have thought
of market reports, nor do I Imagine
would either of my-my associate. A
woman to conceive the Idea of market
reports !"
The editor blushed. "Why, whe
would, dear. If not a woman or a pec
ulator, and I'm not a speculator, and
neither are you, aud that' the reason
you didn't think of them. So, Mr
Parker, a there 1 so much pressure,
and If you doti't mind continuing to act
a reporter as well as compositor until
after tomorrow, and If It Isn't too wet
you must have an umbrella would It
be too much bother if you went around
to all the shops stores, I mean to all
the grocers and the butcher and th
leather place we passed, the tannery
and If there's one of those place whew
they bring cuttle, would It be too mucb
to ask you to stop there and at thi
flour mill. If It Isn't too far, and at the
dry goods store and you must take a
blank book and a sharpened pencil, and
will you price everything, please, and
Jot down how much things are?"
Order received, the Impetuous Tar
ker was departing ou the Instant when
she stopped him with a little cry, "But
you haven't any umbrella!" And aht
forced ber own, a slender wand, upon
him. It bore a cunningly wrought
handle, and It fabric was of glisten
ing silk. The foreman, unable to de
cline It, thanked her awkwardly, and
as she turned to speak to Flsbee hi
bolted out of the door and ran down
tbe steps without unfolding tbe um
brella, aud then as lie made for Mr.
Martin's emporium ho buttoned It se
curely under bis long Prince Albert,
determined that not a drop of watei
should touch and ruin so delicate a
thing. Thus he carried It, triumphant
ly dry, through the course of his re
port I UK of t!iat day.
When he had goiie the editor laid bet
band on Flshee'a arm. "Ocar," ahe said,
"do you think you'd take cold If you
went over to the hotel and made a not
of all the arrivals for the last week and
the departures too? I noticed tbat Mr.
Ilarklcs always tilled two or three
sticks, Isn't It? with them aud thlngi
about them, and somehow It 'read' very
nicely. You must ask the landlord all
bout them, and If there aren't any, we
can take up the same amount of space
lamenting the dull times. Just as be
used to. You see, I've read the Herald
faithfully. Isn't It a good thing I al
ways subscribed for It?" She putted
Flshee's cheek with her soft band and
laughed gayly into his mild, vague old
eyes. "It won't be this scramble to 'fill
up' much longer. I have plana, gentle
man, and before long we will print
news; and we must buy 'plate matter'
Instead of patent Insldes; and I had
talk with the A "so" In ted Press people
In Rouen, but (lint's for after while
And I went to the hospital this morn
lng before I left. They wouldn't let me
see hi in again, but they told me all
about hliu, aiut he's better, and I got
Tom to go to the Jail, and he saw some
of those lien hi-, and I can do a column
of description beside an editorial about
them, and I will be fierce enough to
tilt Carlow, you tuny believe that And
I've been talking to Senator Hums
that Is, listening to Senator Hums,
which Is much stupider and I think I
can do an article on national politics.
I'm not very well up on local Issues
yet, and I" She broke off suddenly.
"There, I think we can get out tomor
row's nnrntwr without any trouble. Py
the time you get back from the hotel.
fathpr, I'll hare half my my stuff
written 'written up.' I mean. Take
your big umbrella and go. dear, and
please aik at the express office If a
typewriter bus come for me."
She laughed again with sheer delight
like child, and ran to a corner and
got the cotton umbrella and placed It
In tbe old man's hand. As he reached
the door she called after him. "Walt!"
nd went to him and knelt before him
and, with the humblest, proudest grace
In the world, turned up bis trousers to
keep them from the mud. Itoss Scho
fleld had never considered Mr. Flsbee a
particularly anctvd sort of person, but
h did from that moment The old
man made some timid protest at tbe
girl' action, but she answered: "Tbe
great ladles used to buckle the Cheva
lier Bayard's spurs for him. and you're
great deal nicer than the Cher
You baven't any rtiblsrs! I don't be
lieve any of you have any rn biters!"
And not until both Flsbee and Mr.
Bchofleld had promised to purchase
overshoe at once and In the meantime
not to step In any puddle would she
let the former depart upon hi errand.
H crossed the sijuare with the strang
est Jauntiest step ever een In Platt
ville, Solomon Tlbb bad warm ar
tint wtth Ml Sellna a to hi
Identity, Ml Sellna maintaining that
the figura under the big umbrella-only
the leg and coat tall were visible to
them was that of a strauger. probably
au Englishman.
In tb Herald office the editor turn
ed, smiling, to tbe paper" remaining
vassal. "Mr. Bchofleld. I beard om
talk in Rouen of an oil company that
bad been formed to prospect for kero
sene In Carlow couuty. Do you know
anything about It?"
Hons, surfeited wltb honor, terror, aud
possessed by a sweet distress at find
ing himself tete-a-tete with the lady,
looked at the wall and replied. "Oh,
If that Eph Watts' foolishness."
"Do you know If they have begun to
dig for It yet?"
"Ma'am?" ald Itoss.
"Have they begun the diggings yet?"
"No, ma'am, I think not They've
got a coutrapshun fixed up about three
mile outh. I don't reckon they've be
gun yet. hardly. They're glttln' the
machinery In place. I heard Eph say
they'd begin to bore dig. 1 mean,
ma'aia; I meant to say dig" He
stopped, utterly confused and unhap
py, and be understood hi manly pur
pose aud knew him for a gentleman
whom she liked.
"You mustn't be b much surprised,
she said, "but In spite of my Ignorance
about such things I mean to devote
good deal of space to the oil company.
It may come to be of great Importance
to Carlow. We won't go into it In to
morrow's paper beyond an item or so,
but do you think you could possibly
find Mr. Watts and ask him for some
Information as to their progress and if
it would be too much trouble for him to
call here tomorrow afternoon or the
duy after? 1 want him to give me an
Interview If be will. Tell him. please,
he will very greatly oblige us."
"Oh. he'll come all right." answered
her companion quickly. "I'll take Tlbbs'
buggy and go down there right off.
Eph won't lose no time glttln' here."
Aud with this encouraging assurance
he was flying forth when he. like the
others, was detained by her solicitous
care. She was a born mother. He pro
tested that In the buggy he would be
perfectly sheltered. ISesldes, there
wasn't another umbrella about the
place. He liked to get wet anyway;
had always loved rain. The end of It
was that he went away In a sort of
tremor wearing her rain cloak over his
shoulders, which garment, as It cov
ered Its owner completely when she
wore It, hung almost to bis knees. He
darted around a corner, aud there,
breathing deeply, tenderly removed It
then borrowing paper aud cord at a
neighboring store wrapped It neatly
aud stole back to the printing office, on
th ground floor of the Herald building,
and left tbe package In the band of
Hud Tlpworthy, charging him to care
for It as for his own life and not to
open It but If the lady so much a set
one foot out of doors before his return
to hand it to her with the message,
"He borrowed another off J. Ilanklns."
Left alone, the lady went to the desk
and stood for a time looking gravely at
Harkless' chair. She touched it gently,
as she had touched It once before that
morning, and then she soke to It as If
he were sitting there aud as she would
not have spoken hud ha been sitting
there.
"You didn't want gratitude, did
your' ahe whispered, with sad Up.
Soon she smiled at the blue ribbon,
patted the chair gayly-on the bnck and,
seizing upon pencil and pud, dashed
Into her work with rare energy. She
bent low over the desk, her pencil mov
ing rapidly. She seemed louth to pause
for breath. She hud covered many
sheet when Flsbee returned, aud as
he came In softly In order not to dis
turb her she was so deeply engrossed
that she did not bear him, nor did she
look up when Tarker entered, but pur
sued the formulation of her fust flying
Ideas with the same single purpose
and abaudon. So the two men sat aud
waited while their chleftalness wrote
absorbedly. At last she glanced up
and made a little start KM exclamation
at seeing them there and then gave
With tht Kumblcit. irnuU $t grace in thi
them cheery greeting. Each placet!
Several scribbled sheets before her. and
she, having first assured herself that
Flsbee had bought his overshoes, and
having expressed a fear that Mr. Par
ker had found her umbrella too small,
a be looked damp (and Indeed he wa
damp), cried praises on their note and
offered the reortera great applause.
"It I all so splendid!" she cried.
"How could you do It so quickly? And
tn the rain too! It la Just what we
Deed. I've done most of the thing 1
mentioned. I think, and made a draft
of some plans for hereafter. Doesn't
It seem to you that It would be a good
notion to have a woman's page "For
(To be continued.
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