Show Daily Short II l I lOld I Old Sandy Helps Cause By OSBORN JONES I It was not until Randolph Yardley had definitely made up uP his mind to propose to Henriette Henrietta that he ho secretly entertained the wish that Henriette was the kind of suffragist that felt it to be womans woman's privilege to do the proposing proposing proposing pro pro- posing as well wll as the voting Henriette Henriette Henriette Henri Henri- ette was a suffragist of course but 1 she wasn't that particular kind of or suffragist Randolph had heard hersay her hersay hersay say so so After Arter she had managed to toI bring the conversation pp to the delicate deli deli- I I cate question of proposing Randolph I f might easily have done the rest But Randolph didn't realize how easy this I would have been till he was alone the evening after the discussion I t The Saturday afternoon after atter he had definitely decided to propose he unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately did not find Henriette al alone ne Hid rival in her attention was the old man of all work Saunders known more moie familiarly as Sandy though Sandy though an any I reference that that name might once have borne e to his hair and complexion I had ceased to be apparent for Sandy was toothless and his sparse hair was wasI white white surely surely not a very formidable rival But any third person is a rival I when a a aman man wants to propose and when Randolph entered her bungalow bungalow- living room Henriette was kneeling on I tho floor before a packing case with Sandy at the opposite end I So sorry Randolph she said with witha I a a. smile so preoccupied that it was wasI i worse than no smile at all just I have to excuse me while I go on with this case They're things for the suffrage suffrage suffrage suf- suf i I frage bazar Its It's to be in a week and Ive I've had to take the chairmanship thelast the thelast thelast last thing I During all the call that afternoon Randolph never once found a turn Inthe in inthe I the road from which he might have directed directed di- di his own remarks toward a proposal pro pro- The cas case was soon packed and I Sandy shuffled away with It but Henriette's Henriette's Henriette's Hen- Hen riette's thoughts were still engrossed I with the bazar And imagine suddenly skipping from remarks remarks' on the fish pond i I at a a. suffrage bazar or fancy tables I and lemonade booths to proposals proposals' I I Perhaps it was not to be wondered I II I then that when Henriette suddenly I j asked Randolph to promise to do a I certain favor and to promise before j she had told him what it was he held heldI up his large masculine hand and swore I rather foolishly to do anything in Gods God's world that she wanted him to What she wanted him to do was to get I Mr Tilden to let the suffragists borrow borrow bor bor- row what was known as the Tilden j mansion then unoccupied for their bazar j jIll Ill do what I can Henriette Randolph Randolph Ran- Ran Ranj j dolph said solemnly but It may bevery be bevery bevery I very embarrassing for me and for him i You see hes he's a client of mine Ran mine Ran Randolph i dolph had not been practicing Ran mine law so I long that lie he did not use this phrasing g with with some degree of self self satisfaction satisfaction- and there is a lawsuit nond now going of on over that house rouse You see seer seea a a year a ago I after the Hie had been out of the star house for a year it was leased by D Doff Mr 11 ih rouse I Hamberger the brewer Loads off of m money oney you know and could perfectly well have paid the rent even though he he did decide not to live lire in the house Now Tilden Is suing Hamberger for the rent and Hamberger makes the claim that the house could never be heated hated We Ve tried to settle it out of court but we You wouldn't understand the technicalities so I shant shan't bore you with them But the case cae is coming up and Im I'm particularly anxious not to 1 lose out 1 Randolph lowered his voice and discussed discussed discussed dis dis- cussed the case in a way that was not entirely professional The fact seems to be that the heating system of the house was all wrong and you see how howit it would injure me and Tilden If some or of the most prominent women women women wom wom- en in town were to go there on a nice cool day as it is quite likely to be In a weeks week's time and find out what a barn- barn like place It is So you see see ste you will be working against my interests if you urge it Still I have promised But suppose all those people went there and roasted almost to death Suppose the temperature there went up to 80 or 90 and all the windows windows windows win win- dows had to be opened would opened would that help your case case Randolph's eyes showed keen interest interest interest inter inter- est and for one fleeting moment he lie forgot that his sole Interest in life Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the time being was to propose to lIen lIen- riette Why certainly that would I win the case for me mo ButI But EutI But I I dont don't suppose you have taken a a. good look at the furnace or that Mr Tilden has either Henriette scolded I I can say Bay that we have little girl girl Randolph had never used those words before in addressing Henriette or any not altogether easy You see we lawyers lawers dont don't go about things in just jut that way way Henriette snorted an expostulation that indicated contempt for lawyers lawyer In general and Randolph's mind went back to the main consideration If youre you're not busy tonight lets let's go investigate that Tilden mansion manston If It you start right away you can get the keys ke from Mr Tilden and be backby back backby by 7 7 i Randolph had risen o from his chair almost cos cosit almost eager to be gone si since it was the prerequisite of a solitary ramble through Ore fire old house with Henriette Surely if he could not manage a proposal proposal proposal pro pro- under such favorable fa circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances he never would be able todo to todo todo I do so I I He lie was Just at the door willing with i the bright prospects for for Cor the evening vividly before bore him to depart with I scarcely a word of farewell Ill get Sandy to go po along with us us' us came Henriette cheerful contralto I lIe He knows more about furnaces and things than any Rny man we ever had had and and I you ou might buy some candles on your way war for the light will be all turned off oH I I suppose I Randolph's roseate dreams had faded i away I Even an empty house i f didn't I offer a favorable background if It the I ubiquitous Sandy were to be the third I I party sUI still I. I The trip was taken to the Tilden mansion that night in Henriette's little I roadster with Henriette at the wheel Randolph at her side and the I Sandy sitting at Randolph's feet with his own rough shod feet fet protruding to toI I the running board and In the tho same guise they returned The hour spent atthe at atI atthe the mansion was one in which whirr Sandy was master of ceremonies and Randolph Randolph Randolph Ran Ran- I dolph found himself chiefly useful In holding lighted candles for the old manor man manor manor or hoisting his light but agile body to toI I peer at pipes and drafts in hr the thc rusty i I dust covered ered heating system that rambled rams rami ram- ram s i bled over a good share of tho the cellar of i I the old house The pipes that conveyed the hot an air ail I from Crom the furnace to the upper regions lof of the house were rusty but not so 50 soI much so that drafts in the three main I channels for the hot hol air ail an could not be bo opened when Sandy applied the sturdy muscles of his thumb and find forefinger to toI the task I Now shell she'll work Sandy had remarked re remarked re- re marked by way of announcing his hib tri tri tri- i If It order a couple o 0 ton tonof tonof of chestnut coal and a bit hit of kindlin I 1 think I can have enough heat in theold the theold theold old place to make your ice cream s sell n like hot cakes in The day came and the ice cream did sell like hot cakes and even after the lemonade had been ben so diluted that it was almost innocent of any intimacy with the citrus fruit for which it was named it sold in such abundance that the proceeds of that table were five times what one would have expected from lemonade Windows were opened and those who came to buy made fans of sheets of paper they could find It was a sharp cold day for autumn and so there was no very great irritation in inthe inthe I the voices of complaint that were raised against the excessive heat hat At any rate everyone who attended the bazar was strongly impressed with the fact that the Tilden house was endowed en endowed endowed en- en dowed with a phenomenal heating apparatus ap apparatus apparatus ap- ap and scarce a person in town failed to hear something about the ex excessive excessive ex- ex heat that had prevailed in theold the theold theold old mansion during the two days and two nights of ot the suffrage bazar A few days after the bazar Henriette Henriette Henriette Henri Henri- ette Beauchamp announced her en engagement engagement engagement en- en to Randolph Yardley and those who knew Henriette as well as those who knew her only for tor the reputation reputation reputation I tation she sho bore as an up and coming young suffragist explained the fact i that the engagement occurred Just when it did in this wise wlee Henriette had set her cap for Randolph Randolph Randolph Ran Ran- dolph yes that is Just what they said and no doubt Randolph had taken afancy a afancy afancy fancy to Henriette but Randolph waRnot was waR not the kind of ot young man nun who would ask atilt a girl to marry him unless he had some Idea of how ho he was going to support support sup sup- I port her Henriette Henrietta knew this and if It the truth must bo told Henriette had the making of the tho better lawyer of the two She knew that Mr Tilden had put a little work worl worlin in the tho young lawyers lawyer's way and she bho knew about that case against the brewer brever Hamberger So she worked out the whole scheme planned the suffrage bazar and everything and got that man Sandy to make the fire that wo would ld prove the house could be heated And of course Hamberger's I lawyer saw there was no use con continuing continuing contin contin- the suit and the affair was settled settled set set- I I at once No one cared for no one had any great love ova for the brewer The result was wa that Tilden pave gave ave the young oung I I I I I I I lawyer a fee amounting to half the years year's rent that he had recovered and for that mansion the rent was enormous enor enor- More than that Tilden put all his legal work into the hands of the young lawyer His Ills future was as assured as- as and well and well after that how could Mr Yardley do otherwise than he did 1911 by the McClure N. 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