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HER NAME'S RUTH! IF YOU CAN MARRY HER WE'LL BE ON EASY STREET! SHE'S THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF HER RICH MOTHER WHOE WORTH OVER $100,000!
($100,000
LISTEN, RUNT!.
(I'M MARRYING RUTH AND,
I WANT YOU TO STAY ** AWAY FROM HER!
GET ME?
THE CHISELER! HE'S ONLY MARRYING HER FOR HER MOTHERS MONEY! I'LL FIXHIMI
DARLING, YOU'RE SO YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL I COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU WERE `RUTH'S MOTHER'- HOW ABOUT YOU AND MÊ” GETTING MARRIED,
MUHP:
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 81, 1989
By BUD FISHER
OH, I'D LOVE TO, BUT WHAT WILL WE
DO WITH MY
HUSBAND?
RENO 638!
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"YES, sir!" Rufus Little declared, nose vigorously. Then he looked at
“I'm retiring. I've made my pile. Mike.
Now I'm gonna close up shop and "Mike, you doggone old gont, don't spend the rest o' my days loafin'.' you never let me hear you say any- Just then the telephone rang. Ru thing like that again so long's you fus went behind the counter and took live. What me an' you know ain't ol down the receiver. "Little's General no importance to other folks atall." Store,' " he said. A pause."Hello! Rufe had set the following Saturday Oh, hello there, Mr. Bradley. Got as the day for his closing. He consi- back to New York all right did you? dered piling up and crating the mer- Eh? Sure. Sure thing. I'll chandise he had or hand, but somehow take care of it right away."
he couldn't get started.
Refus hung up and reached for his Time enough, he decided, after the hat. "Got to go over to Bradley's store was closed. Then there wouldn't camp on Boulder Point. He went off be a lot of nosey people around ask- and left his bathroom window open. ing questions.
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD. Got to close it for him."
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Johnny Cutler got down off cracker barrel he had been sitting Johnny was & comparatively camp owner, in the Mirror Lake lony, but already he had learned value of knowing Rufus.
So on Saturday Rufus opened up as the usual. One or two customers dropped on. in during the morning. Toward noon new Mike. Atterbury appeared. He didn't co- say anything, but he looked around; the there was a sort of unhappy, forlorn expression in his eyes. Instead of sit- "Going to close up shop while you ting down for his usual chat, he went gó over?” he asked. "Might lose a out without a word, customer."
The afternoon dragged by. No one "Pshawl" declared Rufus. "Reckon appeared. Rufe was disappointed. one or more customers won't make or Usually there were a half dozen men break me."
sitting around the stove swapping Johnny said nothing. He knew that stories. These were the times Rufe Rufus wouldn't refuse a favour whe- loved. A lump came into his throat ther it hurt his business or not. He when he thought there wouldn't be. had been operating this store for any more such times.
forty years. His father had run it (About five o'clock the phone rang. before him, Most of the Mirror Lake It was Mr. Bradley again). Mr. Brad- colony did some trading with Rufus, ley was coming up for the week-end
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
Rufe
but mostly they patronized the new and he wondered if "Rufe would go and modern chain store down in Bir- over and turn on his oil heater. chill, two miles away. They spent a said he would.
.
back.
lot of time with Rufus, however, sit- It was dark when Rufe got ting around and talking. And always, The store was lighted, though he when there was a window to be clos- didn't remember leaving any lights ed, or lights to be shut off, or an open, burning. Then he saw that the room water faucet to check, they called Ru- was filled with men and women. He fus and Rufus attended to it. He was saw
0: also that there were a lot quite important in the community. brightly coloured papers and things
strung about, Johnny followed Rufus outside, watched the old man get into his car ed. He saw Johnny Cutler and Mr. Rufe stood in the doorway and blink- and clatter away towards the lake.. Bradley and Sam Stone and Harry Then Johnny strolled over to the de- Thompson and a lot of other Mirror pot. In ten minutes the train would Lake camp owners. They all shouted.. be along that would take him back to when they saw him and rushed to meet the city,
him.
When Rufus got back to the store Rufe didn't know what it was all he found Mike Atterbury sitting on about. He blinked and asked ques- the steps. Mike threw away the straw tions and finally he gathered that they he had been chewing and followed Ru- had bought the store and given it fus inside. He bought a plug of to- back to him and were going to pay bacco and whittled himself a pipeful. him a salary to keep it going. They "Mike," said Rufus, "you're danged were doing it because they said he'd sure this here relief committee will been so accommodating all his life take care of me?"
and because they liked to come in and
"You bet," said Mike. Ain't no sit around and talk. They said a lot body more eligible than you. Soon's of things that puzzled Rufe. He you close up the store you let me know couldn't understand why such rich and and I'll see you and Abby are taken important folks were being so nice to.. care of."
a no-account like himself. Rufus forced a grin. "By ginger. (Released by The Associated News- that's good! I'm sick of runnin' this papers;) doggone store. Be good to loaf. around and let them relief jiggers look out for me."
"Rufo," said Mike, "You're a dog- gone liar. You're closin' out the store because you can't afford to continue operating it. The chain store has tak
like
en all your business. You hate
sin to go on relief, but you got to. You hate worse to leave the store. It's been in your famil or three gehera. tions."
wande-
Refus allowed his eyes to around the gloomy and familiar intor lor of the store. He saw, as though for the first time, the dusty glass show cases, the worn counters, the barrel. stöve“ the ernekor, boxes, the shelves. Afted with outworn merchandise. H reache into "hla pocket, produced – b checked" handkerchief and blew his
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