The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-11-06

deal of that girl"
He repeated this, wondering why /
had not answered him before.
Yes, l know you did. And do you re
member that Thanksgiving we went on
to New York to see the Yale-Princeton
game, and you took me to call on her?"
''Sure, that was just after the summer
| first met her. And / remember, too,
that you were not so powerfully taken
with the original you had been with
her photo on my desk"
NO. and I've always wished I'd never
made that call. Then l wouldn't have
known her, and all those heated dis
cussions we used to have about the girls
worth or worthlessness would have been
avoided"
.'StiIl, Jack, you'll have to admit that
she was a terribly fetching and fasci-
mating girl"
..Yes. yes, Phil, I've admitted that a
thousand times. but that isn't the ques-
ton. My point has always been that
she wasn't girl who had enough in her
to warrant a fellow of your good sense
going crazy over her. Fetching and
fascinating-Jove,m man, there are any
number of your tickle. flighty, skin
deep sort of girls who are fetching and
fascinating, and she's one of them But
fiddlesticks, what do they amount to?
Nothing-never get married-grow up
into dctestable old maids with sour
faces and still sourer dispositions. Come
now, Phil. I'll bet you ten to one tina;
Pearl Lancaster never gets even en-
gagged
NO, no. Jack, won't do it. It's bad
principle betting on a girl, anyhow.
Besides, you might lose the wager, for
she came mighty near getting a man
last summer
why. how do you know?"
"I saw her at Bar Harbor"
''Were you down there again last sum
mer?''
Yes"
'And was she there?"
"Yes"
Hum, then I'll bet you repeated the
foolish performance of your sophomore
year"
81 did, Jack. with compound interest.
We were together most of the time.
Never had such jolly summer before in
all my life"
And the other man you said she near
y captured-where did he come in?'
''Oh, he was a particular friend of
Il L
thing. Excuse me 4 moment, Jack, |
must get some more coal for that fire.
Better fill up pipe"
| proceeded to do so and casually OBJ
served at the time that Phil smoked
the same abominable tobacco. Expen-
sive stuff, but, CAD, how ii burnt n
mans tongue. Phil was the only fellow
who ever smoked it without swearing
The other men invariably declined t.,
so we always claimed that he used that
particular brand to keep his friends
from pirating tobacco off him. But
then, that wasn't so, for Phil was the
most generous-hearted fellow of the
gang.
Having filled the pipe I went to the
mantelpiece for a match; that wa
where he used to keep them-when he
had any. | didn't find match, but !
found a photograph that had been laiC
| there. 1t was n new one of Pearl Lar
| caster-had undoubtedly just comt
with the letter. / was holding IT in nv
| hand when Phil came back from the
| coal closet.
| well. what do you think of it. Jack -
Grand, good-looking girl beyond =
doubt. And | suppose if you were witt,
| her again all last summer you must b,
more cracked than ever over her"
| Phil surprised me by uttering sigh
and sinking down into a chair.
| alas! Jack, ! am-fatally So" were
| his despondent words. "And now what
oh, what, do You suppose she writes me
in this letter."
'Jovei not that she's engaged. is shs
man? Luckily for me you didn't take
| that bet
| Yes, Jack, she says she's the hap
piest little girl in the world, for shes
engaged to the dearest fellow in the
world. Engaged at last. Poor girl.
suppose you'd say poor fellow. And
| such a fellow, too-ch my, Well. al
| can say is that I've seen worse fellow.
and-and better. Oh, dear,"
| But who is she engaged to? What's
his name?"
''The man she was with down at Ban
| Harbor last summer"
Not the other man.
| "Alas, no, the Others other man."
Not yourself, you fool?''
| Poor Phil covered helplessly down in
the chair and feebly held out his hanC
as if expecting q whipping.
"Yes. Jack he whimperrd. "congraa
ulate and forgive me, old fellow, but
rm-I'm the man..
''Well-! But I say, Phil, you dom
smoke any better tobacco than you USED
to, do you ?''-Boston Budget.
HE WON HIS CLIENTS CASE.
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