The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-10-09

demand u. ana lhf N'i0'
she knew her husband could never DC
got 90 bear I'm mind to go round 10 wa
tor's Office during business hours ana eA-
plain matters.
More than "a week passed. n Mrs.
COILS grew more and more apprehensiVe
that the Young person Of the picture
would drop I'm some day and that She
Mrs. Couis-would be obliged 10 confess
nat the photograph bad been turned over
for identification 20 a gay young bachelor
JACK Coils had put OF going 10 ms
brothcr-in-law about Che matter ana n"d
at last declared fatty shat he had no
time % waste on such tribes.
Then q letter addressed 10 Mrs. Bor-
nard Coils" was handed i'm az the hat,
and. not noticing the difference IN the
first name. Mrs. Jack Coils opened ana
read. Dear You never even wrote To-
thank me for the photo. / found out
your fat and loft 30 there for you week
before last. Why don't you writer Mar
jory X
.Mariory k wrote on very pretty
note paper. but she omitted her address
m the head Of the epistle. So things
we're no rearer O. solution than they had
been.
fairies would help us The Janitor
can't. and ( don't know what has be-
come of your uncle Walter
Tot had by this time fully persuaded
herself that the original oft the picture
was "a fairy.
That evening when Jack Coils wife
showed him the note from 'MarJory
k ne said. "Oh. hat reminds me. ]
saw Walter Yesterday. Iio has BE- in a
leather case.
elias what. JACKIE
"Why the photograph OF course
Walters gone crazy. says H'" "
rather than give d. up.
.Did Won explain to- him the nec'3-
sitv2 Here am making "a quariei p-
tween mis- gin and her intimate iIl'i"
do wish she would call here ana jet
me explain Dr. al 20 her
. "You'U lind 10 awkward % explain. un-
less Walter consents 90 giY back '"1
= picture. Which he won't
And Coils laughed. at his wife thoNA"l
very unkindly. She vowed that next
morning sine would herself 80 lo h'I
| brothers office and force nim to give up
the photograph.
Tot insisted ON going down to~n win
! her m4mml Tot did not know ihe
sacreduess of "a New YORK man ousl-
, ness hours and anticipated some pea
ant fr0ic with Uncle Walter over 'N'
! possession " the fairy I1dy N.''"
They had got off th' street car "n"
watkins as fast as Tots h'tl' i'- ''
go when the lttle ON. s"'""'
! claimed. There Doe is. mamma.
There. indeed. was Walter. Au'
soon ss his sister caught slthl w n"i
De turned abruptly 10 me leil. l'l "
| her mamma made after him. out me- wa"
| evidently boz I'd hurry and soon Increased
| tha interval of only rive yards ~ ten.
AS he sped ON towards AN elevated
| railroad station hc thought he heard "a
cry of walter Stop h'nlnn hlW
p~assers hy began to interfere with nl-
progress and point in tho opposite oi.
/ %rection. And 40 last "a big man caugn
him hv the arm and said. "L1dy ana
little eirl-want you.'
ID was then that Mrs. 'olis ieln'nl'
=, bored. and believed her husband Word
walters gone crazy Ilo turned rouno
lifted his hat and said as if every breali
were praciou- "Tf's 4l right. Come ON
EIlen-Ive got b. now. Como to me elc.
waited. "Then ne hurried ON. and people
ON fhc Sidewalk. oe'ievine that o. heart.
loss husband and father was trying to rug
away. wished they could fnd time or q
policeman TO a"nnrohend him.
The mother. carrying her child. reached
the top of the station stairs. bre'inle.
inst I'm t.mo TO see walter push past th.
fieket-faksr at the gate of tho train plat
form Mrs Coils was afraid her unaD
countablo brother would take am up-towi
train, and escape her. as She slapped
nl9rter down at the ticket window. ana
REGARDLESS of the twenty cents change
pu-hed ON I'm her pursuit
And there. ON the platform. was Wal.
ter trying 20 scrapc acquaintance WY
a very attractive young woman. VIII.
certainly did not seem Inclined TO mee
his advances.
OF have 90 beg your pardon he wa
saying. as he iumpied ABOUT 4"
pocket of his coat. 81 have nreh 'I>'I'
10 catch you for two blocks-iWo "e'N
more than two blocks. DO Nl.
this photograph. 1rs yours. isnt OF
There was no swectness DO me ElIi
eyes as she turned and took from wa
ter's hand "a seal-leather picture ho'''
in which was the sweet-eyeo picture '"'
had worried Mrs. Coins.
And who are you, aI 9h' i"
"Oh. I'm Brown Ndil.i bI'"" D
my name. My cara.
And this is Mrs. brown ''
girl. turning 20 Mrs. 'ohI. '""
Emo. MY -lslef' Mi'. ''
Mias-
Miss M1rJor} Is. -
Tots mamma. "hlIe i"' ' 81"
smiled 40 the I'liy I''t' r r
Jheieup'n 'Nf ~ M
glnal ehansea 10 ..st.
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