News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-10-02
The Brute Won Ter.


young man with the delicate chin,
"but there's some weird influence
about an automobile. That's the only
way | can explain what happened
down at Atlantic City month ago.
Incidentally | never help man with
a broken down machine. l used to.
81 went down to Atlantic City three
months ago and took my automobile
with me. There was about the stun
ningest girl staying at the hotel you
ever saw. l knew the minute laid
my eyes on her that we'd take to each
other. Less than q week after l got
there we were old friends. | used to
read to her an hour or two every
morning. This was rather rough on
the rest of the girlE-there were
couple of dozen of them-because |
was the only eligible man at the hotel.
First | tried her on Austin Doh7on
and little Omar Khayyam and then
George Meredith, and finally after I'd
got my courage up | brought out few
little things of my own. We were soul
compliments all right and told her
so. guess she'd been thinking the
same thing because she laughed lot
when told her. We enjoyed this sort
of thing for about week and then
one day thought she was looking
rather blue.
"'Well | am she said, when asked
her about it. This place bores me ter
ribly.'
"T don't blame you,' told her.
Nothing but droves of grabbing wo-
men. You'll nave to take some rides
with me IN my automobile
"She sighed and then said: That
would be great fun, but I'm afraid
mamma wouldn't approve, and you
know there's no room for a chaperon.'
"'Well if there's no other way I
said we could read in the afternoon
as well as the morning. Then you'd
only have to stand the bore evenings.
'She seemed terribly pleased at that.
She dubbed over so she couldn't speak
for while.
YOU'RE simply genius, Mr.. Will
iger, she said. How did you ever
come to think Of anything so clever"
Then she laughed again. She was
a very happy-hearteu girl
"But, after all, nothing came of the
idea she thought was so clever. She
happened to have a headache the next
afternoon and the next day was Sun
day. And on Monday Bangs arrived.
Bangs was big, coarse-jawed man
whose looks showed what he amounted
to. | believe his chief claim to dis
tinction was that he played on Yale
football team. Ethpl-she was the
stunning girl, you know-came to me
the same afternoon and asked me if
4 didn't think he was dreadful.
ooh, he might do fer some girlA' :
said.
Yes, | suppose So answered Ethel,
shuddertng. Isn't It disgusting?'
"The joke Of the whole thing was
that the poor lad seemed terribly TAX
en- with Ethel from the moment he
saw her. The first week he was there
he followed Ethel about from morning
to night. 1t broke up our reading, but
Ethel thought she ought to be polite to
him, he being a stranger at the hotel.
Pretty soon, however, matters began
to get more sepious. Two weeks passed
and then three, and still we didn't do
any more reading. He began taking
Ethel walking, and the walks began to
get longer and longer. Every time
they started out together and the poor
girl got chance she'd make a face
over his shoulder and shake her head
despairingly. Finally | caught her
alone one day and put it to her straight
whether she wasn't letting the chap
impose too much on her kindness of
heart She confessed that perhaps
she was, and said .-le'd see whether
she couldn't get hint through the fell
lows head.
"But things didn't change, and about
a week later | went to her and asked
her if she could trust me as a friend.
You ought to have seen the look she
gave me when she said she hoped so.
"'Well,' I said. 4 want you to tell
me perfectly frankly why you yet that
fellow continue to drag you off walk.
ing when you don't want to go?'
"She looked at me terribly queerly
for a minute, and wouldn't tell for
long while Then finally she said:
"'Well, if you rust know, simply
can't help myself
81 smiled sarcastically at that.
"-You don't know that man, she
went on. I never saw anything like
him. | can't tel you how he carries
p on if | don't put on my hat and go
with him when ever he asks me to-
"'Why,' I asked, do you have any,
thing to do with him at all? Why
don't you tell him you have a regular
engagement to read with me, and send
him about his business?'
''She was so nervous she actually
laughed, although you'd better believe
1t didn't look like laughing matter.
"'WeH, she said finally, I'll try it.
You're awfully clever. | should never
have thought of it myself
"a week later | asked her what she
had done. You ought to have seen the
girl looked around she didn't want to
say a word, but ted her it was her
duty to tell me ell.
"He-he says she said scarcely
able to speak, II don't walk with him