The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-11-06

1T the next window stood old Bunk
IT, the bool<keeper, with a face as
red as peony and standing first on
one foot and then the other
"Great Scott said Teddy to him
self, 1.-The old man had his eyes
the charmer and thought she meant
that smile for him. He looks
though he were going to faint. That
smile for him! Why, tho pcc- old
Eeezer. He's Anticipated. I'll put
he boys next
So Teddy told the boys of how the
girl had smiled him and how the
Did man thought the smile was in
tended for him, and had blushed like
girl and fiddled with his fingers.
Wen have some fun with the old
guy, fellows I'm going to get
introduction to the girl over the
way, and I'll tell her all about
Bunker, and how if a woman speaks
10 him he has fit, and she can just
lead him on a bit, and We'll have all
sorts of fun here with the doings-''
The next day there another
sweet smile from the typewriter, and
Teddy responded in kind. Curiously
enough, old Bunker was at the 9TH
er window again, and when that
smile came across the areaway he
blushed like fire and cast a furtive
glance at Teddy. Teddy saw it,
We've got him going,' he said to
himself, 1.-The old fellows hit sure.
[ hope he don't die of apoplexy be-
fore he makes out the pay roll. He
looks though he were going to
chOke.'
Three days afterward Teddy ap-
peared al the office be- ming Il met
the charmer la st night he said to the
boys, lover a Browns dancing school.
Her name is Mary Halbert. / was in
trOduced by her cousin. Say. she's all
right. When L told her that old Bunker
hn hf 10 fnr h he
laughed and laughed. 1Aaid [ couldn't
conceive how anybody could be such
tool as to try to grab off smile that
wasn't intended for him. She fell in
with our game, and nine O'Clock
every morning she's going to bow and
smile, this time really old Bunker.
It'll set him nutty-''
Teddy went to the window at five
minutes of nine. A minute two later
the old man shuff1ed eff his stool and
sided up to the twin window. The rest
of the boys pretended to be hard at
work, but their eyes were all twisted
at an angle Nine O'Clock and the t DOM
was absolutely radiant with the smile
that came through the win low. Bunker
sidestePped, wigg1ed his hands, bowed,
smiled and then put on face like a
furnace fire. Teddy was in raptures.
''Ain't it great?'' he said afterward to
the boys. ''Gee. the old mans an easy
mark!''
So it went on for weeks. Teddy met
the charmer occa sionauy and sent her
into ecstasies of la tighter over the ac-
counts of the fun they were having with
old Bunker.
''Why, when you smile,'' he said to
her, 1.-The old man goes up into the
nineteenth heaven. I'm glad you smiled
over at me that morning, for office
work now is as good asa show
One morning Bunker showed up with
r. A~1a
When Teddy looked through the win
dow he saw that there was bunch of
the same kind of flowers pinned to the
waist of the neighbor over the way.
After Bunker had received his morning
smile Teddy spread the news of the
flowers. 1.-The old mans got 'em bad,''
he said. It'll be awful tough on him
when the girl gives him the throw
down I saw her last night, and told
her to let the old fellow down easy
when it came to a pinch, and she told
me she'd be easy with him all right
enough. Gee, but there's no fool like
an old fooli She told me she's going
to take her vaca ton beginning to-mor-
row, and Bunker's going, too, our
fun's all up for week. Wen rig up
something else, though, when the old
duffer gets back
Bunker went on his va ca ton, and the
smiling face was also missing from the
window in the lawyers office The
Wednesday morning following Bunk
er's departure every man in the office
found a square envelope on his desk,
which when opened contained an
nouncement reading like this- Mr..
and Mrs. Joel Ha1bert announce the
marriage of their daughter Mary to
Mr.. Henry Bunker, Monday, October 4,
ST. Chrysostom's church,
One envelope contained second in
closure. 1t was that which was ad-
dressed to Teddy Long. Teddy read
til e maria ge announcement with star
ing eyes, and then picking up the in
clos read this neatly typewritten
communica ton:
Mr. Bunker and I have known each
other for five years We were engaged
for five months before I went to work
IN the lawyers office can't conceive
how anybody could be such a fool as to
try to grab off smile tina wa sn't in
tended for him--Mary Ha1bert Bunk
Edward B. Clark, in Chicago Rec.
ord-Hera1d.
Suspicious Parent.
ibid you tell your father that a
he'd - nj