Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-07-03
/ that had been on his Inns for the last

20 minutes.
IT did not expect to meet you
Z here" he said, trife nervously.
Dorothy appeared to be counting
her money in the little bag ct her
side.
i Really" she said, listlessly, "but
the world Is so small, you know.
One is constantly running up against
acquaintances."
He bit his lip angrily, and turned
to demand Of shy young man III
he would take rattle ticket" in
! tone so fierce that the unfortunate
youth dared not refuse.
"Thank you very much" he said,
meekly, as Dorothy handed him his
change with kind smile. George
Fraser looked at her curiously, and
she turned her laughing eyes to his
dissatisfied young face.
''Really, Mr.. Fraser" she said, re-
provingly, "you will brighten people
away if you speak to them like that;
I was petrified myself"
81 am awfully sorry" he said, hum
bly,. "But"-in lower tones 1T real
ly was your fault"
81 don't see that" But her color
rose little, and she asked for an
explanation.
Another turn round the hot, crowd
ed hall, and he announced that there
were only two tickets left.
"Are there?" She counted her.
money. Eyes, here's % shillings.
Suppose we each took ticket, that
would finish it up. What are the
numbers left?"
"Twenty and thirteen. Which will
you have?''
She pointed to the number 20.
GAIL right, that leaves me 10.
Lucky number that, y su know. But
-stamering and hetltating-"what
name am I to put on f':lmber 2o?'
She raised her eyes to his, half in
dignant, wholly surprised. II should
have thought it just possible that
you might have remembered my
name?" It was impossible not to no.
tice the culver in her voice.
His eyes looked steadily into hers.
''Remember!" he said, trifc I'M
steadily II wish to Heaven didn't
remember-things. But your-your
married name, 1 meant"
'tMy married name?" She gave a
little trelnulous laugh. "But I am
not married." she said.
He drew a long breath. "But I
heard it in Africa; some one wrote
it to fellow in our regiment. And
my letter, before I left England.
You never answered that, Dorothy?''
She did not seem to notice that he
had called her by her christian
name. my cousin, Dorothy Seton,
was married three months ago." she
said, with heightened color, staring
intently at the tea cosy, Sand l
never got any letter at a:l--George."
Her eyes inyoluntarily sought his
now. ..,.
"Thank Heaven!" exclaimed the
boy, rapturously. ooh, can explain
everything now, Dorothy, darling.
Let's go and sit on that seat by the
palms for just five minutes!" And
they did so. But Mr.. Fraser's ex-
plantations, satisfactory as they ap-
peared to be, were not condensed in
to so short space of time as that.
'What has happened to them?" ex-
claimed Lady Allenbury an hour
later. "That tea cosy seems to take
a lot of getting off. All, here they
come" ~
The pair in question sauntered up,
looking delightfully."- bored and limo.
cent. Only Dorothy's friend guessed
that anything had happened in that
one short hour. '+4
"Here's the rs shillings, Lady Allen
bury" exclaimed George, in tri-
umph, "Miss Seton"-a slight emPha-
sis on the name-"will give you the
money" And Miss Seton did so with
considerably heightened color.
"Thank you both so much," said
her ladyship, fervently. snow let's
draw number and finish it off and
get rid of it. Dorothy, dear, put the
tickets into your little bag. Per-
haps I had better draw one"
The flashing rings went into the
| holland bag and returned again hold
ing tiny blue ticket. Number 10.
''Mine!" gasped George, in tones of
horror. "What on earth can L do
with the thing?"
Lady Allenbury smiled beautiful
innocent smile. 'Keep it until you
are married, my dear boy" she sug-
gested. Dorothy, give him his
prize"
He held her fingers one moment as
he took it. my lucky NUMBER" he
whispered. The girl in pink watch
ing with jealous eyes, wondered why
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