Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-04-23

Mrs. Van Dolah's kitchen and gave him
two cups of hot coffee and generous
slice of steak. Then he described to
him certain party Of ten people who
would be skating in a crowd in Lincoln
park. He put his overcoat on the
tramp, and the white mittens, and the
cap.
you go up to the park" he said,
sternly, land sit down near the bank
in the snow somewhere so that you
can be plainly seen from the lagoon.
Don't sit near enough so that the
skaters can come up and talk to
you, but not too far away so that
they can't take notice of this coat,
and this hat, and these gloves. Sit
somewhere near TIE electric light,
but not too close. When this party
sees you and waves at you, why, You
wave back, and when you see them
going to take their skates off you
cut for this place as fast as you
can. Don't try to talk to this party
or I'll have you sent to the peni-
Tertiary for life. And don't run
away with this coat, for if you fol
low my instructions I'll give you one
of my old suits and overcoats to-
morrow that will be just as good,
and a pair of shoes and a five-dollar
bill into the bargain, and maybe you
can blackmail me into doing some
thing else for you. Now go on"
Kentland fairly pushed the tramp
out of doors and then with a sigh
of joy went back up the stairs four
steps at a jump. He reached the
den unobserved, and moving a screen
so that he would not be seen from
the billiard room he noiselessly Sc
cured a pack of cards and, lighting
a cigar, sat down in front of the
CRATE fire and gave himself up to
the delicious abandon of solitaire.
After he had beaten the 10 game
twice he got down his favorite book
and read it through. Then he sat
in the window seat and smoked his
pipe in silent comfort while he
watched the falling snow outside.
Suddenly he heard knocking at
the side door. He hurried down and
found the tramp outside. He hur-
riedly received back his overcoat.
cap and gloves, while the tramp
breathlessly told him that he had
followed instructions to the letter.
"They seed me lots of times" said
the tramp, "and waved their mitts at
me, and 1 give 'em the glad han
rite back agen. They're a-comin
home now" Kentland handed the
tramp a fve-dollar bill and gave him
an address to call at the next day to
get the promised old clothes. With
a gurgle of joy the tramp faded
away down the street and Kentland
thoughtfully walked around in the
snow on the top step and then
rubbed his face with a handful of
snow until his countenance was
good, ruddy color. He hauled on
his coat and mittens and reached the
front hall just as the house party
returned.
"Why in the world didn't you come
home with us?" asked Kitty. 1--WE
all went over to where you had been
sitting, but you were gone"
Eyes" said the Harvard boy, you
ought to have helped carry all those
skates home. say, we're just about
turned to ice. Really, that was
about the coolest skating 1 ever did"
"Well," put in Kitty, 81 suppose
Mr.. Kentland is even colder than the
rest of us. We were moving about
while he had to sit still up in that
terrible snow bank. Poor boy, l
suppose he's just about frozen to
death"
81 am afraid 1 have misjudged you
all along" said Miss HARDWOOD half
hour later, as she and Kentland sat
in the coy corner alone. 81 thought
Won were rather-well-self and
that YOU wouldn't do anything but
what suited your own pleasure, but
when 1 saw you sitting away up
there on the bank in the snow and
waving back at us SO that we might
feel YOU were with us in our sport I
knew that we had made a mistake.
You can be awfully nice when you
want to be-"
Kentland resolved to give the
tramp two suits of clothes instead
If the one that he had promised.
Later on in the evening, after more
low-toned conversation with Miss
HARDWOOD. he decided to make it
three and throw in another pair of
shoes.-Chicago Tribune.