Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-04-21
HIS WIFE'S FRIEND.

HIS WIFE'S FRIEND.
Washington Star: TIE young mar
with the Vandyke beard noticed her as
soon as he clambered on board the
west bound r street car shortly after
4 o'clock the other afternoon.
He couldn't help noticing her. not
only because she moved up TO make
room for him, but because she was well
worth noticing.
She was plump and stylish, and her
travelling suit fitted her and became
her immensely.
She a FURNISHED bronze hair, a
skin Of ivory and a few captivating
golden freckles on her nose.
Oh, yes. the young man with the
Vandyke beard noticed her all right.
He pretended to read the headlines
of his evening newspaper, but the
headlines were meaningless to him, for
he found himself gazing out of the
slants OF his yes 10 the left of him
at the pretty little woman in the tray
cling suit every ten or twelve seconds
After a While he observed that her
neat Gladstone bag, which she had
placed OF the floor in front of her, sort
of cramped and hampered her. He
pushed il beneath the seat, after Civ
ing her a questioning glance, and she
smiled her approval and thanks.
Then he assumed his alleged reading
of the tar paper headlines, and looked
at her out of the tail Of his eye some
more.
He was thus regarding her stealth
lily when the car und Dupont Cir
Gle. She suddenly turned her head to
the right n caught him at it.
h smiled vaguely, blushed a trifie
and resumed her straight ahead gaze.
A little further along the young man
with the Vandyke beard again ventured
to peak at her out qf the corner of his
eye, Again she capght him and she
smiled vaguely agar.
The young man adjusted his necktie,
fixed his cuffs and looked a good deal
like a young mar saying TO himself:
There's nothing to it at all: they just
can't help but fall in for my winning
ways"
A number of times he cleared his
throat, preparatory, perhaps, to i'm
curing of his pretty Seatmate if she
were not Miss Beestreet, whom he had
met at a Mount Pleasant party several
years before.
He knew, of course, that she wasn't
any Miss Beestreet. but he cleared his
throat preparatory to asking her some
think like that, anyhow.
But he couldn't quite nerve himself
up to it.
AA1NAAANAt1lCs BUNS OFAA NhlN 4 SAASSR
bridge, he caught her eye again, and
again she smiled somewhat vaguely.
Twenty-eighth was his street. He
folded his paper, to indicate that he
was to get off there.
To his surprise his pretty seatmate
reached beneath the seat and pulled
out her Gladstone bag.
rs the next street Twenty-eighth?"
she asked the conductor.
"Yes'm," said the conductor.
Please let me Off there" she said.
The car stopped. The young mai
With the Fandyke beard stepped off.
taking his pretty seatmate's Gladstone
bag along with him.
She stepped off, TOO. taking the yalise
from him, smiled her thanks when he
handed il to her and he raised his hat
and Malked on along Twenty-eighth
strtx.&.
The young mar took up a stiff pace
and walked on ahead of her.
When he reached his house and
started up the steps he turned about
TO see what had become of the pretty
young oma
TIC his Amusement she was opening
the front gate of his house.
He flushed and ran down to the gate.
she ooked up at him with an arch
smile.
II thought / must he right = she said.
4 ldllCttu u ItCOS IilZth yQu NilCl you
first got on the car as Ethel's husband.
She showed me your photograph when
she was visiting US in Detroit, you
know"
THE young man with the yandyke
beard was very red by this time.
Then you must be my wife's school
! chunl, Mrs. OutweSt, are you not?" he
inquired of her s~heepishly.
Yes" she replied, and then the wife
of the young man with the Vandyke
beard tapped delightfully."- ON the parlor
window. and could be seen making for
the front door TO welcome her school
chum. "Odd coincidence that W. should
have been on the same car. is il not?
| only arrived in Washington on the
4 O'Clock train"
'Ye-es, VARY odd, said the young
imam. fustered.
Il suppos you ancied YOU knew
me?r said the young woman with the
golden freckles on her nose, looking up
at him innocently.
"Ye-es. / thought you-er might be-
err" and then his wife ran down the
steps and folded her old schoolmate IN
her arms.
I'D give fou dollars TO know if she
means to tell my wife that / was jay
enough To try to make eyes at her
coming out on the car, that's all" he
reflected.