The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-20
b lIARGAR1g MuzzEY



sFYou are almost q surgeon why
don't you set it9' asked Joe. Take
mine and have yours mended.''
..Tzave mine A1ed, too. win your
called a voice from the next room
Mine needs patch snId another
young student OF medicine. appearing
In the door.
II say, get the handle put on mine
while you're about it." demanded a
third.
Dick departed with Joe Darts UNI
breiIa over his head and three disabled
ones besides his own under his arm.
After leaving them with an umbrella
meuder he did some shopping and went
into corner drug shop to wait for
car. He was absorbed In the marvel
Gus Representations OF new patent
medicine until. ginncing out of the win
dow, he saw his car, seized the near
est umbrella and hurried to the door.
As he passed out feminine voice
cried:
stop thief. He's stolen my UNI
breIlag'
without the faintest suspicion that
It referred to him Dick ran ana jumped
on the car.
When he reached the boarding house
he carried Joe's umbrella to his own
room and forgot It until the next rainy
day, when his friends inquired for
their mended property.
'HEhe repairs VIII be finished today.
IN bring your umbrellas on my way
back from the hospital" he told them.
When he went out with Joe's umbrel-
la, which he had not returned, it struck
him as being rather small for a man,
although 1t had not occurred to him
when he carried 1t before.
As he seated himself in the car go
ing uptown the woman next to him
muttered an angry ejaculation. Dick
moved his bunch of umbrellas and
apoIosized, fearing he had set it on her
foot, when to his astonishment she
whispered:
.'I congratulate you, young man.
You have had very successful morn
that would get my name into the pc
pers. should denounce you here and
Dick was speechIess. He started to
.'Don't you suppose I recognize my
stolen umbrella right there in your
North streetw bawIed the con-
ductor.
IT win leave you to your own con
SCIENCE added the woman and was
gone before Dick recovered sufficiently
to retort-
"Isn't this your umbrella?" he asked
Joe when he reached the house
Its five times as good. Where did
you get it?''
Il must have exchanged With some
body said Dick ruefully.
/
It of for gold one, will your said
Joe.
"Who shall you take to the next rs
sembIy?" Joe inquired later.
at have asked Miss Mildred Wells
but. us 1 have only met her once, she
will probably decline"
"Not AIiIly-with- the-mercenary moth
er. She won't be permitted to refuse
IN Invitation from the only son Of a
gold mine"
"aer mother has never even heard
Of me-" said Dick GROSSLY.
shell hnd you out soon enough
| She keeps a regular Bradstreet's of
eligible men. She has married all her
nIeces to diamond tiaras and is just
Whiting for a chap like You to crown
her daughter. Her permission won't
he asked this time, though. She is go
| ing AWAY IOHlSuI. -1llAS IulA liz ~
this afternoon"
Joe was right, and Mildred accepted
Dicks invitation During her mothers
absence she was reIegnted to the chap
eronage of a much married cousin.
who was too engrossed in the pursuit
of sterilized nutriment and sanitary
apparel for her children to keep a
vigilnnt eye on her guest
The night of the assembly found her
unable to leave her youngest, who.
having deposited a dime In his insides,
refused to honor u draft of mustard
and warm water for the amount. The
distracted mother was easily perSuad-
ed to allow AIilly to go with friend.
~ shall have to leave early" Nilly
told her escort. Mother will be home
at / O'Clock, and I must be there to
greet her. have been staying with
Cousin Carrie, you know, but prom
ised mamma would be back at our
own house when she arrives"
They left the dance at midnight and
started for Aiildred's home, When
they reached the house Dick inserted
a latchkey, but 1t would not turn.
"Bridget has slipped the night latch"
exclaimed Mflly. "She sleeps on the
third story and IS so deaf she can't
even hear by mail. What shall we
40 ISN'T there a window I can open
somewhere"
"suppose you try mother's room,
The windows are on the piazza, ana
they are seldom locked"
II VIII do my criminalist" SAID
Dick.
Gust inside the window at the left
IA a stand with candle and matches-
| Yon cnn ensily find the front door