Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-02-09
HOW 1T
HAPPENED

~ HO'V Wouiu nave happened, III all
probability. From another point of
view 1T was probably ordained from
the beginning of time that at o'clock
OF that day the aforementioned delica-
cies were to be set, brown and tempt
ing, behind the plate glass and that
20 minutes later Marjorie Haskell
should walk by that way with Fluff,
her pet Skye terrier, racing on ahead.
That Fluff, seeing cakes that remind
cd him of those he got at home, had
fingered, standing on his hind legs
that he might the better investigate,
his nose wrinkled sensitively, the
young woman was not aware until
she heard the canine shrieks for help,
yaps anger and the general turmoil
attenaHig a healthy dog fight.
Flying back with fur boa stream
ing in the wind, Marjorie reached the
scene of combat in time to add her
screams to the general confusion.
Above the whirlwind of scrambling
dogs a figure was bent hauling at the
collar of his dog, red in the face and
prolific as to language. When the
lively tableau resolved into its COM
ponent parts tall young man hold
ing the struggling Md fierce iawed
bulldog by the neck faced a young
woman crouched on the walk with a
shivering, whimpering Skye terrier In
her arms. Fury, pure and unadulter-
ated. blazed from her eyes.
I'm so sorry" the man was STAN
mering. 81 never knew Jupiter to act
like this-the most good-natured-"
HE doesn't act the part" the girl
interiected, trembling. why anybody
should let q great brute of a dog like
that run loose-he's nearly killed
Fluff, poor, inoffensive little thing!
L"
I'm more than sorry" the young
man reiterated. rs he much hurt?
Can ! do anything? Believe me-"
But his voice trailed into silence as
a young woman with her head held
extra high and red spots on her cheeks
swept by, carrying the frightened ter
rier in her arms. Orville Tenney
stood hanging on to JIpiter's strain
ing collar staring after her till pass
ers-by recalled him.
eff she wasn't a stunner!' muir.
INJURED Tenney that night for the tenth
time before he went to sleep and
dreamed that he was stabbing legions
Of BULLDOGS to the heart to save an i'm
peril9d maiden. Which goes to show
that his concern for Fluff had only
been relative.
Three days later, at dusk, Mr.. Ten
ney, who was quite accidentally stroll
tie silver-gray dog race out of gro
Gerry store. And behind him came the
girl of the black eyes which could look
so absolutely murderous. Tenney
shook himself smartly. OF course,
everything was Irregular, but under
the circumstances she might-well,
not exactly speak-but maybe she
would just nod family.
Tenney's hopes came to an abrupt
close. When the young woman caught
sight of him she swoOped down upon
Fluff to raise him out of danger and
marched by with icy countenance.
Wand I didn't even have Jupiter
wH1hn a. mile of met Tenney still
mused Indignantly hours afterward.
"She acted as though l was concen-
trated dog poison at the least. Get
OUT Jupiter"
! Jupiter retreated in surprised sulk-
mess. He could not make out his
master these last few days. Once Ten
ney sat opposite Fluff's owner on the
suburban car. He wore an expression
with respectful hope, but the young
woman stared over his shoulder out of
the window with absolute unseeing-
ness all the way to the city.
"She acts as though it was all my
fault" Tenney told himself. He
was trying to work up an injured feel
ing. but did not succeed. He had
never recovered from the abjectness
TO which her wrathful invective had
reduced him. "Thcso fool toy dogs
anyway" was the height of his
achievement in that line. He told
himself he worried over the affair be
cause it was uncomfortable to have
any woman righteously angry at one
That was all. He did not care if he
never got on speaking terms with
Fluffs owner. A girl with such tenn
per could not be really attractive
even if she were pretty. And any
how she hated h1y. Once she hat
turned q corner to avoid meeting him
ostentatiously picking up her dog as
she did SO.
That was why at the club dance
when he had amiably followed young
Grimes, who promised to introduce
him to "a girl who would make hin
sit up" he turned icy cold with frish
axnnding himself confronting a vision
iR'3ale blue who turned on him a ia
miliar pair of black eyes. Grimes wa:
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