The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-12

with purr. he inquired of the ticket
man If he happened to know the young
| lady.
at Blankville.'s was the reply. accom-
panied by a wink.
| He shouldn't have winked. Mr..
| Huxley wasn't running after" the fe-
male, but only following clue to as
sfst him to throw off the Sshackles on
ennui. That evening at 1.-The club GER
tain memb ers were astonished to- see
that Hihkley was sitting up and taking
notice of things in a way that he had
not done for months. Some figured 1t
out that his aunt was dead at last. and
others that he had got sure thing on
the races, but he gave I'D no informa-
ton AT ten O'Clock the next morning
he was on his way to Blankvilie. Dur
ing the night he had decided that his
Waterloo had arrived. He found him
self in love. He had passed eight
thousand women by without a fiutter
wearing a red hat 1t was her hat and
her total Indifference to him. It was
the hat and the way she had walked
on his feet. 1t was the hat and the
way she had looked past him and ell
bowed him. His summer suit had been
ignored His faultless form had gone
for nothing. His ego had been humil-
lated. Instead of bringing a thirst for
revenge, these things had brought love
and a spirit of forgiveness. He had
ALWAYS scorned the idea of love at
first sight, but here he was with his
foot IA the trap
MIR. Hinkley had no trouble in find
ing Judge Durso's residence. It was
manor house situated a mile from
the village, The villagers who direct
ed him would have liked. to ask all
about him and his hopes, and aims and
ambitions but he did not give them
time. Just what he was going to dc
when he reached the manor house hel
didn'teknow. but he was a firm eber,
lever in the old saying. that Provt-
dence takes care of asses and drunk
ards. He might make inquiries of
some sort. He. might leave his card.
He would, make himself known in
some way. He entered the grounds
with all sorts of plans running throug
his mind but the whole boiling or
them was soon put to flight. A watch
dog came~tearing. down to the gate to
meet him. and seized him, and rolled
him on the grass. Then the gardener
came tearing after the dog and res
cued the man and stood him up
against the fence and called him a
tramp and threatened him. Then the
old Judge came down with stately step
and put Mr.. Huxley through a severe
cross examination and at the end call
ed him a preVaricator and talked
about the grand jury and indictments,
He was finally permitted to limp away
in ignominy, but he was only forty
rods from the house when a girl in a
red hat came tearing along in an auto.
He started to raise his hat and get; out
of the road at the same time, but got
mixed up and the anto struck him and
hurled him into the nearest fence cor
ner. The girl never looked back.
Mr.. Huxley had no bones broken,
and at the end of two hours he had
limped and crawled back to the depot.
He was rent and wrecked and dilapi-
Gated. but as the fire department had
lust been called out for burning
woodshed he was not greatly re-
marked.
New York. Ell % said the ticket
seller as he threw the pasteboard and
the change out. ct thoug ht you had
come down to the wedding"
what wedding?''
why, Judge Durso's daughter.
She's to be married tomorrow. Dem
fine girl that-dem fine. Ice water
over there, in the cooler. Try some for
your feeling OF homesfcknesst'-1
lCopyriyhted. 1907. by e. c. Parcells.)