The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-22

taken. Shes a peasant girl who has come
over from Sicily to discover New York -
shes the Countess Padova or I'm a
Turk, says the consul. ASK her to step
I back here a moment
/ II sounded like a pipe-dream all right
Who ever saw countess rugged ont fo.
the tambOurine act and mixin' with chest
nut foasters? But Mr. Consul had the
evidence with him. As he told IT, She
was sure-enough countess. so far as the
handle went only the family wasn't Iivtn.
up to their pedigree. 1t seems thai away
BACK, before the Chicago fire or the Saw
efs-heenan 60 Miss Caramefs great-
/ eLahddaady had been a real tOp-n0tcher
WHO had done the count act in regulation
style. Then there'd come along a war or
some Kind of a mix-up He was euchred
out OF his castle and building-IOts and had
70 take to the suburbs. But he kept on
Delng a count just the same. The con-
SUI hadn't known great-grandpon himself.
but Miss PadOva's father had been a
chum Of his at boarding school or some
! i Wnere, and ne was thick with the fam
/ ny 50 when the countess takes it into
her mead to slide for America with a tin
! trunk Pop Padova cables over a general
alarm to his old friend.
II had been having Mulberry Bend
Ia .hs with fine tooth comb
without finding trace of her
| says he, but when L. saw her
standing up here in this box l knew her
said he had.
Then says he, perhaps you will tell
/ US why you came to American"
Sure says She or something that
meant the same I've come over after NV
pest teller. I'm going to marry him .
/ ana with that she slips an arm arOunS
E EoIy neck as cool as though they'd
Deen on moonlight excursion with the.
deck lanterns turned off
VT. MI COnsuIs face goes as red as A
iiremans shirt. Mama Van TTrban rrtg
ep neI 5.22nig-handled eyeglasses and
70 see through her into the last OF nevt
week Papa Van Urban side-steps &C n
ne saw trouble comm his wav sis Va1
t 1rDdn was Just breathing hard and put
ing forty-dollar iv'ry fan out Of buSi-
ness between her fingers. When 7 goa
mat remembers what the old GEM had
10 me about Roly's being booked 10
.Great upper cutst" save 70 ,e
That's the girlt' my Sell
Ihen l looks at ROHy. He badr,+
Judged or turned a hair He lust stands
t me with the Sicily lady patting him on
However unexpected" says he "tba
hollor IS an mine And say, you'd have
thought ne meant every word ~ q
-a,f An l9ili says the consul steadyfn' him
Sou WIN grip on the curtains ssPsr-
maps It would be best to make soma
plantation" 'A0 9Olle eA-
Well he tackled the job. He saws as
lio WI. II was hkely that Miss Padova. berng
courtln game that might seem 1rea, 20
w over there when countess went ,1t
OI her class she didn't have to uvait -.
oie CHAP 10 make the first move. If was
SCquelte Tor her to say: Come a1on.-
money; you're minetr ana wall btlee:
70 the priest. She'd sized RoIlv m tbat
"a!' not KNOWN he was a good deal or
q ISL 'eI ilIilselI' with real money enough
~ Duy up whole Finkful of Dago counts
Ana now" says the consuI s.befa-1
tIi9 sues any further. DerhaDs il would
-f+t - AOI lhe countess to have q faIlr
WI" VI, my WE Wen take her home.
wen, they settled it that wav ana
was mighty glad to get her off our baT,1I
% easy But as ROIIy says good ntobf ~
me van Urbans | notices the theTYno-,
eter below zero.
Nexa day the consul shor,s M, 81.
2 2H, Where l was tryin' to Interest
rSoilS III d new WhIpsaW counter YOUNG
Lei. says ne TO ROliy, givin' him tbe
AZ Az ma -nahu OF Fellowship. after what Won
G NJ last night I'm proud to know Won
with the countess" -'''' II Oil OH
Ihen ne went on to say how Miss ps
az % a. Mheh she tumbles to the brash kind
% d pay she'd made. and finds ONT -
G Cne other girl was, feels like n1,,s5
= Illlstmas box at a January sale 81
Turns on the sprinkler. wants tn l-n S,,o
80 "a they suppose ROlly thinks of her
neTt bost size Il go back to Sicily by the
Wen send her back to her father g.
uIuay' SAYS the consul. land Won NJ,
MS @SsI req mat the incident is closed :,
+1a vas lookin' for Rolly to open a hot
re or so on that. but he didn't FoT :
g pc; man he held in well. Poor iittis
girl says he. wi HItle
ABOUT that time the studio door .o,o,.
ano IN comes ROllys old gent looiCin5
49,, ,Gout as calm as hOt-chowder Jxettja
with the lid IN. AetIle
an opening, but jumpin' ri0bt in ~ Ut
q fbo Iliig or yours that's returned. win
vest and remarks: - III MS
Lhat simplifies matters a lot
a. 80 en-! says the old man, souiDtin'
d az I. nm through those X-ray ewes of his
But 1t doesn't make matters ve-v oIas-
10 me. Now what sort az ,,oI,5gr -
man nan was II that you sprung on the Van
Urbans last night?' Val
else iR She right 6i;,5 sort sir says Roly, "or
SOUNDS wei enough" saws the ola
and all that?" NJ iOiAS'
Her father" saws RolI,- nlar+f,,-- II.
sen Hfm on his pins and sticki1' HE
uhdef Jaw out, is a native of Sicily who
llxes on a three-acre farm that's worth
pfObably about two hundred dollars a.
for the young lady, she's the one 7 +riaS
- tSil You about She picked me IN i'm
the nils Of Sicily one night last s1rny,e,.
" HS en- l was wandering about lost and
shot" 'N Vi oeihg
Very finer grunts the old man. PM
N ' an Uroan says that she gives out that
she has come over here to marry voT
w hat right has she talking any such
blasted nonsense as that?"
None al all SIR says ROlly. ''But
she Will have the right inside OF half an
nour m going up there now. Come
Dr. SHORTY, / need you as a chaperon
re old gent never peeDed, and EIs
mouth closed up as tight as a safe doa.~
but l could tell by the look of his evsS
mat he thought more of RolIy that min
ute than he had ever before in MS lie
we leIt MN an the consul lOOxin' at each
1ther like pair Of wax figures.
Now playin shappyrone amt inst in nv,
me, as We said; but I went along that
time, ana We chases up to the cOnsnI's
house. -Talk about your hard frostsi
That was an ice house call. all right
Ihey left US on the door mat while the
word goes upstairs. and after awhile the
hired girl comes down to give us the booiT
agent stare.
The missus' says she, says as how
The young lady begs 10 be REUSED
Does the young lady know" saws
Rolly.
She does" SAYS the girl. and SHIFTS the
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