Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-19
,:s .:s3|LLNRDS--AND
 SOMETHING ELSE,
The Chance That Came With a
 Lesson In the Game.
By M. J. PHILLIPS.

The trouble waS that, while Carrick $ admitted his oliensc and was anxious to present his excuse Miss Wclland ! Tby her manner ignored the existence of an offense and so made excuse i'm { possible. At first blush that sounds l all right, but it wasn't.
 1 4 For how could fellow secure free dom from his grievous dungeon when ~ the pardon board publicly and official ly pretended to believe that he was se. enjoying the sweet atmosphere of lib .Sty? That was the question which .G bothered Carrick.
 K He felt that five minutes talk with Miss Welland would set everything Out. But she was graciously and
 UeS unapproachable. She insisted Iy. c-s&eating him just the same as ever, Il. only more so. And Carrick rattled his !, ,.Ddungeon .D chains. while Miss Welland smiled swcetly on Purves Bland. Carrick wasn't really to blame. They had been going to the theater Wednes- day evening after having waited three @.weeks to get tickets because every i4 body else seemed to want to go too. lySAnd that very Wednesday afternoon ly9 the manager had sent for Carrick. ,dI Be here at S o'clock tonight" he ( directed '''fhcre will be a special 7 C meeting of the board for the purpose 4zs12iscussing VOLT carbon improve 0O0 WN plan. If We take it up"- His --- sSous smile was rich with promise. a young man whom opportunity T .-I seized by the nape of the neck and Eas thrusting headlong into prosper .+ Hy Carrick was snguarly unapprecia- lA tive. He knew how Miss Wellanu was anticipating seeing What Woman 1 Would Do'' and the impossibiity of se- curing other tickets during the re- 0 mainder of the run. Miss Welland' $ - slightest wish was more important just )G then than good many other things, sV so he mentioned another engage 16ent.''
 4Then you must break it, MT. Car krick,' said the manager quite decided ly MT. Kern. who is our president and heaviest stockholder, will be here from the west tonight on his way tc ua New York. He can stay only two hours. We can do nothing without his us approval. So you sec how necessary ldld it is that you attend the meeting acs There seemed no way out of it. Car rick wrote note to Miss Welland eX kplaining the circumstances. sealed i A and rang for messenger. When diminutive representative of the A. D T. arrived Carrick was smitten with
 brilliant idea Why not send the tick cts so she could go anyway? So h. wrote another note, inclosed the ticket with it and handed both envelopes t' the messenger. And the one contain ing the tickets was never delivered.
 All unconscious of this fact Carricl went back to the office at s o'clock Fifteen minutes later word came tha IMr. Kern was delayed by a wreck ant lthat the board meeting would be helt lnext morning.
 On the chance that he might yet It m time to escort Miss Weland to th, ftheater he rushed off to find hc", only Ito be informed by the maid that sfe had gone out. He went on home then where he WAS promptly pressed int Iservice by lis sister Beatrice. whe Iwanted company as far as Gladys EE" S had encountered Miss Welland
 That young lady had smilinGly cu Ishort his explanations before they iwere begun Later, when he heard c, lhe nondelivery of the tickets. he triet again But Purves Bland was now il the play, and explanations were impos sible. He never saw Miss Welland unless the hint-impeIvious Mir. Bland was at her elbow. He haunted balls md recitals and tea fights in an en- leavor to tell her of the meeting that lidn't come off, but ill vain.
 Weeks Of plotting and planning and waiting for opportunities that never anne left him worried and hungry ooking Why rejoice that his carbon improvement scheme was go when
 he only girl in the wOrld-it had
 cached that stase-wouldn't look at i'm or, worse still. looked at him pre-
 isely as she locked at everybody else? But his persistence won finally By he assistance of Dick Sargent, en-
 aged and consequently sympathetic, | e was assured of monopoly of Miss
 Velland and the billiard room during
 dance at Burton's one night. Dick
 romised fifteen minutes if he had to Ce Purves Bland with the portieres O"Miss Welland.' he began breathless,
 when Bland had been lured away y Diclt1and the future Mrs. Sargent.
 you know the night of What a Wom.
 Would Do's-
 "But you were to teach me to play
 illiards you know" remarked Miss
 7elland
 i"But I want to explain he urged.
 q got your Aota' Miss Welland re-
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