Evening star., 1909-06-01

! THE FIGHTER
4 By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE.
sSH Copyright. 1909, by Albert Payson Terhune.
ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE.
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of man, your place in society's cinched
What do you think OF that"
How utterly silly" she laughed Ca
leb. this society idea of yours has be-
| that sort Of thing. It's pleasant to be
| asked 10 houses where one has good
time. That's all. It's like eating Ice
cream when one is used To bread pud-
ding. I'm not anxious To eat. drink and
breathe nothing but ice cream three times
a day all the rest of my life. Why should
, I want a 'cinched place In society as you
| SO elegantly put it,
! You don't understand he insisted II
means lot moren that. With your
looks and brains an-an' the big lot or
cash your father left you-you could
make no end of hit there. You run
| the whole works inside of five years.
You'd have the same sort Of position here
i'm Granite that Mrs Astor an those peo-
pie have in New York. Think of that,
! Dey! It's a thing YOU can't AFFORD 10
don't care to shine in society-well, YOU
may not tell him so: but YOU think II, all
the same. An II d he crime for you
| to miss 1t all. IL you marry the right
sort OF man
Desiree. wrathfully. Caleb. there are
times when Ia like to box your ears. l
wish you and Mr. Game would mind
your own grubby Steeloid business and
not gabble ike two old ~ashermen about
How'd you like to marry Amzi Nichols
Caine?" suggested Conover. tentatively.
DANDY fam'ly-fairly rch-good locker
travels in the best crowd"
Warranted sound and kinda child
can drive hinl-a good hill climber-guar-
anteed rustless. snapped Desiree In lofty
contempt Caleb. do you want to be
made to drink more tea?'
Honest. girl, I'm in earnest Hes
Hes engaged TO Lefty Standish. for
| one thing. And if he wasn't, | wouldn
marry him if he and a tone-deaf piano
tuner were the only two men left on
! earth.
His bein' engaged to the standish girl
needn't matter urged Caleb. TOO much
engrossed in her first observation to note
the second. Because l can fix that all
right
In spite of her Indignation. Desree
laughed aloud.
| ""Oh. you great and wise man. she
| cried. How may | ask
II don't know yet he said with per-
| thought it over But I can fix it. ! can
always fix things when | have TO.
We'll in this case she retorted. you
can spare yourself the crime of parting
two loving souls and fracturing two
adoring hearts and shattering GRANTEES
social fabric just on my account. When
/ really want to marry and / find | can't
lure the shrinking Adonis to my feet III
luck at making him propose"
Sure, l WILL promised Conover. In
all seriousness. "Just give ME the word
when the time comes an the feller's
yours for the askin'. But I'm kind OF
disappointed in the way you turn Caine
down. 1t seemed such a grand idee.
That's one of the reasons / asked him in
this afternoon. / thought when you saw
us together he'd kind of shine by con-
trast with me. you know. More'n when
you meet him with folks of his own
sort
THE contrast was there-' she blazed.
1T fairly sizZled, it was SO strong For
! one thing Mr.. Caine has manner. And
you haven't got even manners. And l
ought to hate you for daring to talk SO
to me. And-and you're the dearest.
stupidest. splendidest boy l know. Now
I'm going to dress for dinner. You can
talk to Siegfried Mickey if you want TO
while I'm gone. But If you want to win
his fondness don't make silly, squiffy
| plans for his social future.
| She was out of the room before Con-
| over could frame an answer. But on
! the instant she had turned back long
enough to thrust her flushed face mo-
mentarily through the opening OF the cur
tains ana suggest demurely:
Caleb. if Mr.. Hawarden should ever
die don't you think il would be nice for
Mrs. HaWarden to marry Billy? II would
make the dear little fellows position in
society SO nice and secure