Smyrna times., 1910-08-03

erty. being cuught by Il couple Of white
stripes representing $50 a year each"
DO you know what | think we de-
serve?'' said Wallace. I'VE deserve to
be roasted over a slow fire"
You mean you deserve that. You
made eyes at Fanchette the moment
you saw her"
You began it yourself by asking
her to criticise your picture"
Lets cut this fete and take the
evening train to Paris"
We'll take the train in the morn
ing"
is that a go?"
YES. Here's my hand on it,"
These words were spoken as they
entered the dancing room. There were
the two girls waiting for them.
"By Jove!' exclaimed Wallace.
Your girl has a double yellow stripe
-four hundred year. That with your
thousand would enable you to live in
this beautiful country and daub at
your inclination"
Yours has but a single white stripe.
But it's just as well since you have
cool twenty thousand a year"
Each man walked up to the girl he
was entangled with and asked her to
dance. AS Allinson approached Jeanne
she looked down to adjust the fall Of
her skirt and gaZed proudly upon her
two yellow bands Fanchette, how
ever, looked upon her single white one
despondently.
The music was not bad, the girls
looked very pretty. and between the
dances there was moonlight outside
Somehow it seemed to each of these
two young men that it could not be
possible that the girl he was with was
peasant There was just enough
of his own thinking self left to make
him understand that he was looking
through rose colored glasses. Each
man danced inside then strolled with
his girl out into flower garden. The
flowers. lighted by a full moon, did
not appear more heavenly than the
girl whose warm hand rested on his
arm. When the ball was over and the
two men friends went away together
neither spoke for some time. Then
AllinSOH said:
i've made an ass of myself"
Same here"
I've offered myself"
Same here"
Il wish we could meet the fool kill
er on the way home"
1T would be the only way out of it,"
what are we going to do?"
What we agreed last night-take
the train this morning to Paris There.
away from these two girls. we NAV
find some solution of the problem"
The next morning they breakfasteG
in silence, went to the train in silence
and rode to Paris in the same unso-
ciable condition. Each had given his
fiancee his address and begged her to
write him at once and two or three
times a day. On the arrival of the
first mail that could bring a letter from
Brittany each feared he would get a
letter, and each was disappointed be-
cause he did not get one.
No letter came the next day nor the
next nor the next.
What does it meanY asked Wal
lace.
Don't know" replied Allinson.
I've a mind to go and find out"
Like the man who jumped iuto the
bramble bush a second time to scratch
his eyes in again
You're right there. | won't go"
At the end of week the two men
Trbo,,,rl,
probably been let out of the affair com
fortably, they would have preferred
some other way Of being let out
That's the trouble in such matters
each party prefers to do the breaking
off. They were thinking of going back
to Brittany to find out what was the
matter when they met with surprise
They received a card. 1t read thus:
Miss Grace Nettleton and Miss Lcola
Thorne would be pleased to see Mr.
George AllinsOn and Mr.. Gilbert Wallace
at musicale to be given at u Rue de S
on TIE evening Of Oct. 2 at p. m.
"Who in thunder are Grace Nettlcton
and LeOla ThOrne?" exclaimed Allin-
son.
Wallace said nothing for awhile
His eyes were glued to the card.
Presently he broke silence
George. it seems to me there's
nigger in the fence"
"Wbat do you mean?"
II have a theory. It's this: Those
two girls we have been courting are
either American or English girls
studying music in Paris. They went
to Brittany for a vacation and for
some reason best known to themselves
probably to better mingle with the
peOple-assumed peasants costumes.
They just simply wiped the floor with
us"
"You don't mean itv'
II do. Look at their names, Nettle-
ton and Thorne. l feel prickly sensa-
tion all over"
WELL exclaimed Allinson, my girl
has made a bargain. and I'm bound
to hold her to it,