The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-19
The EVENING STORY
WITHOUT RESORT to Law.
(By Donald Allen.)

Without Resort to Law.
(By Donald Allen.)
Come and put in your vacation
| with me. House in the country. Lake
Fish. Golf. Mighty good looking girl
only eighty rods away. Cupid. Moon
| light, etc.
So ex-Judge German wrote to his
nephew, Phil Walker, just before COL
lege vacation. The judge was a bach
elor sixty years old, who had bought
manor house on retiring from the
bench. He was alone except for his
servants, and Phil was his favorite
nephew.
Judge. German had caught only a
orlef glimpse of Aileen Travers as
she crossed the lawn on her mother's
grounds next door. A lawyer could
nave made case of false pretenses
out of that letter, but Phil Walker
replied that he would be happy to
come. Miss Aileen Travers was just
two weeks ahead of him on vacation.
She had got home and settled down
for the summer before he was due.
When at home she was the man
about the house She could handle
saw or hammer, and when the lawn
mower got out of killer she had a
way of fixing it up instead of sending
it off to town to be tinkered at. She
reached home on this occasion to find
eAieht many H6cQGQ Her dIL0nIlOn,
and among them was the glazing of a
pane of glass in the kitchen window
This was left to the last, but on the
day her mother and little sister went
away to be gone till night the cook
was informed:
Now, then, if James got that pane
of glass and some putty, we will fix
that window. We shall need the stSp-
ladder"
It's the easiest thing in the world
for ri fo
putty in pane of glass. She first
takes out the fragments of the old
pane Then she mounts to the top
of stepladder and has the cook hold
it while she cuts away the old putty.
Then the new pane is set in and made
fast. Miss Aileen set out to accom-
plish this task.
Mid-afternoon came along while
she was still working. So did Phil
He was walking out from town for
exercise. He didn't know what house
his uncle lived in, and he decided
that the sensible thing to do was to
make inquiries. He rang the bell at
the Travers mansion, and as he rang
he wondered if that mighty good
looking girl lived there.
No answer. He thought he heard
voices at the rear of the house. The
sensible thing to do was to go around
and find the owners. He found them.
Miss Aileen was standing on the
crest of the stepladder, sleeves rolled
up, old skirt on, and bareheaded and
her hair tousled and flying about.
That's the way glazier glazes.
The cook was hanging to the step
ladder like grim death and throwing
out a suggestion now and then, and
the stage setting was ready when the
young college man appeared. There
was a yell from the cook There was
an exclamation from the mistress.
There from the family
dog, who had been held back until
this moment to complete a dramatic
situation!
The cook let go. The stepladder
wabbled. Miss Aileen came down. Mr..
Walker stepped backward, and 1t
seemed TO the dog as if the three
people were all mixed up for a mo-
ment. Then he took after the one
who fled, nipped him and chased him
off the grounds and down the road,
where ex-Judge German. standing at
his gate, trhew up his arms and called
out:
What villain has dared to set
dog on my favorite nephew? Tell me
his name that 1 may give him seven
kinds of law!'
Phil thought he understood the
case. and when he got his breath he
tried to explain. 1t was a case of
young man discover a girl purifying
in a pane of glass from the top of a
stepladder, with the family cook
braced to prevent a wabble, and the
family dog doing in the sunshine,
and exclamations, falls and bites must
follow. It's like the stock market
when a report is circulated that John
Doe is dead-it creates a furry. He
held no one to blame.
Say, boy" replied the uncle when
the story had been told, that girl on
the stepladder must have been the
one 1 wrote you about. I am afraid
you have dished your case right in the
beginning"
IT can call and apologize"
"And make another mistake? New
er. You see, she's mighty good look
ing
'I-I guess so. just got one
glimpse, and then she came sailing"
"And she's a sylph.''
"She flew like one.'
"And she didn't have her hair done
up and her Sunday clothes on, and
you didn't see her in the parlor and
have a formal introduction. Then
then, you all tumbled around together
and the dog bit you, and the cook
probably swore, and taken all together
it will require all the legal talents I
possess to win your case
But what case am I going to win or
lose. sir?'' was asked.
ssWhy. the mighty good looking girl
Miss Travers-the girl on the step
ladder: / have it all mapped out. /
shall give you this place and then
board with you after marriage. Right
handy to her mothers. you know.
Pass back and forth across the dewy
grass. One photograph answers for
both houses. Birds sing to both at
the same time. No separate thunder
showers needed. Had it down pat,
my boy, and then you had to go wan
dering around to the back yard and
making discoveries. Lands, can I ever