Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17

ment as fact. it is amusing, some
times, for woman to let man think
she is fool.
"Now I've talked enough he said at last. "Its
your turn. you have sixth sense enough to spot me
when thought my tracks were particularly well
ered know you must have had good many inter
estng experiences of your own. Take Mackinac, for
instance-what have you seen here that most people
never notice?"
laughed. Anyone capable of getting behind the
with unsuspecting human nature, can would
be in clover at place like Mackinac.
what you laughing at?" said Ralph Prescott
with smile.
I'm merely thinking of the things l know that the
Gossps Brigade would give their choicest newest frvol
to know. But those things really do not interest
Anybody could ferret out gossip and scandal, just by
being suspicious and nosy and all round catty What
really has interested is two things that nobody else
probably would notice at ALL or consider of enough
Importance to waste a passing thought upon
them.
Ralph Prescott moved slightly, and involuntarily
my eyes swept the circle of my vision Not even gull
soaring the tumbing waves, and all Macknac
seemed to have gone indoors to dinner. When my
eyes back to his face, that the movement,
slight though had turned his face almost three
quarters from
''Well?" he said laZiy.
What 1 cannot understand for instance is why,
when the island of Macknac does not grow vegetable
garden scarcely, in all its nine miles round one man
should nevertheless regularly take away crates of vege
tables three four times week.
D ALPH PRESCOTT sat up suddenly where does
N he take them?" he said.
"My submarine having broken propeller and my
aeroplane having crippled wing | can't really say.
l laughed. "All tell you is that if there is brisk
breeze they hoist sails the Water Witch which docks
in front of the Grand View, and if there is either calm
gale they get up steam and puff away somewhere.
have happened to watch them beyond the buoy
Mackinac Spit
And the other little thing?"
"Oh nothing at all but broken-idol," 1 said teas
Hump" he said rather disgustedly. What kind
of idol?"
"a cheap plaster of paris thing, evidently
Plaster of paris! exclaimed Prescott, and I could
not help but think that the phrase meant good deal
more to him than it did to me- II should not think
that anything out of the ordinary he added.
perhaps not, and perhaps so; but there were two
things that made think about those white scraps
They weren't in a scrap heap and they weren't the
kind of plaster of paris that idols made Of
"Ah'' said Ralph Prescott again. And how did
you happen to them?"
You know my eyes skilled in woodcraft?" be-
gan.
Il did not know it; but 1 can easily believe it after
my experience with you, he said mockingly.
well the other day"
"How long ago." he interrupted, and, though could
not hear his voice, the words looked if said very
brusky.
DAY before yesterday, between ten and half past
the morning to be exact anybody has the right
expect in vacation time, said tartly; for was not
me. 1t is hard to find anybody who arrives at
things in anything like the way do.
LAS | was trying to say, began again, my eyes
have become little wise in woodcraft and the other
day, as l going along British Landing road away
beyond the golf club grounds what looked like
freshly worn trail. I don't believe that the casual
tramper would have noticed it at ALL because there
only the fanest marks of feet the grass; but,
as the less used trails have been my hobby since the
second day was here, I naturally turned off. No,