Putnam patriot., 1910-03-25
HE PUTNAM PATRIOT March ss 1910

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 .sYes. Heres my hand on it."
 These words were spoken as they entered the daneiiig rcofa. There were the twa piris waiting far them
 'Bg .ieVeg.. eNalaimed Wallace Your girl nss $ 0rUass yellow sgripe four hrrdrea a yeas That with your th0usaad weal4 eralle son te lve iu this beautiful country and dauh a, your inclination
 Yours has int q single white stripe But it's just as well Siuee you have a cool twenty thousand year.
 Each man walked m To the girl he was entangled with and asked Ter to dance. As AIiinson approached Jeanne she looked down to adjust the fall of her skirt and gazed proudly upon her two yellow bands Eanehette. how ever. looked upon her single white one independently.
 The music WAS not bad, the girls looked very pretty, and between the dances there was moonlight outside. Somehow 1t 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 colorel 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 Allinson said.
 I've made an ass of myself"
 Same here"
 'sI've offered myself"
 same here"
 T wish we could meet the fool kill CT on the way home"
 ''lt would he the only way out of it.
 What are we going te dog''
 What we agreed last night-take the train this morning to Paris. There. away from these tive girls. We may find some solution of the problem"
 The next morning they breakfasted in silence. went to the train Tn silence and rode to Paris in the same unso- eiable condition. Each had given his write him at once and two or three times day. On the arrival of the first mail that could bring a letter from Brittany each feared he would get q 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 1t meanf" asked Wal lace.
 Don't know" replied Ailinson.
 i've n mind to go and find out"
 Like the man who jumped into 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 were in fever. Though they had 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 of. They were thinking of going back to Brittany to find out what was the matter when they met with a surprise. They received card. IL read thus:
 Miss Grace Nettleton and Miss Teola Thorne would be pleased to see Mir. George Allinson and NIT. Gilbert Wallace at musicale to be given at F Rue de s. on the evening of Oct. al p. m.
 "Who in thunder are Grace Nettleton and Leola ThorneT' exclaimed Allin- son
 Wallace said nothing for awhile. His eyes were glued to the card. Presently he broke silence.
 George. 1t seems to me there's T nigger In the fence"
 "What do you mean?"
 "I have theory. It's this: Those two girls we have been courting arc either American or English girls studying music in Paris. They vent to Brittany for 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 it.'
 "I do Look at their names. Kettle ton and Thorne feel prickly sensa- ton all over
 Well" exclaimed Ailinson, my girl has made bargain, and Tim bound to hold her to 1t"
 ''So will with mine if l can"
 The two young men. immediately dressed. went to the musicale. where they were received by the two girls who had shared them. She who had been Jeanne" wore two yellow silk bands around her skirt, while Fan chette's'' costume WAS decorated t,y T single white one Jeanne turned out to have S2o000e In her own right and Fanchette was heir to a million. They were both Amerieans
 The young men expected to see pair of dancing eyes in each girls head. but the triumph was well con ceaied Though two pairs of lovers made long woolng with many set backs. the affair terminated in dou- h'a v-a., ,ftsg