Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1910-04-22
US to be especially Interested In the
stripes on their petticoats."

US to be especially Interested In the
stripes on their petticoats."
And X either of them can show q
yellow band she'll regard the matter
fixed beyond a doubt. Fancy you. with
an income of u thousand. being caught
by a dowry Of two hundred a year."
And fancy you. heir to u big prop
erty. being caught by d couple of white
stripes representing $50 II year each"
do you know what | think we de-
server said Wallace. we deserve to
be roasted over a slow fire"
you mean you deserve that. You
made eyes at Fanchette the ome
you saw her"
you began 1t yourself by asking
her to criticise your picture"
Lets cut this fete and take the
evening train to Paris"
We'll AXE the train In the MORN
ing"
lis that a go?"
Eyes. 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 a year. That with your
thousand would enable you to live ia
this beautiful country and daub at
your inclination"
yours has but a single white stripe.
But it's just as well since you nave q
cool twenty thousand a year."
Each man walked up to the girl he
was entangled with and asked her to
dance. As Atkinson 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
d~espondently.
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 1t could not be
possible that the girl he was with was
a 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. her strolled with
his girl u into a 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
Atkinson said:
1--WE made an ass of myself"
Same here"
1--WE offered myself"
Same here"
Il wish we could meet the fool kill
er on the way home.'
"It 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 may
find some solution of the problem"
The next morning they breakfasted
in silence, went to the train in silence
and rode to Paris in the same unso-
ciable condition. Each had given his
fancee his address and begged her to
write him at once and two or three
ssffnes d1e syUn vAf arrival OF the
first mail tN~sscould bring a letter from
Brittany each feared he would get a
letter, and each was disappointed b.
cause he did not get one.
No letter came the next day nor the
next nor the next.
What does it mean?' asked Wal
lace.
Don't know" replied Atkinson.
"I've a mind to go and find out"
Like the mar who jumped into the
bramble bush a second time to scratch
his eyes In again."
You're right there. / won't 60"
At the end of a week the two men
were in a 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 snch matters
each party prefers to do the breaking
off. They We're thinking of going back
to Brittany to find out what was the
matter when they met with a surprise.
They received a card. 1t read thus:
Miss Grace Nettleton and Miss Leola
Thorne would be pleased to see M
George Atkinson and Mr.. Gilbert Wallace
at a musicale to be given at IL Rue de S.
on the evening of Oct. 2 at 8 p. m
"Who in thunder are Grace Nettleton
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 a
niger in the fence"
what do you mean?"
II have a theory. It's this: Those
two girls we have been counting are
either American or English girls
STUDYING music in Paris. They went