New-York tribune., 1910-07-17

where" | blandly accepted the state
rnent as fact. 1t is amusing, some
times, for woman to let man think
she Is fool.
Now I've talked enough he said at last. It's
your turn. If you have sixth enough to spot
when thought my tracks particularly we'll COW
cred, know you must have had good many inter
esting experiences of your own Take MaCkinac, for
nstance-what have you seen here that most people
never notice?"
I laughed, Anyone capable of getting behind the
scenes with unsuspeCtng human nature as can would
be in clover at a place like Macbnac.
What you laughing at? said Ralph Prescott
with smile.
I'm merely thinking of the things know that the
Gossps Brigade would give their choicest newest fvo
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 things that nobody else
probably would notice at all, consider of enough
Importance to waste even passing thought upon
them"
Ralph Prescott moved slightly, and nvountarily
my eyes swept the circle of my vision Not even gull
was soaring over the tunbling and all Mackinac
seemed to have gone indoors to dinner. When my
eyes came back to his face that the movement,
slight though it had turned his face almost three
quarters from me.
What I cannot understand, for instance, is why,
when the island of AaCknac does not grow vegetable
garden. scarcely, all its nine miles round,
should nevertheless regularly take away crates of vege
tables three or four times week.
pALPH PRESCOTT sat up suddenly. Where does
My submarine having broken propeller and my
aerOplane having crippled wing, | cant really say,
laughed All tell you that, if there a brisk
breeze they hoist sails the Water Witch which docks
IN front of the Grand View and if there is either calm
or gale they get up steam and puff away somewhere
have never happened to watch them beyond the buoy
on MaCkinaC Spit.
And the other little thing"
oh nothing at all but a broken-ido' ~ I said teas
ingy.
Hump" he said rather disgustedly- What kind
of idol?"
"A cheap plaster of paris thing, evidently"
Plaster of paris" exclaimed Prescott, and l could
not help but think that the phrase meant good deal
more to him than it did to me- Il should not think
that ANYTHING out of the ordinary, he added.
Perhaps not and perhaps so; but tl>ere were two
things that made think about those white scraps.
They weren't in a scrap heap and they weren I the
kind of plaster of paris that idols are made Of"
All" said Ralph Prescott again. And how did
YOU happen to see them?
You know my eyes are skilled in wOodcraft?" I be-
Il did not know it; but can easily believe it after
my experience with you, he said mOckingly.
We'll, the other day
How long ago." he interrupted and, though I could
hear his voice, the words looked II SAID very
brlskly.
"Dav before Yesterday, between ten and ha1f-past
in the morning TO be exact anybody has the right
to expect in vacation time said tartly; for was not
sure but that somewhere he had club OF rdlcue for
me- It IS so hard ever find anybody who arrives at
things IN anything like the way do.
As | trying to say, | began again, my eyes
have become little wise wOOdCraft, and the other
1av as I was going along British Landing road away
bevOnd the golf club grounds, what looked like
freshly trail don't believe that the casual
trannDer would have noticed it at ALL because there
were only the fantest marks of feet the grass; but,
as the less used trails have been my hobby since the
second day was here, | naturally turned off. No,