Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-05
wen take the train in the morn

These words were spoken as they
entered the dancing room. There were
the two girls waiting for them.
by JoveI'' exclaimed Wallace
Your girl has a double yellow stripe
-four hundred year. That with your
thousand would enable you to live in
this beautiful country and daub at
your inclination"
Yours has but a single white stripe.
But it's just as well since you have a
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.
despondently.
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 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 colored glasses. Each
man danced inside, then strolled with
his girl out 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
Allinson said:
i've made an ass of myself"
Same here"
i've offered myself" trl
Same here"
Il wish we could meet the fool kill
er on the way home"
cit 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
flancee his address and begged her to
write him at once and two or three
times Il day. On the arrival of the
first mail that could bring a letter from
/ Brittany each feared he would get
letter and each was disappointed be-
cause he did not get one.
No letter came the next day nor the
next Tor the next.
what does it meanT' asked Wal
lace.
Don't know" replied Atkinson.
1--WE 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. l won't GO"
At the end Of a 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
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 q card. II read thus:
Miss Grace Nettleton and Miss Leola
1 Thorne would be pleased to see Mr..
! George Atkinson and Mr. Gilbert Wallacs
. at a musicale to be given at II Rue de S.
. on the evening Of Oct. at 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.
I Presently he broke silence.
George. it seems to me there's a
/ Niger in the fence"
what do you mean?" -
two girls we have been counting are
/ either American or English girls
studying music in Paris. They went
to Brittany for vacation ard for
/ some reason best known to themselves
/ probably 10 better mingle with the
/ people-assumed peasants costumes.
They just simply wiped the floor with
/ Us"
You don't mean it,
Il do. Look at their names. Nettle-
. ton and Thorne. I feel priclily sensa.
/ ton all over"
We'll" exclaimed Atkinson, my girl
( has made Il bargain, and I'm bound
to hold her to it."
$50 l will with mine If cam
/ 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
/ chettes" costume was decorated by a
/ single white one. Jeanne turned out
/ to have 100000 in her own right.
/ and Fanchette was heir to a million
/ They were both Americans.
/ The young men expected to see a
/ pair Of dancing eyes in each girls
/ head. but the triumph was well con-
/ cealed Though two pairs Of lovers
made long wooing with many set
backs. the affair terminated IN a dou-
BILE wedding.
Exposure to wet, dampness and cold
/ invariably results in a sudden chill,
which, if not attended to Immediately,
will cause a cold. BY mixing a tea
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