The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-03-29

stripes on their petticoats."
"And If either Of them can show q
yellow band she'll regard the matter
fixed beyond doubt. Fancy you. with
an income Of thousand. being caught
BY dowry Of two hundred year."
And fancy you, heir to big prop
erty, being caught by couple Of white
stripes representing 500 year each"
do you know what think we de-
server" said Wallace I'VE deserve to
be roasted over a slow fire."
"You mean you deserve that. You
made eyes at Fanchette the moment
you saw her."
"You began it yourself by asking
her to criticise your picture"
Lets cut this fete and take the
| evening train to Paris"
We'll take the train in the morn
ing"
rs that goY"
| 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 Jovep' 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 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 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, 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
Atkinson said:
I've 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"
1T 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
| fiancee his address and begged her to
write him at once and two or three
times day. On the arrival of the
first mail that could bring letter from
/ Brittany each feared he would get a
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 it mean?' asked Wal
lace.
Don't know" replied Atkinson.
i've mind to go and find out"
Like the man who jumped into the
bramble bush second time to scratch
his eyes in again"
You're right there. l won't co.
At the end of 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 such matters
each party prefers to do the breaking
off. They were 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 NettIeton and Miss Leola
[ Thorne would be pleased to see Mr..
George Atkinson and Mr.. Gilbert Wallace
at musicale to be given at II Rue de 8.
on the evening of Oct. at p. m.
"Who in thunder are Grace Nettleton
and Leola ThorneY' 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 Il
niger In the fence"
What do you meanT
Il have theory. It's this: Those
two girls we have been counting are
either American or English girls
studying music in Paris. They went
to Brittany for vacation and for
some reason best known to themselves
probably to better mlngle with the
people-assumed peasants costumes
They just simply wiped the floor with
u.s.
| You don't mean it!'
II do. Look at their names, Nettle
ton and Thorne l feel prIckly sensa-
ton all over"
We'll" exclaimed Atkinson, my girl
has made bargain, and I'm bound
to hold her to it,
$50 l win with mine If 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 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
l'air of dancing eyes in each girls
osad, but the triumph was well con-
cealed. Though two pairs Of lovers
hnade long wooing with many set
backs, the affair terminated In a dou-
ole wedding.
| The Tears In Books.
1t Is not hard to understand why,
when a book makes you laugh, you
want to read it, and to read it over and
over again. But it is rather puzzling
to find that one also enjoys reading
and rereadiug books that make one
want to cry. What can there be in us
that likes to be made to feel unhappy +?
In real life we don't try to do things
that will make us suffer-not at all!
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