Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-25

have your"
mot yet" says he
"Then take my advice and DON'T" says
l. "Why, say, with your slow spoken ways,
she'd have you on the run in no time at all.
Why, you wouldn't stand the ghost of a
show with her. Honest, you wouldn't.
And, anyway, you know Mr.. Robert has
sent word that you wasn't to Hello!
Here comes the conductor
1.-Two for Lenox." says Thayer, shown
out his mileage book.
But see here" says I, II amt billed to
60 clear through. Well, seem it's paid, ex-
pect might as well; but you'll have to tell
MIR. Robert how it happened"
60 there am, bound for a week end in the
~ BerkSh1reS, with not even a toothbrush
for hand baggage. l don't know yet why
Thayer did it, unless he thought might
keep his mind off his troubles on the way up.
If that was his scheme, expect didn't help
much by addin details now and then of what
a terror Aunt Verona was.
Anyway, he was we'll warned by the time
we got there, and why he kept right on
runnin into it was more'n could make out.
When the station hack lands us at the house
a maid reports that Mr. Robert is drivin'
and that she thinks Miss Lucy has gone out
for walk somewhere.
well, you scout around for the young
lady, Cap'n," says l, while | stick around
here and watch for Mr.. Robert
He hadn't moren got past the corner of
the house, and | was just testin' the sittin'
qualities of one of them bed hammocks, when
l hears heavy footsteps approachin down
the veranda. Somehow that steady pad-pad
sounded familiar, and was tryin to place it,
when all of a sudden who should loom up
right in front of me but Aunt Verona. And
if [ could have made noise like sofa pill
low I'd done it then.
boy" says she, who are you and where
did you come from?"
I'm only Willie" says l, land I'm gong
right back"
Haven't seen you somewhere before?"
says She.
WHO knows?" says 1. One meets so
manv Gtra JerS.
Rubbish says she. Il believe you're
the impertinent office boy l made Robert
discharge the other day
"Ah, it's no fair lookin' at my hair, says |.
'Humph!' she snorts. You admit it!
Then what are you doing here?"
=, Just visltln',,' says l. How do you
like it YOURSELF"
young. man." says she, Il believe you
are suspicious character"
IL 'oiN VI ~, L, IL yoo IL eiiS oilC
that does the suspectin'."
II shall have you given in charge" says
she.
''You got to catch me first" says I, max
in dive past her and droppin' over the
veranda rail-
What | was expectin' was call for help,
and me dom hundred-yard sprint from
some fat butler; but that amt this old
girls style. She has her mad up, and she
pixies right down the steps after me. Say, l
didn't look for her to keep up the pace
more'n dozen rods; but on she comes, and
for the weight she carries she's more or less
lively on her feet.
"You young scoundrel!" l hears her
growlin after me.
Save your BREATH Aunty," says l over
my shoulder. This may be long sprint"
Course couldn't figure out what would
be the finish; but anyway l was divertin'
attention from Captain Thayer for the time
bein', besides was scorin up some on her
for the rough way she'd handed it to me.
Course l might have gone down the car
riage read and hit up the highway so fast
she'd only seen the dust; but it looked like
a better game to lead her through the shrub
b'ry and around the grounds.
| don't know when I've INDUCED in any
tag contest that l enjoyed more. The