Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-09

yellow band she'll regard the matter
fixed beyond a doubt Fancy you. with
an income of a thousand, being caught
by dowry of two hundred year,
"And fancy you, heir to a big prop
erty, being caught by a couple of white
stripes representing $50 year EACH"
do you know what | think we de-
server" said Wallace 1--WE 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 gow
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 Jovev' 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 Allinson approached Jeanne
she lOOEp6 down tn a6inCf No 70 nG
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
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 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:
1--WE made an ass of myself"
Same here"
"Tve offered myself
'Same here
Il wish we could meet the fool kill
er on the way home"
ut would be the only way out of it,
what are we going to doG''
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-
cable condition. Each had given his
fiancee his address and begged her to
write him at once and two or three
times a day. On the arrival of the
first mail that could bring a 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 Allinson
"l've 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. 1 won't co.
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 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 surprise
. They received card. 1t read thus:
Miss Grace Nettleton 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 S
on the evening of Oct. at p m.
"Who in thunder are Grace Nettletor
and Leola Thorne?' exclaimed Allin.
son.
: Wallace said nothing for awhile
J His eyes were glued to the card
| Presently he broke silence
, George, it seems to me there's q
, ! 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
I to Brittany for a vacation and fol
+ some reason best known to themselves
probably to better mingle with the
;, people-assumed peasants costumes
They just simply wiped the floor will
! u.s."
"You don't mean it!''