The Press., 1911-03-01
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 ''Yours has but single white stripe. But it's just as well since you have 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 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 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 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." ..
 "pve offered myself"
 Same here."
 "I wish we could meet the fool kill CT on the way home."
 "It 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- ciahle condition. Each had given his fancee his address and begged her to write him at once and two or three times a day On the arrival of the i first mail that could bring q 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 neN,
 "What does 1t mean?" asked Wal lace.
 "Don't know" replied Allinson. "I've a 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. I won't go." 6o Of 1 were ill a fever. Though they had probably been let out of the affair com= | fortahly, they would have preferred some other way of being let out. l 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 card. It read thus;
 Miss Grace Nettleton and Miss Leola Thorue would be pleased to see MT. George Allinson and MT. Gilbert Wallace at musicale to be given at 12 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 70 the card, Presently he broke silence.
 "GeoFge, it seems to me there's g nigcer ill the fence"
 nWhat do yC4 mean?"
 Il 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 to Brittany for a vacation and for some reason best known to themselves probably to better mingle with the I peop,e-assumel peasants costumes. They just simply wiped the floor with us."
 "You don't mean it!'
 II do Look at their names, Kettle ton and Thorne. feel a prickly sensa- tion all over'
 Well" exclaimed Allinson, my girl has made a bargain, and I'm bound to hold her to it.
 ''So will with mine if can." 1 The two young men, immediately | dressed. went to the musicale, where they were received by the two girls who had snared them. She who had been Jeanne" wore two yellow silk bands around her skirt, while "Fan' chette's" costume was decorated by single white one. Jeanne turned out to have $2OO,O0O in her own right and Fanchette was heir to a million They were both Americans,
 The young men expected to see pair of dancing eyes in each girls head, but the triumph was we'll con cealed. Though two pairs of lovers made a long wooing with many set backs, the affair terminated In dou ble wedding