The Nevada County picayune., 1911-08-25

| A1 4L< IL Jm, again came up to Bill, and agai0 surveyed him with absent.minaaa speculation This time he said if Iosa drawn out and laden with subsidi1s surprise:
 Great Scott!"
 There was evidently little heln to A had from Cringer. To Bilrs ,n,ss Cringer was laboring under an attoa,. of mental alteration from wb;ea there could issue no word of con,saA. or hope. He took his hat and woa. away, leaving Cringer in a state ~ stupid inaction. He resumed b,. wandering life for a period of tn.s days. eating nothing and sleanins hardly at all. On the third afternoas | his hunger tempted him to a moo1 and the meal restored his couraaa and the courage eventuated in nlen He would return to the homo =. l Angelique Van Loo and would ton l her what he thought of herl uo would tell her he was glad she bas l rejected him. He would tell her b. despised her millions and her oprts i He would tell her-but he would wsi. until he would see her face to faoa | for the formulation of the entire mos sage. He could see her so clearly in his imagination that he closalv watched the door of the restaurant n, the chance she would enter there.
 It was odd, too. that he never onco l oh of I1 1yTHn opened the door for him, and cama out little way into the outer hall and stood before Bill with a sheer m his fat red face. the angry passions of Bill began to rise. But his voice wac gentle and calm as he spoke. Don't look at me that way Shortv don't like it."
 The open hand of Bill came down on the varlet's shoulder with rare and wonderful power. so that one fat well. fed body shook with the shock of 1t
 Not that way, Shorty tslap). don't like it (slap). don't like (slapl to be looked at (slap) that way, shorty (slap). Do you hear what I say (slap) Shorty? Now go and tell them. Shorty, that I'm here"
 The va~let was standing up 10 tba punishment of his shoulder like A wooden horse in gymnasium. and he did not observe that the two guardians of Angelloue Van Loo were behind him in the hall. They now came forward 10 Bill in warm and smiling welcome.
 Oh. William. it's you. isn't It? So fortunate you called this afternoon!"
 The dear fussy ladies. one to the fore and the other to the aft of hin, dragged him and pushed him into the big front room, and piled him into a chair
 One of them was telling him tha. she had told Angelique that she would never believe he could be such a heartless fellow as that! Surely even if it were fact, 1t would be an unheard of and monstrous thing for man to be guilty of such a cruel and unkind trick, especially when # was known to everybody, and the poor dear girl was almost insane from grief and shame.
 The other one was telling him that of course they had practised little deceit upon him in allowing him to re- main in ignorance of Angelique's wealth and position. but they had done it with the best intentions in the world. as it was perfectly obvious that William. being such a simple big fellow. had really never suspected anything of the kind. and probably would never have suspected until long afterwards. but at the same time she had said to her sister that We ars sure to weave fatal web when first We practise to tell fibs to people, but everything was all right now. wasn't 1t, or at least she hoped il was.
 And then the pair of them joined voices, and said 1t all over again' thoroughly revised and with the ia- troduetion of considerable new mat ter, which Bill was at total loss 10 understand Of course they had nos suspected that he had a silver Jaw too, and that was the reason Why Angelique had thought him so very contemptible for speaking of It. baI they had planned to tell him all about it the very day that he and Angenqus had quarreled. You know. poor cnla, she had made up her mind never 10 marry, and it was so fortunate tna1 Doctor Cringer had called and ef plained to them the whole strange story. Providential, wasn't 1t, thas they had consulted Cringer aoou. Angehque within the very week os the operation on William himself!
 Bill was still in the fog He looKeu from one of the aunts to the other, a' if they had been speaking a parucu' lariy difficult dialect of Chinese tn' meaning of which, while intensely iI terestlng to themselves, no doubt wA' of no importance whatever to 'l9 world at large. And when they nav thOrOuphiu min1ad themselves Nlu