The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
THE EVENING STORY
Jimmy Receivers. .
(By Catherine Cooper

4 (By catherine OOOpe.t
When the smash came, Jimmy Con.
stable was totally unprepared for 1t
There had been no warning that his
istocks would crash down and leave
him with less ready capital than he
had possessed when he began to spec
ulate. But the certain knowledge
THAT stocks ascend as readily as they
drop, and as quickly, kept Jimmy
from mental worry.
I'm the meantime must live
Jimmy cast q rueful glance at his big
healthy frame and sighed. After that
he donned his slightly worn thinking
leap and sat down to ponder ways and
means. In the end he decided to
maintain his right to a pleasurable
existence as well as a money-making
lone.
Jimmy Constable had but one hob
by, and that was a big one. He loved
his great, speedy touring car almost
las well as most men love their wives
Jimmy had not, fortunately for the
moment, acquired one of the latter.
1t would have worried him to know
that a girl would have to share with
him his present more or less pre-
! carious fortunes.
| He sold every priced bit of costly
antique furniture with which his
bachelor home was filled to over
flowing, but retained his touring car.
Jimmy gazed with a lovers eyes at
the polished brasses, the olive green
coat and the great coy cushions.
You will be my home-till--"
Jimmy paused with speculative eyes
well, until stocks take a boost" He
cast a last look at the home in which
the auction cards were still hanging
in the windows, cranked his engine
and throbbed off toward the green
fields OF the country.
On the wide veranda of a spacious
mountain hotel. Madge Lambert
raised dainty hand to her mouth to
stifle yawn.
81 am unutterably bored,'' she told
herself by way of excuse. She gazed
out over the magnificent perspective
of mountains and lakes, then heaved
a sigh of discomfort. "If 1 had only
brought my runabout / could have
g1oried in those distant roads 1t
positively maddens me to see them
through hills and dales and I can't
so much as walk on Them Madge
petulantly bemoaned the lack of her
motor.
While she gazed at the golden band
that was the motor road over the
mountains a speck appeared, moving
steadily nearer. Out of sight, then in
again. Madge watched it suddenly
spring into the very near perspective
1t stopped then and the girl on the
veranda lost all sense of ennui.
An exceptionally good looking
chauffeur had stepped from the car
and was preparing camp fire
Madge Lambert shivered in the cool
moutain air and realized that the fire
looked cozy. She watched the man
heat something in a swinging pail
then stretch himself out to enjoy his
lunch.
Madge envied the man his COM
plete happiness, contentment, and,
more than all, she longed for the Joy
which the possession of that motor
gave him.
He can see every inch of this
glorious country she lamented.
When he had finished his meal the |
chauffeur got up, opened the door of |
the car and there amidst the great |
soft cushions proceeded to find in |
finite comfort for nap.
Madge breathed a sigh of exhaus-
ton, She had concentrated with so |
much interest on tho man that she felt |
relief when he succumbed to the |
arms Of Morpheus Sitting a second |
yanw she arose and decided upon a |
stroll Her willing feet led her in the |
direction of the sleeping chauffeur. She |
would inspect that beautiful car at /
closer range and, most probably, with /
out being seen.
When she drew near the spot where
he lad elected to camp Madge felt
strangely excited. The little harbin-
gers of an adventure were singing in
her ears.
''I do not see how he has escaped
being caught by an heiress like my
SELF" exclaimed Madge mentally upon
seeing the handsome head of the
sleeping man. He is far too good
looking to be roaming about near sus-
ceptible girls"
She became holder at sight of those
tightly closed eyes and the steady rise
near enough to the great car to read
the notice that was tackled on the back
of the car.
Madge caught her breath in little
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for people to drive about the coun-
try" she exclaimed aloud. "I shall
engage him for my very own SELF she
decided while smile lit up her eyes
and curled her lips into adorable lines.
Then Jimmy Constable opened his
eyes. He jumped TO his feet.
"Oh!1 gasped Madge, and much to
her annoyance she felt the color sweep
slightly from her surprise, ct want to
know if can engage you for the sum-
mer?" She spoke breathlessly as If
fearful that this prize would be
snatched from her grasp.
Jimmy Constable smiled. His first
patron was indeed anxious to hire him.
He looked for moment into the eyes
so eagerly awaiting his answer and his
own face took on a dull red. Would
it be safe, under hts present financial
to be long in the presense
of this magnetic, bewftching girl?
"Ycu are not engaged, are your"
demanded Madge.
Mono" he answered quickly, mo,
I am not engaged He smiled again
and Madge bit her lip to keep from
making a retort to his answer. In
stead she said with what she consider
ed great dignity:
Then consider yourself engaged to 1
the summer
It was at that moment that Jimmy
Constable let his teeth come together I
with determination to recoup every !
dollar of his lost fortune and to sup
plement two more words to Madge ,
Lambert's last sentence.
There was no more ennui for the
two that summer. Madge did not raise
4 hand to her yawning lips and Jimmy