The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-05-25

AuQ you, my LalT Prince GnuTHlnE. II
that cruel old witch. my fairy god
mother is 10 be believed. now have It in
your possession. Pray. o pray. dear
Prince. for the sake OF romance. prom
Use that you will not hold Il as a keep
sake. but return Il TO your poor little
and woefully distressed Cinderella"
Young Van Braun hesitated just
breath before he made reply. II
seemed quite evident TO him that the
speaker was some one he knew: and
yet. so far as his recollection went, the
voice was totally strange.
You will have to prove your prop
erty. you know" he told her with a
teasing chuckle. "It Is a very tiny.
fairylike slipper: and TO be quite exact.
prosaic mortal that | am. may tell
you az once that it is neither crystal
nor glass
Lightly. her laughter flowed over the
prosaically utilitarian wire. oh. you
goosey gander." she chirruped. Don't
you know anything about fairies az
all? II was crystal when Il left my
foot; but II might have been any one
OF a hundred things when It reached
you. Fairies simply love to practise
transmutation."
"Oh. / Sec" he returned. "a ~ thor
ouEhly convinced. And can they
change the size, too. just as readily.
these twentieth century fairies? Glass
slippers always stayed glass slippers
when I was a boy And their size
never varied"
Your ideas were cleaned from the
story books" she told him. with an eff
fort az gravity. and the fairy story
writers misrepresented the little pixy
people terribly. There's really no limit
10 the fairies power
You alarm me-" he cried Am I
liable then. 10 get into trouble over
this little matter2 Would the fairies
approve OF my giving the slipper back
to you?"
"Oh. am sure they would. other
wise my fairy godmother wouldn't
have given me your name and ad-
dress"
And did she do that?"
TO be sure. How else do Won sup
pose I should ever have learned who
had the slipper"
II never thought OF that" he fooled
VIII you come here after it, or do
you wish me 10 bring II to your"
Probably we had better meet each
other half way" she suggested.
Capital! You eNall lunch with me
tomorrow. az the Plaza. and I'll hand
you tho slipper between courses"
You're . dear" was her apprecia-
tive rejOinder. And the timer"
viii two o'clock be agreeable?"
1T will be delightful"
And how shall recognize you2"
he asked. VIII you wear a blue rose
IN your hat. or" But only n deafen-
ing bu7zing answered him. He waited
a moment. hoping it would cease: and
then he called: Hello" and repeated
30. lie repeated g. again and again and
again. and played n lively tattoo with
the hook OF the Instrument. but the
only answer was from the clerk IN the
Once. downstairs. who said that his
party" had rung on
The Incident annoyed him more than
o. perTlcNed him. n was all very mys.
tHrisus. 10 Do sure. but he felt that In
spite % the womans seeming Hayety
the adventure held an element OF the
unpleasant throughout 70 all. he had
been az a disadvantage. Clearly enough
sho knew him luf no was utterly az
a loss 10 conceive her Identity More
over. She whole conversation. pitched
~ Or had been. On the key Of tho fancl
ful rang false. and. 80 seemed 20 him
sinister
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