Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-05-16

mes somewhere, SIT.
Why, dash 1t, l thought that jolly
likely, myself! said SO.
Yes, sir" said Jenkins darkly.
"And Mr.. Billings usually knows
where he is. l guess, sir, he's in this
Observation-Disclosures"
just sat staring at him a minute,
thinking what a devilish wonderful
thing intuition is for the lower classes.
by Jove, Jenkinsl" said; then
you think"
Il think Mr.. Billings, sir, might pre-
fer to find himself-h'm! Yes, sir"
Jenkins lifted the breakfast tray with
elaboration, removed II from the
room and returned, moving about the
furniture and busying himself with an
air Of mystery. Dash it. knew he
had up his sleeve some other devilish
clever notion. and SO presently
spoke up Just to touch him on.
by Jove!" / remarked.
Yes, sir" Jenkins rested the end
OF the thumb brush on the table and
considered me earnestly. You know,
Mr.. Lightnut, last night as Mr.. Bill
Jenkins, Mr.. Lightnut has promised
to go up home with me tomorrow for
the week end. There's tenner COM
ing your way If he doesn't forget
about it. He's to go tomorrow, now,
mind you, jenkins; and it don't mat
ter what comes up. You see that he
goes up tomorrow.
by Jove!" said as he paused, and
I screwed my monocle tighter and
nodded. Il see."
OF course | didn't see, but / knew
the poor fellow was driving at some
thing, and wanted to give him run.
Exactly, sir" And he stood wait
ing. $50, shall l pack, sir? You'll
want to take the fourteen express, 1
suppose?"
By Jove, it was the most amazing
ly, dashed clever guess l ever knew
Jenkins to get off! Fact! l knew
that II there was one thing more than
another in all the world that wanted
to do, 1t was to take that fourteen ex-
press. To think of seeing Frances
again, and today!
l left Jenkins to travel by later
train, and a little after four l was
whirling above Spuyten Duyvil and
looking about the chair-car to see II
there was any one l knew. But, by
Jove, there was hardly a soul in the
car-nobody except just women, you
know, and these filled the whole place.
by Jove. she could be spared" /
thought. studying young woman who
stood Ia the aisle beside me. She was
rather heavy set-what you might call
egg-shaped. Her face and her heavy
glasses seemed to proclaim a mission
In life, and the dowdyish cut Of her
| rig and the reckless way it was hurled
| on made It plain that she was on to
the fact that nature had made a blum
der In her sex, and she wanted the
world to know she knew.
She was talking to the lady imme-
diately behind me. At least, I discov-
cred after i've minutes that she was
talking. BY Jove, up to that time, l
thought she was canvassing for q
book! The other never got in q word,
don't you know. And was getting
devilish tired Of 1t and wishing she
would move on. whom she shifted,
preparatory to doing 50. and raised
her Vosco: ORG '' -
Very well. then. II you don't care
to come. I think will 60 forward
again and finish the discussion With
Dr. jennie Newman upon the meta
morphoses OF the primordial proto-
plasms. Watch out for Tarrytown
now. Frances"
Tarrytown! Frances! BY Jove. my
heart skipped beat!
And then the freak left. I watched
her spraddle down the aisle and out
through the little corridor before
dared risk the accident of q back.
ward turn OF that funny green hat.
Then, when ali was safe, I took q
deep breath. gripped hard the arms
of the chair. and whirled suddenly
around.
"Frances!" whispered. MY darl
ingl"