The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-03-28


lowed her home and marked dowr
street and number. The agent inten
ed to ask If the house was for sale
but something happened to prevent
The girl who had tumbled was at the
head Of the stairs when he rang. She
started down to open the door, and
her heel caught and she pitched for.
ward and went to hall floor like a
feather bed. The mother came run
ming and screaming, and Mr.. Ward
turned the knob and entered just as
the bundle on the floor was unrolling
itself.
''You-you again!" 1t gasped
yes! You cannot be much injured.
You fell too gracefully for that. You
surely have got the art. l called to
| ask"
The bundle grew feet and walked off
down the hall after one awful glance,
and the mother replied that the house
was not for sale, and that that was
her busy day.
But the astrologist said I was to
marry the girl with the teeth Of gold"
said Mr. Ward to himself as he walked
away, land I'll have to wait and let
Providence help me out"
A month passed. Then one day Mr..
Ward rode out into the suburbs to in
spect a piece of real estate that had
been marked down in price to him ow-
ing to the fact that it abutted on &
graveyard, and folks didn't fancy the
scenery. OF a sudden there were
screams. Bliss Blythe was riding out
that way with the girlowner of a run
about, and the vehicle was skidding
from side to side of the road and look
ing longingly at stone wall. There
was no chance to play the hero before
Miss Blythe jumped. 1t cannot be said
that she landed on her ear, but still
she landed and brought up against a
fence with bang.
Mr.. Ward was on the spot with
words of hope and coincidence, but he
hadn't uttered ten of them when Miss
Blythe was on her feet and saying:
"You wretch, but you have crossed
my path again!"
ooh, don't know" replied the young
man. 81 came out here to look at a
graveyard, and had no thought that
you would follow me-"
"But it must stop, sir-it must
stop,'
eyes, three falls is enough"
IF you continue TOTO"
''But you see I've got to. l paid an
astrologist dollar to read my hand,
and she said the stars said I was to
marry you"
"That woman-that Woman!"
eff you'll drop in there yourself and
hand her a dollar it's shilling to pen
MES that she'll tell you the stars
say
IT won't! l WON'T" exclaimed the
girl as she walked off.
"I'll bet she hast" whispered Mr.
Ward to himself, "and that's what she
is mad about. She may fight me off
for time, but the stars are working
for me day and night"
During the next month Mr. Ward
did not catch sight of the girl with the
golden teeth, but he was calm and |
content. Not for a moment did he |
doubt that the stars would bring |
everything out all right. Then the
day came that a grocer's horse was
given an extra handful Of oats and
got frisky over it and ran away. Did |
he run over Miss Blythe? Not bit of |
It. Mr.. Ward was there to grab him
BY the nose and twist him into a lamp
post and see that his neck was prop
erly broken. OF course, the girl STUN.
oled and fell backwards, but she was
It once assisted to rise, and before
the could shed a tear the real estate
nan was walking home with her and
laying:
"You can't beat the stars, my dear.
they say We are to occupy a vine-clad
cottage after marriage, and We might
Is we'll be looking around after thu
7ines!"
Happiest couple on the street! Bless
ho Storef