The Cairo bulletin., 1912-03-24
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4 RUBIES
III By
IN FRANCIS PERRY
III ELLIOTT
4 Iiiatsrasiens By
~ RAY WALTERS
HiaJtrations BY
RAY WALTERS
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(Co9yngal 1871. b. BoebsAiefnu Coa.ransb
"lf Ever Fird a Mani"

mines eyes, bluer than the Hudson n,
our feet; yet between the jolly rip
pies that played across those pools o.
truth could glimpse far down into
depths that were the most devalshly
enhancing, darkly. deeply. beautifully
oh, you know!
Why, by Jove, almost took q crop
FER right into them! Only caugh,
Just III Zine. you know; Strengthened
tight on the verge, as it were---ant
came up with gasp. monoele can
glug,
Had almost forgotten Tic dashet
viudows--and the two cats tina,
might he looking olt
| murmurcd some jolly apology
adding:
oh. yes-quite SO; certainly!
mean-eh, WHAT
She was smiling, her rose-retal liz
dragging through her toeth.
The bobby, you know, just now
she nodded toward the porte-cochcrs
II was positive he had come to drag
you away to your loathsome dung con
And when he retired, | was--oh, SO re
lieved" And she claspcd her hands
her eyes lifting upward
"Oh, say nowhere you, though"
l griHned de!ightedIy and slipping tc
rustic chair beside her, looked hei
afectionateiy In the eye For all he;
air Of chatting, knew that under II
was a current of anxiety for me--the
darling
| screwed ny glass at hor tenderly
What would you have doue?"
said softly, IF he had-cr-IuSged me
OF, you know?"
Can you ask" What a reproachfUI
sideg!anCe she shot ne through the
meshes of her siikon what-you-ca call
ems! Why, of course, should have
drawn my good excalltGr and run him
thr-r-rough and thr-r-r.ough!"
BY Jove, how she said it! Ard she
illustrated with the stemlcss rose
dash It, no; the roseIess stem! She
VAS superh--l9oked like the jolly
fencing girl; only a dashed sight more
stunning, don't you know! Aud her
oxcGlihar. tCo Didn't know wha. O
Jolly eXcalibar was, but guessed 1t was
some delightfully."- mysterious but dead
ly feminine thing--some kind OF sub
merged hatpin-sort-of-thlng, you know
that sort, dash f.! Yet she would
have drawn it--and her good ore, too
she said!
"Jove!" 7 said fcellngly. Would
you, really?' And | almost took her
hard-and again remembered the win.
dows! So ] just shot her a lock.
Her glorious eyes sparkled THAT
is, | would If | had one" she SAID
smiling; but I'm afraid poor Arthur
lost the last ard only one. Sad, isn't
it,"
"Oh!"
just felt my jolly heart sink like
what s-its-name. Who the deuce was
poor Arthur" This must be another
some other laundering chap who
had been engaged to her. And what a
rotten. careless beggar, too, to have
lost it--that Is, If he really had! OF
course, he would say so, anyhow. And
how the deuce did he get IT, in the
first place--did she give it 20 him, or
did he
BY Jove, how should have liked to
punch Arthurs head Always did
hate a chap with that name! | flushed
guilty, but she did not see. For the
moment, she was looking Off dream
fly across the valley.
Il wonder" she said pensively,
why 1t Is one can never find another
man like Arthur. DO you suppose it
is because he was the ideal"
For an instant, l swallowed hard
then plucked up brayciy, or tried to,
don't you know
Jolly likely!' | chirped. Then
gloomily: oh | say, you know, was
he your idcaI?"
Always! the blue eyes lighted
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