The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-04-13
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When Things Come True
(copyrieht, 10Ia. b. A.soeis.ed L.s.gaEE Press)
By BRYANT C. ROGERS


Mr.. Ward was in the real estate
business. He passed on to attend to
his bargain sales. but as he headed
fer his Office he said to himself:
Yes, thought 1 loved another, but
was wrong. It's the girl with the
golden tooth l love and am going to
marry"
Mr. Ward did not lack cheek. No
real estate man does. If he hasn't got
| it he makes a fat failure Therefore,
he didn't let "a hours elapse before
calling Gu Miss Blythe. For the small
sum of ten cents a small boy had fol-
lowed her home and marked down
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
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 againi" it gasped.
Eyes! You cannot be much injured.
You fell too gracefully for that You
surely have got the art I 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, "and 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 a
! graveyard, and folks didn't fancy the
scenery. Of sudden there were
screams. Bliss Blythe was riding out
that way with the girl-owner of a run
about, and the vehicle was skidding
from side to side of the road and look
ing longingly at a 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 a 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!"
| II he 10
man. 81 came out here to look at
graveyard, and had no thought that
you would follow me-"
But it must stop. sir-it must
stop!"
Eyes, three falls is enough"
eff you continue Toto"
But you see I've got to. 1 paid an
astrologist dollar to read my hand.
and she said the stars said I was to
marry you"
THAT woman-that womani"
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"
st won't! I WON'T" exclaimed the
girl as she walked of.
"I'n bet she hasI" whispered Mr.
Ward to himself, "and that's what she
is mad about She may fight me OF
for a 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 lamp
post and see that his neck was prop
erly broken. OF course, the girl STUN
bled and fell backwards, but she was
at once assisted to rise, and before
she could shed tear the real estate
man was walking home with her and
saying:
You can't beat the stars, my dear.
They say We are to occupy a vine-clad
cottage after marriage, and We might
as well be looking around after the
vfnes!"
Happiest couple on the street! Bless
the stars!