Evening star., 1913-10-05

Grogan or whatevers her name can ride team of
circus beasts, then she deserves to lose Jack
as bachelor brother. Tom will you help me helped
YOU in that Pomeranan affair. Say yes, and we teach
that darling brother of mine trick! Come on!
It'll be great fun'
This younger sister of Jacks the gamest little
thing you saw,-could ride, swim, SAIL dance and
look better than any other girl the land, and had
way of persuading man that was little short OF un
canny. Her of humor so clean cut, colossal
and harmless her enthusiasm was so Infectious and her
smile frank and winning, that she always gained
her point. agreed to be fellow conspirator in the
plot to put dents in the heart and pocketbook of my
good friend NcCann; but until Miss Dorothy had
demonstrated to Sam and that she could ride two
horses simultaneously and safely Then started to
work, and worked fast.
THE father of the girl whose wedding Miss Dorothy
had come West to attend was horse fancler OF m
ternationa fame and on big farm just outside of the
city had stable filled with carefully bred equnes. We
Miss McCann and I-unfolded the plot to him, and
received decidedly chilly response when it came to the
question of using pair of his nags to bring about the
amatory awakening of young John Henry. 1t was too
dangerous to think Of he said The notoriety such
stunt would would make his daughters initiation
into the marital state about solemn hoochy
coochy show.
We had quite time explaining that nobody would
ever know the identity of the fair equestrene that the
child had shaken the dust of Kansas City off her tiny
boots and all the uncooked rice out of her hair And
then he too had be convinced that little Miss McCann
could ride.
On his country place he had half-mie exercising
track and that very evening the old gentleman Hark
ins and had the pleasure of watching Miss Dorothy
guide pair of powerful bays round the oval at slash
ing canter. She had ridden ever since she old
enough walk and honestly believe she the peer
of any man ever saw on orse-barring, of course
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there wasn't doubt of her ability The old gave
in when he had watched her awhile and had received
Sans that there little danger attached
to standing race comfortable track. We promised
him complete lack of notoriety. He agreed
The hymenea roughhouse was to take place the last
day of stay in the city, decided to pull off the
affair in the second town out The burg selected was
szable place,-had population of twenty thousand or
thereabouts, only two hours ride from Kan
City: enough to attract newspaper correspon
dents and to permit immediate and valuable publicity
being planted in the public prints within radius of
several hundred miles. started the ball rolling by
placing challenge in all the Kansas City papers, and
doping the ad enjoyed the enthusiastic assistance
of my poor misguided friend Jack. He went
around with when handed in the copy; although
| feared audibly that he wasting time that might
have been spent more pro6tably studying Spanish.
mix the kidding stuff, his comeback. "If
this pronunciamento' (you notice he getting quite
easy with the Espaola already @only raises reply,
you'll see what the little Alhamer lady do
agreed with him for more reasons than one. The
challenge simply said that Senorta Jacinta Alhamar.
late of Spain and Argentina, and Now Featured At
traction with the Mighty Harldns Circus, the
disputed Lady Roman Standing Expert of the Known
World, and was Ready and Willing to Defend her Title
Against Anybody, Male or Female Who Dared Contest
her Claim and Could Back His or Her Opinion with
One Thousand American Dollars.
Next day both the evening papers ran interviews
with Harkins and Miss Grogan printed pictures OF