Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-01-10
MOLE AND A SCAR
One Look at the Former and One
at the Latter Starts a
Romance.
BY DONALD ALLEN.

store,
Miss Kittie Parker was young
woman who had employment in a
cloak and suit house.
Mr.. Carney used the subway to get
to and from his boarding house up
town as free as if he owned the outfit
Miss Parker did the same.
Mr.. Carney, when luck was with
him, found a strap to which he could
hang during his ive-mile ride
Ditto Miss Parker
Mr.. Carney boarded at a house
where there was a gentleman with
cork leg,
Miss Parker boarded at house
where there was lady who had lost
an arm
Mr.. Carney was sized up at the store
and at his boarding house as a gentle
man who could not be bamboozled by
the wire-tappers
Miss Parker was sized up at the
cloak house and boarding house as
girl who would have to be shown If
man came along and claimed to be
worth million and proposed mar
rage.
Mr., Carney's uncle had died, as all
uncles must sooner or later, and left
him diamond horseshoe pin. Such
pins are scarce and unique. Mr.. Car
ney didn't prize his pin for the value
of the diamonds. nor in memory of his
uncle, but because he had been told
that there we're only two more like it
in the whole world He wore the
jewel day and night. and whenever a
customer took notice of it he was
given discount of ten per cent.
Miss Parker's aunt had died. as all
aunts in this world are bound to do.
and left her small gold watch, 1t
/ was one of the sort that is worn
J pinned on the left side over the heart
| 1t wasn't scare nor unique nor val
liable. It was worn altogether in
memory of Aunt Sarah and the de-
licious mince pies she used to make.
Behold now of an evening, hero and
heroine are hanging to the straps in a
subway car on their way home. They
happened for the first and only time
to be standing side by side. They were
not kicking. They were only too thank
full that the guard had not showed
them on the roof instead OF course
there were other strap-hangers, thou
Sands of them.
Mr. Carney seldom noticed a fellow
passenger. He was too busy thinking
of collars. cuffs and neckties. He just
happened to notice Miss Parker be-
cause she had a mole on her left
cheek. She would have preferred to
have had it on her right cheek. but as
her Aunt Sarah said, it had a distingue
look where Nature had located 1t.
Miss Parker happened to notice Mr..
Carney because he had a scar on his
chin. 1t was one he got while playing
shiny as a boy, but as most every.
body thought he got it while follow
ing Colonel Roosevelt up San Juan
hill he had let it go at that.
No talking-no flirtation-no mash
in One just looked at the mole. and
the other just looked at the scar They
might have bumped together when the
cars swayed but subway passengers
bump and think nothing of it. It's
what they call unconscious humping.
BY and by the guard threw open the
doors and whispered the name of a
station and announced that all pas
sengers who were dissatisfied could
go ashore. Among those who did so
were Miss Parker and Mr. Carney. At
the top of the iron steps they sepa-
rated to meet no more. She forgot the
scar, and he forgot the mole. She
went to her room to put her hair
straight before descending for dinner
He went to his to see If the fool-knot
in his tie had worked loose. Ten sec
onds passed and then:
"Oh, heavens"
by Jupiter!"
MY watch is gone!"
my pin is gone!"
THE man with the scar got it,
"The girl with the mole got it,
Il suspected him all the time!"
81 ought to have known she was
pickpocket.!"
Mr.. Carney went off to a police sta
ton and told the captain all about 1t.
The captain told the sergeant at the
desk, and the sergeant told the ward
detective.
she's a professional was the re
Sly of the latter
But I don't care what she is" pro
tested Mr. Carney. II want you to
catch her and get my pin back"
You have no clew."
"Of course have Didn't ! say that
she had a mole on the left cheek"
Well. you'll have to help me out
You must ride back and forth on the
subway trains for week and look for
her"
IN be hanged If | do Do you
think / can spare that much time from
my business?"
Then I'm afraid you will never see
your pin again. You see, If the mole
was on the right instead of the left
cheek it would be altogether differ
emit"