El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-19
The Boys Tip
A short story.

1.-THE red-haired boy had just dug
/ his teeth itno the luscious side of
- the stolen peach when he heard
| the garden gate bang, and then the
sound Of footsteps. Instantly he ducked
and was lost to view among the currant
| bushes. As the footsteps drew nearer,
! he peered through the leaves. follow
| ing the movements of i pretty girl
| she walked up the path and came TO a
! halt before the south wall, where the
; peaches grew
I laugh.
= saw you looking at EN-. Why
] don you take One2 He dived into his
! pocket, extracted a peach, and thrust il
! You eat il and don't say nOtning.~
! II was q oareIaCed attempt at bribery
ana corruption, but IT won, once more
] the gate OF the vail garden slammed
noisily, and the grayelIed path crunched
/ under the tread of feet.
| The boy dtved into the bushes and
/ was gone Mrs SiSlnund- WOlf, accom-
panied by Her youngest daughter,
/ neither saw nor heard min She came
I Up her beady black eyes fixed accus-
lngly On DOreen and the lelltale peach
Miss Heath, she said acidly, what
are you dong with that peach2
nave never given You permission -
make free with our expensive wall
Doreen went not and cold, undecided
whether 10 vindicate herself or 10
LIN afraid I forgot" she stam-
mered quixOtically- Il suppose it's be-
cause 1 haven't been a gOVerness very
long"
An absurd excuse" retOrted her cm-
I:loyer rudely. You are here TO teach
EVeltia and 10 set ner a good example
: not 10 steal fruit In ashamed of you.
] ton, you ha0 better keep out of TIE
/ fruit garden altogether.
Then DOreen departed. with her head
held very erect Ill the air.
SIX months ago, before her father
died, leaving her IN Strengthened cir
CumStances with her brother little
/ Curly, on her hands. she would have
resented the treatment she habitually
received from the iIlbred mistress OF
Inc P0rneus, as the Sigmund-W offs
called their brand new stucco country
mouse But she had to think of Cur
" now, and the family fortune which
nc was, one day, to rebuild
At ) o'clock that afternoon, DOreen
beSan Eer rehearsal for the concert az
which the slee singers were to figure.
They consisted OF half a dozen picked
boy singers, OF whom the fruit thief
was one He came early. Ris angeli,,
face gave no indication OF the iniGuiry
In which DOreen had so recently de-
tected him shame was absent from
those eyes of celestial blue lie looked
frankly IL the face, and as frankly
showed his recognition OF her leniency
toward him in the fruit garden.
@aDDuN lAOSE peaches. Miss. ne be-
gan at once What 1 want to say
Miss, is that-Lhat 1 heard what YOU
said to the old woman--Mrs Wolf
letting on that you had stole the
peaches yourself Il was decent of you,
END amt likely TO forget it.
rave you eFery baeSed a horse,
Mss a winner. / mean?'
Doreen shook her head
Ever mad a tip-a stOnebIind cert2
No? Well, L daren't tell You one but
you Just hear me sing this afternoon /
he stopped abruptly as the other
boys filed into the school room ana nor
another word escaped his lips until the
music began The reference to his
singing puzzled DOreen while she mar
shaIed the boys round the plano
The fruit thief was on her left. and
as she struck the opening chords of
InTe Blnd Nice ne leaned forward
until he was quite near her
Now" cried DOrcen.
Close to her ear a boys fresh alto
rang out dominating the volume of
Three blind mice:
Keep it dark,
Trump Cards a certi
SiXty-siX to one
Tie name Was familiar to Doreen a. 9
that of a horse belonging to lord Wes-
tray winch was to run for the Cesare- I
witch She quite understood that the I
boy intention was to give her a tip; !
what she could not decide was the pro- /
prlety OF taking advantage Of it
Nevertheless, when she had dismissed /
the boys, the words lived in her nina !
She found herself humming them.
SlXty-siX 20 one That meant-just a /
sOyereiGn-and little Curly"
The Sigmuud-WOlfs' coach made its /
departure for the Newmarket race
course. lust outside the town OF Rut-
land Doreen was taken 20 instruct
the daughter.
Lord Westray, who was also stay !
ing at Rutland, helped 10 make Do /
Teens visit q pleasant one.
1t was during walk along the Cam /
bridge road that he learned that Do /
reen's father was the Col. Heath who I
had been in command Of the Hussar /
regiment in which he himself had held 4
a commission 10 years ago. 1t brought (
MN TecOlecuons Of pretty child
miniature Doreen-whO was the pet of [
the mess.
WHY, We're old friends" he said. /
And all this while neither of US knew
bTlbe me with kisses TO put you on ms !
charger"
And now bIusned Doreen. I'm !
shameless enough to give you advice i
about one of your race horses Have 1
you backed Trump Card yet?
NO. What makes you so anxious /
that I shOuld?"
Call it Il wOman's intuition that hen /
win. anyhow. I'm going to put a sOT-
ereien on him on the course tomOr-
row"
-Westray laughed.
I'm afraid Your confidence is mis- /
Blaced- Still. If YOU wish 1t. III back
Trump Card Jointly for Us Dotn- That's
agreed. them"
The next day saw Doreen on the Sig
mund-Wolf's coach, one Of the sparse
number lining the rails facing the /
stands. She was RELOCATED to the back