The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-01-02
WINNING OF DOLLY.
Thrilling Encounter With Bandits
FITS Pompous Italian Count
to Bout.
BY n. S. CANFlELD, jR.


subterfuge, even in the struggle for
the hand Of the woman he held above
all. Besides, for man VINO mad new
er answered to the call or the craze
of the petrol, goggles, high-collared
coat and bunglesome cap formed a
discomfltting rampant behind which to
hide features and form. with groWl-
ing imprecation against stubborn
fathers and fate, who kept him fight
ing for his share of the worlds goods
instead of endowing him with such at
short notice, Arnold swept the big,
rakish-looking car In viciously short
curve and brought it to a painting
standstill before the Leonard mansion
in the Upper Drive.
To his associates and enemies alike
on Change. "Old Bull' Leonard was
the personiflcation of what all good
mothers warn their sons against grow
ing up into. He was just as mercl-
less and cruel as his rise to fortune
was sudden and spectacular. The one
soft spot in his heart was for Dolly,
and her request for an imported car
of fabulous horsepower and an In
structor in its ways and tricks OF loco
motion, was granted readily. The rec
ignition Of struggling young Arnold
had been the one request against
which the old broker had hardened his
heart. The influence Of young man,
well liked for. bis personal qualities, Is
sometimes as far reaching as that OF
an old man well munitioned with gold,
end Arnold had experienced no diff
Guilty in landing the place as instructor
in auto driving to the beautiful Dolly
Leonard.
Arnold had no chance to step from
the car after it had stopped. His heart
warmed and his face flushed happily
at the suddenness with which Dolly
threw open the doors and almost ran
to the curbing in response to the
"honk honk" of the horn. Dolly had
admitted her love for him when Ar
mold had first poured forth his story
Of his passion for her; and she was
not ashamed to show that she had
been awaiting aim just as eagerly as
he had whisked the big car along over
the boulevards It was the lesson In
love, all the better for the subterfuge
and evasion of authority, which ap-
pealed to the girl, not the dry, techni-
cal explanations of this and that part
Of the steering gear, through the i'm
partation of which Arnold was sup
posed to be earning the dollars of her
father.
Dolly was ravisbing in her auto tog-
gerry. The carelessly drawn veil hid
just enough of the pink ear nearest
the begoggled Arnold to make him
long to press his lips just below It,
a desire which imperiled both occu-
pants of the car as they sped along,
thing as a clutch existed somewhere
about the brightly new machine and
that certain twists of the wheel did
certain things: also that the gear box
wasn't under the hood. She soon for
got even these vague limitations of
mechanical knowledge upon the part
of her lover. But the things she did
not forget were the long, sweet silences
following short, half whispered SEN
fences as Arnold brought the machine
to a snail's pace along the cool coun-
try roads and slipped one arm around
her waist and half up about her Shout
der so that she might lean her head
close to his.
Through the long summer the rides
continued. 1t was not until in the
splendid autumn that the Count Rivoli
put In his appearance, in search of
some fair American girl with whom
went a handsome dot to repair the
financial standing of his family.
With the advent Of the Italian. i'm.
pecunious as his rival, Arnold's pains
and pangs began. The evident pleas
ure evinced by Leonard pere in having
a nobleman as a sutton in his daugh-
ter's train acted not as balm for the
wounds Of the young broker. It was
bad enough for him to know that It
" iH N4t NOuHl tlFoii "HO dlIllOSt
nightly enjoyed the hospitality of the
Leonard mansion or occupied a seat
in a box beside the charming Dolly,
without having insult added to injury
by the presence of the Italian fortune
seeker as one of the motoring party.
AS the afternoons passed in speeding
over the roads. with Arnold bound by
the restrictions which surround ordi-
nary chauffeurs, while the Count sat
Struggled up with Dolly and insisted
upon murmuring his tender speeches
for her ears alone, the situation be-
came almost unbearable to the Ameri.
can. At times the muscles in his
shoulders became taut and strained
against the power Of his self restraint
as some few words of the Itaiian s
reached his ears.
Once when Rivoli took it upon him.
self to give the orders for the party
in a tone and manner insulting to even
the most regularly employed chauffeur,
1t was a hurried, surrepttious touch
on his arm from Dolly's slender fingers
that kept him from striking out with
his clinched hand and knocking the
arrogantly sneering foreigner to the
ground He seldom caught a word
with Dolly now since her titled sutton,
under parental sponsorship, had mo,
nopollzed her every leisure hour, Dolly
cared not a whit for the Count: she
liked his companionship even less but
the workings Of the young lady's mind
were many and involved and she knew
where was drawn the line over which
size must not step IL openly opposing
The wishes Of her father.
II was Count Rivoli who proposed