The evening world., 1913-04-15
AEIREss HAD NO OBJECTION TO
WOODEN LEG.

HEIRE9S HAD NO OBJECTION TO
WOODEN LEG.
The envelope also contained the fair
charmer's address and q description Of
some of her vast holdings.
For the following few months life
was Q golden dream to Dirk dan Baalen.
He was living In an unreal world. q
werld filled with youth and beauty and
plenty. The lady pronounced herself
charmed with the letters he wrote and
the land Of the wlndmills and great
estates.
And when he wrote TO her that he
had q wooden Les, she responded that
It made no difference: that a man thus
equipped would naturally be q home-
loving man. and that, above all things.
that was what she desired. She sent
him pictures of her cowboys rounding
up her stock in Texas. Of her stock
yards In Chicago. OF her home and
park In New York.
10 the little. fat Dutchman. with
the mild blue eyes. the wooden lea
and owner Of many lands and wind
mills In Meesperdyk came 10 New
York on the New Amsterdam. lie
went, to Chicago. Before he set sail
he wrote to Adriann de Jonge. a coun.
tryman. who lives In Holland. Mich.
iGan, telling him OF his plans and MS
hopes, and when he would be In Chi
cago.
In the Windy City he was met by
Cupid's agent. He was taken to the no.
tel and there interviewed at great length
N 10 his worldly possessions. The meet
ias with the helress was deferred day
and at length the sad news was broken
10 him that tho lady could not marry
for ten years unless she was willing to
forfeit 100000 by the terms Of an
uncle's will. The uncle had died since
ne left Holland. But there was another
Asiress. Just a. young. Just - beautiful
and Just ~ wealthy. He met her.
ADRIAN DROPPED IN AND HAD
TO De SHOWN.
Ne was enphralled. There was q wine
Ainner At the hotel that night and there
tsee more riotous pictures Of vast es-
tstes and beautiful homes. There were
lays Of riotous entertainment. and how
much Cupids agent got for 10 part OF
the entertainment Dirk dan Baalen says
nat. But one day ADRIAN de Jonge
dropped into Chicago from Holland.
Mich. In ecstacy his countryman
showed him the photographs Of the nrst
lady and her great estate.
ntrsiehtWay up into the air went Adrl-
ann az Jonge. He looked At the pic
turss. then 1t his Old friend. He gasped
And II vas some minutes before he could
speak.
.Mein Gottw he said. The photographs
were those of beautiful woman indeed.
They were those OF Maxine Elliott,
There was one Of the Chicago stock
yards. Her home in New York was the
Custom House and her beautiful park
with the river showing through the
Trees was Bowling Green.
Adrisnn patted his friend Dirk on tbs
.houlders. A little schnapps. he said,
LA then dear old Holland for his
fes. home, sweet home for Dirk. who
S,as too good and too young to bt
trusted In this country. Dirk begged
that no might be permitted the pleasure
az iust one "poonch" on the cOunte-
nance Of Cupid's agent, Just one!
3ut ADRIAN was arm and wouldn',
loavs him till he saw him safe on a
traan for New York. And Dirk dan
Baaien was q sad man when tho Ryn-
dam sailed to-day. And he wanted nc
mere hsiSsssss, just . plain Mttls
Deitclper GIRL for him. And there wa,
one regret that would haunt him fOl
The rest OF his days. he said. He dldn'i
iand that one 'poonah" on c!!,d''
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