The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-14

| made place, but he had to cut 1t out
| He was so torn up over his two failures
| that he blew in his share of the per-
ambulator money in riotous living.
Lost his wife into the bargain and has
| settled down to a peaceful life up in
Westchester county in one of these
cute little bungalows the real estate
operators build for you if you pay a
dollar down for picture of an acre
lot"
And the daughter ?''
well. Bassford ,Hollister has two
daughters. It's the older one that has
stolen Virgins heart away. She's
Cecilia, you know. Very literary and
that sort of thing, and pushed tea and
cookies at the Asolando when that
idiocy was opened. Virgins saw her
there last spring. Miss HOLSTER. the
aunt, whom I'm fond of calling the
cheva1ier, picked up her nieces about
that time and hauled them off to Eu-
rope. and Virgins scampered after
them I don't know what they did to
Wiggy, but you see how he acts. 1
rather imag that the chevalier didn't
smile on his suit. She's a. holy terror.
that woman, with an international rep
uta alton for doing weird and most I'M
accountable things. She draws a sort
Of royalty on all the baby buggfes in
creation 1t amounts to birth tax,
in contravention of the free guarantees
of the constitution. The people will
rise against it some day.
''SheFs plausible enough, but she's the
past mistress of Interior motive. She
got Forh1er, the mural painter up to
a place she used TO have at Newport
few years ago, ostensibly to do frieze
or som ething, and she made him teach
her to fire gun. You know FORMER.
with his artistic ideals! And he didn't
know any more about guns than a flea.
1t was drolI, decid ed1y- dro1l. But she
kept him there a month-Wouldn't bet
him of the reservations; but she paid
him his fee just the same. though he
never painted stroke. When he got
: back to town he was wreck. 1t was
just like being in jail. I warn you to
let her alone. If you should undertake
to fix her fues she's likely to put you
to work digging potatoes. She's no end
of case
"WeII, Virgins is good fellow, one
of the very BEST remarked. as 1 alb
sorbed these reyela tons, land it isn't
the girls aunt he wants to marry"
There's no telling where this affair
may lead Virgins. There's something
queer in the wind, all right The chew
alfer has brother Bassford where he
can't whimper. rather fancy he feeds
from her hand. His girls haven't any
prospects except through the cheva1ier.
Nice girls, so I'm told. Miss Cecilia
HolHster is living with her aunt"
land the other sister-where does
she come in?"
Not important, fancy. Rumor is
silent touching her. In fact I've new
err heard anything of her. But this
Cecilia is no end handsome and proud.
Poor old Wfggyw
l was already ashamed of myself
for having encouraged Jewett to dis
cuss Virgins affairs, and was about
to leave him, when he snorted in
disagrae8ble way he had at some joke
that had occurred to him.
'I knew there was something" he
said, about Miss Cecina's younger
sister, and I've just recalled it. The
girl has a most extraordinary name,
quite the most remarkable you ever
heard HezekiahI Bang! That's the
little sisters name BassfOrd HOLSTER
had been saving that name for son.
who never appeared, to do honor to
old Hezekiah, the perambulator chap
So they named the girl for her grand
dad
1 left him and learned at the Office
that Virgins had, within half an
hour, left the club hurriedly in cab.
taking a trunk with him. He had
mentioned no mail address to the
clerk, and this was very unlike Wig
gins.