The Washington herald., 1913-01-26
YOUNG GEORGE TELLUM AGAIN.
By FRED c. KELLY.

ads. The setting was just right for some
| soft pedal. Hearts and Flowers con-
versation.'
They glanced through the pages of a
short story together. and she read aloud,
casually, the closing sentence to the gen.
eral effect that the hero and near-heroina
were married the following spring. the
tangle of affairs that threatened to block
such an event having been satisfactorily
disposed Of by the author.
They always get married. don't
they?" observed George. with the air of
a man who's above such things
Yes" she agreed demurely. when
they meet the right one"
Sure" says George There's moth.
ing to IL. A fellows a whole heap better
on settled down in a nice, comfy, little
plant like this with a trim little girl of
his own than trying to run along single
spending his evenings in the hotel lob
bies and drifting around like a tramp.
I'm going to pass up this celihate state
one Of these days. and get married like
a Christian"
George had never thought this all over
before, but before he realized it he had
gone ahead to express such views as
would make him solid with the majority,
OF the delegates present
But then a girl isn't going to get
crazy about a wild scout like me in a
hurry, he went on. bounded by a Curl
osity to know how strong he was with
his audience, and also to drop a mild
hint that IL the awful truth were known,
he was the original divvIe-of-a-feller.
oh. well, she remarked. I've seen
lots of worse fellows than you"
DO you really think so?'' +
OF course, I do. why shouldn't I?-
The trouble with me-" went on
George, tacking slightly. is that the
pfr hO Ia hgt
continental about me. and-and vice
versa"
When you meet the right girl guess
there won't be any trouble" came back
she,, consoiingly. her eyes twinkling.
But, then. having known you" sug-
gested George with a knowing and win
ming grim. his curiosity still unsatisfied,
having known you. l might not recog-
nize that right girl you speak of when l
meet up with her. And" he pursued,
picking up her small, velvety hand and
looking It over critically, even II I did
know her, do you think I could capture
her for miner
She had q hunch that like as not he
could.
Well announced George. that right
gfrl will have to turn me down then in
about a year II she, doesn't want me, for
the old mans going to take me into the
business when I'm twenty-four and give
me q little block of stock and things
Then it's going to be me for a little
wickieup of my own and the connubial
combination -
Somehow II had secured to George
that the talk was getting down sort or
definite to things, and hence he had
FASTENED to declare himself not in the
market for at least another year. He
went farther and switched the talk to-
theaters and. in order to make that line
Of talk popular. he closed a date to take
her to a comedy drama the Following
Tuesday evening.
A half-hour or so later. :after they had
stood in the dimly-lighted hallway and
said good-by eighteen different times
he hurried on the piazza to catch his
owl car.
But waltz George isn't away yet.
':Georgep she called after him, softly,
"George-a year won't be so very long
to wait. will 1t. dear?" And then she
closed the door gently before George had
time to recall what he had remarked
that had to do with year. long or short.
Then he remembered
II suppose I'll learn one Of these
days" he mdttered savageIy. TO keep
my fool mouth shuti"