El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-23
The Diary of A Bachelor
He and Manefte Have a Fine Time
In the Country, but He Gets
Very MOrOse Later On.
by Afa1
UNE 26-Though 1 have t

T UNE 26-ThOugh I have the time, 1
have not learned to spell the long
- name of the little postOffice where
Manette and I walk every morning to
get the mail and send our daily letter
10 Richards, nor the longer name OF
the little lodge in the woods that Is
A man named John Allen and his
wife occupy il, and occasionally take
summer bOarders, but Manette and l
will be the only ones during our stay.
The doctor saw TO that before would
have been here 10 days. This is
our routine: We arise about in the
morning, and jump from our night
clothes into swimming suits and make
a quick run for a pool about quarter
Of mile from the house.
Manette, who occupies a room ad-
Joining mine, with a connecting door
between, awakens without calling, gets
into and out of her clothes without
assistance, and often my first inIima-
ton that day has come is gained
through feeling her little face pressed
against mine and hearing her voice
calling, Wake up, uncle Max; wake
up" with the broWn-eyed pup giving
shriu barks to assist her
For he is with US No longer a
wa bbly-legged pup, he has become a
sedate dog with an affection for his
little mistress that has grown with his
years. Take him." Sally Spencer urged,
then you will know the child has a
guardian with her that no one may
So we brought him, and I am not
sorry. Every night he sleeps on a
little hard pallet at the foot Of Man
cites bed, and his growl when he hears
a mysterious sound is something fine
After our plunge-and the water is
cold, and (may Richards never know
it, it is not steriliZed, and the brown
eyed pup plunges in with us-we run
back to the house, get into our clothes
and are as hunEry as wolves for
Ii 81 urh is al a
Mr. and Mrs. Allen eat with US. I
insisted on that I felt that it would
do US good, and perhaps; If l succeed
that I am very wealthy man, we will
not hurt them.
To them am Max Blake. engaged In
clerical employment and broken down
through oYerwork, and Aanette is an
orphan niece. I sometimes see look
of wonder on their faces when Manette
l1ins, who takes her on her pony, and
at other times in her limousine: of
Mary, the cook, and Of the two or three
me at such times that they are pene-
trating through our disguise.
Our breakfast is simple, but whole
some and well cooked, and we enjoy
it After breakfast Manette takes a
nap and read till she awakens- Then
we wander around till dinner, and
for US and we go off to the woods to
eat it, spending the entire afternoon
out in these spicy pine woods, away
from everything and everybody, find
ing life is happiest under the condi-
tons when a dogs chase after a rab-
bit is the most exciting event
In the Evening.
In the evening Manette sits in my lap
on the porch. with the brown-eyed pup
lying at my feet, and ransack my
brain for every fairy story ever knew,
TO her about Elizabeth, the little brown
eyed girl who went home.
who" said Mrs. Allen one day Of
Manette, ''is this Elizabeth hear your
uncle talk about?"
she is my sister" said Manette, "and
she has gone home"
Gone homer" said Mrs Allen. What
do you mean, child?"
~She has gone home" replied Man