Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-01

Goodnight" said Minot. and hung up.
"Who was it," Harrowby wanted to
know.
"Our friend Trimmer, on the warpath,
Alinot replied. 1t seems he's missed his
vaudeville partner" He sat down. "See
here, narrowly" he sale, it was the first
time he had dropped the prefx,-"it occurs
pening to spoil this wedding So I'm going
to ask you question"
YES"
@Harrowby," AIinot looked straight into
the weak but noble eyes, "are you on the
levelo"
Really YIN not very expert in your as
founding language"
Are YOU traight-honest do YOU want
to be married YOURSELF
sWhy, NIinot, my dear chap! I've told
YOU a thousand tines-I want nothing
more-I never shall want anything more
"All right, said Minot, rising. Then
go to bed and sleep the sleep of the inno-
cent.
But where are you going What are
YOU going to do?'
"Im going to try and do the same"
And as he went out NIinot slammed the
door on a peer.
STICKING above the knob of the door
~ of $3.50 he found a telegram. Turning
on his lights, he sank YEARLY down on the
bed and tore it open.
In torrents it rained [said the telegram at
the Dowager Duchess garden party You
know what that means.
1t was signed John Thacker."
isn't that devil of nightcap?" NUT
tered Minot gloomily.
CuApTEp v Tvo MID. of p,..,o~
IN the same busy night when the Lileth
~ flashed her red signal and Miss Ga
brielle Rose arrived with a package of letters
that screamed for Cotrell, two strangers
invaded San Marco by means of the eight
nineteen freight south. Prayed, fatigucd,
and famished as they were, it would hardly
have been kind to study them as they
stro1led up San Sebastian-ave. toward the
Plaza. But had you been so unkind you
would never have guessed that frequently,
in various corners of the little round globe,
they had known prosperity, the weekly pay
envelop, and the buyers crook of the finger
summoning waiter.
One of the strangers was short, with fam
ing red hair, and in his eye the twinkle with
out which the collected works of Bernard
Shaw are as sounding brass. He twinkled
about him as he walked, at the bright lights
and spurious gaiety under the spell of which
San Marco sought to forget the rates per
day with bath.
1.-THE French he unused, care volatile
people, fond of light wines and dancing.
So, it would seem, are the inhabitants of
San Marco. White fannels, Harry, white
fannels They should incase that leaning
tower of Pisa you call your manly FORM
The other-long, cadaverous, immersed
in gentle melancholy groaned. @Another
tourist dollhouse, packed with innocents
abroad, and everybody bleeding EN- but
us! Everything here but a real home, with
chintz table covers and cold roast of beef
in the ice chest. What are we doing here?
We should have gone North
"Ah, Harry, chide me no more pleaded
the little man. a was weak, know; but
all the freights seemed to be coming South,
and 1 have always longed for winter amid
the sunshine and flowers. Look at this fat
old duffer coming! Aims! For the love of
Allah, almsl"
Shut up!" growled the thin one. 3Save
your breath till we stand hat in hand in the
office of the local newspaper. A job! Two
jobs! Good Lord! there aren't two news
paper jobs in the entire South. Well, we
can only be kicked out into the night again
and perhaps staked to meal, in the name
of the guild in which we have served so long