The Winslow mail., 1914-04-04

II 8 10 make an already peerless
beauty look still more like queen"
he told her, complacently. 'T exam
ined something like two tons of dogs
to find this specimen. I bought it to
take my place in the honk wagon
alongside of Beauty Phillips, when I'm
busy throwing a harpoon into the
wheat pitt
Did you write that letter YETI" she
demanded.
Yes" he answered shortly
It's about time to write another
one, isn't it?"
NO" he replied, defantly. I'm not
going to write any more"
She looked at him and shook her
head, but she said nothing, and her
very silence angered him.
What's the use?" he hotly went
on, and she OWNED that, after all,
his anger was more at himself than
at her. "Why should hide the facts
from myself any longer I've grown
away from Prosperity
i should say you had," she agreed.
"1f Prosperity could know how you've
| changed for the worse, it wouldn't
| recognize you on the street."
It's not my world any more" he
continued, paying no attention to her
interruption, land the people are not
of my world
so you limited before she re-
minded him; "but that doesn't keep
you from writing to the girl"
He hesitated moment.
But her letters do,' he finally said
II got one from her yesterday. 1t
was about nothing but the new coat
of paint on the Baptist church, and
about there being an epidemic Of
measles in the town, and about"
That's about far enough" she told
him, furiously angry. awful drivel,
isn't it? I can see the little fool out
there now, sitting down to write about
such triding things in her ignorance
Red hair / think you said she had
and red cheeks, and you called her
Reddy. Coarse, ignorant, country per-
son, no doubt. Well, don't blame
you for shaking her, now that you
have got up among the real people,
real ladies like Beauty Phillips and
her crowd, and real gentlemen Of the
sort that loaf around the hotel bars
on Broadway. You're right to cut her
| dead right now. Why, she might
| sometime come to New York, and If
she should happen to meet you on
Broadway when you were with some
of your swell friends, and should nod
to you, you'd be disgraced for life.
I'll bet she'd be a scream on Broad
way, with her funny clothes and her
funny little hat and her red complex
| ion''
"That'll be about ALL" he said, as
he jumped up and unwound his dog
chain; and his face had turned sud-
denly pale. "My ideas have changed
somewhat about things back in Pros
perity, but I can't stand for having
that girl roasted, even in a joke"
1t was over month before he
came in again, and the Manicure Girl
had missed him. Now she saw at
Eonce that something was wrong. He
was nervous and abstracted, though
he tried to be his old flippant self
With the shrewd eyes of Miss Will
liams upon him he kept thinking of
one thing while he talked of another,
asked questions without listening to
| the answers, then asked the same
questions again
"How much did you loser she
finally asked him.
He stared at her in wonder
"How did you know? Where did
you hear?" he slowly questioned.
You've been telling me ever since
you came in" she said
'tT expect l have" he admitted.
well, they got to me in Jumps and
gobs. For the past month / think I
was about the only bull in a bear
market. I went down the creased in
cline so fast it smoked from the fric-
tion. The first of this week l had
to sell both automobiles"
Il can see the headlight and the
glimmer studded watch going next"
she commented, with shake of her
head. Il suppose they've about got
all that automobile money by now"
Suppose again." he retorted. "They
did get nearly all Of it at first, but
the market changed at last, and I've
made little money since. If I'd close
out now I'd have at least three thou
sand"
Tell me where 1t is and I'll go
get it for you," offered the Manicure
Girl, hastily. "You take that money
and go right back to Prosperity, In
diana; buy the village dry goods en-
porium; marry that girl; settle down
and get fat. Then this experience
will have done you good"
He shook his head.
Il can never go back there" he
said; never! That's not my world,
l tell you. I'll make back the money
I lost. I've learned a few tricks in
the last couple of weeks"
''Oh, New York will educate you,"
she owned; 'but, you know, college