The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-06

TWO and TWO together. thus causing lour
to result where but for him skies and
sevens would have been obtained. they
have made known to the readers OF all
Of our best magazines.
For instance. Holworthy is leaving for
the Congo to find "A cure for the sleeping
sickness. and for himself any sickness
from which one is warranted never to
wake up This is his condition because
the beautiful millonh.iress who is
wintering at the Alexander Young Hotel
in Honolulu has refused to answer his
letters. cables and appeals.
He is leaning upon the rail taking his
last neck breaking look at the Woo,
worth Building. The going ashore
bugle has sounded, pocket handkcr-
chiefs are waving and Joe Hutton. the
last visitor to leave the ship, is at the
gangway.
"Good-by. Holworthy!" he calls
-Where do you keep yourself? Haven't
seen you at the club in year.
Haven't been there in a year--nor
mean to-" is the ungracious reply of our
hero.
'Then for heavens sake" exclaims
Hutton. "send some one to take your
mail out of the IL box Every time
look for letters l wade through yours"
Tear them up" calls Holworthy.
They're bills"
Hutton now is halfway down the
gangplank.
"Thcn your creditors he shouted
back, must all live at the Alexander
Young Hotel in Honolulu"
That might an express train shrieking
through the darkness carried with it
toward San Francisco
In this how evident Is the fine
Italian hand of the God of Coincidence.
Had Hutton's name begun with an
N; had the II in Hutton been silent;
had he not carried to the Mauretania
Q steamer basket for his rich aunt; had
he not resented the fact that since
Holworthys election to the Van Stur;e-
want Club he had ceased to visit the
Grill Cuba cure for sleeping sickness
might have been discovered; but two
loving hearts never would have been
reunited and that story would not have
been written.
or, Mrs Montclair, with a suit case,
h leaving her home forever to join
handsome Harry Belairs, who is at the
corner with a racing ear and all the
money of the bivnk of which he has been
cashier. AS the guilty woman places
the farewell letter against the pin
cushion where her husband Will be sure
10 find it her infant son turns in his
sleep and jabs himself with pin. His
howl of anguish resembles that OF a
puppy on a moonlight night.
The mother recognizes her masters
voice. She believes her child dying
flies to the bedside. tears up the letter
unpacks the suit case. The next morn
ing at breakfas. her husband, reading
the newspaper. eXclaims aloud;
Harry Bellairs," he cries. has skipped
With the banks money. l always told
you he was not man you ought 10
know
His manner to me" she says severely
always was that of perfect gentle
man"
Again coincidence gets the credit
Had not the child tossed-had not at the
critical moment the safety pin proved
untrue to the man who invented it
that happy family reunion would have
been impossible.
Or t might be told thi- way.
Old Man McCurdy, the pig iron king
forbids his daughter Gwendolyn even Il
think of marrying poor but honest Beet
walters the baseball pitcher. and denies
him the house. Thu lovers plan an elope-
ment. At midnight Beef is 20 stand at
the tradcsmen's entrance and whist,
waiting at the Church." and down tn,
silent stairs Gwendolyn is 10 steal into
his arms
At the very same hour the butler
had planned with the policeman on tiNe,
post to steal Mother MCCurdy's dia
monds and pass them to a brother OF
the policeman. who is TO wait at III,
tradesmen's entrance and whistle Wait
ing for the Robert +. Lee"
This sounds improbable-espe ciall,
that the policeman would allow even hi,
brother To get the diamonds be fore 10
did, but with the God of Coincidence OF
the job you shall see that it will al
come out right. Beef Is first at the door
He whistles. The butler-an Euglisl
butler. with no ear for music shov,
into his hands tiaras and sunhurs,
Honest Beef hands over the butler |,
the policeman and the tiaras to Moth
McCurdy.
"How can I reward you?" eXclaim
the grateful woman.
your daughters hand"
Again the God of Coincidence score
and Beef Walters Is credited with an as
sist. And for preventing the robber.
McCurdy has the peg post cop made
captain, thus enabling him To wear da
monds of his own and raising him abov
the need of taking them from others.
These examples of what the god cal
do are mere fiction. The story tina
comes now really happened. It also is
story of coincidence. 1t shows hov
this lime the long arm was stretche
out to make two young peop,e happy;
again illustrates that, in the instrument
he chooses the God of Coincidence work
In mysterious way his wonders T.
perform. This time the tool he use
was a hat of green felt
The story really should be Gale
1.-THE Man in the Green Hat"
At St. Jamess Palace the plenipo, en-
tiar!es Of the Allies and of Turkey wer
trying to bring peace to Europe: in Rus
sell Square, Bloomsbury, Sam Lowe
was trying to arrange peace with Mrs
WroXton his landlady. The ultima ,un
OF the Allies was "Adrianople or fight,
The last words of Mrs. WroXton were
Five pounds or move OUT"
Sam did not have five pounds. II
was stranger in London he had los
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