The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-02
Fair Maiden Plays The Role
of John Alden But Fails To
Ernsnare F Priscilla, Col. Roberts

/ NeAAAO eARbi ROlhtb III II Ala
bamafWfth his fair partner, the colo
mel beat It back to his veranda. aud
there the two sat when two news
paper men drove up into the yard.
| Colonel Roberts was busy with his
mail and laughing heartily over the
missiges, while the young lady was
Il exceeding the speed limit in an at
temptsto get him to desist from read
ing more letters and give ear to her
proposition Of returning Immediately
70 Atlanta with her and marrying the
woman whose cause she had come to
plead.
Enter Newspaper Men.
The young adventures was con-
siderably frustrated by the sweeping
down of the two newspaper men, She
made a great effort to put up a big
bluff, but the pencil pushers were wise
| to the game and admonished her to
| come clean and hand out the dope,
IL she wished to escape publicity In
the Atlanta papers, which, she avow-
ed. with looks of distress, would never
do. After considerable beating about
the bush. retrenching and other tao
tics OF dialect she turned her talk
! into the proper channels and yielded
UP the info, which the news hounds
sought. She averred that she was not
an applicant for the hand OF the colo
mel herself, but did not attempt to
conceal the fact that Sshe desired to
latch down on the two. thousand
Iplunks which she believed the colo
t1el was about To drop to the one who
found him a wife. OF course, she did
not put 1t in that language. On the
contrary, she framed a real cute lit
tie story little doll baby romance
affair, gifded over with sentimental
CUFF stating that she was engaged
herself, and merely wished the colo
mel to go back to Atlanta and marry
the woman whom she represented, in
i2rder that there might be double
wedding. the participants being Colo
mel Roberts and tile Peachtree street
Venus and her and her fiance. The
colonePs two thousand plunks was to
defray the expenses of her honey
moon, don't you know
He Falleth Not,
The fair caller dwelt long and Law
ishly upon the excellent traits of the
Peachtree street goddess but her lisp
ings were as the gentle drippings of
the rain upon ducks well-oiled back,
for the colonel simply wouldn't fall
for 1t. Ever and anon he would sug-
gest to the fair caller that it was un-
necessary for her or him to return to
ATLANTA, meaning, of course, to drop
the same hint to her that Priscilla
lonce let drop to John Alden. But the
| Pilgrim Fathers stuff didn't strike
home at all with the petite creature,
for she rolled her luminous, liquid
teyes-as big as beets. round as onions
land mellow .as ripe May pops and
ttnsisted on the, colonel taking the next
ttrain back to Atlanta with her. She
Icarried in her muff a photograph of
the Atlanta matron along the side of
;whom she wished to pose Colonel
tRoberts and clap on the double far-
lzess CT matrimony. But the colonel
Flowed he had always been used to
Igorking in single harness, and didn't
care. at this time to buck the world
ihitched To q filly whom he had never
seen, heard tell OF or dreamed about.
I The. conversation ran on for a
merry spell the colonel enjoyed 1t
immensely and the newspaper men
wishing for camera to snap the
scene OF the petite miss perspiring
over her job of trying to ensnare the
iwily old hunter. who himself had en-
/ shared hundreds OF foxes. though not
1 OF the female human kind that posed
ifeichingiy before him then.
/ Oh, You Letters.
The newspaper men helped the
colonel read some Of his letters. some
lof which were evidently penned by
Iwomen OF education and what might
lbe termed erstwhile refinement. AS
Iseveral OF them were written on hotel
istationary, 1t Is presumed that they
twere written by human vampires who
fare said to frequent SINE of the hotels
In the big Southern city,
i Some minutes after the newspaper
linen had departed, Colonel Roberts
land his guest came down town. He
iescorted her to arestaurant, q where
4 he ordered the walters to bring on the
4 feed, and plenty of it When y this
i scene OF the little melodrama had been
iIcompieted, Colonel Roberts escorted
4 the young lady to her hotelg where he
INSTRUCTED her to get her baggage and
i prepare to depart hence foreyermore
He called o hack and instructed the
driver to carry ht to the railway
iHtation. With the young adventures
tout OF his sight. the colonel turned to
Isome friends standing by and said
(, that he believed he would get rid OF
his fox-skin coat az he believed II was
"a hoodoo.
4 - Tie Atlanta Story.
4 Following is the story which ap-
peared In the Atlanta paper Sunday
; with reference TO Col Roberts.
"In the foothills of the Blue Ridge
B in South Carolina there 10 a lonely
s. HERMITAGE In which resides Colonel
James j. Roberts. man OF 30. who
has SEme and fortune. vet is unhappy
ibecause he hasn't. a wife and doesrt I
know how to set about getting one. &
After q four-day journey. TO Atlanta