The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-27

A sue asked, cycling the creature
With supreme disfayor.
Its 70 make an ALREADY peerless
beauty look still more like a queen.-
he told her. complacently. Il exam.
ined something like two tons OF dogs
to find this specimen. / bought 1t 10
take my place in the honk wagon
salongslde ofsBeauty Phillips. when I'm
busy throwing a harpoon into the
wheat pitt
Did you write that letter yet1r she
demanded.
Yes" he answered shortly.
Its about time to write another
one. i-nit it?r
No" he replied, defiantly. 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.
Whats the use?r he holly went
on, and she OWNED that, after ali,
his anger was more at himself than
at her. why SHOULD hide the facts
from myself any longer. I've grown
away from Prosperity"
4 should say you had" she agreed.
III Prosperity could know how you've
changed for the worse. 1t wouldn't
recognize you on the street,
Its not my world any more;" he
continued, paying no attention to her
interruption. "and 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 a moment.
But her letters do" he finally said.
u got one from her yesterday. 1t
was about nothing but the new. coat
OF paint jqn the Baptist church, and
about there being an epidemic OF
measles in the town, and about
That's abeut6far enough z she told
him. .fprlopsly. angry, Awful .driyel,
isn't VI? can see the little fool out
there now, sitting down to write about
such trifiing 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, l 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 IL
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 scream on Broad.
way, with her funny clothes and her
funny little hat and her red complex.
ion"
"That1l be about ALL" he said, as
he jumped up and unwound his dog
chain; and his face had turned sud.
denly pale. ''Mysideas have changed
somewhat about things back in Pros,
perity, but I can't stand for having
that girl roasted, even in a joke"
Z 1t was over, month before he
came In again, and the Manicure Girl
had missed him. Now she saw at
once that something was wrong. He
was nervous and distracted, though
he tried to tbe his old fiippant self.
With the shrewd eyes OF Miss WI.
liams upon him he kept thinking OF
one thing while he talked OF another.
asked questions without listening 10
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.
! Il expect I have" he admitted.
well, they got to me in Jumps and
gobs. For. the past month 4 think I
was about theSonly bull In d bear
market. Iwent- down til e5greased In.
cline, so fast It smoked nom the fric.
ton The first Of this week 4 had
to sell Ebeth iaut omo blles. - y 81
= Scan sses the adlight- and the
glimmer studded watch going nexti"I
she commented. with shakerof her
head. Il suppose they've about got
all that automobile money by now"
Suppose again." he retorted. "Thsy
did get nearly all of It at first, but
the market changed at last, and I'VE
made little money since. II I'd close
out now I'd have at least three thou.
sand" : i
Tell me where it is and III 90
get 1t 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,
I tell you. I'll make back the money |
lost I've learned a lew tricks IN |