The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-23

NO such luck said Wallace.
We've got to eat down at the Grand"
Broadway almost paIed. Excuse me.
but I've lost my appetite. come to
think about it,
Il know; but we've simply got to
eat
They tried the first part of the
luncheon, and it was just after they
had tried it that Broadway. desperate
ly worrying about the future, was smit-
ten by happy thought.
why live at the Grand?" he asked.
You can't" said Wallace. It's not
living"
why anything at the Grand when
I'm the owner of a house with IA
rooms, three baths, root cellar and
monograph"
Wallace looked at him with an en-
thusiastic light enkindling in his eyes.
Shall you take boarders?"
81 shall take a boarder."
"Me?"
you"
"'When?"
This afternoon"
Would you be angry If threw my
arms around your neck and told you
how extremely fond I am of you?"
you may throw your arms around
the room, for all I care, if you'll keep
quiet while I telephone"
It was Mrs Spotswood whom he
called upon the wire, and gladly. nay,
delightedly, she promised to take
charge of the engrossing task of get
ting the Jones homestead ready for its
when shall 1 be able to move in?"
he asked.
IF Mrs. Robinson's as good house
keeper as she has always been. you
! could move in today"
Within an hour she called him up
and told him that Mrs. Robinson was
just as good a housekeeper as ever,
that the rooms had all been aired, that
he had been expected hourly
Can we have dinner there tonight"
why not?"
you mean it?"
"Of course"
"Will you. the judge and Clara dine
with me?"
! well, I should say so.''
Tell Mrs. Robinson that I'll be early
enough to tell her how extremely fond
1 am of her before we start to eat.
And I'll bring Bob and-er-Miss
Richards"
Mrs. spotswood laughed. AND
who?"
'Mfss-er-MissR Richards
You mean Josie?"
yes"
well, say SO. then. She'll be mad
If you don't stop calling her Miss Rich
ards"
Broadway turned from the telephone
and faced the maiden of whom they
had spoken. Mrs. Spotswood says
you'll come to dinner and that you
will be angry if 1 don't stop calling
you Miss Richards Is she right?"
"She's always right
"'Then, Josie, viii you come to din
ner? I'll have all the boys and girls,
| including Judge and Mrs. Spotswood."
I'll be glad TO come" said Josie.
And she blushed.
That was not strange, but that
Broadway felt himself confused and
also blushing was a thing which had
not happened of late years. Sammy
came in at the moment with a tele-
gram for Wallace. Broadway, who
was very happy, as he looked at Josies
cheek (half view, from the back
promptly invited him
I'll : be = there said the mighty
child. And = = shall = bring =
my : banjo"
Broadway did not notice how his
sweet young Office manager involun-
tarily shuddered.
1t was a pretty evening. The sun
was setting in the midst of an extreme
ly gorgeous Turner sky. even if it was
on Jonesyille that the wondrous color
fell in almost painful beauty.
Broadway. tired out, but rather
happy when he came to- think OF it.
went along the old, familiar street with
a light heart. 1t might not be so very
terrible to live IN JonesvilIe There
were trains that ran to Broadway
when the longing became irresistible.
and very possibly this might be better
as steady diet He was surprised to
find himself admitting this
Sammy was hard at it as the con-
vert turned in between the two white
gate posts, each eight feet tall and
capped by a great wooden ball which
he had used as target when the Enow
had been upon the ground and ''packy'
IN his boyhood days. Sammy did not
even look up as he entered.
Say, Sammy" he inquired, after a
moment Of attentive listening to the
production, "I don't want to interrupt
you. but did you write that yourself?''
Yes sir"
WELL" said the happy Broadway
very gravely, 81 don't think it's at all
bad"
Wallace. who had strolled along be
hind him arrived IN Vim. ~ t,,,,-- 49,,