The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-03-27

beauty look still more like a queen"
he told her, complacently. i exam
ined something like two tons of dogs
to find this specimen. bought 1t to
take my place In the honk wagon
alongside of Beauty Phillips, when I'm
busy throwing harpoon into the
wheat pit
did you write that letter yet2' she
demanded
Yes he answered shortly.
TITS about time to write another
one, isn't it,"
mo" he replied, def1antly. 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?" he holly 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"
Il should say you had" she agreed
"If Prosperity could know how you've
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"
$50 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.
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? / can see the little fool out
there now, sitting down to write about
such trifling things in her ignorance.
Red hair I 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 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 can't stand for having
that girl roasted, even in joke"
It was over a 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 be his old fifppant 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 lose?" 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 / have he admitted.
Well, they got to me in Jumps and
gobs. For the past month think |
was about the only bull in a bear
market. | went down the creased in
cline SO fast 1t smoked from the fric-
ton. The first of this week / had
to sell both automobiles"
can see the headlight and the
ghmmer studded watch going next"
she commented, with a shake of her
mead. I 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 rye
made little money since. If I'd close
out now Id 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
ana get fat. Then this experience
VIII have done you good"
He shook his head.
can never go back there he
SAID; never! That's not my world
tell you. I'll make back the money
! lost I've learned few tricks in
the last couple of weeks"
On, New York will educate Won i.
she owned; "but. you know, college
graduates don't amount to mnch .