The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-04

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he told her, complacently. IL exam
ined something like two tons OF dogs
to find this specimen. l bought 1t to
take my place in the honk wagon
alongside of Beauty Phillips, when I'm
busy throwing a barpoon into the
wheat pit"
did you write that letter YETI" she
demanded.
YES" he answered shortly.
TITS about time to write another
one, isn't it?'
mo-" 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?" he holly went
on, and she OWNED that, after all,
his anger was more at himself than
at her. why should l 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
changed for the worse, 1t wouldn't
recognize you on the street"
TITS not my world any more" he
continued, paying no attention to her
interruption, land the people are not
of my world"
80 o 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? l can see the little fool out
there now, sitting down to write about
such trifing 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, 1 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 or
Broadway when you were with some
of your swell friends, and should noe
to you, you'd be disgraced for life
3 I'll bet she'd be a scream on Broad
1 way, with her funny clothes and hel
funny little hat and her red complex
ion"
f "That1l be about ALL" he said, al
he jumped up and unwound his dos
e chain; and his face had turned sud
denly pale. "My ideas have changed
somewhat about things back in Pros
perity, but 1 can't stand for having
that girl roasted. even in a joke"
1t was over a month before hi
came in again, and the Manicure Cir
had missed him. Now she saw q
once that something was wrong. Ht
was nervous INT distracted, though
he tried to be his old 1ippant self
With the shrewd eyes OF Miss VIII
liams upon him he kept thinking o
one thing while he talked of another
asked questions without listening Il
the answers, then asked the sam
questions again.
How much did you lose?" shI
finally asked him.
He stared at her in wonder.
How did you know? Where di
you hear?" he slowly questioned.
you've been telling me eve sine
you came in she said.
81 expect l have" he admitted
well, they got to me in Jumps an
gobs. For the past month l think
was about the only bull in a bea
market. l went down the creased il
cline so fast it smoked from the friC
tion. The first of this week l ha
to sell both automobiles"
II can see the headlight and tn
glimmer studded watch going next
she commented, with a shake of he
10 head. Il suppose they've about e
all that automobile money by now"
Suppose again." he ~retorted. "The
did get nearly all of 1t at firstA bl
the market changed at last, and "
made a little money since. If I'd clos
out now I'd have at least three tho
sand"
le Tell me where 1t is and I'll G
IN get it for you," offered the Manicui
Girl, hastily. you take that none
20 and go right back to Prosperity, L
ei diana; buy the village dry goods er
porium; marry that girl; settle dow
ne and get fat. Then this experient
n will have done you good"
Ok He shook his head.
d. II can never go back there" /
te said; never! That's not my worl
. I tell you. I'll make back the none
1 lost. I've learned a few tricks
= the last couple of weeks"
rs "Oh, New York will educate you
a she owned; but you know, collei
graduates don't amount to much"
to Never mind" he insisted. "T'
played this game to win before, al
it, I a do 1t again. Watch me-"
m You'd better send at least o.
thousand dollars of that money to Il
ne girl back home to plant under Il
cellar stairs" she suggested.
TO She watched him narrowly, al
ut then she smiled to herself. The me
ton Of the girl in Prosperity did n
seem to annoy him this time.
GU THAT much money wouldn't sea
lat her, at any rate" he said. smilir
Ier "She's rather w~ellto-do for a cou