Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-04
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS
RnLY's LETTERS.

slipped back on her little hand the |
ring that she give TO Ambrose which |
he put up in gambling game |
and which fell into the hands Of a
boy who sold it hack to me.
My program was carried out TO the
end without even pawse, and II
knowed she was glad bekose her face
turned as red as a genetin appel when
the ordeel was over They was not
no word spoken neither. | Just
nateherally did what / said l was go
ing TO do in a letter / wrote TO you q
couple of week ago. The expense was
not so great as feared It would be. |
for the boy that had the ring proved
hisself pretty square when | up and
tolled him that it belonged to lady
friend Of mine and explaining how
she was too modest to'act for herself
in the premises.
He said Ambrose let it go for two
bucks and wanted - know If l
thought three would be too much for
him 10 ask for it, That was cheap.
and said would gladly pay the
amount that he mentioned, which I
did. and he handed over the iewelry.
With the ring in my possession
then l was face to face with the deli
catest piece of work that / ever at
tempted in my life, for you never
know what a girl is going tc do when
she feels that she has been discovered
tn her dooplieity You know what !
mean, Chas, Jen she knowed that !
was hip to the fact that her finger
ornyment was missing but she was
sent going to tell me nothing what
happened to it because if / found out
it would put her in very bad light
because she would have been shoan
to have been stung by a big boob and
no lady likes to admit that she is so
soft that she will start giving her
valuables away to a caller the second
time that he shows up at the house
Ambrose, you know, was a chap OF
very taking ways, and Jen having
learned that to her sorrow of course
she wanted to forget him as soon as
she could. and there was no one that
could blame her for that
Well, the mite Of the fine work me
and Jen we goes to pitcher show
which turned out to be one that could
not have been written better to suit
our case if we had had it produced TO
order. The heroween was one of
them queens with waving hair and
honest eyes and she lived in the coun-
try with her father, She was the only
child and her sweetheart lived on
adjoining farm They was figgring
on getting married when guy wear
ing boiled collars and a red vest come
along and tried to sell the girls
father some mining stock. He was
invited 10 stay for dinner and when
father was out feeding the chickens
he made love to the girl and tolled her
what wonderful beauty she was. He
is lying to her. amt he, Jen asked
and l said it looked that way. but
couldn't hear what he was saying to
her, you know that is the trouble with
them pitchers. it you sneeze you miss
something that throws you out OF gear
for the rest of the pitcher
/ The mining stock salesman he
comes back again one day when the
girls father is away TO the city, and
he begins to sympathise with the girl
+ in her lonliness on the farm away
from everybody else. but she smiled
and acted satisfied Like and took him
out and showed him her chickens Il
so forth. Finely they comes into the
/ parlor and he plays on the organ some
tune what must have been very sweet
and soothin like for it put the girl
TO sleep and while she was snoring on
/ the sofa be goes threw the house and
/ finds the old mans money chest
/ which also contained the family
jeweiry and he put it in a sack and
erawled threw the kitchen window
and was gone. When the girl walked
1 up her farmer hoy sweetheart was
standing beside the sofa, The
villain got away all rite but you would
never take him to be guy that would
DO such dirty work bekose he had a
! nice face and if he had a fierce mus
taehe he did not wear it that day.
AS the farm boy was looking into
his sweetheart's eyes while she was
rubbing them after waking from her
siestee l took Jen's left hand in mine
and got hold Of her third finger and
on goes the ring, but ] almost made
a mess of things bekose my bunch OF
keys fell on the floor of the theatre
and they caused awful noise. you
know, bekose everything was SO quite
and most OF the foxes around us was
in teers. But / was helped out some
| by a. old couple that set in front of US.
He ought not have gone away and left
his daughter alone, she said and he
said She appeared to him to be big
enough to take care Of herself and
anyway If he had put his money in
the bank instead of burying it among
the pickles and the eggs in the celler
there would have been nothing for the
silcker to have found She said girls
these days ought to carry revolyers
and he said the most of them didn't
have to, the way they dressed was
enough to scare the average young
fellow at LIST glance.