Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-24

mo. SIR"
"1t wasn't package with safety
razor in it?''
"No, sir'
"A safety razor to shave safely with?"
mo, SIR"
"Just a diamond ring7"
"Just that, sir"
"well, 1 don't know what in Sam Hill
am going to do without that razor. My
| wife says / can shave with the butcher
| knife, but what does a woman know
about shaving? I think young lady, you
ought to have made that advertisement
| palmer"
Didn't 1t say diamond ring?" was
| asked
Yes, 1t did, but 1t didn't say not &c
safety razor, and came down here with
high hopes, and am out 45 cents railroad
fare"
Its too bad"
so the world goes. Let man get a
stiff knee and everybody throws him
down. 1 never shall see that safety razor
again in this hard world"
When a week had passed and there had
been no call for the ring Miss Allie began
to hope that she might meet the loseI
face to face. She was sure he had taken
her train that day. and lived somewhere
along the line, and she found excuses for
going to the city quite often and return
ing by the same train she had on that
momentous day.
There were other young men who looked
as IL they might have lost nicl1els and
pocket knives and suspender buttons, but
he OF the diamond ring had vanished off
the face of the earth. When returning,
after her third or fourth trip, Miss Allie
said to herself:
We'll. he can just go to pot. whoever
he is! young man who doesn't read
the Lost and Found advertisements in
the daily papers is a slow coach, any
way"
And five minutes later: mo, 1 don't
pity the girl a single bit. She hadn't
ought to be engaged to such a man. He
must have told her that he lost the ring;
but why didn't she tell him to hustle
around and find it or she would never
marry him?'
And once more: But maybe when he
told her she flew mad and gave him the
bounce then and there, and he has lost
all interest In girls and engagement rings.
NO matter how Ii is, I'm not going to
worry any more about the old ring"
And two weeks later she had almost
forgotten that she was carrying 1t around
IN her purse, when she and her sister
started out one morning in the runabout.
Miss Allie acted as driver. She knew
all about 1t, and that was the reason she
ran over hog in the road. OF course,
the hog rose up, and of course the We
hicle tipped over on its side.
1t cannot be said that of course Mrs.
Aimes received a broken arm, while Miss
Allie escaped with bruise or two, but
such was the fact And while they were
lamenting and weeping who of all the
nnety-three million people of the United
States should come along in his auto but
the loser of the diamond ring!
Il am sorry to see you in trouble" he
said and he got busy at once.
II Gilbert Denison had been slothful
about the ring he made up for 1t now
that there was an accident to straighten
out. The first thing was to bind up the
hurt of the sufferer; the next to inspect
the capsized runabout
1t may not have suffered any damage
at all, said the young man, "but we
will leave 1t alone. You will both come 10
the village with me, and we will have
that broken arm set Then I will take
you nome and see that the runabout gets
there all right"
But II we could get word 10 Mr. Aimes
-" began Miss Allie.
we mustn't lose a minute seeing
DOCTOR" interrupted Mr.. Denison.
AND he fairly burned up the dust of
the road reaching the village. A doctor
was fortunately found at once, and after
bit the bones were set and the splints
in place.
Miss Allie meant to tell about the ring
on the way home, but her sister required
all her attention. II was not until the
latter was in bed and the runabout had
been brought home that she found on
portunity to say to Mr.. Denison: "'I hone
your losing the ring didn't break the en-
gagement." vi
Ring? Engagement" he querled.
Yes. The f1ve-stone diamond ring Won
lost in the depot in the city few weeks
ago. Sister and found II and advertised
the fact' but You never answered"
Mr. Denison leaned against a. most nm
the veranda and laughed until he Thought
the girl might take offense, and then he
sobered up and said: ''I bought tbat
diamond ring at Coney Island for I6
cents! l took II home to grandma ana
Just for joke, / told her the stones
We're genuine. She knocked one OF them
OUT ana l had new piece OF glass SET
In and was carrying it home. nava.
could think just where / lost n Poor
old grandma is mourning yet"
Ihe engagement ring bought for Miss
Allie six months later was the genuIns
thing, and 80 was the one she presente6
grandma on the morning OF the Ceremony.
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