The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-22

what a fool I've been? I say, you're the best chap in the world. old man if only you were little more human once in awhile."
 He put out his hand and I met it. 'Will you shake hands with me, Cal?'' said I. Ion precisely those terms about having been an awful fool? It's you who are the best chap in the world. And I'll admit it-I was jealous of your
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 Happiness. T0E roared at this. We'll said fAF he, "as George 4Cohan says, 1KE tAlIs well that ends well,' and @ I guess we couldn't beat this for a championship year, now. could we? Now, say; about Dingleheimer"-
 "Oh, hang Dingleheimer, Cal!'' ex- claimed. What I want to know is did you ever talk any to Miss Emory about-wel, about me, you know--say anything about my affairs or anything, you know? I mean while you were there on the boat together?'
 ''No. She wouldn't let me. Besides, the truth is. was so full of Sally all the time I mostly talked about her. By love! That was a measly trick you played US. running off with the boat from under my nose! But pro- posed to Sally in Natchez that night. and she came on down to the city the next day by rail. while I ran down in that dirty little scow you left behind And never tumbled for days that it was you had run off with the boat. r TT your cigarette case in the boat you 1eft-never tumb1ed till that story of the taxi driver came out. Then said: Well, of all things! Wonder if that old stick has really come to life after a1lY And you sure had. Whats in your letter? Say. ain't boat the place.
 'sBut how did you happen to be here?"
 7 ''Oh, I've known Ed Manning years, in New York, Paris. all around. He asked me to visit him some time. I wired and asked him if I could come out for our honeymoon-you know. Harry, I'm such a<romantic a son of 8 gun, and once before l was out here at Eds. and those alarmed nightingales. catbirds, what dye call 'ems''-
 ''Mockers.''
 'tYes, mockers. They sang so sweet, especially in the evenings. you know, and I'm o<romantic-always was that away-and you know, why. a fellow can be romantic on his honeymoon. can't he? He can just cut loose then and be as big fool as he likes then and get, away with it. what? Say. can't he?"
 "Yes'
 
 "But-honeymoon? Are you going to be married?''
 Nav! I ain't going to be married. I am married: Day before yesterday in New Orleans. And I don't believe in dandling and fooling around about little thing like that. Amt you mar ried yet?'
 ttNo. Impossible. No preacher on Cote Blanche bay or on our boat. I've got Aunt Lucinda Daniver along to take care of the proprieties. If I should leave it to her I never would be mar fied.''
 "Why?"
 'She thinks Pm broke''
 Yes, too bad about that: I wish could swap bank rolls with you. Why didn't you<tell her the truth and Hele- na too? Why didn't you tell lem it was your own yacht? Why didn't you tell 'em you're worth a few millions and don't have to work ?' fI don't kaow. Maybe Pm like you Cal-foolish about nightingales and things. But, tell me. you never did tell them anything about that Sally M. mine business, did you"''
 No; I should say not. Didn't you tell me you didn't want it to get out It was bad enough. the way old Dan and your sainted father handed it to each other over. that mine, wasn't it? l know about it, for I promoted that mine myself, and the name'll prove that-Sally M. Byington, with the By angton left off. There wasn't a blasted thing in it then. But when you, like a blamed quixotic fool. after she was good for six thousand a month velvet and ore blocked out to last a thousand 1 years-why, then you fool around in papa's records and think papa wasn't 1 on the square with old Dan So on the quiet you get it all made over | back to old Dams daughter and take | a sneak into the hazel brush when she turns you down. Say, you know what I'd "a done?'
 No" "I "a held on to the mine and told the girl how much it was bringing in That's my system. Then I'd "a got the mine and the girl both. maybev' Maybe
 "Well, that's the system I'd "a play ed. I wouldn't "a took to the tall grass. me-
 ''On the other hand. played a sys. tenn invented by myself and Henri LOIonnois "
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