The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

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 ssg4y3933xzyzzkSN Something's simply GOT to kkzkzE@&sssgggH turn up soon," said Mona. we haven't had any luck at all lately, Mary. And money is getting too low for
 q know it! said Mary. You're not bit more worried than I am, my dear! One thing after another that looked promising, has gone wrong!"
 f think know why, too," said Mona. "I've become fatalist since we joined forces, Mary And we've tried to plan too carefully. Before when we trusted to luck, everything went splen- didly."
 "It's certainly true that we did trust to luck! We just took what fortune brought us !"
 "We're bound to do things that way, too" said Mona. You and I believe that we're justified, after the way the world treated us and our friends when we tried to honest living we've planned campaign and these unscrupu' lous shall pay the cost of it.
 "But what was going to say was that most people wouldn't admit that it ever right to we'll to mislead people, as certainly have done sometimes And, if we're going to do that sort of thing, can't expect to make our plans ahead, the way couple of girls might do under ordinary circumstances who were going into some perfectly respectable and perfectly stupid busi- ness would"
 "There's one thing sure," said Mary We can't be any off So if we just sit still and wait for something to turn up we cant m lose. "a bench just big enough for the pair of us-3. and sheltered from the road by that clump of bushes l"
 It looks like an Invitation" said Mary. "Lets sit down you were going to suggest.
 But they were not alone long. curlous thing happened taxicab stopped near them and young man jumped out calling to the driver to go on, while he himself plunged across the lawn, going through the bushes. Plainly he wanted to escape observation But he not quite quick enough, for from another pursuing taxicab, jumped, as it stopped She had seen him. and she followed him, calling his name as she "Jmmy Oh, Jimmy
 Mona and Mary looked at another. This was curious--whether there was chance that it might lead to something interesting for them only time could tell. And time, it proved, did not mean to keep them waiting long The young man, seeing himself cornered, turned, and met his fair pursuer-she was remarkably good looking woman, though of an ordinary type with as good grace as he could muster.
 And then she led him straight to bench that was only removed from the one where Mona and Mary sat bysa few bushes-although the oc- cupants of one bench were invisible from the other Mona and Mary could hear, however. even if they could not see. And what they heard was iinpassioned plea from the woman to the man, begging him not to abandon her, saying she could not live without him
 Edthmwhass ; fhe aont use n ne .m Salo o im n would be silly for me to pretend I did, wouldn't it? There's nothing can do-you're as rich as l am, suppose, or I might"
 She cried out furiously at that But she renewed her pleading until, at last:
 Oh, you'll, pay, Jimmy Harrasford" she cried Some day you'll love woman, as so many of us have loved you-and she won't care Then you'll know"
 "So that's his beastly name, is it?" said in m a little it notebook she carried, and her eyes sparIed as she saw Mona nod. You never can tell !' she said
 But the chung to him consistently. She was becoming hysterical, and at last, with a calm and cynical brutality, he called passing policeman.
 Cant you save me from this annoyance, oficer?" he asked.
 The woman shrank away then-he had ac- los looked at another.
 "YEs?' said Mona. "Oh, I'd love to punish him! The brute! Even if there wasn't chance for us to get anything out of him-and I really
 "So do l." said Mary. swe'n look him up, at least. He's worth that much trouble"
 "Heavensl" said Mary, later, when she found a copy of Who's Who in their apartment James Schoolcraft Harrasford! There's town named for hm-and he's worth millions, actual millions! He belongs to all sorts of clubs! Fair game P "Tally-ho" cried Mona. "Our luck has turned"
 They found out a little more about Harras- ford before it seemed safe to evolve plan for collecting any part of their bill against society from him. What they found out was both en- couraging and the reverse. He was susceptible to women, but not Reynolds and Holbrook had been He was spoiled, Mona said. Resistance angercd him to the point of making him lose interest
 we must choose something striking-and original" said Mona "Stale tricks well enough for some others-but rather think Mir James schoolcraft Harrasford is going to test hate to think, though, that we were to meet first defeat at his hands"
 "so should l." said Mary briefly "I've been studying him. think something savoring of real romance-somethng hot and passionate is what he would like bestl I believe he wants to be thrilled. l suspect that most of the women who have given him his ideas have been the placid, easy going typeor else winners, like that poor creature who was pestering him the first time we saw him."
 T shouldn't wonder said Mona. 'sWhat he needs is a woman of real character"
 'Yes-and I think woman of that sort could have held him very easily, any time, if she'd been interested enough in him to take the trouble to do itl Mona-I begin to see a way Do you remember that beauty doctor you we're talking about few weeks ago? The one who guarantees to change your whole appearance?"
 .es-but we don't want to do anything like that. We've never done anything that made it necessary for us to be disguised, and we're not going to now, are we?'
 "Not the way you mean, It isn't disguise I'm thinking of-it's a sort of transformation of our interesting character! You see, expect to strive to create certain impression in Mr. Jimmys minds and have an idea your beauty