Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-27
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Story No. 2
The Corsicon Sisters
Plot by George Bronson Howard.
NoVeIization by Hugh C. Weir.
Copyright Kalem Company.
Continued from Yesterday.)


we must choose something striking
-ana original" said Mona. stale tricks
were well enough for these others-but
! rather think Mr.. James Schoolcraft
Harrasford is going to test our mettle
pretty thoroughly. Mary! 1 should hate
TO think, though, that we were to meet
our first defeat at his hands"
so should l." said Mary briefly.
"Tve been studying him. 1 think
something sayoring OF real romance
something hot and passionate is
what he would like best! I believe he
wants 70, be thrilled. I suspect that
his ioeas have been the placid easy
going type--or else winners, like that
poor creature who was pestering him
the first time We saw him"
81 shouldn't wonder" said Mona
character"
sort could have held him very easily,
any time, IL she'd been interested
enough in him to take the trouble to
do 1t! Mona-I begin to see way! Do
you remember that beauty doctor you
were talking about a few weeks ago?
The one who guarantees to change
your whole appearanceT"
"Yes-but we cont want to do any
thing like that. We've never done any
thing that made II necessary for US 20
be disguised. and we're not going to
Not the way you mean, no. It isn't
disguise I'm thinking Offs sort of
OF our interesting
character! You see, l expect to strive
to create certain impression in Mr..
Jimmy's mind, and have an idea your
beauty doctor friend can help. You're
beauty as II is, and I'm not so bad
looking-but we need more-oh, pep!
Slang does come in handy"
"I suppose I'm stupid" said Mona,
but | do wish you'd explain just what
81 viii. We're going to fight this
campaign out along romantic lines
exclusively to southern races. l think
we'll be Corsicans. They bottle ro-
nance in Corsica, you know, and ex-
port it, Wen be pair of Corsican
Lovely" laughed Mona, "oh. I
see now. We're going to work -. in
close harmony this time, suppose?1
Yes. This case calls for a com
plete change of tactics, it seems to
me. So-double harness for us. We
love one another very dearly, remem-
at moments notice. 1t will, too. II
We get MIR. Jimmy in line at the start
which is depending on you to do.
Maybe 1 work out our plans, but you
carry them out-and the best plan in
the world wouldn't be any good un-
less there was some one like you to
execute it,"
What's my first mover" asked
Mona.
I'll tell you after we've had our
appearance enanged' said Mary;
come right along. The sooner that's
over the better"
The specialist made no radical
effects fe Of his lis work we're e re = starring
Both looked swarthier when he had
finished, and he had effected a mys-
terious change even in their eyes,
edly darkened. They might have
passed, when he had done with them.
for memoirs OF any of the races of
Il but FnW n faf n NFr1 n
members. And, under Mary's direc-
tion. they made changes in their man
ner of dressing that corresponded
with their altered features.
They hurried as much as they could
without risllinE the artistic success OF
the impersonatton they intended to
after they had first laid eyes upon
Harrasford that Mona was ready to
begin. Harrastord, of course, was
wholly ignorant of their very exist;
excited. on the day that they saw him,
to nay any attention to them, or even
TO know that there had been any wit
No one who had known Mona be-
fore her transformation would have
been likely TO recognize her when. one
snot about half a block from the EN-
pire Club-the one of his city clubs,
as she knew. which he usually fire.
quented at this time of day. She had
saw him coming down the steps She
ali~hted at once, paid her driver. and
saw him go of. Then. walking slow
ly. she advanced toward Harrasford
quite elaborately unconscious OF his
presence.
1t was not so with Harrasford. He
stared at her quite frankly; her for
eign. plauant beauty attracted him
Yet 1t was plain from her appearance
that he could not hope to win her for
Civeness should he speak to her. A
lucky accident, II seemed to him-he
could not guess how often 1t had been
rehearsed gave him his chance. She
dropped her bag, stopped to recover
1t, and in rising, brushed against him.
How profuse were her apologies! She
spoke without an accent, but in a way
that proved her a foreigner He as
sured her the fault was his; she dis
puted that, prettily.