The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-01-27

Since you are such a wonder
Clipped in Lord Henry, Tets see the
kind Of a mess you will get yourself
into by trying to secur IN of these
many positions" Having turned the
conversation into a lighter vein as
was Lord Henry's wont he took
greater interest. "Ill bet you the
latest thing in aircraft that you
can't support yourself by your own
labor for three weeks"
TITS a go!" Honorable Bobs then
reached across the table and he and
Lord Henry clasped hands.
Honorable Bobs remained quite
undisturbed. That he was going to
win that biplane and show some peo-
pie that there was work for willing
men was shown in the delightfully."-
steely expression in his blue eyes.
So patriotic was Honorable Bobs that
the first months of the war saw him
back from the front with an arm so
shattered as to disable him for a sec
ond trip to the trenches.
The result of Major Graham's bach
elor dinner was that Honorable Rob
ert Ingraham accepted a post as a
kind of butler in a refined and quiet
boarding house in Holland park. His
wounded arm, his peculiarly attractive
manner and his evident desire for the
position gave him prompt success with
the lady to whom he made application.
Things ran on smoothly until the
advent of Leona Martin. Leona vas
the most dainty of American girls.
She had come to the boarding house
to live for a few weeks before return
ing to her home.
The first morning that Honorable
Bobs knocked at her door with
her cup of tea, Leona felt aggrieved
that she must leave her cozy bed and
unlock the door. It was a cold morn
ing In January and Leona shivered as
she slipped into her pink kimono.
your tea, miss" said Honorable
Bobs, and put the cup into the
girls hand. He could not remember
having seen anyone who seemed so
naturally born to rob a man of his
liberty as did Leona Martin as she
stood there in her pink kimono and
with a smile of thanks on her lips.
Honorable Bobs began to feel that
he wished he had never seer Lord
Henry nor any of the majors friends
who were responsible Cor his present
position. However, he was a sport
in every sense of the word and CON
tinued to take tea to sleepy board
ers, stand behind their chairs at din
neF and open the door like n full
fedged butler.
dom, to him. When she found out he
had been fighting her sympathy was
wonderful, and Honorable Bobs was
guilty of conversing longer than he
had any right to rs a servant in the
house. II his blue blood flowed even
under the buffers uniform and II Lee
ona blushed when his eyes looked
into her own, no one was the
wiser. Leona marveled at the blue
blood. but remembered that all good
English servants possessed refine
ment and beautiful voices.
1t did not occur to the American
girl until after he had left the house,
that her interest was other than sym
pathetic. When she knew that the
butler had taken away her heart with
him she shrank from the knowledge,
but with American pluck determined
to fight his delightful image from her
mind.
The further result of Major Ora
hams bachelor dinner was the meet
ing again of Leona and Hon. Robert
~Ingraham.
Leona, standing beside her hostess
at a great dance in the Long Island
home, started violently and her head
straight into the air.
"And who" she asked with tilted
nose, rs the gentleman next to
Dickey?"
THAT" said Mrs. Chutney. SIS the
adorable British hero whom | have
selected as a BETTING mate for my
loveliest American bud. He Is Hon.
ieoueft known
as Honorable Bobs."
"Humph!" Leona was guilty Of a
sniff.
When explanations had been made
1t was Leona herself who made a
quick way back to Mrs. Chutney.
Please don't fling your loveliest
bud at his head" she said. plaintiveiy.
Men are SO susceptible"
Il am sorry" her hostess told her
with q short laugh, but / have al.
ready introduced them. Run along
back to him."
Honorable Bobs was waiting impa-
tiently. The loveliest bud smiled.
Copyright, 1915. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)