White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1917-12-02
SYNOPSIS

Hf4IG HhBA0tf S0tof - - - - %1s
william h ssnt by his mother 10 hslp
osnesis. darby OF all work. bring home
.sme yasitai1a she had purchased. They
are accompanied by Caemafis. GenssiH'
mongrei dog. Miss Pratt. escorted by her
frisnds, comes along with her dos. F7opit
A dogisht snsaes-
The dogs arc separated. William vAa-
tuhes. disguised. under q boiler. T1hnt
evening he takes his fathers Dress suit
and calls upon Miss Pratt and her friend,
Miss Parcher.
Jane. q knowing youngster. explains
certain matters concerning williams love
affair to her mother. She also knows the
fact that William has distracted hs ia
tAsTs dress sztt
williams attentions TO Miss Pratt and
nose OF rivals goa on Mr. Parcherss nerves.
Jane tells Nr. Parcher In secret that WI
Ham can't ge4 his fathers dress sufz any
longefsbecaus n IL being altered.
Mrs Baxter tells William she has sent
Mr. gaxter's dress suit to the tabor for
aiterutions. He Is crestfaiien and auarress
With Jane.
Mrs. Baxter gives a party for Miss
Pratt william. descending the stairs.
fans and tears his best suit. He had sst
On James paiRt box with another present
able suit.
Hls troubles detsln him TIL the party Ia
aver, 10 hts great chaErln. Later he dis
eusses matrimony with the aged parent of
Genesis. Jane Is present at the discus
sion.
william goes for a walk with Miss Pratt
swinging his fathers borrowed cane.
Jane. UNDECIDED. advises an umbrella 1t
rains. and William gets wet.
Jana. from her observations tells her
parents that she thinks William Is mar
ried. The parents. at FIRST alarmed, dis
miss the subject. William goes picnick
ing, and a new rival turns UP.
The rival ~monopollzes Miss Pratt. He
brags about his love for smoking. and
william gives him some cigarettes.
The rival In made ifl AMI retires from
the field. Genesis tells Jane of how he Is
going to be a walter on occasions and
whore he s going TO buy a secondhand
dress suit william overhears.
williams heart ls get on a dress suit. 80
he can so TO n farewell party arranged for
Miss Pratt His father refuses to buy him
one. william disappears during the day
time.
s~pellbound groups of invited per
sons. most Of them colored. rested their
forearms upon the rail of the Parch-
ers' picket fence. Offering to Williams
view a silhouette like that OF a crowd
at a fire. Beyond the fence bright
forms went skimming. shimmering.
wayering over a white platform, while
high overhead the young moon sprayed
a thinner light down through the ma
pie leaves to where professions of rosy
globes hung floating In the blue night.
Yonder-somewhere In the breath
taking radiance-danced his queen with
ell her court about her. Queen and
court. thought William, aud nothing
less exorbitant could have expressed
his feeling.
A sense of plcturesqueness-his w
picturesqueness-made him walk rath-
er Electrically as he PASSED through
the groups OF humble o~nlookers outside
the picket fence. Many of these turn
ed TO stare at the belated guest, and
William was unconscious of neither
their low estate nor his own quality as
a patrician man about town In almost
perfectly fitting evening dress. A faint,
cold smile was allowed to appear upon
his lips. and q fragment from a story
he had read came momentarily to his
mind-"Through the gaping crowds the
young Augustan noble was borne down
from the Palatine. scornful In his jew
eled itter."sss
An admiring murmur reached VIII
iiam's ear, "Oh. oh. honey. look at
tenn long tail suit Ats q rich boy.
honeyt'
"Yessum. SO. Bet he got his pockets
pack full o twenty dolluh goI' pieces
right iss minute!'
You right, honey!"
william allowed the GOODNESS Of his
faint smile 20 increase-to become
scornful. These poor sidewalk crea-
lures little knew what scethed inside
the alabaster of the young Augustan
noble! What was 1t to them that this
was Miss Pratt's last night and that
ne intended to dance and dance with
her, on and on7
Upon one of the posts OF the gate
way there rested the elbow of q con-
templative man. middle aged or q lit
Tie worse. or all persons having pleas
ure or business within the bright in
closure he Was that evening he least
important, being merely the back
ground parent who paid the bills-Mr-
Pareher.
one subject was preoccupying both
Mr.. Parcher and William. their two
views, though again founded upon n
thought. had no real c~ongeniality. The
pfeoccupying subject was the immi-
hence of Miss Pratt's departure. Mel
Their Mr.. Parcher nor William forgot II
Tor an instant. No matter what else
played upon the surface of their at
IGNITION. each kept saying to himself
underneath: ''This is the last night
the last night Miss Pratt is going
~away-going away tomorrow
The unuttered words advanced trag-
ically toward the gate in the head OF
Mliliam at the same time that theY