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~ recall II, she used TO take an old
nat ana sort Of bend II up and fuss
with II and make another hat out OF
II. But nowadays q New York woman
i suppose would have TO have dozen
hats at Ienst."
shed have to hnve n husband With
more money than I have to have that
many commented Mr.. Montague
stone. "Why, don't believe my wife
ever has more than four in a season.
UT c0urse, some OF those rich society
women you read about might have a
dozen or so. suppose they do"
"If you knew A girl that travelled
with twenty hats" suggested Mr.. Pen
dieton, II suppose you'd draw the con-
clusion that she was what you call
society woman. then"
II suppose So"
Ell heaved a sigh.
whats the idea?" ~.
"lt doesn't amount to much" Mr..
Pendleton said. "But you see I trnv-
cled on from the West with a woman
that interested me lot. She seemed
like such a sensible. matter-of-fnct--
Ike the kind Of girl think my mother
was. and-well, she travels with twen-
ty hats. She gave the taxi man
whole bunch Of baggage checks ana
was a little curious-Yankee inau'si'
tiveness. ! suppose--and so asked
the fellow that runs the baggage ele-
vator over at the botel--I happened to
put up at the same hotel with her
about II, and he told me there were
twenty hat boxes"
"Well?" queried Mr.. Stone, with n
laugh. "A lumber king like you
oughtn't to balk At little thing like
that. I couldn't aifcrd n wife with
twcntyAha but you could"
The next morning at breakfast Mr..
Eli Pendleton received his apple pie
promptly and without comment and
then ms ne was eating II the waiter
said In a subdued tone very solemniy !:
There's another party In the dining
room 'as ordered pie. It's n new hi1ea.
But we'd got il on 'and for you so we
lust give this other. party some Of the
one we got for you. STR"
Mr.. PendIeton smiled his pleasure at
this announcement.
"YOu 90 tell. that party there's an
other pie.eating Yankee here, and II
ne hasn't any objection he'd like to
make his acquaintance Here take my
card" and Mr.. Pendleton slipped n
dollar bin in the walters hnnd when
he gave, him the cnrd.
"She took the card said the waiter
when he had returned a few minutes
later from the other end OF the dining
room. "She lnughted quite lot, she
did, and she snid fns 'ow she'd like to
meet you. She said she was always
glad to know renl Yankee and would
show You over" A
well, T didn't know It was lady"
commented Mr.. Pendleton, ''but a
Yankee is a Yankee. Show me her
| table"
The girl eating pie at the table in
the other end Of the restaurant was
none other than Miss Lancaster Of the
! mnny hats.
"say. get, me another piece Of pie" !"
Mr.. Pendleton told the waiter, when
he Ind taken the chair offered to him
by Miss Lancaster. II happen to he
acquainted with Miss Lnncaster-Ill
finish my breakfast here,
Pendletons business in New York
had been completed the day before.
but somehow he decided to remnin
over another day. for the following
day Miss Lancaster was booked to re.
| turn to New England. <,..s
| II was three months later when ELL
Pendleton again returned to New York
and dropped into the office Of Mon
thgue Stone.
"Did you ever And out any more
about the lady with the twenty hats?"
asked Montague Stone. II was ask
ing my wife about it-she wants to
know the rest Of the story"
"Why. that WAS Amy Lancaster
Amy Lancaster Pend,eton now. ] was
Just going to tell YOU to congratulate
me. And want you and Mrs. Stone
to Fave dinner with us-we're at the
Netropoltnn. She came on with me-
sort Of combined business trip with
our honeymoon"
"Fine work. and many congratula-
tIons," said Montague Stone, with n
hearty handshake. ut always takes n
plain old Yankee like you to win a
society girl"
Society girl. nothing. Those hat
boxes-well, Miss Lancaster was n
pretty shrewd business woman. She
was saleswOman for one Of the biggest
millinery concerns In New England.
Those hats weren't hers-they were
samples. And now she's married me,
she's Through with the hats. told
her to bring as much baggage ms she
wanted, but she said she'd only bring
one hat. md that's the one she wore
on her head" II