The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17

Pendleron sad. .Bu. you see trev-
eled on from the west with woman
| that interested me let. she seemeu
like such a sensible. mafter-ot-Iact.
like the kind of girl think my motn-
err was, and-well, she travels with
twenty rats She gave the taxi man
a whole bunch of baggage checks anu
1 was little curious-Yankee IN
quisitivauess, I suppose-and so
| asked the fellow tha- runs the. bag
gage elevator over at the hotel
happened to pu- up at the same notel
| with her-about it, and he told ms
'well?" queried M. stone, with
laugh. "A lumber king like you
| oughtnt to balk at a little thng like
that. couldn't afford wife with
Twenty hats, but you could"
The 2sxt morning at breakfast Mr..
| Eli Pendletop received his apple pie
promptly and without comment. and
then as he was eating it the waiter
said in a subduee tone very solemnly:
There's another party in the dining
room 'as ordered pie. lisa new
| hidea- But we'd got it on and for
you SO we just gave this other party
some of the one we got for you. sir.
| Mr.. Pendieton smiled his pleasure
] at this announcement
you go tell that party there's an
other pie-eating Yankee here, and IL
he hasn't any objection he'd like to
make his acquaintance. Here, take
my card" and Mr.. Pendleton slipped
| a dollar hill in the walters hand when
| he gave him the card. .ys-sa.
I "She took the card" said the walter
J when ne had returned a few minutes
| later from the other end of the din
| ingroom. "She laughedx-quite, A. lot.
to meet you. She said she was "a.
| ways glad to knowta real Yankee, ana
1 would I show you over" %1.- -
/ well. I didn't know II was LADY,.
hvxH a
/ Yankee is a Yankee. Show me her
ia ble." r.s.
4 The ,,irl eating pie at the table in
/ the other end of the restaurant was
none other than Miss Lancaster of the
many hats. Ess..
1 Say, get me another piece of pie"
; Mr. Pendleton told the waiter. when
he had taken the chair offered to him
by Miss Lancaster. IT happen to be
acquainted with Miss Lancaster-1ll
finish my breakfast here"
Pendleton's business in New York
had been completed the day before.
but somehow he decided to remain
over another day, for the following
day Miss Lancaster was booked to re-
turn to New England.
It was three months later when Eli
Pendleton again returned to New York
and dropped into the Office of Mon
tague Stone.
did you ever find out any more
about the lady with the twenty hats ?"
asked Montague Stone. IT was ask
: ing my wife about itIshe wants to
know the rest of the story"
why, that was Amy Lancaster
Amy Lancaster Pendleton now. I was
} just going to tell you to congratulate
me. And want you-and Mrs. Stone
to have dinner with us-we're at the
Metropolitan. She came on with me
; sort of combined business trip with
' our honeymOon"
: Fine work and many congratula-
, TONS" said Montague Stone, with a
r hearty handshake. "It always takes
plain old Yankee like you to win a
society girl 81
= Society girl, nothing. Those hat
, boxes-welI. Miss Lancaster was ! a
! pretty shrewd business woman. She
: was saleswoman for one of the big
/ gest millinery concerns in New Eng
| land. Those.hats weren't hershey
, were samples And now she's mar
. ried me, she's thru with the hats. : I
told her to bring as. much baggage as
. she wanted, but she said she'd only
Y bring one hat, and that's the one she
. wore on her head" I
8 Copyright 1915. by Mcclure Newspaper
q Syndicate.)