The Raymer enterprise., 1918-01-10
How Mason
Was Surprised
BY HI AKERs
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
Copyright. 1911. by W. @. chapman.)

run In to New York." said George Ma
son to the pretty girl with whom he
had just been dancing.
"Yes, WILL" she answered. but
l don't think OF. going In for while
yet. 1t is too warm"
Just then George wished he might
not have to go to New York for some
time. 1t was more to his liking to
spend part of the day on the beach
talking with this same pretty girl,
Grace Parks, and to put In the remain
der Of the time dancing with her in the
evening.
Grace did not live In New York, but
she had cousin there, at whose home
she occasionally visited. The prospect
of being given "a good time" by young
Mason had Its allurements for the girl,
who had to help out her small income
by teaching music. Besides, she had
begun to want to see as much as posi-
BILE of Mason: to put it plainly he had
become rather necessary to her hnppi-
ness.
Look here Grace!" said her friend,
Amy French, the next morning after
the dance, do you know who that Mr..
Mason is?"
Il only know he's pretty nice chap.
and l like him. He has just graduated
from Princeton, and-and-well, that's
all know"
"For the amount Of time you two
have been together that doesn't seem
a great deal to be found out. Don't
you know anything about his .peopley'
Il don't think we talked about his
people" said Grace quietly.
at seems not" observed Miss Amy
dryly. "Don't you think you'd bet
ter?'
II don't know" answered Grace,
drifting of into kind Of blissful
dream In which "people" played no
part whatever.
Just before dinner Amy French burst
into the room bristllng with news.
my DEAR" she exploded. ut seems
you have landed whalew
"What do you mean?" gasped Grace
In utter4imazement. -
"Why, Mrs. Dean says MI. Mason
must be the son Of Daniel Mason--you
know-that millionaire Mason"
Grace regarded her friend In dazed
way without speaking.
"Well. what Is the matter? Is 1t
because he is n whale-or you haven't
landed him? Which,"
"A little Of both, perhaps" answered
Grace. II certainly haven't landed
him."
.Well. go ahead! Get busyw
"No-I wish you hadn't told me. II
those are his people, they won't-care
for me. Oh. well, needn't worry. l
don't know as he cares the least bit
for ME. And, anyway, that Mrs. Dean
Is an awful gossip. and half the time
doesn't get things straight"
'That's So" rejoined Amy. "She
wasn't cure, anyway"
A few days after this Mason told
Grace he was obliged to run into town
for q little while, and as she had said
she might also 60 to New York In
short time, she must be sure to let
him know If she did. and he gave her
his telephone number, SO she could call
him up. Less than two days had
elapsed when Grace received a letter
from her New York cousin, asking her
to come to town for concert which
she especially wanted to hear.
Grace had an argument with her.
self as to whether she should call up
the telephone number that had been
given her. There seemed to her to be
several reasons why she should not,
and one overpowering one why she
should. She wanted to see him, and
the want held the fort, and conquered.
There was an Enthusiastically glad note
In the voice at the other end of the
wire which asked where he should call
for her.
The glad look was repeated In his
face when he met her. Mason had told
her at the beach he would give her a
good time, and when they met ut about
three o'clock. Grace was quite pre-
pared for 1t. He signaled bus, they
climbed to the top and went up River
side drive, along the banks Of the Hud-
son to Grants tomb. Here they dis
mounted, went inside, and viewed the
relics within. Next he suggested lit
tie boat ride from the Battery; so they
again boarded the bus. left 1t at Wash
lngton square, took the elevated, and
landed at the other end Of Manhattan.
Here ferryboat took them to Staten
island and back. 1t wouldn't have mat
tered much to Grace where they went.
She was too bllssful to care. At six
she insisted she must return to her
cousins. on account Of her evening en-
gagement.
"Oh, / thought you might have dined
with me-" said Mason, "but, Of course,
II you have promised, won't insist"
Notwithstanding her delight at be-
Ing with him, when Grace thought 1t
ali over, a certain conviction forced
itself upon her. The good time he
had given her was not exactly the treat
Of q millionaire. He couldn't be the
son Of Daniel Mason. On the whole,
for REASONS she had given before. she