The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-14
An Introduction to
a Love Story
BY PAULINE D. EDWARDS

| III was showing without, the mrs
snow of the season. Jack Hornb!
went 10 the closet on the third floor
took out his winter overcoat. made {
grimace at the odor of moth balls, car
rled the coat downstairs, put It on
and through force of habit thrust hl'
hands into the side pockets. His
right hand encountered something
which he took out and found to be 0
small package.
Jack did not remember having left
anything In the pocket when he put
away his overcoat in the Spring, and
unrolled the package with consider.
able surprise and curiosity. 1t con-
sisted of little box which contained
solitaire diamond ring and a photo.
graph of one of the prettiest girls he
had ever seen. On the photograph
was written: kiss me, Jack. Your
loving Dorothy"
"You bet" said Jack. "if / had you
here I would kiss you not only once,
but a hundred times"
From the picture he turned to the
coat. The cloth was Of the same pat
tern as the one he had worn the win
ter before, but bore the name of q
tailor Jack did not know. He at once
concluded that he had changed coats
with someone.
All that day while at business Jack
was making figures, but while doing
SO he was dreaming. Evidently he had
stumbled on romance. The photo
graph undoubtedly belonged to some
other Jack; the ring denoted an en-
gagement between this man and Dor
othy. How came they In the over
coat which must have belonged to
the other Jack? Then a hope entered
Jack Hornby's mind that the engage
ment was broken and the ring had
been returned. But how about the
Probably the other Jack
had intended to return 1t, and broke
down at parting with it.
II the lover, or whoever he was, had
been named Tom or Dick, Horribly
would not have been so moved by the !
invitation to take kiss. AS it was
he was caught. kiss me, Jack" would |
not be banished Jack looked at the |
picture dozen times day, and every !
time his eyes dropped from the girl
to the words written below. I
Jack bethought himself how he
could return the ring. Honesty may
Cd ~ hrJf
honesty was mere bagatelle COM
pared with his desire TO find the girl,
and when once found he would need
10 urging to accept the osculatory In
'itatlon. He would have advertised
lis find, but this plan, If successful,
would produce another Jack, and
Horribly had no desire to find him.
A few evenings after the find Jack
vent to his room and noticed In his
waste basket the wrapper which had
nclosed the articles. He took 1t up
md held 1t to the light. He discovered
faint pencil mark: 343 Walnut
treet. The paper had doubtless been
orn into two or more pieces and there
ad been a name above the address,
he name being on another piece of
aper.
Jacks heart beat high. The address
-as either that of the man or the girl
Without waiting to eat his dinner
-hich was ready for him, Jack went
, No. 343 Walnut street, rang the
ELL and told the maid that he was
'oking for a Mr.. Trotter. Did he
We there? No. Who did live here.
RS. Tburston. Jack apologized and
eparted.
But he had won. In living room,
ping some fancy work. sat Dorothy.
The next day Jack sent the ring to
ISIS Dorothy Thurston with note
ating how 1t had come into his pos
ssion. He gave his address and
me and the young lady asked If the
lder would accept a reward. Jack
piled that the only reward he would
cept was a photograph that was in
e same parcel as the ring. But" he
ded, "if the photograph belongs to
yone else than the original l will
turn it to the owner on being given
5 address,"
An answer to this came stating that
e photograph did belong to some
e else. Jack was invited to. call on
2 writer for an explanation.
He lost no time in calling. The
ung lady received him with the re-
we due a stranger and said to him:
Since am under an obligation to