The Coconino sun., 1919-06-06
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By GEORGE BLAZER COBB

ents, Mark and Paul ElsOn, brothers,
 hastily came to their feet and joined
 him in the hall without. It was filled
 with smoke and there was an uproar
 of alarmed voices in other rooms and
 corridors, but 1t was soon discovered
 that the smoke came through an open
 window from the rear yard, where a
 lot of rubbish was being burned up.
 Now when Mark and Paul had arisen from their seats each had left open on the table his wallet. They
 had been consulting their contents
 while talking with the lawyer. Re
 turning, each closed a wallet and re
 stored It to a pocket. The attorney resumed his wonted dignity and calm
 "Well, gentlemen" he said, referring to a penciled sheet before him, q think I understand the situation.
 am to make over to your sister, Miss
 Naomi. the old family homestead and ten thousand dollars in bonds, to be held in her own right as a femme sole"
 That's right" nodded Mark Elston
 ruddy-cheeked, bright-eyed as school. boy.
 "And Naomi shall do just what she wants to with the property and money" said Mark heartily.
 The brothers were under. thirty, their sister Naomi an agreeable spin ster of thirty-five. When their parents died she had taken charge of their home and had we'll filled the bill as housekeeper and cook. So comfort ably she looked after her brothers, so smoothly did things run on that the pleasant routine was continued perma. nently and unconsciously all hands settled Into rut. Naomi was only happy when she was doing something to add to the welfare and comfort of her brothers. and they accepted her kind service as a matter of course, although truly appreciadve and srate- full. Recently Paul had observed to Mark that he fancied Naomi looked tired and dull at times. They talked 1t over. Maybe she needed a rest, q change. Suppose they parceled out to her what she was entitled to of the estate-made her independent, in fact? Certainly that would make her feel better. Hence the visit to the lawyers office. and the brothers went home feeling they had well consum- mated an act of willing duty.
 Naomi broke down and cried like child when they told her what they had done. The way the imaginative Mark pictured the transition awaiting herl She was to be promoted from serfdom to the lot of princess Naomi was so overcome at their gen erosity and thOughtfulness, as she chose to magnify 1t, that she fled to Ter room to have her cry out. Mark her to the hall to console her and Paul, chancing to take out his wal lrf. made 6 startling discovery.
 "Why. we've changed wallets at the lawyers ofice!" he exclaimed. "This belongs to Mark. Hello! hello hello"
 Paul stared and then grinned. In an apartment of his brothers wallet ne found time-worn photograph. In an instant he recognized 1t.
 Did you ever!" he chuckled. Der tha Drake!" and just then Mark re- entered the room holding the other wallet in his hand, and Paul flushed Ike a conscious schoolboy as he mo- ticed revealed within 1t his own pho ograph of--Wanda Drakel"
 "H'mi" observed Mark with flush, both in the same boat, eh2 We'll, it's nothing to be ashamed of. They were 1ice girls, Bertha and Wanda. There was the brother Wilbur, too. Always thought he had a sneaking fondness Tor Naomi. What grand days those were, back in Lacon, when the Drakes were our next-door neighbors! Why, { t must be two years since we all met md drifted apart"
 "I don't want money to waste" said heir sister later in the evening. "I would like to fix up things little ,round the house, though, and have a break in the loneliness by entertaining ,Ome of our old friends once in a vhile."
 "Yes, there's the Drakes," reminded Mark, evading his brothers eyes.
 Bertha and Wanda" nodded Paul n well-assumed generality. And VII ,ur," and Naomi flushed, hurriedly re- erred to other old acquaintances and , start was thus made along the road If yesterday.
 How did 1t all come abOutf When he old neighborly companionship was 'esumed Mark took great credit to himself for suggesting the visit to the awyer's office, which had brought bout such a happy suggestion. Paul lrifted back to his old liking for Wan Ia Drake with an ardor that spurred Paul out of all laggardness. As to Naomi, she was a blushing, sensitive young girl once more as the visits of Wilbur Drake became as constant and as of yore.
 The cozy sitting room of the ElsOn nome became a real confessional one suspicious evening. With marked con ;traint and then a genuine bubbling of