Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-21
XX ED Just picked up the Nick
w Royces At tho station ana


window boxes. They're our newly.
wed neigh ors. you know. who are
startin. their career of married bliss
with eight-cylinder tastes and q
niyver income. Up to date they
haven't even acquired hivver. SO
whenever we get the chance we de-
COY 'em in with US for a ride.
You would IL you knew Nick
Royce-or Phyllis. They're that kind.
Don't make 'em any nicer. Nick.
hiss one Of these big. blue-eyed,
pink checked young husks with q
smile like sunny days. And Phyllis
well, she always reminds me OF q
long -stemmed English violet. Just
picked. with the dew still on. You
know? Some couple. I'll say.
So don't quite get what Mrs. Nc
Cabe is drivin' at when she let's loose
q sigh. after we've rolled on, and re-
marks mournful, isn't 1t a shame.
Shorty"
"Eh?" says I. maxim the turn into
her puzzled.
1.-THE way he treats Phyllis" she
goes on.
1Ou HlcdH Hol UuyIh ucI q SuuII"
my roadster and lettin' her struggle
along with only one maid?' says I.
stupid says Sadie. "Of course
not. don't suppose he told you
what he was going to do nextr'
II don't remember his maxim any
awful threat" says I. What is IT."
'rTe's going to take her on another
fishing trip" says Sadie.
expect I chuckled some at that.
The female mind can take some curl
Gus quirks. can't it? "Oh. WELL" says
I, "that's Nick's failin', you know.
this ffshin, bug Of his"
II only wish had known Of It In
Time" says Sadie. settin' her chin
arm.
You see, she'd had a. good deal to
do, first and last. with maxim the
match. Not that 1t needed much en-
gfneerin'. once Nick got good look
at Phyllis, but the preliminaries was
Sadie's. It was q case Of Phyllis
visiting at the Purdy- Pells and this
young Mr.. Royce being dragged out
to fill in at one Of Mrs Boomer Days
week end affairs. Course. Sadie knew
that Phyllis was as good as engaged
to q man back in her homo town,
down in Virginia. But Sadie'd heard
how he was nearly ten years older
than Phyllis, and had a bald spot,
and ran general store in some dinky
country town. So she decided. sight
unseen, that he wouldn't do at all.
Likewise she picks on Nick Royce as
q good substitute.
Her next move Is to- have Phyllis
and Nick meet at a couple of dances.
and before she knew the affair had
started 1t was well under way. Then
I'm retained to size up Nick and see II
he's as good as he looks. reports
favorable. He comes from Rutland
VT: his mothers widow, who Is
fairly we'll fixed, havin' been left a
half interest in q marble quarry.
Nick has been out of college three
years, havin' put in six or eight
months with to Yankee Division, and
now he has job in Boomer Days Of
fce didn't quite get the details of
just what part Of the bond business
Nick. was struggiin' with. but gath
ers that he's doing well at it.
Still. them Virginia folks Of Phyllis
sure raised some grand ructions when
she went back and told 'em how she
meant to give Badly the sudden shunt
in favor of an unknown who most
likely I'D the pie-breakfastin' habit
and WIS kind Of vague as to who his
grsat-GrandfAther was. And 1t wasn't
until I'd Nick dig up the fact thst
two oE his ancestors helped old Ethan
Allsn spriug that Ticonderoga sur
priss parity sn6 that one Of his great
umsiss had bsen . candi6ate tor gov
ernor ON the democratic ticket, that
thug W0S calmed down.
We didn't mention thst the great
uneis was showed under 1t the siec-
tiou. or that one Of the TiconderogS
hTosS survtve1 to- become . tin
peA1lsg end brolke his neck fallin' out
Of hiG sDgt because he'd hotstsd i'm too
muah hsrt cider. Whist was the user
when We produced . picture post card
Of . o0ldtorv monument with tho
names OF Ephrsim and Joshua Royce
showin' plain under the dats t7Te. we
hs1 tham Virgins sbjectors estin' out
OF our hand.
On thsy'd bsen married and was now
supposed to be Twin happy ever sitter.
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