The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-11

write all the advertisements from
points suggested by the people that
get out the different courses"
Eyes, but it was that advertisement"
said the prune grower, wagging his fin
ger threateningly at the sheet that was
stretched before them.
at was that advertisement that per-
suaded me to do it. Well, 1 thumped
that typewriter every night for a
month and, honest, can't do a thing
with it, and 1 read the books and took
the lessons and when it comes to writ
ing forceful sales letters I'm just where
I always was"
'Well?" queried Jane, feeling that
the worst of the storm was over.
"Only this went on Peter. ''That
when l got thoroughly disguised and
woke up to the fact that I'd been bun
coed, I just made up my mind that I'd
come East, if it cost me a thousand
dollars, just to lambaste the fellow
that wrote that advertisement and bum
coed me. 1 had got as far as Chicago
when 1 saw things a little different
ly''
Then you aren't going to Iambaste
me?' And Jane managed to laugh a
little, but Peter went on without heed
ing the interruption
1T came over me all of q sudden
there in Chicago that If the fellow that
wrote that advertisement could make
me buy that typewriter and take that
course when I'd never been buncoed
before, why he could write letters that
would sell my prune crop for the big
Gest money. He could take the sales
end Of the business and it would pay
TO offer him good salary. So I had
q different motive after l left Chi
cago''
Now, suppose you are vexed with
lie because I'm not a man. suggest
ed Jane.
81 hadn't quite thought things out
yet" he informed her. Il didn't know
until just now that it was a girl. That
never occurred to me. The youngster
out there didn't tell me. just showed
her the advertisement and said want
ed to see the fellow that wrote it, and
she said wanted to see the ad writer
ard the ad writer was too busy, and
SO I kept coming until this time she
Let me In"
There was quite an awkward silence
and then their eyes met-Jane's and
Peter's-and Jane said: I'm sorry"
and Peter asked her why
Because I feel as if I'd got you
all the way from Oregon and
now you can't lambaste met
wouldn't be fair, when you are so
big and I'm so little-and you can't
take me back as your business manager
either"
Peter assured her that she need not
feel guilty, because as it happened, he
had been able to put over a deal in
some land he owned in Oregon that
would mean many times what the trip
Fast had costa deal that he could
not possibly have managed by letter.
Then Peter looked at Jane sitting there
in the big chair and told her he was
lonely in the strange city and asked
her to have dinner with him. Jane re-
fused by inviting him to have dinner
with her at her brothers apartment,
where she made her home.
Peter spent only week in the East
ern city of correspondence schools,
brit Il he had spent year he would
have been no surer that Jane was the
one girl in the world with whom he
wished to share the fortune that Is
sure to come to him from his prune
ranch. Now he has gone back to see
about having a rather gorgeous house
built for his bride in place of the bunk
cabin of his bachelor days.