New-York tribune., 1920-12-19

and she and father have won 81
many prizes that they may have tt
lease warehouse. If they'd onl,
play for money just think how ricl
we'd all bel"
THE game is fascinating enough
without adding to it the excitements
and evils of gambling," said Mrs
Mcdonald.
ut is fascinating game" agreed
Billy.
1T is," said Mrs. Mcdonald, ant
away she went
4
ID LILY BOWEN'S business took
, him out Of town the second
week in December and it was
not until the Goth thai he re.
turned. He had been East and had
ridden home from Buffalo on the
same train with Wilma and Edith
Mcdonald. But he didn't know it
and neither did they. They could
not be expected to recognize him
from Ellen's description-that he
was horribly good-looking. The
dining-car conductor was all of that.
Ellen had further written them
that he (not the dining.car conduc
tori was man Of many moods
that sometimes he was just nice and
deep, and sometimes he was scream
ingly funny, and sometimes so seri
Gus and silent that she was almost
afraid Of him.
They were wild to see him and
the journey through Ohio and Indi-
ana would not have been half 50
long in his company. Edith the
athletic would have reveIed in his
wit. Wilma would gleefully have
fathonled his depths. They would
both have been proud TO tlaunt his
looks before the hundreds of their
klnd aboard the train. Their loss
was greater than Billy's, for he,
smoking cigarettes as fast as he
could light them and playing ridge
chat would have brought tears of
compassion to the sharks eyes, en-
Joyed the trip, every minute of it.
Ellen and her father were at the
station to meet the girls. Billy's al
rival OH this train had not been
heralded, and it added greatly to the
Mysteries Of the occasion.
Wilma and Edith upbraided hin,
for not knowing by instinct who they
were. He accused them Of recogniz-
ing him and purposely avoiding him,
Much more Of ii was pulled in the
same light vein, pro and con.
He was permitted at length to de-
part for his Office. On the way he
congratulated himself on the im-
probability Of his ever being
obliged 10 play basketball versus
Edith She must be wiz in con-
dltlon. Chances were she'd train
down to 1875 before the big games.
The other one, Wilma, was a splinter
II he cFcr saw one. You had to keep
your eyes peeled or you'd miss her
entirely. But suppose you did miss
her; what then? If she Won her
Phi Beta Kappa pin, he thought, it
would make her d dandy belt.
These two, lie thought, were a mis-
deal. They should be reshuffled and
cut nearer the middle Of the deck.
Lots of other funny things he
thought about these two.
Just before he had left Chicago on
this trip his stenographer had quit
him 70 marry an elevator starter
named Felix Bond. He had phoned
one Of his cousins and asked him to
be on the lockout for live stenoc-
rapher who wasn't likely to take the
eye Of an elevator starter. The
cousin had had one in mind.
Here was her card on Billy's desk
when ne reached the office. 1t was
not a business card: she probably
had run out CT them. 1t was an
engraved visiting card at So per
hundred. "Miss Violet Moore" the
engraved part said. Above it was
written: "Mr. Bowen: Call me any
night after r. Calumet 267S."
Billy slowed the card in his
pocket and plunged into a rile Of
uninteresting letters.
NN THE night Of the 22d
. there was family dinner at
E1n l.