The Penn's Grove record., 1920-06-04
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By A {. RILEY.

t@. 1920. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate,
what has come Oyer girls today?"
questioned Grandmother Eldredge of
her granddaughter. Thine was that a
girl had one dress for Sundays and
parties, and n for every day. Two
dresses are sufficient for any girls
happiness !"
"Oh, grandmother, today a girl could
win no victories on a two-dress cam
paign!"
i've a feeling. Ruth, thai there
would be fewer bachelor girls today If
there were more old-fashioned ones
who expected less in the way of dress
and gayety."
Grandmother. you're old-fashioned
why, if the girl had no variety of
pretty clothes, the boys would never
look twice at them" Ruth donned n
lovely little hat and went forth CON
WINGED that in its folds and feathers
lay the lure which would bring Wey-
man Standish to her feet.
Two blocks away, Weyman was pur-
suing a similar argument with his
chum. REX, it's all very well for you
to urge me to marry. You know right
we'll my heart is set on Ruth Eldredge.
but Lord! my years salary would not
take care of Ruth for SIX months.
Therefore, discretion being the better
part of valor. | remain single"
When Ruth reached home, she found
a letter from Chloris Hunter urging
her to come to a girls camp in the
mountains:
"Once you've tried a horse for a COM
panion, you will say with the rest of
US on our return in the fall. The more
! see of some men. the better | like
my horse Put all your evening gowns
and dancing slippers in the closet, don
a MILDLY blouse, and join 20 of the
finest girls that ever rode a boss"
wrote Chloris, gayly; and something
awoke in Ruth-a desire to try this
thing with her beloved Chloris.
A month later, on "F1ighty," she
was galloping across country. With
an hours advance, she was trying to
elude the girls, who one found her
trail but lost it again. She r~etraeed
her path while they went ahead. Her
beautiful bronze gold hair, tossed by
the wind, framed her lovely laughing
face; the sun had kissed her cheeks to
a warm. glowing color, and had Ruth
gazed then in her mirror she would
have been amazed at her own beauty.
She was thinking of home. 'Dear
Weyman. | wish l knew the secret
way to his heart" She fell dreaming.
Her horse neighed two OF three times
before attracting attention. "What is
it, Flighty-see something's" she asked.
"Was that an echo-surely l heard an
other horse" She turned in her sad
die. Standing by the roadside, whin-
nying %piteously, was a handsome a
where's your rider, Beauty?' she
asked. Sensing trouble, she dismount-
ed and leading Flighty, went to the
roan's side. There on the ground was
a man, unconscious.
Thanks be to my first aid lessons"
thought Ruth as she set to work. She
was finally successful in bringing
him to.
Don't try to talk yet" she admon-
ished him.
You are a nurse?" he finally asked.
mo, I'm just a worthless butterfly,
trying to spread her wings in the land
of usefulness she answered. Can
you tell me ow what made you fall"
1--WE been disappearing in a
lodge up yonder-the call to ride was
too urgent to be denied, and took adj
vantage of my pals absence to get
Flicker out"
"Where is the lodge?"
Just across those lots--I guess |
can make it," He rose, but again sank
Imply on the turf.
TRY again and don't be afraid TO
lean on me-" This time he was more
successful. "Ill bring your horse
over when I've disposed of YOU"
GAS they neared the lodge. Ruth saw
a mar on the porch.
"My pal" said the sick man, with a
wealth of affection in his tone. Ruth'S
heart stood still. Even as she recog-
nized Weyman. he knew her, and came
forward quickly to meet them.
Jack, you deserve a thrashing," he
sternly spoke first to Ruth's compan-
ion, the while his eyes questioned her
with a caress in their depths as she
never had seer there before.
81 know it, old man, but I'll be all
right in q minute" Without another
word Weyman helped his friend into
the lodge. When he came out, Ruth
was gone. AS he was condemning him.
self for his apparent neglect of her.
she again came into view, leading
Flicker.
Ruth" Weyman said, when he
joined her, "if you knew the tempest
you have stirred up in my heart, you
would quell it at once by saying you
WOuld marry me-"