The Little River news., 1920-07-31

you're not the only clairvoyant on this train, I'm going to tell you something about yourself. In your pocket you have telegram; 1t Is from Chicago, where your pay-check originates; 1t is short. sweet and comprehensive, con- taining an order which you are going to obey. It reads somewhat as fol- lows:
 "'My friend, John s. Webster, wires me from Blank that Ee boarded train at Blank and was refused first-class accommodation because he looked like a hobo. Give him the best you have in stock, if you have to throw somebody off the train to accommodate him. Signed, Sweeney
 Do I hit the target2"
 The conductor nodded. "You win, MT. Webster" he admitted.
 Occasionally. I lose, old timer. We'll"
 "No offense, Mir. Webster. no offense. I can let you have stateroom@"
 '"Ttat's trading talk. I'll take it."
 The conductor gave him his receipt and led him back to the stateroom in the observation car. At the door Web ster handed him a flve-dOllar bill. "For you, son." he said gently. "just to take the sting out of what I'm about to tell you. Now that possess your receipt and know that ten men and boy can- not take it away from me, I'm going to tell you who Sweeney is"
 "Who is he?" tte conductor queHed. Already he suspected he had been out generated.
 Sweeney" said Mir. Webster, "is the chief clerk in one of Chicago's most preteatious hotels and young man who can find all the tangles of sit uation without working 1t out in loga- rithms. wired him the details of my predicament he heard the Macedonian cry and kicked in. Neat, is 1t not?"
 The conductor grinned. q hate to take your money" he declared.
 Don't. Just at present I'm very flush. Yes, sir, Pm as prosperous as a yearling burro up to his ears in alfalfa and the only use have ever found for money is to mnke other people happy with 1t, thereby getting some enjoy ment out of 1t myself. When I'm broke I'll make some more."
 And Mir. Webster retired to his hard won sanctuary, where he removed as much alkali and precipitation as he could, carded his long hair and whisk- CTS, manicured his finger nails with a jack-knife, changed his shirt, provided five minutes of industry for George, with Ids whiskbroom and brush, and set himself patiently to await tEe first call to dinner.
 Presently pink-jowled, well curried, flashily dressed big man, of about Webster's age, passed in the cor ridor, going toward the head of the train. An instant later a woman's voice said very distinctly:
 T do not know you, sir; do not wish to know you, and 1t is loathsome of you to persist in addressing me. If you do not stop your annoying attea- tions, shall call the conductor"
 "Ah! Beauty in distress" John Stuart Webster soliloquized. "I look so much like an Angora goat might as we'll butt in." He stepped to the door of his staterOom. A girl stood in tte vestibule, confronting the man who had just passed Webster's door. Web- ster bowed.
 Madame, or mademoiselle, as the case may be-" he said, unlike this other male biped, my sole purpose t1 presuming to address you is to suggest that there Is not the slightest necessity for taking this matter up with the con- ductOr. am here and very much at your service"
 The girl turned-and John Stuart Webster's Eeart Topped twice in rapid succession, like trout newly grassed. She was as lovely as royal flush. Her starry glance began at his miners boots, travelled up his old soiled, whip cord trousers, over his light blue cham bray shirt and found the man behind the whiskers. She favored him with a quick, curious scrutiny and grave, sweet smile. "Tf:ank you so much, sir" she answered, and passed down the corridor to the observation car.
 "Well, old-timer," Webster greeted the fellow who had been annoying her, "how about you? What do you think we ought to do about this little af- fair?"
 "The sensible thing would be to do nothing. You might start something you couldn't dnish."
 That's a dare." Webster declared brightly. land wasn't 1t the immortal Huckleberry Finn who remarked that anybody that'd take dare would suck eggs and steal sheepf" He was silent few seconds, appraising his man. T suppose you commenced operations by moving into her section and asking if she would like to have the window open and enjoy the fresh air. She re- buffed you. but being persistent devil, you followed her into the ob- servation car. and in all probability you ogled her at luncheon and ruined her appetite. A1d just now. when you