The Washington herald., 1920-12-28

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impressively.
'In oiden days" he said pro-
foundly, Paris awarded the golden
| apple to the most beautiful"
II was at the Exposition" re-
| marked the windmill man, now
cheerful again, but I never heard
of it. And was on the Midway,
too, all the time wasn't at the
machinery exhibit"
But now. continued the Judge,
''the fruit shall translate to US the
mystery and wisdom of the feminine
heart. Take the apple, Miss Gar
land. Hear our modest tales of ro-
nance. and then award the prize as
| you may deem 1t just"
The lady passenger smiled sweet
ly. The apple lay in her lap be-
meath her robes and wraps. She re-
clined against her protecting bull
wark. brightly and costly at ease.
But for the voices and the wind one
might have listened hopefully to
hear her purr. Someone cast fresh
logs upon the fre. Judge Menefee
nodded suavely. will you oblige US
with the initial story? he asked.
The windmill man sat as sits a
Turk, with his hat well back on his
head on account of the draughts.
We'll" he began, without any en-
barrassment, this Is about the way
1 size up the difficulty: OF course
Redruth was jostled a good deal by
this duck who had money to play
| ball with who tried to cut him out
of his girl. So he goes around. ma
turally, and asks her If the game
Is still square. Well, nobody wants
guy cutting in with buggies and
gold bonds when he's got an option
on a girl. Well. he goes around to
see her. Well, maybe he's hot, and
talks like the proprietor, and for
gets that an engagement amt al
ways a lead-pipe cinch. Well,
guess that makes Alice warm under
the lace yoke. Well. she answers
back sharp. Well, he"
Say" interrupted the passenger
who was nobody in particular, "if
you could put up a windmill on
everyone of them wells you're US
ing, you'd be able to retire from
business, wouldn't your"
The windmill man grinned good
naturedly.
'Oh, amt no Guy de Mopassong,"
he said, cheerfully. Pm giving il
to you in straight American. Well,
she says something like this: Mr..
Gold Bonds is only a friend says
she; but he takes me riding and
buys me theater tickets, and that's
what you never do. Amt to never
have any pleasure in life while
canT T'ass this chatfield-chatfield
thing along says Redruth;-'hand
out the mitt to the Willie with
creases In 1t or you don't put your
slippers under my wardrobe"
Now that kind of train orders
don't go with a girl that's got any
spirit. 1 bet that girl loved her
money all the time. Maybe she only
wanted. as girls do, to work the
good thing for a little fun and
caramels before she settled down to
patch Georges other pair, and be a
good wife. But he is glued to the
high horse. and won't come down.
Well, she hands him back the ring.
proper enough; and George goes
away and hits the booze. Yep,
that's what done 1t. I bet that girl
nred the cornucopia with the fancy
vest two days after her steady left.
George boards a freight and checks
his bag of crackers for parts un-
known. He sticks to Old Booze for
a number Of years; and then the
aniline and aquafortis gets the de-
cision. Me for the hermit's hut
says George. and the long whisk-
ers. and the buried can of money
that isn't there
But that Alice, in my mind. was
on the level. She never married.
but took up typewriting as soon as
the wrinkles began to show, and
kept a cat that came when YOU
said weeny-weeny-we got
too much faith in good women to
believe they throw down the fellow
they're stuck on every time for the
dough" The windmill man ceased.
think" said the lady passen-
ger. slightly moving upon her lowly
throne, that that is a char
"oh, Miss Garland" interposed
Judge Menefee. with uplifted hand,
L beg of you, no comments, 1T
would not be fair to- the other con-
tentants. Mr.-er-will you take
the next tu-nT The Judge ad-
dressed the young man who had the
Agency.
MY version of the romance" be-
gan the young man, difidently
clasping his hands, would be this
They did not quarrel when they
parted. Mr.. Redruth bade her
good-by and went out into the
world TO seek his fortune. He knew
his love would remain true to him.
He scorned the thought that his
rival could make an impression up-
on heart so fond and faithful.
would say that Mr.. Redruth went
out to the Rocky Mountains in
Wyoming to seek for gold. One day
crew of pirates landed and cap
tured him while at work, and"
Hey! What's thatw sharply
called the passenger who was no.
body in particular, "a crew of pi-
rates landed in the Rocky Noun
tains! Will you tell US how they
sailed"
Landed from q train" said the
narrator. quietly and not without
some readiness. They kept him
prisoner IN a cave for months and
then they took him hundreds of
miles away to the forests of Alas
ka- There q beautiful Indian girl
fell in love with him, but he re-
mained true to Alice. After an
other year of wandering In the
woods, he set out with the dia-
monds-
,. TO BE CONTINUED.