The Press., 1920-03-18
His Double
 ~@ By OTILLIA FRANCES PFEIFFER
Copyright. 1919, by the Western Nsws-
 paper Union.)

Two men stood facing one another, each dripping wet. One was dressed in the height of style and was the owner of an automobile stanhing in the read a few hundred feet distant. The other, while respectfully attired, showed no evidence of wealth. He was half dragging, half supporting the oth- CT. Now the latter braced up some what. He had fallen into a deep quar- ry pit while seeking to secure some rare flowers growing near to it's edge, and the other, a casual passerby, had leaped in and rescued the imperiled adventurer as he was sinking for the third time.
 For the first moment the two stood full face to face. There was start, a stare. void of stupefactiOn in either cOuntcnance and for the space of half a minute the two men regarded one another mutely.
 q Say." abruptly burst forth the better dressed man, i've look near enough alike to be brothers" "
 "That dawns upon me forcibly,' less animatedly responded the other.
 "Come," spoke the rescued one i'm petuously, you have risked your life to save mine. It is debt l can never repay. Get into the auto and we can reach Mayville inside of thirty min utes."
 The other drew back. q do not care to go to Mayville," he said with seri- OuSneSS and decision that had tinge of mystery to it.
 "Then BroctOn lies ten miles in the other direction. Don't dally-we are both wet and chilled through. When we get back to normal we want to know each other more fully. l am Adrian Purcell"
 And I Roy Dyson," said the res cuer. 'I don't want you to make any thing extraordinary of my trying to see if I still know how to swim.'
 "That won't go!" spoke Purcell with warmth. I'm not likely to soon for get you"
 "Tm not much to remember" smiled Dyson glumly, and with some bitter ness as though life's awards meant very little to him. He seemed anxious to get on his way alone, resenting gratitude and patronage on the part of the other. He, however, reluctant " got into the machine and Purcell taking the wheel they soon reached BrOcton. As they were shown to a room in the hotel Purcell gave their attendant a variety of orders.
 "Thcre is no mistake about our re- Semhling one another, is there, nOw?' he said. "I look trifle older than you but we are the same build and height and we tally even as to facial eXpres- sion. Tell me something about your self. won't you?"
 But Dyson was averse to giving much of his life history. AS to Pur cell. he was a young man of fortune who insisted that he owed his life tC Dyson and wanted to adjust the score in some way. Purcell was so inSistent as to this feature that Dyson finally said:
 "Since you will have it that you wsf to do something for me, l might sqg gcSt-"
 Just name it and command me-"
 every well, then; two years ago left Mayville with the promise to tht girl I loved, Mary Smith, that I would go out in the world to try and bettel my fortune I returned last night an( visited the village. I overheard some people gOsSiping. Mary Smith ha( married a year ago and is now Mrs Mary Bartley, and not six month: since I received from her a letter pro testing her undying love for me-"
 "'rhat was indeed a hard blow," sait Purcell, genuinely sympathetic.
 "I at once turned my back on thu town, never to return to it. Now have met you, we look alike Becaus of pride, because I wish to punish th perlidy of Mary Smith, it would be al immense satisfaction to me to hav you go to Mayvlie, register as my self. play my part, boast, Overawe tn town with your automobile and fine at tire and great wealth. Fit at the en' of a week, leaving the town perSuade' that I have indeed made good, an, Mary Smith with bitter knOwledg | pi what she has missed" q decare!" smiled Purcell "Tha
 > an original proposition. Good! It. d bargain. I'll play the part if yo will remain here until I return." Two evenings later Dyson wa aroused from a reverie by the uneX pccted appearance of Purcell.
 "You're to go to MayvilIe," he an nounced.
 "What's that?" demanded Dyso sharply.
 "Yes. Say, I played my part grand Iy, and then yesterday l learned tha Mary Smith was coming to see me a the hotel and I bolted."
 You mean Mary Bartley," suggest ed Dyson.
 q don't" dissented Purcell wit | vigor. 'T mean your own and onl Mary Smith. Why, man, I learn th;l your lady love has pined and waited and would still wait if you haven't dollar. The Mary Smith who hecam Mrs. Bartley was a new arrival at tn town. Now then, Pm going to diSaI pear and you forget me. but first IT going to stake you for few thou sands. and be happy in feeling that have done something for tn" brave self sacrificing fellow who riSkcd hi l life to save my OWn.'
 In vain Roy Dyson demurred, hu | Purcell was determined. The npXt d;i the former went back to Maytile an Mary.
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