Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1920-05-06
To Meet
Miss Dale
BY JANE DREW
la- 49, hy Maclurs N.wspaper sgndIeats.l

&c, 1sls. by Mcclure Newspaper Syhu'0~'"'
"YouIl never know her by sight by
just that description, said steve Pow
ers, digging diligently into the spaghet-
Ii kettle with chain dish cloth. Rot
ten shame the way your relatives land
these little jokes on you, anyhow
Don't they know you're keeping bach.
elor's hall here with meY"
"She won't come here I'm only to
meet her at the train and trot her over
to the Long Island terminal. Mother
says she's blonde and wears a blue
serge suit with a white silk waist and
white hat"
'There1l be 1000 girls dressed just
like that. Tommy, you poor fish, Satur-
day afternoon IN the Grand Central. J
suppose she has a full description Of
you, too slender, distinguished youth
with dark blue serge suit, brown low
cuts. reddish hair. blue eyes, affable
manner"
"Shut up" growled Tom. perhaps
you'd like TO meet her yourself. No
body'd ever trust you 10 take a young
person under your wing and land her
safely in the bosom of her family"
yet shall go with you, Tommy, to
see that you behave" Powers warned
cheerfully 'Have / ever deserted you
in any emergency No, sir Brother
to brother through thick and thin. !
will stand at a safe distance while you
meet her"
Therefore, promptly at three min
utes before two, there waited at the
lower level gate two anxious young
men. watching for Miss Virginia Dale,
from Tuckahoe, N. Y. But one after
another the arriving passengers dis
persed and there was no young blonde
person clad IN blue serge with a white
hat or white silk waist.
"Did we miss herf' asked Tom anx-
iously "If you'd shut up and not get
me all ratified, Steve, I'd have been
sure"
But Powers failed to respond be
cause he had been accosted by young
person. Certainly she was not the one
expected. All in pink she was, short,
ruHly pink skirts above white stock
ings and black patent leather slippers.
Her brown hair was braided in pig
tails with big, bunchy pink bows hiding
her ears and she had blue eyes.
81 suppose you're expecting Vir-
ginia" she said, In the friendliest fash
ION possible "Well, she couldn't come.
She's gone TO be bridesmaid up al
Elaine Farrells wedding, because
Anne got sick and couldn't You are
the right ones, aren't you? Which Is
Tommy? I've heard your mother and
your grandmother talk so much about
YOU. guess | just know everything
that's ever happened 10 you ever since
you were born"
How did you know about me2'
asked Steve, wistfully. you're leay-
ing me out,
'Well.' she replied as between them
she tripped to the taxi, virginia
was telling about you. She snys she
knew your big brother when he Went
to the Jussand Military school up
where we live. Thnt's about five years
ago"
Hes my younger brother" said
steve grayely. "Tm twenty-five"
Really? You don't look It. Yir
giua's nineteen I'm thirteen. I'm tail
FOR my age, don't you think so7 Every
body takes me for fifteen. | didn't tell
you my name, did /? Guessr
"Gwendolen," said Tom hopefully.
agnes, Eyaugellne, Beatrice Barbara
Constance"
"Oh, dear, no. It's just Betty she
| chuckled rs this our taNi2'
Il was, Steve thought with relief Az
the way 70 the Pennsylvania she kept
H. running fire of questions, and
finally made them promise on her way
nome they would meet her, and give
her spaghetti dinner
Right up In your most special Sc
cret place. she urged, last of ull
Good by, III tell Virginia how nice
vou we're. she'll want 20 know which
IS the nicer, but l don't know myself
Good.hy"
"The little dirt" gasped Tom as
there anything She misscdg'
"lm engaged, answered Steve sol.
| smnly "Tyc got her silver pencil to
mend and q snapshot of her, and she's
going 90 send me a box of walnut fudge
every Saturday, think she's a honey.
You rau keep your lofty, goIdeuhalred
virgluins"
Letters came from Betty every other
day, an TO Steve. Likewise the box Of
fudge. And he answered all Loyalty
and sent back huge boxes Of marsh
walloW creams and Turkish paste tied
Do pink satin ribbon Also he sent out
his folding kodak that had seen SER.
fee abroad, and various other things
- want to" he said. iu answer o.
| Toms teasing. II never had n Kid SIS
ter, aud she's honey, Ii takes my
mind of 10Y troubles let me alone
Then came u sudden visit from Ted
the younger brother Certainly he knew
the Dale family mp at Tuckohoe. De
told them. while Steve listened. Wide.
eyed Virginia was the finest girl ever
happened
81 like her sister" said Steve
! thoughtfully.
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