The Washington herald., 1921-04-03

What do you think! that pale. tow
headed Matilda Price got the most
votes in the News for the prettiest
girl in Gallipo-lees."
"Shuh! She wouldn't of done IL IL
you'd been home, Alviry. Lord
knows, 1 hope well be there before
falls over. I'm tired gallopin
round the world playin' we are da-
goes. and givin' snake shows. But
that amt what / wanted to say.
That biggest snakes gone again.
I've looked all over the car and can't
find him. He must have been gone
an hour. l remember hearin' some
thin hustlin' aong the floor. but 1
thought it was you"
''Oh, blame that old rascalr ex-
claimed the Queen, throwing down
her paper. This is the third time
he's got away. George never win
fasten down the lid to his box
properly. do believe he's afraid of
Kuku. Now I've got to go hunt
him"
Better hurry; somebody might
hurt him"
The Queens teeth showed in q
cleaning contemptuous smile. mo
danger. When they see Kuku out
side they simply scoot away and
buy bromides. There's a crick over
between here and the river. That
old scamp'd swap his skin any time
for a drink of running water. !
guess TIL find l:im there, all right
A few minutes later Alvarita
stepped upon the forward platform
ready for her quest. Her handsome
black skirt was shaped to the most
recent proclamation of fashion. Her
spotless shirtwaist gladdened the
eye in that desert OF sunshine, q
swelling oasis. cool and fresh. A
mans split-straw hat sat firmly
upon her coiled, abundant hair. Be-
meath her serene, round. impuden
chin a mans four-in-hand tie wa:
jauntily knotted about mans high
stiff collar. A parasol she carried
of white silk, and its fringe wa
lace, yellowly genuine.
will grant Gallipolis as to hel
costume, but firmly to Seville ol
valladoIid i am held by her eyes
castinets, balconies, mantillas
serenades, ambuscades, escapades-
all these their dark depths guar
anteed.
"Ain't you afraid to go out alone
Alviryr queried the queen-mothel
anxiously. There's SO many rougl
people about. Mebbe you'd better
"T never saw anything I wa
afraid of yet, ma. Specially people
And men in particular. Don't 20,
fret I'll trot along back as sooI
as find that runaway scamp"
The dust lay thick upon the bar
ground near the tracks. Avaritai
/ ~ g..
trail of the escaped python. 1t le'
across the depot grounds and ava!
down a smaller street in the direc
tion of the little canon, as predicte,
by her. A stiffness and lack of ex
citement in the neghborhood en-
/ rouraged the hope that, as yet. tn
Inhabitants were unaware that s
formidable a guest traversed thei
highways. The heat had drive
them indoors. whence outdrifted oc
casional shrill laughs, or the de
pressing whine of a maltreated con
certina In the shade a few Mexi
can children. like vivified stolid idol
In clay. stared from their pla,
vision struck and silent. as Alvarit
came and went. Here and there
woman peeped from a door an
stood dumb, reduced to silence b
the spect of the white silk paraso
A hundred yards and the limits o
the town were passed. scattere'
chaparral succeeding, and then
noble grove. overfiowing the bijo'
4 canon. Through this a small brieh
stream meandered. Park-like
was, with a kind OF. ,cockney rural
ness further indorsed by the vast
papers and rified tins OF picknick
ers. Up this stream. and down Z,
among its pseudo-syivan glades an
depressions. wandered the. brigh
and unruffled Alvarita. Once sh
saw evidence Of the recreant rep
tiles progress in his distinctly
! trail across q spread Of fine sand i