The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-12-28
mo VENTURE"
BY FLORENCE {. M'cABE

20 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
please stop this nonsense, Dick. !
don't love you. Why, I've known you
for simply ages. and / will not marry
you unless l love you. The man i
marry will be someone whom / will
meet and fall In love with instantly"
Barbara's face was determination it.
self, and the word Instantly" was
very emphatic.
$50 you see, Alice" Dick finished
telling his sister, who was herself hap
PLY married, and therefore dOubly In
terested in all love affairs, where /
am. I think she loves me, and doesn't
know It. That sounds conceited. but
believe it's true. She's the only girl I'll
ever love, and how I'm going to have
her is beyond me. Alice. she won't
even let me touch herr
Dicks voice was hopeless and indis-
nant, all In one.
Alice's eyes sparkled In q way which
Dick well knew. 1t was sure sign
that her brain was busily Matching
some scheme. Alice had never failed
Dick, and this was to be no exception
to the rule.
Listen, Dick, I have 1t. Fully guar
anteed. I'll have Alice down here for
the weekend. You are to come down
on the same train. I'll let you know
just which one. Barbara has wonder.
full new coat and you, my dear sir,
are to foot the bill for twin sister
to that same coat, If can possibly
find one like it In the city tomorrow.
Are you OnT
Dick nodded. His face was a study.
He was striving to follow Alice, but his
face was so blank that his sister
laughed outright.
"Then, Dick, you are to leave the
train only after you are sure Barbara
gets of. Then, no matter who Is at the
station, you hear, no matter If the
President should be holding a wedding
reception at the very train steps-you
are to rush up and kiss Barbara. She'll
be furious, of course, but you can ex-
plain the mistake easily because Of the
likeness of her coat and mine. o. KIP
Dicks face had frightened, but his
smile was soon succeeded by a frOwn.
"Alice, she'll never speak to me again
and then I'll be worse OF than before,
However, I'm game, and will do the
Prince, wake 'em up act. Barbara will
be wild. You don't know her."
II don't know herl / know Barbara
and ! know you. And what Is more to
the point, know girls. Nothing ven.
ture. Dick, nothing gain, you know"
The 5:14 was never quite so slow Ia
Dick as it was the following Friday. In
the car ahead he caught a glimpse OF
Barbara, keeping himself, however,
well out Of her sight. To Dicks
wrought-up nerves the wheels seemed
to repeat over and over, Nothing ven
ture. nothing gain. Nothing venture
nothing gain"
As the train stopped at his station
Dick braced himself. The time to ven
ture was at hand.
4hASC StAiNCS okOo6ht Ahiu CiOSc "
Barbara, and, forgetting his instruc
tong and obeying only his natural i'm
pulses he caught her up In his arms
Z 1t would have taxed the strongest i'm
agination to have called that kiss blu
brotherly. For a moment Barbara wa
stunned, and then her wrath wa
poured upon Dicks defenseless head
II Alice had not appeared hurriedl
upon the scene with EXPLANATIONS O
surprise upon noting the likeness o
Barbara's coat to the one she hersel
was wearing, Dick would probabl
have boarded the train and gone on
not caring where 1t took him.
''Of course Dick mistook you for me
Naturally he would. Ny dear, wher
did you get q coat 80 like miner
Dick breathed q sigh Of relief
Thanks be to the stars for sister lik
Alice. But the end was not yet.
Dick spent a wretched half-hou
waiting for the girls to come down Il
dinner. Aice's husband had takez
himself OF, for which Dick was de
youtly thankful. Not that Bob WASN'T
q nice enough chap, but this was NJ
time to talk politics etc. In Dick'l