Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-10
blue-eyed girl with nut-brown hair
and the cunning little mole? Think

ana the n little mole? Think
of what you may be missing!"
For just one crazy minute / had a
bunch, or a premonition, or whatever
you like to call it, that the letter might
not be a joke. Grandfather Jasper had
always been a bit eccentric rich
mans privilege and a. rich old mans
i~ncontestable right. What if he had
actually done this thing to me?-a
thing scarcely less devastating than
cutting me of without a penny? On
the spur of the moment 1 said:
IF ! should go, would you wait for
me Lisette ?"
She took her time about answering
"a good and sufficient plenty Of it.
II think perhaps I'd better not
change the ring back. Stannie," she
said, sort Of .wintrtiy. III there is any
money and you should happen to find
1t, you would probably fling it all
away before you could get back to
Boston. Besides, there is. the blue
eyed girl; il she should bring you a
fortune, you'd. have to marry her,
wouldn't you? You are big and strong,
Observation-Disclosures in a good many
ways, ,Stannie, and much too good
looking for your own good: but when
you marry-if you do marry-you'd
better be sure that the girl has money
enough to buy her. own hats. I
haven't enough, as you know"
Il know only too we'll that the love-
t~n-a-cottage idea has never appealed
to you" said, with the regretful stop
pulled all the way u in Difference to
the sentimental d~ecencies.
Not in the least, Stannie, dear; not
in the littlest least"
This appeared to be the end OF our
rather lukewarm love-dream, and to
be really honest and aboveboard
about it, I am obliged to confess that
1T didn't break as many bones for me
as l suppose it should have. Anyway,
a haif-hour or SO after / had said
goodbye to Lsette I met Jack Down
ing; and when he asked me ii 1 didn't
want to go with him and a bunch of
the fellows for a little spin down the
coast OF Maine In his motor cruiser.
! fen for h invitation so suddenly
that he hadn't a ghost Of a chance to
back out, II he had wanted TO.
50. a Few hours beyond that touch
Ing httlc scene at The Rockerie." Won
may figure me, if you please, spinning
n wheel of one of the nattiest little
boats on the North shore, with a fresh
blowing and the sea getting
up to give me the time Of my young
lie to hold the G%uinevere to her
course, Q cas- half a point east,
as we lifted the Shoals on our MORT
bow. |,N
In such jolly good company az we
had aboard the stout ship Guineyere.
three full days elapsed before a
thought Of Percy OF his joke ever en-
tered my head again: and it's a ten
to-one shot that I wouldn't have
thought of him, or 1t, during the re-
mainder of the cruise IL we hadn't
been obliged to tie up at Rockland for
motor repairs. This, as 1 recall it.
was on the fourth day, and it was a
dog that made me remember; a mon
srel cur that followed the motor re-
'palrman down to the wharf; a most
disfeputable looking mongrel. at that,
Dut-by Jove! he had the magic mark
ings! Halt Of his face, measuring from
a drawn straight down over the
UP or his nose. wa black, and the
otner half was a dingy, dirty white.
20 then l did q little rapid figuring
on train schedules. If Percy had left
washington as I knew he was nlan.
ning to, my diplomatic cousin should
nave been, at that figuring moment
just about due in San Francisco. That
Delns the case, or the likelihood. I tod
oleo up TO the telegraph office and
sent q message, addressing it in care
OF the captain of whatever might he
me next steamer due to sail for ports
IN China. All I said was: your ietter
Mas a. innny az an hour in a dentists
chair. Bon voyage to you"
Nignt found us still tied to the
rsttin ,ana wharf; and just as we were
se.une up from dinner in the yachts
saloon, here came a boy with . tale
: .m; me wire was from Percy, and
Don't Don be q complete fool 1t w.s
- Ev.n ~ Al. AK my LAWYER
cock. though I have often been c.ii.d
an impulsive jackaas. The Trim 49,
TOO Ridiculous to bite very hsra
nb.r '.rtner along in the evening.
more especially when It "a. 1890 nd
upon me ! really did owe ii to IA.
cue not to turn down even the ts.+s
nart OF a chance to provide ,har ~ith
means Of buying her future hst.