The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-01-15

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had been something very like invita-
ton in his Cousin Asas voice as he. knocked
out his pipe on : the porch rail.
wen. Lys. guess the car'u just about
figure out what's comm to you out Of mas
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II he hadn't been feeling, sad about Aunt
Jane, who had been good to him always,
Lysander would have uttered a whoop Of
derision. The car was good! From where
he stood he could see its SCARED carcass
in the shed, nivVer Of about the vintage
Of 1913, drivers side sagged from Asas
two hundred pounds, making it look as If
Il were tired and was resting one foot while
1t leaned up against the weather. 1t was
tired, there was no doubt about that, and only
Lysander's continuous tinkering "a thing
seeming positively inspired at times) per
suaded 1t occasionally to saunter along the
road TO town.
Lysander understood Asa, who had never
liked him much, and meant now that Ly-
sander would not be passionAtely regretted
he moved on" Lysander had indeed won.
dered. by no: means infrequently, why he
to his suddenly eager eyes the Iopsided Hen
rtetta appeared a champins steed prancinE
to be on. the westering sun altar FIRE OF
long reckoning goal
This does not happen to be tale Of any
adventures OF the long trail west. These
paragraphs serve merely as a sketchy back.
ground to that fateful afternoon when Hen
a garage in a suburb Of Los Angeles, and
seemed to declare with a little bleat her in
tention to expire right there. Many times
had Henrietta threatened to give up for good,
but that dauntless tinkerer, Lysander. had al
ways received and passed on to her some
timely inspiration from the god Of mechan-
icians which enabled her to proceed, II not
her to proceed.
Lysander alighted from his aiItnE chariot,
and administered with prscticed hand to
its decrepitude, turning a grin and a deaf
ear to the ribald comments Of the garage
men. It was then-as he emerged dirty but
triumphant-that it happened. A big car. !
all N4ndshields and disk wheels and nickel
ana seventeen KINDS Oh oeWQaQS, WlBkeQ 50
lightly into the garage that it arrived with
the very sound Of its warning signal, miss
ing Lysander by half an inch and Hen
rietta by less than half that, 50 that her
poor old bones fairly jingled. though she.
was untouched.
The two ladies in the squealed little,
and the important looking gentleman growled
something. and the dapper chauffeur gave
Lysander a basilisk glare. Our hero, seeing
that he had been missed, merely smiled The
party scorned to notice him further, and
devoted its attention to some slight irrtta-
ton in the disposition Of the magnificent one. :
The ladies descended. The elder, evil
IDENTIFY the mother, resembled the car con-
siderahly, being large and expensive look
ing The younser-ah! the inadeauacy of
language! Never had Lysander Pratt behed
30 ravishinE a creature, She was not very
big, nor very little, but just exactly right
She had hair like California sunshine and
eyes like the California Eky. and a mouth like
the sweetest Of California roses. She had the
air Of . little princess who rules by divine
night, and she was dressed entirely up to the
for week after NEXT at least
WHO ever loved, who loved not At first
GiEht.
Our poor Lysander felt a weakening in the
knees, q ushtsninE Of the chest, lift and
plunge Of the heart before it huttered out Of
him into the keeping Of this pearl Of all
girls!
Phyllis" said her mother, do be careful.
this place Il rust full OF grease"
Phyllis! Delicious name Of Phyllis. Could
she possibly have been called anything else?
Positively not. o. Phyllis, Phyllis.
They did not appear to notice Lyssnder.
They did not even deign to smile at Hen
ristta. though once mother stood 30 near
that poor Henrietta was almost obscured II
you hAppensd to be locking at her head-on.
To the sneharted Lysander it seemed not
nssrS than two neeting minutes until the
ehsznsur had closed the door on the royal
family and was taking his place at the wheel
Of de magnificent one. 1t could not be that
she was going cut Of his sight forever-fate
eouid not b 80 cruel This was the love of
kb hts-ons knows that surely in a moment
- vii - IN ten years. And here he stood
lay whns the miles multiplied between then!
He hung himself into Henrietta, who stirred
Win . SQUEAK Of protest.
He pursued the dream along the sunny
hfEhwaJs that lad to the City Of The Angels,
and the eountry's charm seemed a part Of
that dream. Tue pepper trees, gorgeous in
ths4r elustsrs Of red beads, the orange groves