Evening star., 1924-01-27

tened. another man approaching
halted, and with surprised recogni-
tion stepped up and extended a hand
to the adventure man, who grasped
it as If he had found a long-lost
2hum. Then each drew back and
looked bewildered. And the stranger
nan said:
I'm afraid I've made a mistake
but you are the image OF some one
know"
The adventure man stared with his
Ice blue eyes into the face OF the
stranger. who. incidentally, had ice
.lue eyes of his own:
Same way with me. I thought you
we're an intimate friend. and yet ]
don't believe / ever saw you before
And while each was getting out OF
the embarrassment as gracefully as
e could. the everyday man who, him
elf. had looked startled at sight of
he stranger. put in a novel, but en-
irely enlightening explanations:
Say, you fellows look familiar tc
ach other because il is the same face
ou see every day IN your looking
glass. Gentlemen, you are enough
dixie to be twins"
And while each twin" was sizing
p the others tall leanness and grin,
routh and dimpled chin, the everyday
nan knew he had come across goof
title yarn to tell any friend who
would listen:
Like this.
4 YOUNG woman stood in the dark
OF lonely corner waiting for 3
ar that refused 10 come 1t was an
nd fashioned street and nothing
;eemed to be out in 1t except herselt
md the weather. There seemed to be
more weather than was quite neces-
,ary. for the wind had the edge of a
arriving knife and the shadows were
xtra big and black.
Something must have gone wrong
With the line. for there was no yellow
lob OF light either up or down the
rack: only occasional globes OF mo-
.or glare TO streak the darkness-and
while she was not what you could call
nervous young woman, still
That inScrutable thing we know as
feeling in our bones made her step
suddenly across the asphalt to tel.-
-aced steps on the other side. II was
, wise move, for as she turned she
'aced two slouchy figures close behind
Ter, one STOPPING as If he might be
1icking up stone-though she was
honest enough IN the telling to give
him the benefit Of the doubt.
I'm not sure about the stone, but
rnyhow. il didn't matter, seeing I was
iafe on somebody's front steps with
ny handbag under my arm. While
vas feeling Quivery inside, an ole
nan came by the steps on his way to
where ] wanted to go, so asked hin
he would mind if followed him te
he car stop. For excuse I pointed &c
he two slouchy figures that showed
Up under a lamplight at the far cor.
Ter. and of course he said he would
&c glad to be of service. So that was
II there was to that, seeing that the
whatever had allied it-which you may
laye noticed, is way cars have
But, anyhow:
"I don't know that was In danger
though. of course. there are hold-ups
enough to keep one scared. Maybe
after I have told about it a few times
l will develop the experience into q
dastardly outrage, but while I'm vet
in a prinitively truthful stage. I've
got to admit that If those men had
been after my bag they had every IA
cility for helping themselves
Perhaps I escaped robbery and q
broken head, and equally, perhaps
the men were just slouching because
,the wind was sharp and they may
have had no warm coats There's
never any telling"
Which small statement may serve
as a clue for some of the stories OF
attacks told by nervous ladies whose
fears, growing by what they fed on
lead to exaggerations that they can.