Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Mary Rogue had seized eagerly upor
the opportunity to go to Florida with
Col. Ball in search of his daughter
She had been wanting to visit the
iand OF sunshine for months, but ha6
never found an excuse for doing sc
before.
Aside from the slight unconyention
atty OF the proceedings-which die
not worry Mary bit-there was tbs
pleasant prospect held forth of enjoy
ing a nice trip at the beginning OF
the big Winter season, all at no ex
pense to herself
Col. Loganberry ii. Ball, Mary dis
covered. had enough money to sink a
snip. lie had made a pile of it in the
game or buying and selling hogs or
the Omaha market, and had retired
with more than he knew what to dc
with.
"A trip to Florida, therefore. was
nothing to Col. Ball, nor was the ex
ira expense of q private lady investi
gator Ia title petite Mary Rogue
shrank from, but which fitted her
very WelD. one to worry him.
IN the concluding moments of their
conference, the retired hog dealer
from Omaha had told her that his
daughter, Maisie Hennick, nee Ball
had informed her husband. severaI
days before she had left him. that
she was going to Oloikeye, Fla,
If they We're going to follow her al
an Mary reasoned. the only thing to
90 was to go to Oloikeye To rush
oilndiy into the big Southern State
trusting 10 luck to find the fleeing
Maisle, would be putting too much on
the shoulders of fate.
Mary decided that If Maisie had once
said she was going to a certain town
IN All probability she would go there
women are determined creatures.
;: * X x
Well, I'm going to Florida. mother. .
Mary announced, as she took off her
1ur coat in the living room at home
that evening
Her mother. a placid lady who read
all the new novels as they came out
never DATED an eye. Her daughter
lovely. businesslike. was a strange
creature. She had given up trying &c
understand great many years ago.
Mary is no Spring chicken, you
know" she had told several good
friends confidentially when they had
protested against some of the daugh
ter's "eccentricities," as they termed
them
offered information as 10 her future
course of action, no one looked startled
If Mary had said she was going &c
the moon, the news would have been
accepted in much the same matter of
fact way.
What you going to Florida for
Nary" asked Mrs. Rogue. closing
Morley's Thunder on the Left" care
fully over her finger SO as not to lose
the place.
Business trip. mother. | have dis
covered an old gentleman who wants
me to find his maynard daughter, and
the only way to do it is to chase down
there after her
rs your kind old gentleman going
with you, Mary?'
A figure stirred in a comfortable
easy chair by the fireplace. 1t was
John Rogue, father of this unusual
creature. He was a Government scien.
fist artist. a man who painted eXqui
site pictures of unusual objects, such
as feas. etc. Perhaps he was the
only man in the world who knew eX-
actly how many hairs there are on a
fiea's leg.
John Rogue spoke up.
You think the old fellow is straight,
Nary"
Certainly, father-just as you are
John Rogue had such faith in the
shrewd mind of his only daughter that
he never questioned her when she
spoke in that tone. He knew she
knew. How the child had ever &C
quired that unerring ability to read
people merely by looking at them, the
governmental employe often Won