Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

| this point the story ought TO get past
the censor, l should think"
oh. it isn't any story" said Col
cord. Just that one night flock
of greaserS jumped US in camp, and
when l went to get up and he inhos-
picable l found I'd left my guns out
of reach and both my feet were asleep.
So l had to crawl for it through the
freight. while the visiting committee
placticed at me. That's all. ! was
just quoting it as an example"
Miss Osborne was tantalizing. And
do I make you feel as futile as all
that? I didn't know l was SO ire
sistible."
But discovered" said Colcord
whimsically, that under fire was Il
mighty fast crawler." His smile
widened. And | may be yet
Aren't the MeXicans terribly poor
shots, thought" she asked demurely.
We'll. that's that. and We'll begin
all over. Only l want you to talk
soul and your last operation, but
Well how is ii you don't do the things
everybody else does"
He smiled. OH don't know.
Maybe for the same reason that every
body else hasn't done the same things
| have. Take yourself Can You
throw a rope? l can"
'Oh, that reminds me-" she said. 81
! meant to ask you what you We're
doing in Mexico?"
That time? was boss packer and
snake-shooter for a prospecting out
Mt
But if you're lawyer you must
have gone to college. didn't YOU"
Yes" he said Il went to the Eu-
reka College of Commerce and Law, in
Kansas City. | was in the class of
1915. on the night shift. Daytimes
had a steady job
She didn't repeat this conversation
to her mother, for there We're certain
topics on which they weren't com
pleteiy in accord, and there was no
purpose in anticipating trouble. But
! Colcord himself enlightened Mrs. Os-
borne before the week was ou;.
After having been entertained by
the OSbornes. he took them to dine at
the Hermitage, where the daughters
misgivines We're realized III bulk.
AT ordering Il dinner. which is an
art, said Mrs. Osborne graciously.
you are Il pas master, Mr.. Colcord. +"
He smiled. We'll. reckon ought
to be. For two years I was captain of
walters in hotel
Dorothy WINGED. While her mother
fumbled for her lorgnetteS. "Oh, Are
you one of those amazing young men
who worked their way through the
university?"
mo. Mrs. Osborne; only through a
commercial law factory. But l was a
gas inspector then. This was before
hand, when | was scratching to make
up for not having gone to high school.
I started driving the station bus. and
then | got promoted
CHE didn't alter her demeanor to-
ward him: she was his guest. But
when she was alone with her daughter
she said impressively: Dorothy. |
grant that MIR. Colcord is good looking
and that he was properly introduced.
but who Is he. and what is he?"
Dorothy had been prepared for this,
but she was ruff1ed nevertheless. "Oh,
mother, You think over some of the
men you haven't objected to-because
all you could see was their family and
their circumstances. You remember
our last Winter in Chicago
Her mother stiffened. "Dorothy-''
'Of course they We're gentlemen-as
long as you We're around. All men
are. But when you weren't there and
they could be as free as they
chose"
Dorothy" said her mother. Il was
under the impression that l had your
promise not to refer to that subject
again, either to me or to any one else. -
That closed the discussion. but Mrs.
Osborne resolved to inform herself
how 1t came about that one who had
so recently been chaperoning squad
of walters III Kansas City was now
socially at large in Biarritz.
The results of her sleuthing didn t
cheer her. Indeed, she was told moth
ing which she hadn't known in ad-
vance. He was handsome, affable
obliging. a reliable spectator, a safe
man with debutantes and an anchor