Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1935-09-07
EXTRA MAN

Published hy spseiaI Agransamsnss with IN
CnicaSo ITl1une-New YORK News Syndicate
I COPYRIGHT. 1855; By WALLACE IRWIN
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mo. not really. You've had 8 lOvely
time. And want you TO keep on, the
rest o8 the season. I don't need parties
Clyde. And want TO get my strength
back I'd rather stay home and dtg IN
the garden and read and play with
the baby. But Il makes ne awfuliy I'M
happy 70 think oR you being cheated
out Of yuuT fun. I'd love It, Il you'd
be sensible and so b parties all the
time. Then Jon could come back and
een me about Il. Honest, I'd love It,
Clyde. Honest"
re stood with hands In pockets, stub
born head thrust forward.
what q barrel Of baloney you can
talk" he grtmted.
'But is Il baIoney, both Of us having
good time Ia cur own way, when we're
of on vacation"
How'd you think I'd make 'em ask
me 10 parties alone2 Go around with
q sandwich board, saying. Tn bache-
lor'7 Or maybe put an ad In the
That's not such g wierd idea" said
Mabel, -and you needn't be 50 darned
cross about It.
Next morning q smallish, youngish
man named Dan Newiands, who owned
and edited the Echo. printed for the
colony's sake, sat writing an editorial
and praying for advertisements. Dan
ran the paper when he wasn't riding
or dancing, 50 the personnel Of Shadow
Rock was, TO him, as familiar, as the
keyboard on his typewriter.
Who then was the girIish person IN q
rose cOlored sweater and white tam
who Just came in7 All, she must be the
wife Of that chap Billings who made
such hit q couple Of weeks ago. Be
cause she had the sort Of starry blue
eyes that charm editors, Dan got up
from his desk and gave her his per-
sonal attention. He wanted 70 say, /
instructive caution on his part and 1
mysterious look on hers limited him to /
3 smile and question: what could he /
20 for herr
She wanted TO know the cost Of In
serting an advertisement for two weeks /
b his classified columns. She wasn't
20 technical as that when she asked 1t,
put Dan helped her out by lending her
lis patent silver pencil
While she leaned over her composition,
struggling with q thought, he admired
he pretty effect. She had pep. The
Shadow Rock females were q lot Of
Iens. not to have taken her UP He'd
rave to ask Sally and Hilda about her.
Vas there anything the matter with
Ter except that shed come here ana
urned q single man into husband2
Finally she handed over the paper
he had been writing on, and Dan
omputed the lines. Then, swallowing
lis establishment, he named the price.
Thank you" she said crisply as she
ounted out the exact change. She
ave him smile when she left the Of
Ice.
But Dan NewIands stood rooted. his !
orn spectacles glowing incredulously !
yer the advertisement. Gosh, how'd !
he come to think OF that9p he mutter- !
d. eCoshlv And again he went over j
er small, round handwriting.
mr.. G. H. B. announces that
his wife Is not going out this
season and his friends may
regard him as unattached" !
For the first week, certainly the no
&c appeared daily in the Echo. Every :,
lorning. with a growing uneasiness, :
label walked down to the newsstand,
,ad the only words she had ever writ I
IA for publication, then threw the :
amer away. She knew that Clyde, :
no cisdained the Echo, wouldn't see
e item unless his attention was call r
/ TO It. Like many another, inventor, =
label soon began to regret her IN
.nlity. WheWl How mad Clyde would :.
. IL he found out He might do any =