The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-11

the fatal blow all at once. Mrs
West had better stop worrying
about you and cast those shifty
Great heavens, fellows! A
rival"
He kissed her hand (clownins
in a deplorable fashion) ano
told the waiter to hurry witt
more Daiquiris. Which made
Cynthia laugh. and made Gym
thia's eyes brighten like
dial of q radio machine brighten.
after the switch has been turnec
on for a moment or two.
Yes, fellows. A rival, ne
less" she said. She did not pre-.
tend to shipper, which is tri'
butte to Cynthia and should be
remembered when her account!
are cast.
He, my darling Hank, mar
who amounts to something"
Yeah? l yawn."
Yes, sir, the distinguished
correspondent, newspaper re-
porter to you, Mr.. Vaughan
Dunbar-citizen of the world
consulted by the inner cabinets
of great governments, and fur
thermore a friend of Bill Stew
arts"
by the way, how much
money did you really win yes.
terday?"
"Oh, no. None of that, my
hearty. You are going to hear
about Mr.. Vaughan Dunbar, anc
you are not going to like it
Say! That was pretty good"
Il am ashamed"
THE first honest emotion you
have felt in 10 years"
She tried her best to tell him
about Vaughan Dunbar. He trieC
his best not to listen. But wher
the last cocktail was gone he
knew, though he pretended moi
to know, that Mr.. Vaughan Dun.
bar was a gentleman Of poise
manner, breeding and accomp.
lishment - that any woman
would pause at least twice be.
fore deciding that he was just
another Britishman of the Upper
Glasses and therefore to be re.
garded as a bore, a chiseler, q
presumptuous ass and more thar
likely fraud.
Henry Prentiss settled the
whole matter by observing thai
Mr.. Dunbar seemed a thorough.
ly respectable sort of rat tc
him, and by saying, Let's &C
down to 81 for dinner, and pass
up the theater.'
Fine! Then we'll 60 other
places
Searching for Mr.. Dunbar
Naturally
Mitchell Grace was q young
man of rather curious attain.
ments. He had been born in
WaXhaW. S. c. He had won by
sound merit and not prefermen'
the competitive examination!
which gave him the right to at
tend the United States NavaI
Academy at Annapolis. He hac
arrived at Annapolis in the
charge of his father, Lee Grace
and in the body Of a wretchec
automobile whose engine was q
disgrace.
He had failed his first physi-
cal examination because he was
under weight-the same being
due to the under-consumption OF
proteins and other foodstuffs
bearing the vitamin B. COM
plexes. Mr.. Lee Grace had put
forward a plea, and the plea was
heard, and the gasoline money
with which Mr.. Lee Grace pro-
posed to get himself, somehow
back TO Waxhaw, S. c., went in
TO steaks and potatoes and leafy
green vegetables in Baltimore
restaurant whose cuisine does
not entitle it to mention in these
pages.
Wherefore, abetted by new
pounds of body tissue, Mitchell
Grace won acceptance at the
Naval Academy. (The record
concerning the return to Wax
haw of Mr.. Lee Grace is not ger
name to this research)
Mitchell Grace labored with
an admirable singleness of pur-
pose. Like so many men born
far from the sight of blue water,
he had a passion for blue water
and his dreams held a steady
course upon such matters as toss
ing waves and sWaying decks
and winds that came nightly
out of heaven. Wherefore Nit
chell Grace led his classes, or
came just short of leading them,
year after year for all Of the
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