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Show ? 1 i TO A MAN'S HEART j ' ' - I i ' J By ELSIE P. GILPATRICK. J u. ................. ....u , mi, toy MeClur Nwpjr SyndleUa. A vast number of people still hold the opinion that the way to a man's heart .ls through his stomach, and Ruth Cameron must have believed it, becau.te when she found Paul Hubbard Hub-bard hungry and disgusted with his boarding place, she took him home and cooked for him a roast chicken and escalloped potatoes and everything every-thing else to match. Inevitably, then, followed Paul's neglect neg-lect of Nancy Barksdale, whom he had been courting for a long time, and who, by her own telling, didn't known what the Inside of a kitchen looked like. In her home a number of servants serv-ants carried on the work behind the scenes, but Ruth had been reared under un-der no such handicap. She could whip mashed potatoes to a fluffiness that made you afraid they might blow away, and beat a cake into a lightness that made It fit for someone who was much more of an angel than wus Paul Hubbard. Hub-bard. Paul was tremendously human. As his dinner Invitations from Ruth multiplied, his evenings with Nancy diminished. Then the Jimmy Bentons, who were fond of Paul, took a hand In the affair, and aaked him to board with thetn, "Now we'll see If he goes to call on that Cameron cook so often," chuckled Jimmy to Mrs. Jimmy. "After he eats your cooking three times a day, I'll bet Miss Ruth loses her drawing card." But it was already too late, or Miss Cameron was too chiwmlng a cook, or something, because after that Paul pnld her more attention than ever. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy had a difficult time of It, trying to keep him home even when Nancy happened to be calling there. "I tell you, a fellow who works hard for a living ought to marry a girl that knows how to cook," he would declaim vehemently, as though someone were disputing him, and It soon became plain to everyone thut he was Intending Intend-ing to marry Ruth. Though he hadn't asked her, that young lady herself often made verbal speculations upon the style of . wedding ring she preferred pre-ferred to her friend Marjorle. To help matters along, Mrs. Benton sprained her ankle p.nd lost her maid the same day, and Paul Hubbard waa obliged to go back to the dark, greasy Inn for dally sustenance. After three days of trying to endure lukewarm vegetables and dummy salads, he decided de-cided to marry at once, and move Into a cozy apartment right next to the Jimmy Bentons. That evening, on the Camerons' veranda, ve-randa, he talked and talked and talked, until almost e.very topic In the world was exhausted, except the one he was thinking of, and then, Just as he got his chair moved closer, and his throat cleared, and his heart thumping thump-ing violently, the telephone rang. Mrs. Benton wus calling Mr. Hubbard. "I have found someone to help In the kitchen, so you may come back here for your meals tomorrow," she said. "Thanks, Mrs. Jimmy, you've saved my life." Paul felt so relieved that he lunged forward quickly to tell Ruth about it, but the lygR was dark, and he stumbled headlong over a footstool. foot-stool. Ruth answered his groans by coming at once. She found him nursing nurs-ing a great welt on his shin. Somehow, Some-how, after he had picked himself up and got back to the veranda and straightened his pompadour, he didn't , feel so much like proposing, so he j postponed it until Sunday afternoon. In his canoe, under the willows, and took his leave at 10 o'clock. In spite of her sprained ankle and her untrained kitchen help, Mrs, Benton's Ben-ton's Sunday dinner was a greut success. suc-cess. When Paul oflVred to serve the dessert, she grutefully sent him to the kitchen, where he suw a blue apron almost hiding a girl na she stood at the sink washing dishes. For a moment mo-ment he stured, then he took big strides In her direction. "Nancy, what are you doing here?" For answer, Nuncy looked frightened, fright-ened, and said nothing. "Nancy I" Paul's tone was very tender. ten-der. "You weren't supposed to know It. I only CTn'M bcoaask- Ma. Jimmy bald you were starving." Two strong arms kept Nancy from wilting, and u torrent of tender words made tears out of the question. "I've been starving for something better than food. Nancy, nm I going to get It?" She held up her mouth for a kiss. From the dining room Jimmy Benton Ben-ton was heard calling loudly for hU dessert, and so u lot of tilings which -would have been very pleasant Just then had to he put off until they went canoeing an hour later. "You were a darling to do all that for me, Nancy, and you know I never stopped loving you, only I got a crazy not imi Nancy, you're the sweetest pirl in the world!" Pivsi-ntly they he;ml voices in a cunoe which wan htlll out of sihl around the bend. To Paul one of them was uninltal.al)Ie. "I It 11 you, I'll never cook for any man." "Shucks! ulh Cameron, you don't mean tliuli "I do iiu'ini It I I've had to cook ami j keep lioii-i!', a'l my life, and I'm sick j i.f il. When I i't iii iiritd 1 want tu live in a hold." , j "I,i i' 1'inMh' liiii-u the oilii r way," i baid Paul. "The i'iver isn't very pretty j Up urotiud i In: bentl." ' |