Show I Slants i iBy I t on Life I By J. J A. A WALDRON When Money Doesn't Count T HE door of ot the mansion of ot Josiah I was opened by a servant In livery almost as pictorial as os the uniform of a R volunteer fireman and the card of ot Count de Bundle Bonelle was taken to Miss Agnes to whom the count was paying court The were ambitious for tor this younger young daughter Before Josiah Jo- Jo siah had won his pile his elder daughter daugh daugh- ter Gertrude had bad made a n common common- commonplace commonplace commonplace place match and was now a social nobody no no- body The Count de Bonello Bonelle was ushered Into the drawing room and was soon Joined by Miss They greeted each ench other warmly It was whispered In the household that if It these two sho should ld marry love lo would dominate money on one side and distinction distinction dis dIg on the other other other-a a very unusual I result I II I A new maid to Miss Agnes named I Dolores had been engaged the day before this visit of ot the count Dolores Dolores was certainly a curious person for when her mistress went to Join tho count the maid looked at the counts count's card Then she stole downstairs and acid I from the refuge of a heavy curtain I spied upon the lovers Their endearments endearments endear endear- II ments affected her strangely for tor she hurried upstairs again and dressing hurriedly for the street told another maid she had been called out Having an apartment In a neighborIng neighbor- neighbor Ing big hotel as he said the count via vig fi r I lI f N r r t tI I wl t k kf f ro Z N She Sho Stole Downstairs and Spied Spica Upon the Lovers the ts on foot As he left the mansion he met the maid nearby Dolores 1 I Christopher ChrIstophe I IFor For a n moment they stood looking at each other Do you Intend to marry Miss 1 Wh Why do you ask I 1 became her maid yesterday But nut what about you and me What would you I cant can't afford to marry you my dear Call me Dolores please And you nev never r Intended to If It you will be he fair with me In this It t shall profit you rou Fair A bribe eh ehr 1 Dolores laughed but not mirthfully And we still can be friends Friends 7 I Why not pray Well Weil why not And you love Miss She Sire Is young oung and strikingly attractIVe tive Men glen you know know- I know you ou told me you loved me It If I had money as money as much ns DS Miss 2 would would you ou marry me I Con Cnn you doubt douht It 1 The count looked at her tenderly and rolled his eyes But I 1 am without money and so I suppose I 1 must let you jOU marry her lies her If you yu u will keep pep your word You Bald said It would profit me How now muc much l If you will further my suit the day after I marry her I will give you I ten tm thousand dollars It shall bo be a 0 apart apart part of or the dot I shall make a shrewd bar bargain 1 Rut nut what Is your word worth You once promised to marry me Will you hind bind yourself by a paper that I may keep The count looked at ot her but hut her expression was Inscrutable If lilt I decline decline de de- cline to do this Then you ou shall never marry Miss Mis SprIn treet Well Well my my Dolores meet me at Du- Du fantl's fantis for luncheon tomorrow and I will g give ge e you ou such n a paper If It you agree to hi IK Ip my suit Why shouldn't nt I help you when we weso weso so BO thoroughly understand each ench other Till They shook hands and anel separated The next day they met at I Dolores hn had l procured 1 the making of or n R paper In pIn plain In terms and the cou count t sign signed ell It t. t It was also witnessed When the count called culled nt at the Spring- Spring street Inan mansion two days later Inter he hewa wa was met mt at tat the door by Josiah In person So o youre you're no c count u t after all just all Just Justn n a chef 11 nt at eh elf And Josiah Jo kicked I him down the tho spacious steps nt tat the moment utterly utter utter- ly Iy Indifferent t to t nn an aristocratic neighborhoods neighborhood's neigh boyhood's curiosity II Again Aguin It proved pru that n a woman bent hent on revenge re cures cares nothing for mone money And Aud b by the way when a n woman oman Is In love tove nothing else matters Miss Mis and Christophe eloped j I Ithe ithe the next t day I Copyright |